Floods kill over 49 persons, displace thousands - NEMA In North-East, about 49 persons have been killed with thousands displaced in Nigeria after heavy rains caused flooding in different states. This was disclosed by the National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA) on Monday. Three states in the North; Jigawa, Adamawa and Taraba, have been hit hard by floods, with 41,344 people displaced, said NEMA spokesperson Manzo Ezekiel. In 2022, Nigeria experienced its worst flood in more than a decade which killed more than 600 people, displaced around 1.4 million and destroyed 440,000 hectares of farmland. “We are...