Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja
The National Emergency Management Agency on Monday said that about 441,251 people have been affected by flood in about 50 Local Government Areas.
The agency said this in a situation report on the flooding which it said had left 141,369 people internally displaced.
It said about 192 people have sustained injuries as a result of the flood with a total of 108 lives lost to the disaster.
According to the report, made available to our correspondent by the Spokesman for NEMA, Sanni Datti, about 13,031 houses have either been destroyed or damaged as a result of the flood while 122,653 hectares of farmland have been damaged.
A breakdown of the 441,251 people affected by the flood showed that Kogi State suffered the highest with 118,199 people affected.
This is followed by Kebbi, Anambra, Niger with 94,991, 64,331 and 51,719 affected people respectively.
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