The agency’s new numbers released on Friday also reveals the amount of displacement and destruction.
In the words of NEMA’s situation report, “138 persons sustained various degrees of injuries, 43,936 displaced, 8,594 houses affected and 8,278 farmlands destroyed across 43 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in 19 States.”

The victims are mostly women and children.

The data shows that so far this year’s flood has impacted 53,314 children, 36,573 women, 24,600 men, 5,304 senior people, and 1,863 disabled people. The states of Imo, Rivers, Abia, Borno, and Kaduna have the most number of impacted individuals.

Abia, FCT, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Borno, Edo, Gombe, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Ondo, Rivers, and Sokoto states are among the 19 states that are impacted.