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En el 2020 hubo 40 millones de personas obligadas a dejar su lugar de residencia habitual y el 75% se debieron a desastres.

With Lagos State facing threatening floods and erosion, Rethinking Cities, an NGO, suggests involving informal sectors for future urbanization plans.

Following the collapse of a building last week on Lagos Island, professionals in Nigeria's built environment have noted that shoddy building construction arising from the use of sub-standard materials has fuelled collapses. The experts insist that enforcement of the building code and other structural safety measures will prevent future disasters.

Participants at the just concluded 4th Lagos Climate Change Summit have called on the the Federal government to take the lead in integrating the states into its efforts at combating the challenges of climate change. They also called for good synergies between policy makers, scientists, the citizens and other stakeholders...

'A choice to be rebuilding a house brought down by storm is defeatist and should remain unacceptable. To researchers in the built environment professions, the attitude should be that of constructing buildings that will withstand storm, not rebuilding'...

'We must do everything possible to build the resilience of the people and communities to the negative impacts of floods, windstorms, ocean surge, diseases among others' said Alhaji Sani-Sidi, Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency. Flooding has spread across the country since the start of the rainy season, reports Vanguard...

At the symposium on climate change adaptation strategies, scientists warned that 'if not checked, the global scourge would continue to ruin food security, while exerting a devastating attack on public health, with the over 70 percent of the populace that inhabits the rural communities being the worst-hit by the menace,' reports the Vanguard Media Limited...

'When disasters occur, the impact is usually felt in a locality, we will increase the awareness of local government officials to disaster management and disaster risk reduction,' stated Alhaji Mohammad Sani-Sidi, Director General of NEMA...