Nigeria, Oct. 22 -- The Senate on Thursday urged the federal government to explore appropriate budgetary provisions and international climate adaptation financing to protect coastal settlements threatened by ocean surges and sea incursion across Nigeria.

The upper chamber also directed the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and relevant state authorities to provide immediate humanitarian assistance, including safe water, healthcare services and temporary shelter, to residents whose homes and livelihoods have been destroyed by ocean surges.

The lawmakers adopted the resolutions during plenary while debating a motion on the urgent need to construct shoreline protection infrastructure to save the Ayetoro community in Ondo State fr...