Nigeria: Flood - Stark Hunger Stares Nigerians in the Face Next Year

14 October 2012

That the floods have come with ferocious ravaging effect on parts of the country is no longer news. With several lives lost, houses and farmlands submerged even in the face of government and corporate palliatives aimed at salvaging the grim situation, BLESSING ANARO and BUKOLA IDOWU take an overview of what the aftermath of the floods portend for food security in the Nigeria.

It is good news that the federal government has pledged some money to victims of the flood disaster that has ravaged almost every state in the country. But unless something more than usual rituals of giving money and paying lip service to problems is done, and very fast, the kind of hunger that drove nations to Egypt in the old testament of the bible might be repeating itself soon.

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