AfDB: Super El Niño May Cost Nigeria, Africa Up to $20bn, Trigger Mass Migration Oil prices slide as US, Iran pause hostilities over Strait of Hormuz
Deji Elumoye and Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has warned that an expected “super” El Niño weather event could
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cost African countries between $10 billion and $20 billion, reduce economic growth and force millions
of people to leave their homes. El Niño is a naturally occurring climate pattern caused by unusually
warm ocean temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean. Although it begins thousands of
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L-R: Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau Jibrin; President Bola Ahmed Tinubu; Senator Kabiru Gaya; Senator Rufai Hanga; and Alhaji Mahmud Danlabraba during a meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Sunday, where Barau presented the NNPP chieftains to the president ahead of their planned return to the APC PHOTO: DEPUTY SENATE PRESIDENT OFFICE