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'''NATURAL DISASTER IN NIGERIA: FLOOD

Flood is the overflow of water on land that is usually dry. Flood is a common disaster in Nigeria.

The 2012 flood was categorised as the worst to hit Nigeria in the past fifty(50) years. After the flood, World Health Organization assessed and proposed public health in Nigeria. In 2015, Lagos State (A commercial City in Nigeria) ranks 15th in the world in terms of population exposed to coastal flooding ( Sojobi, Balogun & Salami, 2015). A local media reported that 68 people died from flooding in various parts of Nigeria in 2020 while 129000 people were affected.

CAUSES OF FLOOD IN NIGERIA:
 * Poor or inadequate drainage system.
 * Weak infrastructure
 * Poverty and weak institutions
 * Flood may occur when river overflow its bank.
 * Lack of integrated flood risk management system.
 * Water released from dam as a result of heavy rainfall contributes to flooding

EFFECTS OF FLOOD IN NIGERIA
 * It causes polluty
 * It details SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.
 * Mortality rate tend to increase.
 * It leadership to poor hygiene.
 * It renders victims homeless.
 * It washed away farmland, harming food security.
 * There is increase in risk of disease outbreak, especially among displaced people.

BELOW ARE SOME OF THE STATES THAT HAVE EXPERIENCED FLOOD IN NIGERIA


 * Lagos
 * Kaduna
 * Enugu
 * Rivers
 * Abia
 * Borno
 * Nasarawa
 * Ondo
 * Anambra
 * Kwara