Hail has destroyed houses and farmlands after a heavy downpour in the Babura Local Government Area of Jigawa State.<\/p>\n
A resident narrated that the incident occurred on Friday evening at Masko village.<\/p>\n
He said this followed a heavy downpour that had wreaked havoc in communities of Maska, Unguwar Ibra, Jansa, Dan Garjuwa, Gagarawa, Kumikumi, Dogon Marke, Wada, Jaburawa, and Angular Duhuwa, destroying farm produce and houses.<\/p>\n
He explained that most of the residents of the area lost their farm produce and houses and are now taking shelter in public buildings.<\/p>\n
Babura Local Government Council Chairman, Alhaji Lawan Ismail also confirmed the incident to newsmen while consoling the victims.<\/p>\n
He said over 1,500 farmlands and 700 houses were destroyed by the flood and ice balls in over twelve communities.<\/p>\n
Lawan however urged the state and national emergency management agencies and relevant stakeholders to come to the aid of the victims.<\/p>\n
The Emir of Ringim, Alhaji Sayyadi Abubakar Mahmud, had also sympathized with the victims and prayed against future occurrences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hail has destroyed houses and farmlands after a heavy downpour in the Babura Local Government Area of Jigawa State. A resident narrated that the incident occurred on Friday evening at Masko village. He said this followed a heavy downpour that had wreaked havoc in communities of Maska, Unguwar Ibra, Jansa, Dan Garjuwa, Gagarawa, Kumikumi, Dogon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":461033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17743,1,3],"tags":[10087,236],"class_list":["post-461010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arewa","category-more","category-news","tag-badaru","tag-jigawa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/461033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}