ChangedMan1999:
I knew.

Because, before water from Cameroun will devastate Kogi, and States in Niger Delta, it will first of all devastate Taraba, Adamawa and Benue.

SIRTee15:


It's climate change, take it or leave it. Poor management of inland waterways made it worse.

omoredia:


https://www.nairaland.com/6194665/photos-victims-died-lekki-toll

MasterJayJay:
I thought as much. How can a small dam make River Niger and River Benue to overflow?

What are the records of the average depth of River Niger and River Benue for the last 50 years? Would dredging minimize the flood?


Many areas have never experienced this kind of flooding..

The government is still clueless on the major factors that led to the floods.

omoredia:



Hehe hunger is ur problem. God will save ur from thinking with your belly

AyePappy:
The problem is that our waterways need dredging as heavy rains wash silt into the river beds thus making the rivers overflow during heavy downpours.
How many waterways do you want dredge, and to what depth. Please this is not only impractical, but cannot stop overflowing around river banks due to rainfall

Other than dredging we need to reclaim and help retain shorelines by simply planting trees in and around water shorelines.
Shorelines of rivers or waterways are not reclaimed by planting trees, but by removing any man made footprints (roads, houses, communities) or pushing them back and creating a buffer or offset all along the waterways sides. If you plant 1 million trees, it wont stop over-saturating of the ground soil bed by water, which leads to flooding. Trees along waterways will also cause the water to be fast moving, creating flash floods. Trees (Vegetation actually) may protect a sea or coast line, but not inland waterways from flooding due to excessive water levels in the soil bed

Trees not only act as rain interceptors thereby reducing the impact on loose soil but also help prevent both surface and subsurface erosion.
Flooding and erosion are two different things and always hand in hand. Flooding is this case, not erosion

The Cameroonian dam release has an effect as an increase discharge during heavy rains will impact on the entire Niger basin.
The Lagdo Dam is probably be responsible for 3-4% of flooding in Nigeria. The distance of the dam to Nigeria's border cannot cause flooding all over Nigeria or well into Nigeria. If it led to flooding of the interior parts of Nigeria, then it must have wiped out everything in its path between Cameroun and Nigeria to match the impact being circulated in Nigeria by social media and sadly conventional media

The dam is quite old and silt deposit would have accumulated thus requiring more frequent discharge also areas around the dam wall in Cametoun would attract farmers and settlements making the dam engineers to release more water to prevent flooding upstream.
Silt deposit may actually cause dam capacity to be reduced and quicker water release cycles, but you can't cite farmers or settlement around the dam as a reason Cameroun release water from the dam. (Is it to wipe them and their crops or to help them irrigate their crops?

The best thing we can do is plant much vegetation along our waterways, and dredge the river bed. Building resrtviour dams along the Benue will be expensive and take up much land that we don't have anymore owing to our population.

Nobody should blame this on climate change as that is a ruse but rather poor land and water management.
Climate change is not a ruse. Poor water and land management are causes for the flooding in Nigeria. Flooding is merely inability of the soil to effectively absorb water. Climate change is man's action that has caused naturally occurring activities to be unbalanced. Even if man caused this, good water and land management will mitigate the effect on people as you have stated.

joshuaidibia:


Believe this man at your own risk. Those dams are released every 10yrs. Nigeria and Cameroon signed an agreement, Nigeria should have built hers so as to withstand any flow from the Cameroon dam, but up till now we never do anything. Trace back to 10yrs ago when the other flood happened in 2012. We don't experience this magnitude of flood naturally. Not in Nigeria. Haba.

Africana1123:
Peter obi supporters and lies are 5&6

They do anything to make the governments looks bad.

treesun:


https://dailytrust.com/cameroons-lagbo-dam-not-responsible-for-nigerias-flood-fg

fkj950ax:


The dam was built between 1977 - 1982. Thats over 40 years FYI.
There is no dam anywhere in the world you release its water every 10 years.
If you don't know about it, please don't talk about it and also go ahead to disparage other people. You want people to believe you, but not the other person.
"...dam released every 10 years". Stay in your lane biko. You don't know about dams and its operations

Abdul4trust1:
but you said brothers and sisters. I can only see a brother and a sister and this is not different from the endsars report submitted to Sawolu, the executive governor of Lagos state?

MasterJayJay:
I thought as much. How can a small dam make River Niger and River Benue to overflow?

What are the records of the average depth of River Niger and River Benue for the last 50 years? Would dredging minimize the flood?


Many areas have never experienced this kind of flooding..

The government is still clueless on the major factors that led to the floods.

MasterJayJay:
I thought as much. How can a small dam make River Niger and River Benue to overflow?

What are the records of the average depth of River Niger and River Benue for the last 50 years? Would dredging minimize the flood?


Many areas have never experienced this kind of flooding..

The government is still clueless on the major factors that led to the floods.

AyePappy:
The problem is that our waterways need dredging as heavy rains wash silt into the river beds thus making the rivers overflow during heavy downpours.

Other than dredging we need to reclaim and help retain shorelines by simply planting trees in and around water shorelines.

Trees not only act as rain interceptors thereby reducing the impact on loose soil but also help prevent both surface and subsurface erosion.

The Cameroonian dam release has an effect as an increase discharge during heavy rains will impact on the entire Niger basin.

The dam is quite old and silt deposit would have accumulated thus requiring more frequent discharge also areas around the dam wall in Cametoun would attract farmers and settlements making the dam engineers to release more water to prevent flooding upstream.

The best thing we can do is plant much vegetation along our waterways, and dredge the river bed. Building resrtviour dams along the Benue will be expensive and take up much land that we don't have anymore owing to our population.

Nobody should blame this on climate change as that is a ruse but rather poor land and water management.

LongLife4all:
Buhari is just a disaster. Left, right and center.

duality:
We know it's not rain. Because, it's currently not raining in the affected areas. Which rain would flood many states for weeks.


If it's by rain then Lagos, should have been submerged with any rain.

The people in government do not just care.

COMPAQ:

Oh o! We are in October and its now massive rain is falling abi?? What bout all the rain that fell in June, July and September?

EmmyDJourno:


“Look bad”, go better school make you reason properly you no gree
Vote who go make education better, you no gree, so where does your hope come from

baralatie:

Torrential in kogi state
Torrential rain in nasarawa
Torrential rain in bayelsa
Torrential rain in Anambra
Torrential rain in delta


And people in all these places are seeing the water rise but not after torrential rain o

MasterJayJay:
I thought as much. How can a small dam make River Niger and River Benue to overflow?

What are the records of the average depth of River Niger and River Benue for the last 50 years? Would dredging minimize the flood?


Many areas have never experienced this kind of flooding..

The government is still clueless on the major factors that led to the floods.

Nastrademus:
The mods should try and do something about those tribalist and political touts on this forum, this forum should be for sound mind and not low life spamming this beautiful forum with insults because of an old drug baron called TINUBU or a loud and unpredictable Peter obi or a thief like ATIKU, if you want to support any of them, good but don't disturb the peace of reasonable minds here
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