Harmattan Haze: Several flights cancelled, passengers stranded

Footage released by the French army shows helicopters taking off to rescue people in the hinterland of Nice after severe weather hit southeastern France and northern Italy. Torrential rain and flash floods battered the area, washing away roads and houses, cutting off entire villages and triggering landslides.

The ten costliest weather disasters worldwide this year saw insured damages worth $150 billion, according to a report published on Monday. The same disasters claimed at least 3,500 lives and displaced more than 13.5 million people. From Australia's out-of-control wildfires in January to a record number of Atlantic hurricanes through November, the true cost of the year's climate-enhanced calamities was in fact far higher because most losses were uninsured.

Europe's low pressure system Ahmet is the first of 14 wintertime highs and lows named to highlight the continent's diversity.

Snow carpets the capital as a cold front hits Greece.

The Nigeria Meteorological Agency, NIMET, said the harmattan experienced in Northern Nigeria is normal

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More than 40 million people were driven from their homes by continued conflict and worsening weather in 2020 as the climate grew increasingly chaotic.

NDLEA intercepts N8billion cocaine, arrests Brazilian based drug kingpin at Lagos airport, and seizes $24,500 offered as a bribe to compromise an investigation.

NDLEA have arrested seven drug traffickers who tried to either import into Nigeria or export to the United Kingdom and Italy.

Global warming, a weakening jet stream and the moon will combine to cause more devastating heat waves and floods in the coming decades.

Climatologists in the US have said July 2021 was the hottest month in 142 years of recordkeeping. The previous record was set in July 2016.

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