Niger State Emergency Management Agency NSEMA has assured of a coordinated action plan to mitigate the effects of flood disaster on the victims while declaring that 8 local governments consisting of 90 communities are clarified under high risk between April to June this year in Niger state.
The Agency Director General Alhaji Abdullahi Baba Arah made this known at the NSEMA 2025 Flood Preparedness and Response Campaign Stakeholders Engagement with the theme: Building Resilience and Capacity for Flood Management held in Minna.
Baba Arah who was represented by the Director, Relief and Rehabilitation, Garba Salisu added that between July and September 2025 about 105 communities from 17 local councils will experience very serious flood while October and November 3 local governments consisted of 15 communities are likely to have a high risk flooding in the state.
The DG noted that those local governments and communities prone to moderate flooding in this year include; 13 councils with 87 communities in April/June, 17 local governments with 87 communities in July/September while between October and November 11 local councils and 103 communities will be affected.
He stressed that the stakeholders engagement is aimed at harmonizing all the action plans by each of the participants to ensure a centralized operations devoid of duplications, adding that over 700 persons have died in various boat mishap from 2007 to date in the state.
He further gave a sectorial effect of flooding this year in Niger state such as, 215 risk schools in education sector, 7 commercial centres, 180,000 hectares of land in agriculture sector, 6 roads and 3 bridges in transportation sector and over 100,000 population.
The guest lecturer, Professor Isah Idris of FUT Minna on the topic; Roles of Stakeholders in Disaster and Risk Management, advised that the resolutions reached on the Action Plan will go a long way in assisting to mitigate future occurrence of flood in Niger state.