Flood Killed 600, Displaced Over 1.3m Nigerians in 2022 — UNICEF

United Nations Children’s Fund has said that no fewer than Six hundred Nigerians died and One point three million others rendered homeless as a result of the flood that ravaged most states across the country this year.

The Chief of UNICEF Field Office, Enugu, Mrs Juliet Chiluwe, stated this during an official handover of relief supplies by UNICEF to the Anambra State Government.

Chiluwe said the figure was based on the data made available by government.

According to her, UNICEF handed over to the Anambra Government one hundred drums of chlorine for disinfection of water sources, forty cartons of Aquatabs for household water treatment and three hundred and twenty cartons of ready to use therapeutic food.