Editing Governance Nigeria (section)

== Natural disasters ==
Table 1: List and number of 10 top events of Natural disaster in Nigeria (1965-2015)


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According to the EM-DAT and the OFDA-CRED International Disaster Database, during the period of 1965-2015, a total of 111 natural disasters occurred in Nigeria. Although this might be an underestimation of those falling below the limit of the reporting criteria of EM-DAT, its impact on the health, population and environment cannot be overestimated especially with more occurrence of epidemics, storms and flooding. The ten (10) top is provided on Table 1 above. Figures 1 and 2 below present the summary of occurrences and deaths from natural disasters by type. The charts represent the extracted from the EM-DAT database and are limited to CRED Criteria for entering information into its database which entails that for a disaster to be entered into the database at least one of the following criteria must be fulfilled: 

* Ten (10) or more people were reported killed.
* A hundred (100) or more people reported affected. 
* Declaration of a state of emergency. 
* Call for international assistance.


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Figure 1: Summary of occurrences of Natural disaster by type 

Although drought has occurred less frequently, the immense effect of drought is due to its protracted and slow nature and the fact that it is occurring in a highly populated northern and poor population of mostly farmers. Floods on the other hand have occurred more frequently and with inadequate drainage systems and poor waste management systems, the impact of flood lingers and appears to be expected with poor community resilience. In spite of the great impact of drought on the population, it accounts for fewer deaths than epidemics, which account for a greater portion of deaths followed by storms and flooding.



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Figure 2: Summary of Deaths by Natural disaster by type