The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed that no fewer than 191 people have lost their lives, 94 remain missing, while over 134,000 individuals have been affected by the devastating floods sweeping across 20 Nigerian states in 2025.

NEMA’s current Flood Impact Dashboard have exposed that 239 persons sustained injuries, 48,056 displaced, and 9,499 homes have been damaged by floodwaters across 47 Local Government Areas in the country.

According to the agency, 9,450 farmlands were equally destroyed, with children and women accounting for the majority of those affected.

“Out of the total affected, 60,071 are children, 41,539 are women, 27,121 are men, 5,704 are elderly persons, and 1,874 are persons with disabilities,” NEMA stated.

States with the highest flood-affected individuals include: Imo – 28,030 persons, Rivers – 22,345, Adamawa – 12,613, Abia – 11,907, Borno – 8,164, and Kaduna – 7,334.

Other states affected by the ravaging floods include: Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Borno, Delta, Edo, FCT, Gombe, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Ondo, Rivers, and Sokoto.

NEMA in the advisory listed the urgent needs of affected communities as food, shelter, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), healthcare, education, protection, and security.

The agency also listed out key operational challenges to include shortage of humanitarian resources, inaccessible terrains, insecurity in some areas, community resistance in a few locations, weak inter-agency coordination.

This year’s disaster, although still unfolding, is less severe than the 2024 flooding, which affected 5 million people, displaced 1.2 million, and claimed over 1,000 lives.

NEMA has therefore, called for increased intergovernmental coordination and faster deployment of relief to avert further loss of lives and property.