Meanwhile in Nigeria, at least 100 people have died as torrential downpour and floods continue to plague the south and central regions of the country. A national disaster has been declared in the most affected regions. Residents in the south-central port city of Lokoja were displaced due to the flooding. This is Blessing Solomon.

Blessing Solomon: “When the water was coming, we were thinking that maybe this was just an ordinary rain water, so we didn’t even think that maybe the water will come like this, you understand? So, just like the first room, the water that entered the first room, we thought this was a joke. Then, when the water came to my own room, that was when we knew that, yes, the water is very serious, you understand? So, everybody just like packed, because—even some people don’t even have where to go, just like me. I don’t have where to go, but I was just like, let me just squat with some of my friends in Felele.”