 Good afternoon, I am Kadija Balugum and this is a news update on PLOS TV Africa. Thousands of travellers remain stranded in Kogi state after major routes connect in the state to other parts of the nation, where submerged and made the country's worst flooding in a decade. According to the Kogi Commissioner for Information, seven people have so far been killed in the floods, which have lasted almost a week now, crippling transportation and other businesses. Residents of the affected area called for help while they continue to pray to God. The floods are blamed mainly on the release of excess water from the lagoon dam in neighbouring Cameroon and unusual rainfall. Floods have caused more than 300 deaths in Nigeria this year.