Five more dead bodies were recovered yesterday by the search and rescue operation team of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA).
This is even as the agency disclosed that 105 communities cutting across 17 local government areas are at the risk of witnessing severe flood this year.
The NSEMA director general, Abdullahi Baba Arah, in the update of the flood yesterday disclosed that five more bodies were recovered in addition to four recovered on Monday.
This has brought the death toll now to about 209, going by the figure announced by the deputy governor, Comrade Yakubu Garba, while receiving Labour Party Presidential candidate in 2023 Peter Obi, on Monday.
The NSEMA boss said two of the bodies were recovered yesterday afternoon down the Mokwa/Raba axis under tree debris.
Meanwhile the director general has assured of a coordinated action plan to mitigate the effects of flood disaster on the victims while declaring that eight local governments in the state consisting of 90 communities are classified under high-risk between April and June this year.
The agency’s 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 would 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.
He therefore stated that the stakeholders engagement was aimed at harmonizing all the action plans by each of the participants to ensure a centralized operations devoid of duplications.
