.Warns 362 vulnerable communities at high risk of flood in Kano The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), on Thursday, issued a stern warning to residents living in flood-prone communities across 27 Nigerian states to start relocating. The Agency also reported that the floods caused significant damage to 32,837 homes and 16,488 hectares of farmland. Mr […]
By Samuel Luka The Director-General of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mrs Zubaida Umar, has asserted that nine Local Government Areas in Bauchi State would experience possible high and moderate risk of flood this year. Zubaida Umar, who made this known at a sensitisation programme for the 2024 down-scaling of flood early warning strategies for […]
The Renewed Hope Ambassador of Nigeria (RHAN) has lauded the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) for its patriotism and dedicated leadership styles. The advocacy group also hailed NEMA for its strategic interventions in the country’s emergency and disaster management. The group, which made this known in its periodic review of NEMA’s […]
Some residents of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, have looted a warehouse belonging to the National Emergency Management Agency of Nigeria, NEMA, over the current economic hardship across the country. It was gathered that the warehouse, located in Karimo, Phase 3 region of the FCT, Abuja, was raided on Sunday morning. The residents carted away […]
..Dispel contract racketeering against NEMA DG By Nsikak Ekpenyong Civil Society Groups for Good Governance (CSGGG) and Integrity Advocacy for Development Initiative (IADI), have shrugged off claim that the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mustapha Ahmed, looted N3 billion, in one month. Addressing journalists yesterday in Abuja, CSGGG and IADI Conveners, […]
By Tom Okpe The House of Representatives has urged the nation’s emergency body, National Emergency Management Agency, (NEMA) to liaise with relevant Agencies of the Federal Government to ensure relocation of citizens from areas mostly affected by flood, in the country. The House also said NEMA should ensure the Federal Government, stockpiles sufficient quantities of […]
By Tom Okpe The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said it has spent N112.13 billion from consolidated accruals and ecological fund utilisation on disaster management in the country from 2011 to the current year, 2022. This is just as members of the House of Representatives committee on Ecology, expressed displeasure with the disclosure by Ahmed […]
By Tunde Opalana, Haruna Salami Nigerians have alerted to brace up for worse devastating floods across the country next year. This is coming even as several hundred thousands of the citizenry displaced from their residents are currently putting up in internally displaced settlements with properties worth billions of naira destroyed and many lives lost as […]
Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr Mustapha Ahmed, says the agency is better prepared to provide a well-coordinated and timely response to emergencies in the country. He said this at the end of an Incident Command System and Emergency Coordination Centre (ICS/ECC) training in Abuja. The training was facilitated by the United States of […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), says it has so far recovered 32 dead bodies from the collapsed building at Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos. NEMA Acting Coordinator, Lagos State Territorial District, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed this on Thursday. He added that nine injured persons had also been pulled out from the rubble as rescue operation […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says three bodies have so far been recovered from the scene of Thursday night’s tanker explosion on Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja, Lagos State. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Acting Zonal Coordinator, South West Zonal Office, NEMA, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ikeja on Friday. […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has urged residents of the South-East to plant trees to checkmate the menace of erosion within the zone. The South-East Coordinator of NEMA, Mr James Eze, gave the advice while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Friday. Eze spoke against the background of World […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has commenced distribution of relief materials to 24,925 households of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) affected by banditry in 14 local government areas of Niger. This is disclosed in a statement by Mr Manzo Ezekiel, Head of Media and Public Relations of the agency on Thursday in Abuja. Retired Air […]
Dilibe Michael Mrs. Hydien Madu Wagami, The Northeast Zonal Head National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has retreated the commitment of the agency to partner with the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), on its humanitarian interventions. Wagami who disclosed this during a courtesy to SEMA on Monday in Maiduguri said the purpose of the visit […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Niger has distributed relief items to victims of armed bandits attack in Agwara, Borgu and Magama Local Government Areas of the state. Mrs Lydia Wagami, Head of Operations, NEMA Minna Operations Office, made this known while distributing the relief items to the various camp committee representatives and officials. […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said that no fewer than 129,000 persons were affected, while 68 persons were killed by flooding in different parts of the country this year. Director-General of the agency, retired AVM Muhammadu Muhammed, disclosed this at the 2020 flood after action review technical meeting organised for stakeholders on Monday […]
National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Friday said that its impact assessment of Thursday’s explosion of a gas tanker in Iju area of Lagos had revealed that 44 persons sustained varying degrees of injuries in the incident. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Acting Zonal Coordinator, South West Zonal Office, (NEMA), gave the update in an interview with […]
By Aherhoke Okipma, Yenagoa Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has urged the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to correct the misconception that only three local government areas suffer from flooding in the state. Diri, who stated this when officials of the agency paid him a courtesy visit in Government House, Yenagoa, said the whole state […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says 102 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in 28 states in the country fall within highly probable flood risk areas this year. AVM Muhammadu Mohammed, the Director General of NEMA, raised the alert at a news conference on the agency’s plan for the ‘2020 Flood Preparedness, Mitigation and Response’, on […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Friday distributed assorted food items to 4,100 displaced persons taking refuge at the Teachers Village Camp in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital. Head of NEMA food distribution in -charge of Borno state, Flight Lt. Umar Sani, during the monthly food distribution exercise, assured that the displaced persons would […]