Nigerians are uprooted by flood as Cameroon unlocks its dams.

 The Republic of Cameroon's Lagdo Dam's operators have allowed the dam to release extra water. Over 100,000 Nigerians have been relocated, 300 have died, and more than 500,000 people have been impacted in the previous several months due to the recent rainfall in Nigeria and the opening of the dam. This was revealed by data given on Monday in Abuja during an emergency technical conference on the flood situation across the nation by the National Emergency Management Agency and the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency. Speaking at a conference, Mustapha Ahmed, Director-General of NEMA, said, Director-General of NEMA Mustapha Ahmed said during a meeting that "based on our communication with NIHSA, the Lagdo Dam operators in the Republic of Cameroon had begun the discharge of surplus water from the reservoir on September 13, 2022."

We are aware that the unleashed water overwhelms villages that have already been affected by excessive rainfall as it rushes into Nigeria through the River Benue and its tributaries, the speaker continued. Since Nigeria's inland reservoirs, including Kainji, Jebba, and Shiroro, are also anticipated to overflow between now and the end of October, the released water worsens the situation further downstream "The Kainji and Jebba dams have reportedly already begun releasing excess water from their reservoirs, according to NIHSA. The frontline states and villages along the Niger and Benue rivers would suffer major repercussions as a result. The states most likely to be impacted, according to Ahmed, are Adamawa, Taraba, Benue, Niger, Nasarawa, Kebbi, and Kogi. Several Niger-Delta states, including Edo, Delta, Anambra, Cross-River, Rivers, and Bayelsa, he added, were anticipated to experience severe flooding as a result of the region's above-average rainfall as well as the combined waters of the rivers Niger and Benue as they pour into the area.

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