Lagdo Reservoir is a reservoir located in the Northern Province of Cameroon, on the Benue River, in the Niger basin. The lake covers an area of 586 km2.
Lagdo Reservoir in 2007
Location of Lagdo Reservoir in the centre in northern Cameroon.
Houses submerged in Makurdi, Nigeria due to the flooding of Ladgo reservoir (2012).
Adamawa is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered by Borno to the northwest, Gombe to the west, and Taraba to the southwest while its eastern border forms part of the nationa
Lagdo Reservoir
…in the Département de la Benoué in the North Province. It is situated more exactly at . In 2012, water released from the dam flooded areas including Adamawa State in Nigeria, resulting in more than 10 deaths and the loss of properties worth thousands of dollars. A bigger effect of the flooding was at the lower…
Illustration by Edmund D. Morel titled "A Hausa from Yola" (1902)
Dancers of Adamawa state in their cultural adornment
Global warming has had a negative impact on climate and weather patterns as is visible here with the River Gongola flooding some households and farmlands in Yola.