According to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), women and children are the most affected by this year's flooding in the 19 states that were affected.
The agency's data dashboard explained that the most people were affected by the flooding in five states: Imo, Rivers, Borno, and Kaduna.
More than 165 people perished, 82 are still missing, and 119,791 more were impacted by the flooding, according to the data.
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This was made public by NEMA on Friday in its data dashboard. The organization stated, "Across 43 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in 19 States, 138 persons sustained various degrees of injuries, 43,936 displaced, 8,594 houses affected, and 8,278 farmlands destroyed.
" It also explained that 53,314 children, 36,573 women, 24,600 men, 5,304 elderly, and 1,863 disabled people were affected by the flood. It stated that the flood affected 19 states: Abia, FCT, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Borno, Edo, Gombe, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Ondo, Rivers, and Sokoto.
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