Flood warnings had been ringing out across Nigeria’s north-east for weeks. Schools in Maiduguri were closed for a fortnight ...

Nigerian authorities say 281 inmates escaped after devastating floods brought down a prison’s walls in the country’s ...

Nigerian farmer Enoch Fater has barely slept in the last few days after water levels started rising at his paddy rice farm ...

The aftermath of flooding in Nigeria's northeast is raising alarming humanitarian concerns, with thousands facing ...

Borno state Governor Babagana Zulum described the extent of the damage as "beyond human imagination". This is the first time ...

Torrential rains have led to disastrous floods across Central and West Africa, affecting over 4 million people. In Maiduguri, ...

Floods that swept through Nigeria's northeastern Borno state have affected up to 1 million people, the state governor said on ...

Authorities in Nigeria say weeks of flooding have killed nearly 200 people across the country ...

Nearly 300 prisoners have escaped in Nigeria's Maiduguri after floods collapsed the walls of a prison, authorities said on ...

The UN World Food Programme is working to assist newly displaced and food insecure people in northeast Nigeria who have been ...

GENEVA – Heavy rains have ravaged 30 of Nigeria's 36 states. According to the government, over a million people have been affected, 269 lives tragically lost, and more than 640,000 have been displaced ...

The floods blamed on poor infrastructure and badly maintained dams have killed 185 people and displaced 208,000 in 28 of Nigeria’s 36 states, the National Emergency Management Agency said in an ...