Health And Global Climatic Factors For Environmental Considerations

Sonny and Cher's daughter-turned-son Chaz Bono does his first interview ever on The Oprah Winfrey Show today, May 9. Chaz opens up to Oprah about the gender reassignment surgery that was the end of Chastity Bono, how his mother Cher has handled his journey, his new book Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man and the documentary Becoming Chaz, which hits OWN on Tuesday.




The warnings came hard and strong. They sounded urgent and present. Experts were in the media and every communication channel, warning that the rains that would come this year, would not be like any the country had seen in recent memory. They talked about heavy and persistent rains, which would result in baleful of flood. Governments, both at the federal and state levels, trumpeted the promise. But whether they did much to assuage the effect of the imminent catastrophe, was a different thing.


Rain fell from late on Sunday evening and ceased to stop till Monday, thereby leaving residents of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, to count their losses.  The downpour, which was reminiscent of the August 26, 2011 flood disaster, resulted in the death of at least seven persons across the city.  Area worse hit was Oluyole area of the city.  Other areas where the impact of the flood was felt included Arapaja, Akala new extension and Lao hospital.  The downpour also created heavy traffic snarl in major parts of the city, especially Mokola, Agbarigo, Onireke, Dugbe and Apata.  Some residents of the affected area, it was gathered, have started relocating for fear of been washed away by the flood.  It was gathered that some people in Oluyole area fell into a collapsed bridge that was covered by the flood from the heavy downpour.