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Revealing the revenue or earnings alone does not tell the whole story. The reporter tried to identify cost components for Abakiliki rice farmers. Rice farmers who spoke with the reporter identified six to seven items worrying players in Ebonyi.
In 2022, the cases of oil spillage by reported causes totalled 572, out of which 480 were as a result of oil theft and sabotage and 92 by operational issues.
She lamented that the only intervention the community had got from the government or any group was bags of rice shared after the 2022 floods. Even the bags of rice only got to a few residents. She had never seen the government carry out any project to mitigate flooding in the community, she said.
He was not alone in this. A villager, Ms Ebere Udokwu, told Dataphyte how she had to withdraw her children from a public school after the floods sacked her kids’ former school at Abacheke.
The British High Commission and the Network of Incubators and Innovators in Nigeria (NINE) launched a tree-planting campaign in Lagos in February 2023 with a view to planting 100 trees in the state. The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) is also planting 5.5 million trees over the next five years to mitigate the effects of climate change in the country.
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A breakdown shows that Kano received N192 million, which was the highest given to singular state. It was followed by Kaduna with N152 million. Bayelsa received the lowest amount of N107 million. The states’ breakdown is shown below.
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Among the states most impacted by flooding in October 2022, Kano received the highest amount of N3.1 billion, followed by Borno, which got N2.46 billion. Bayelsa and Kebbi both received N1.20 billion, the lowest by states most impacted by flooding.
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Dataphyte visited Kofawe Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Ondo State to investigate the state of services and facilities. One official, Ms Omobimpe Oladunjoye, who was the only person working at the health centre, narrated how floods destroyed the PHC which serves about 15,000 persons in the community.
In Ondo State, a secondary school principal told Dataphyte how his students were asked to stay at home when floods sacked its building.
