{"id":172205,"date":"2025-08-01T22:07:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/adamawa-deputy-governor-heads-committee-to-review-yola-flood"},"modified":"2025-08-01T23:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T22:11:10","slug":"adamawa-deputy-governor-heads-committee-to-review-yola-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adamawa-deputy-governor-heads-committee-to-review-yola-flood","title":{"rendered":"Adamawa deputy governor heads committee to review Yola flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has set up a committee to review the recent flood in Yola, which devastated parts of the state capital earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>The 21\u2010member committee, chaired by the Deputy Governor, Professor Kaletapwa Farauta, has been tasked with identifying measures to bring succour to affected communities and developing strategies for post\u2010flood recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The Relief and Post\u2010Recovery Committee includes the Secretary to the State Government, Awwal Tukur, as secretary; the lawmaker representing Yola South LGA in the state House of Assembly, Kabiru Mijinyawa, as a member; and the state Commissioner of Relief, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation, Bello Hammamdira, also as a member.<\/p>\n<p>Other members include the Commissioner for Environment, Mohammed Wali; a representative of NEMA; and the Executive Secretary of the Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency, among others.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement released Friday evening by Governor Ahmadu Fintiri\u2019s Chief Press Secretary, Humwashi Wonosikou, the governor urged the committee to be honest and fair to all concerned in carrying out its assignment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has set up a committee to review the recent flood in Yola, which devastated parts of the state capital earlier in the week. The 21\u2010member committee, chaired by the Deputy Governor, Professor Kaletapwa Farauta, has been tasked with identifying measures to bring succour to affected communities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":172204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1092,254,18238],"class_list":["post-172205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adamawa","tag-nigeria","tag-yola-flood"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Adamawa deputy governor heads committee to review Yola flood - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has set up a committee to review the recent flood in Yola, which devastated par ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adamawa-deputy-governor-heads-committee-to-review-yola-flood\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Adamawa deputy governor heads committee to review Yola flood\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has set up a committee to review the recent flood in Yola, which devastated par ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adamawa-deputy-governor-heads-committee-to-review-yola-flood\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-01T21:07:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-01T22:11:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754073767.760618.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adamawa-deputy-governor-heads-committee-to-review-yola-flood#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adamawa-deputy-governor-heads-committee-to-review-yola-flood\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Adamawa deputy governor heads committee to review Yola flood\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-01T21:07:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-01T22:11:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adamawa-deputy-governor-heads-committee-to-review-yola-flood\"},\"wordCount\":190,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adamawa-deputy-governor-heads-committee-to-review-yola-flood#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754073767.760618.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Adamawa\",\"Nigeria\",\"Yola flood\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adamawa-deputy-governor-heads-committee-to-review-yola-flood#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adamawa-deputy-governor-heads-committee-to-review-yola-flood\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adamawa-deputy-governor-heads-committee-to-review-yola-flood\",\"name\":\"Adamawa deputy governor heads committee to review Yola flood - 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