The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, says a total of 227,494 persons are affected and 32,837 houses damaged by flood in 27 states across the country. NEMA added that 16,488 hectares of farmland with crops have also been destroyed. In a statement issued by NEMA’s spokesperson, Ezekiel Manzo on Thursday in Abuja, the agency’s Director-General, Zubaida Umar said that NEMA would continue with public sensitisation, as well as grassroots awareness through advocacies and workshops on solid waste management to raise public consciousness on the clearance of blocked drainages and waterways. T…