The death toll from floods in Nigeria exceeds 500

Two government ministries said Friday widespread flooding killed more than 500 people in Nigeria, flooded nearly 90,000 homes, and cut off supplies of food and fuel.
The floods affected 27 of Nigeria’s 36 states, affecting nearly 1.4 million people, ministries of humanitarian affairs and disaster management said in an online post.
Nigerian authorities said flooding caused by unusually heavy rainfall has increased since the beginning of the summer and has been exacerbated by the water spill from the Lagdo Dam in neighboring Cameroon.
“The scale of the disaster … is enormous,” Mustafa Habib Ahmed, director general of the National Emergency Management Agency, said in a statement.