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Rainfall: Agency gives early warning to avert flooding

The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NHSA) has advised states, local governments and individuals to take early precautionary measures to avoid flooding this rainy season. Mr...

Michael Simire - March 24, 2021

Agric & Biotech

Climate change: Farmer raises concern over delayed rainfall

An organic farmer, Mr Uche Ikenga, has raised alarm over the delay in the coming of the 2020 rainy season in some parts of...

Michael Simire - February 19, 2021

Disaster Risk Management

Cyclone Eloise: Nine killed in Africa’s east coast, heavy rains, floods in South Africa

At least nine people were reported killed after tropical cyclone Eloise hit Africa’s east coast at the weekend with wind gusts of up to...

Michael Simire - January 25, 2021

Agric & Biotech

Osun farmers seek govt’s intervention to ameliorate poor rainfall in 2020

The Chairman, All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Osun Chapter, Alhaji Sulaimon Araokanmi, on Tuesday, January 12, 2021 called on government to assist farmers...

Michael Simire - January 12, 2021

Climate Change

Climate change: Kenya to experience higher temperatures, less rainfall – Agency

Kenya Meteorological Department said in Nairobi on Tuesday, September 22, 2020 that the country’s “climate is changing rapidly in response to global warming as...

Michael Simire - September 22, 2020

Waste Management

Rainfall, poor waste management and growing pandemic

As the rain comes, floods take over our popular city centres and roads; garbage and other forms of waste dominate the surfaces of these...

Michael Simire - July 12, 2020

Climate Change

From dry to wet: Rainfall might abruptly increase in Africa’s Sahel

Climate change could turn one of Africa's driest regions into a very wet one by suddenly switching on a Monsoon circulation. For the first...

admin - July 6, 2017

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Government counsels Lagosians over anti-flood measures as rains intensify

As this year's rainy season gathers momentum, the Lagos State Government has allayed the fears of residents over the torrential rainfall witnessed in the...

admin - April 20, 2017

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