Assessment of The Impacts of Government and Institutional Responses in Flood Disaster Management in Osun State, Nigeria

Flood disaster poses significant threat to human lives, infrastructure and economic development across the globe. Adeyeye 2022 opinioned that it occurrence often generate significant physical, social, economic and environmental disruptions. Flood disasters have deleterious effects on the composite human lives. According to Potschin, 2014, Odufuwa et al 2012, Adebayo 2014 and Kolawole et al 2023 flood is most occurring natural and anthropogenic disaster across the globe. Dauda et al, 2025 stated that the trajectories of flood is across the continents of the world and it is the most frequently occurring and devastating natural disasters that affects lives, properties, and development in developing contraries. As reported by World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 2025, flood occurrences is responsible for more than 43% of all natural and anthropogenic globally disasters with approximately 40% of disaster-related deaths annually.