May 31 (UPI) -- Torrential rains over two days caused flash flooding that killed at least 151 people in Mokwa, Nigeria. The ...

The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Joseph Utsev, on Tuesday, cleared the air that no water release from Kainji ...

The Minister for Water Resources and Sanitation, Joseph Utsev, has clarified that no water release from Kainji and Jebba Dams ...

Upper Niger River Basin Development Authority, UNRBDA; and National Water Resources Institute, NWRI, are on ground in Mokwa taking assessments of the cause of the flood in order to come up with an ...

The federal government has refuted claims that the recent devastating flood in Mokwa, Niger, was caused by the release or ...

Better drainage and early warning would help curb losses from a future flood but Nigeria's adaptation plan hasn't been ...

More than 3,000 people were displaced in the flooding in the town of Mokwa in Niger state, more than 180 miles west of Abuja, ...

The death toll from devastating flooding in a market town in Nigeria’s north-central state of Niger rose to at least 151 on ...

“The flood in Mokwa town was primarily caused ... a regressive river, a tributary of River Niger, which remains dry almost all year round with flows solely dependent on surface runoff by rainfall.