Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/07/anambra-offodiles-tirades2/ BUT for Governor Obi, flood would have washed the entire Awka away. It was a former Governor that blocked the Iyiagu flood channel and sold all the land there, and people had started building skyscrapers there before Governor Obi’s intervention. Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:20:00 +0200 vanguardngr en vanguardngr-7d417bcb03884136be91c1e1a779303b NaturalDisasters 6.21034456221875 6.93493684692147 20120724162000 http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/07/my-works-will-speak-for-me-gov-oshiomhole/ Last Sunday, we published an interview with the PDP governorshiop candidate, Charles Airhiavbere. Today, we bring you Governor Adams Oshiomhole, the candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), who speaks on his chances in this week's election. Excerpts: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 02:37:00 +0200 vanguardngr en vanguardngr-105506426ee8f18d8aaad9e7ceee4e80 NaturalDisasters Environment 9.172945 7.179924 20120708023700 http://allafrica.com/stories/201207010002.html [Leadership] In Lagos, rainfall is fast becoming a curse rather than a blessing with the loss of lives and property occasioned as a result of heavy downpour, storm and flood. Last week, Lagos experienced that tragedy once again, Paul Dada writes. Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10:53:00 +0200 allafrica en allafrica-df555aeefd45ea1d7f3bd85ce76c6236 FoodSecurityFoodAid NaturalDisasters 6.43919 3.42348 20120701105300 http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/06/persistent-rainfall-lagos-tells-residents-to-vacate-flood-prone-areas/ Following persistent rainfall, Lagos State Government, yesterday advised residents living in flood plains to vacate in the meantime to avoid loss of lives and property. Category News Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:00:00 +0200 vanguardngr en vanguardngr-e412b9ecd94b8de26286c670cb32b1ff NaturalDisasters Environment 6.43919 3.42348 20120630230000 http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/death-and-the-waters-between/120840/ The Verdict According to Olusegun Adeniyi. Email, olusegun.adeniyi@thisdaylive.com We do not seem to be paying much attention, but nothing has killed more Nigerians and wrecked as much havocs in the last four months as flooding. Perhaps the reason it has not been such a big issue is because the.... Thu, 26 Jul 2012 05:27:00 +0200 thisdayonline en thisdayonline-0ffb8888d5a80a1d1032e406257a31cb FightagainstFraud NaturalDisasters 20120726052700