Nigeria: 100,000 Displaced in Rivers

15 October 2012

Port Harcourt — No fewer than 100,000 persons have so far been displaced by flood in Ekpeye Kingdom, Rivers State.

Lamenting the situation, weekend, in Ahoada East Local Government Area, the traditional ruler of the kingdom, Eze Robinson Robinson, said more than half of the land in the kingdom had been submerged by the flood.

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