By Femi D. Ogunnigbo and Taiwo Ogunwumi
As of October 24, 2022, the situation report reveals that 612 people have been killed, and 2,776 persons injured by this year’s flood, Nigeria Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiyya Farouq, stated.
Finding
a solution to flooding remains understanding the root causes first which can
either be natural or human factors or both, Dr. Josiah Omirin, a lecturer at
the Urban and Regional Planning Department at the University of Ibadan stated
in a phone interview in gathering information for this report.
Natural factors can be classified into two. First, primary factors include excessive rainfall resulting in pluvial flooding (caused by climate change); and sea level rise which causes coastal flooding. Second is the secondary factor such as dams breaking, blockage of culverts; and narrow drainage channels.
