Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has disclosed that devastating floods in 2025 have claimed 165 lives, with 82 individuals still unaccounted for. The disaster has impacted 119,791 people across 43 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in 19 states.
Among the affected are 53,314 children, 36,573 women, 24,600 men, 5,304 elderly individuals, and 1,863 persons with disabilities. The floods have also left 138 injured, displaced 43,936 residents, damaged 8,594 homes, and wiped out 8,278 farmlands.
The hardest-hit states include Imo, Rivers, Abia, Borno, and Kaduna. Other affected regions are Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Borno, Edo, Gombe, Jigawa, Kano, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Ondo, Sokoto, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
NEMA’s latest assessment underscores the severe humanitarian crisis triggered by the floods, with women and children bearing the brunt of the disaster. The agency has called for immediate intervention to assist displaced families and rebuild devastated communities.
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