NEMA Says 165 Die, 119,791 Affected In 2025 Floods Disaster

The National Emergency Management Agency has disclosed that  at least 165 persons have died, 82 missing and 119,791 persons have been affected by this year’s flooding, reports Business Today NG.
NEMA, which made this disclosure in its data dashboard on Friday, 1 August, 2025, also revealed that 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.
According to the agency, children and women were mostly affected.
“53,314 children , 36,573 women, 24,600 men, 5,304 elderly, 1,863 disabled persons have so far been affected by this year flood.” the agency said, just as it also named  the states  with the highest number of affected persons are Imo, Rivers, Abia, Borno and Kaduna States.
Meanwhile, the 19 states affected are; Abia, FCT, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Borno, Edo, Gombe, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Ondo, Rivers and Sokoto States.