Flood submerges 200 communities, displaces over 2 million people in Kogi, Nigeri

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The Kogi State Government says ravaging flood has submerged over 200 communities and displaced over two million people in the state.

The state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Hon. Kingsley Fanwo, disclosed this on Monday at Kotonkarfe in Kogi Local Government Area of the state, saying, a major "humanitarian crisis is brewing in the state."

He said the communities in the nine local government areas affected by the water flood include Kogi, Lokoja, Adavi, Ofu, Ajaokuta, Idah and Ibaji, Igalamela and Omalla.

The state government called on the Federal Government and international donor agencies to come to the aid of the state to cushion the attendant hardships.

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