Nine miners have died once floodwater submerged a mining pit in Nahuta Village, Gwana District, Alkaleri Area Government Area of Bauchi Declare.
The condition Police People Relations Officer, SP Nafiu Habib, confirmed the incident in a telephone interview alongside Daily Trust yesterday.
He said the incident occurred on Sunday, September 27, when the miners were operating at a mining pit that was flooded following heavy rainfall.
According to him, Kasim Abdulsalam, the purchase director of Zurfi Mining Business in Nahuta, reported the incident to the police.
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Habib said the miners were contract workers operating at Pit Three when water flooded the pit following heavy rainfall roughly 3pm on September 25.
He said some of the miners were rescued, whereas one victim was electrocuted and rushed to Universal Hospital, Kashere, in Akko Regional Government Area of Gombe Condition, where he was confirmed dead.
“The DPO Alkaleri led a unit of detectives to the scene, where three water pump generators were seen evacuating water from the pit to enable the rescue of the remaining victims,” he said.
Habib said the remaining eight miners were lastly removed from the pit at on 6:20am on September 28 and taken to the same hospital.
He said they were all confirmed dead by a medical doctor.
The deceased were identified as Hamidu Ali, 40, Saidu Abubakar, 29, and Olije Abdulrazak, 25, all from Nasarawa and Kogi states.
Others were Musa Abdullahi, 29, Abdulrahman Mu’azu, 23, and Jafar Abbas, 24, from Bauchi Declare; Jose Ukese, 28, from Nasarawa Status; and Haruna Alkali, 30, from Kebbi Situation.
Habib said the corpses were released to their relatives later than medical examination for burial according to their respective religious rites.
He added that inquiry into the incident was in progress.
Rivers relocates school as flooding submerges homes
The Rivers Condition Government has relocated students and personnel of Community Additional School, Rumuapara, to Declare Initial School, Nkpolu, in Rumuigbo, Obio/Akpor Nearby Government Area, following severe flooding in the area.
The relocation took influence on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, to protect students and employees from the effects of flooding that has submerged the school premises and numerous complete by houses.
The Commissioner for Education, Dr Peters Nwagor, approved the relocation in a circular obtained by Daily Trust in Port Harcourt.
He said the decision was fundamental to conserve the lives and well-being of students and personnel whilst the government worked towards finding a lasting resolution to the difficulty.
Flooding has affected numerous communities in Rivers Condition, notably in Port Harcourt, displacing residents and destroying possession.
NEMA places 15 states on red awake
Meanwhile, the Nationwide Emergency Course Agency (NEMA) has placed 15 states on flood red watchful as it steps up preparations for potential flooding across the country.
The affected states are Imo, Cross River, Ebonyi, Benue, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Lagos, Rivers, Edo, Kogi, Taraba, Delta, Bayelsa, Enugu and Abia.
The Manager of Operations, NEMA Kaduna Operations Office, Halima Dauda Sulaiman, disclosed this on Wednesday in Kaduna at the opening of a refresher direction on Urban Search for and Rescue (USAR) for flooding.
Sulaiman, who spoke on behalf of the Administrator-General of NEMA, said flooding remained the most recurring disaster in the country.
She said the agency was strengthening the capacity of emergency responders to address using the changing nature of flood disasters.
According to her, lessons from NEMA’s flood operations in 2022, 2024 and 2025 showed that urban flooding was becoming increasingly intricate.
“The 2022, 2024 and 2025 flood operations have taught us a tough lesson that urban flooding is becoming extra advanced.
“We are not just rescuing people from accessible water; we are navigating throughout urban settlements using submerged houses, collapsed walls, live electrical hazards and panicked populations,” she said.
