{"id":17299,"date":"2019-10-27T15:55:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T15:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=17299"},"modified":"2019-10-27T15:55:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T15:55:50","slug":"flood-displaces-residents-in-40-villages-in-adamawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/flood-displaces-residents-in-40-villages-in-adamawa","title":{"rendered":"Flood Displaces Residents In 40 Villages In Adamawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 40 villages have been sacked by flood in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adamawa_State\">Adamawa State<\/a>, according to the News Agency of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Secretary, Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency, Dr Muhammad Sulaiman, said heavy downpour recorded in the last three days caused the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Sulaiman said majority of the affected villages were on the bank of River Benue, with farmlands and houses being destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cOver the last three days, over 40 villages in five local government areas have been overrun by flood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe affected local government areas are Fufore, Yola South, Demsa, Numan and Girei.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 40 villages have been sacked by flood in Adamawa State, according to the News Agency of Nigeria. Executive Secretary, Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency, Dr Muhammad Sulaiman, said heavy downpour recorded in the last three days caused the situation. Sulaiman said majority of the affected villages were on the bank of River Benue, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":15852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[1092,722,312],"class_list":["post-17299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-adamawa","tag-flood","tag-villages"],"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>Flood Displaces Residents In 40 Villages In Adamawa - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"At least 40 villages have been sacked by flood in Adamawa State, according to the News Agency of Nigeria.Executive Secretary, Adamawa State Emergency\" \/>\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\/all-news\/flood-displaces-residents-in-40-villages-in-adamawa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Flood Displaces Residents In 40 Villages In Adamawa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At least 40 villages have been sacked by flood in Adamawa State, according to the News Agency of Nigeria.Executive Secretary, Adamawa State Emergency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/flood-displaces-residents-in-40-villages-in-adamawa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-10-27T15:55:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/09\/Flood.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"938\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/flood-displaces-residents-in-40-villages-in-adamawa#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/flood-displaces-residents-in-40-villages-in-adamawa\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Flood Displaces Residents In 40 Villages In Adamawa\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-27T15:55:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/flood-displaces-residents-in-40-villages-in-adamawa\"},\"wordCount\":99,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/flood-displaces-residents-in-40-villages-in-adamawa#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/09\/Flood.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Adamawa\",\"flood\",\"Villages\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/flood-displaces-residents-in-40-villages-in-adamawa#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/flood-displaces-residents-in-40-villages-in-adamawa\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/flood-displaces-residents-in-40-villages-in-adamawa\",\"name\":\"Flood Displaces Residents In 40 Villages In Adamawa - 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