{"id":180569,"date":"2024-09-14T11:24:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T09:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-borno-flood-my-wife-5-kids-still-missing-survivor\/"},"modified":"2024-09-14T11:24:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T09:24:18","slug":"nigeria-borno-flood-my-wife-5-kids-still-missing-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-borno-flood-my-wife-5-kids-still-missing-survivor\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Borno Flood &#8211; My Wife, 5 Kids Still Missing &#8211; Survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;I thought I&#8217;d die with my 6 children&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Canoe operators collected N100,000 to rescue my sheep&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>NGF visits affected areas, donates N100m; Fintiri N50m<\/li>\n<li>259 dead, over 1m affected in 29 states &#8211; NEMA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><strong>From Hamisu K. Matazu, Olatunji Omirin, (Maiduguri), Maureen Onochie &amp; Balarabe Alkassim (Abuja) with agency reports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Survivors of the Maiduguri flood, the worst in three decades, have narrated their harrowing experiences before they were rescued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The heavy rainfall, which began Monday night had&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409140034.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I thought I&#8217;d die with my 6 children&#8217; &#8216;Canoe operators collected N100,000 to rescue my sheep&#8217; NGF visits affected areas, donates N100m; Fintiri N50m 259 dead, over 1m affected in 29 states &#8211; NEMA From Hamisu K. Matazu, Olatunji Omirin, (Maiduguri), Maureen Onochie &amp; Balarabe Alkassim (Abuja) with agency reports Survivors of the Maiduguri flood, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":180570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,375,8785,11138,6947,257,4687,393,254,10724,8963],"class_list":["post-180569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-borno","tag-flood","tag-kids","tag-missing","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-survivor","tag-wife"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}