In a bid to find solutions to flooding in Nigeria, the Federal Government says it is planning to engage experts from Hungary to assist Nigeria to provide “technical solutions“.
The Minister of Water Resources, Alhaji Suleiman Adamu, announced to Newsmen in Abuja.
Adamu said although flood was a natural disaster, it could also result from human factors such as poor watershed management, cutting down of trees, raising buildings on water courses, the climate change factors, among others.
According to him, the Federal Government has a lot to do to curb some of the factors that cause flooding across the major rivers in the country, Rivers Niger and Benue in particular.
“Flooding is a natural disaster, so there is no much we can do, but some of the key problems; one is climate change of course, second is poor watershed management which again the Water Resources Bill wants to address.
“People are cutting trees, all our rivers are…
