The National Economic Council (NEC) has directed all the states to submit details of damages caused by the recent flooding in the country by Monday.
Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa made this known while briefing state house correspondents at the end of the 144 NEC meeting held at the Presidential Villa Abuja, on Wednesday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NEC meeting was presided over by its chairman, Vice-President Kashim Shettima.
Recent data by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) indicates that lives have been lost, with thousands of hectares of farmlands damaged and thousands of people displaced by floods across the country.
Sule, who explained that the issue of the recent flooding in the country was extensively discussed during the council’s meeting, revealed that the flood committee had been reconstituted.
According to him, the flood committee has to…
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