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Severe flooding in Nigeria's Borno state leads to prison escape, widespread damage, and ongoing search efforts for inmates amidst broader flood crisis.

274 inmates escape from Borno state prison due to flooding, efforts underway to recapture them.

At independence, most African states had two legislative chambers – a lower and upper chamber – in their parliament. African leaders saw that as a colonial legacy and as inefficient, so most states removed the upper chambers. Before 1990, only two states kept these bicameral parliaments: Liberia and Nigeria.

It’s the worst such flooding in the northeastern city of Maiduguri in 30 years, authorities say.

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Plastic pollution is a major problem in Nigeria.

Authorities say severe flooding in northeastern Nigeria has left 30 people dead and affected more than a million others

The collapse of a dam in northeast Nigeria caused heavy flooding in the city of Maiduguri that killed at least 30 people and forced 400,000 people to leave their homes.

Severe flooding in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri has claimed at least 30 lives and forced 400,000 people from their homes, officials said Wednesday.