The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has said that twenty-five states and the Federal Capital Territory will experience heavy rainfall on Thursday September 28 and Friday, Septemebr 29 with the possibility of flash floods. According to NiMet, the states projected to experience heavy rainfall include Katsina, Kano, Jigawa, Bauchi, Gombe, Plateau, Borno, Adamawa, Taraba, Kaduna, Niger, Nasarawa, Kogi, Enugu, Edo, Delta, Bayelsa and Abia. The forecast listed Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Ebonyi, Kwara, and Benue States, including …
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Nigerians have been placed on a monkeypox red alert by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. This came after Director-General of NCDC. Ifedayo Adetifa disclosed that the health agency has observed an uptick in monkeypox cases in the country. Adetifa who during a virtual media dialogue on monkeypox on Tuesday June 28, warned that if the current trajectory continues, Nigeria might match or exceed the peak number of cases seen in 2017 when monkeypox re-emerged. He also disclosed that since January 1, …