More than 1.5 million Nigerian children are at risk of drowning from the flooding across the country, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned.
UNICEF Representative in Nigeria, Cristian Munduate, in a statement on Friday in Kaduna, said that children were also at risk of waterborne disease and malnutrition.
Ms Munduate also stated that more than 2.5 million people in Nigeria were in need of humanitarian assistance due to the flood.
She described the 2022 flood as the “most severe flooding” in the past decade, affecting 34 out of the 36 states in the country, and displacing 1.3 million people.
She added that over 600 people have lost their lives and over 200,000 houses have either been partially or fully damaged.
“Cases of diarrhoea and water-borne diseases, respiratory infection, and skin diseases have already been on the rise.
“In the north-eastern states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe alone, a total of 7,485 cases of cholera…
