WARNING! IF YOU STAY IN ANY OF THESE PLACES IN NIGERIA, BE PREPARED FOR FLOOD

The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) on Monday July 25 announced that there would be flooding in 14 states of the federation urging residents living in flood-prone areas to relocate.

According to the agency, most cities would experience heavy floods due to the rise in sea levels and tidal surge and Lagos, Rivers, Calabar, Benue, Sokoto, Anambra, Imo, Cross River, Yobe, Ogun, Osun, Kaduna, Oyo and Yola states are the ones that would be heavily affected by flooding this year.
The Director-General, NIHSA, Mr. Moses Beckley, said this during the public presentation of the 2016 Annual Flood Outlook in Abuja and warned that this year's flooding would be higher than the one experienced in 2015.
He said:

The expected inflows in the country for this year will be lower than that of 2012. Meanwhile, the predicted probable flood area coverage in 2016 is expected to be higher than the predicted probable flood as well as the observed value of 2015.
The expected areas of river flooding this year are located in the following river basins, Niger, Benue, Sokoto-Rima, Anambra-Imo, Cross River, Niger Delta, Komadougu-Yobe, Ogun-Osun and several other sub-basins of the country.
Some coastal areas such as Lagos, Port Harcourt, Calabar, etc, are expected to experience flooding due to rise in sea level and tidal surge, while flash and urban flooding are likely to occur in Sokoto, Ibadan, Kaduna, Yola, Maiduguri, Makurdi, Hadejia and settlements/cities along the Nigeria coastal line.

NIHSA also called on residents living along those places to keep safe distances and "those in the areas where you have dams constructed to also be careful about erecting structures close to where the dams are."