The Director General and Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency, NiHSA, Umar Mohammed, says last week’s devastating floods in Lagos State and some other states across the country were not a surprise.
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By Gabriel Ewepu
The Director General and Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency, NiHSA, Umar Mohammed, says last week’s devastating floods in Lagos State and some other states across the country were not a surprise.
The DG added that NiHSA’s forecasts and warnings were disregarded.
According to him, before the floods, NiSHA had performed its forecasting using several models, saying, “This is something we foresaw, we saw it coming.”
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