It is distressing that this is not the first time that the city has been flooded. It first happened in 1994, thirty years ago, when the whole of Maiduguri was taken over by water. People climbed trees to survive and many residents thought that the world had come to an end. This should not have been allowed to recur. The Borno State Government has had to reopen several Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps to accommodate…
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