The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has distributed relief materials worth millions of naira to communities affected by recent communal clashes and windstorm in Taraba state. Flagging -off the programme in Jalingo, the state capital, the Deputy Governor, Haruna Manu lauded the gesture of NEMA and charged them to do more. The deputy governor further […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has advised the Imo and Abia Governments to publicise their isolation centres to the general public. According to NEMA, this is to assist emergency workers and others to be proactive in case of any emergency. The Head of Imo/Abia Operations Office of the agency, Mr. Evans Ugoh, gave the […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has placed all responders, emergency workers and staff members on alert due to the increase in the Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the country. NEMA’s Director -General, Mustapha Maihaja, represented by the Director, Planning, Research and Forecasting of the agency, Mr. Kayode Fagbemi, made this known in a statement after […]
“We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that. By depicting a Samaritan helping a Jew, Jesus could not have found a more forceful way to say that anyone at all in need – regardless […]
…Say food supplied was contaminated and would not go round to all in the camp …We pleaded with them to accept it, but they refused – NEMA Aggrieved Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Fufore International Transit Camp in Adamawa State have rejected the foodstuffs supplied to them by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). The […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says it has received another batch of 116 Nigerians, who volunteered to be repatriated back to Nigeria from Libya. Acting Coordinator, Lagos territorial office of NEMA, Ibrahim Farinloye, received the returnees on behalf of, the Director-General of the agency, Mustapha Maihajja. READ ALSO: AEDC wants FG to waive import […]
Lagos – The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has received another batch of 161 stranded Nigerians from Mtiga in Libya. The acting Coordinator, Lagos Territorial Office, NEMA, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, received the returnees on Thursday night in Lagos. Farinloye said that the Nigerians arrived the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, late […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said there was no casualty recorded in Imo during the yuletide. Mr Evans Ugoh, NEMA Head of Imo/Abia operations, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Owerri. According to him, the milestone was achieved through diligent collaboration among disaster stakeholders. He […]
Coordinator, North-Central office of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr. Eugene Nyelong, has stressed the need for participatory approach to disaster management and mitigation in the country. He stated this on Monday in Jos, Plateau state during the disaster management and mitigation conference for key stakeholders in Gangare and Rikkos communities of Jos North […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Niger has launched operation Eagle Eye to sensitise road users on the need to embrace safety measures during the Yuletide. Mrs Lydia Wagami, Head of Operations, NEMA, Minna Operations Office, said during the inauguration of the exercise in Minna on Thursday, that it would ensure safety of lives […]
168 Nigerians deported from Libya were on Friday December 6, received by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). The returnees which includes 38 adult females, five female children,109 adult males, six male children and 10 infants arrived Nigeria at about 5: 42am on an Al Buraq airline flight after a 12 hour delay. They were reportedly received at the Murtala Muhammed […]
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Friday trained 62 staff of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and their states counterparts on emergency management and disaster risk reduction. The four-day training was organised in collaboration with the United States Forest Service. Senior Technical Advisor, Emergency Management Systems, USAID, Mr. Scott Dehnisch, said […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has received another batch of 158 Nigerians from Libya on Thursday morning. The Head of NEMA Territorial Office in Lagos, Alhaji Idris Muhammed, has briefed newsmen that the agency received the returnees on behalf of the Federal Government. The returnees from Libya arrived in the country few hours after […]
The National Emergency Management Agency has received another batch of 180 stranded Nigerians from Libya. Alhaji Idris Muhammed, Coordinator, Lagos Territorial Office of NEMA, confirmed the development to newsmen on Tuesday in Lagos. Muhammed said the Nigerians arrived at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at about 9:30 p.m. on Monday […]
House of Representatives member, Rep. Ehiozuwa Agbonnayinma on Tuesday raised the alarm, alleging that some members of the House were collating signatures to impeach Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in respect of the N5.8 billion fraud uncovered at the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). The lawmaker, who stated this at a press conference in Abuja, however […]
The Advocates of Social Justice for All (ASJA), has exonerated Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo and the National Emergency Management, NEMA under Engr. Mustapha Maihaja of any wrong doing. The organsation pointedly said the accusations leveled against the Vice President and Engr Maihaja were politically motivated. Rising from its 7th Extra Ordinary Meeting Held in Abuja […]
Full Text of Joint Press Press Conference by National Emergency Management Committee led by NEMA DG, Engr. Mustapha Maihaja on House of Reps Allegations of Misappropriation Against NEMA. 1) Distinguished members of the press corps, Good Afternoon. 2) I would like to thank you all for coming to this Press Conference. This Conference was called […]
The management of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has countered the claims of violation of public trust against it by the House Of Representatives Committee on Emergency and disaster preparedness with ‘hard facts.’ The agency said the findings by the committee against the agency did not reflect facts placed before it. The management in […]
The furore generated by the House of Representatives recommendations on the management of funds to feed Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North East intensified Tuesday, with the Chairman, House Committee on Emergency and Disaster Management, Rep. Ali Isa, insisting that the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) governing council headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo […]
The House of Representatives last Thursday adopted at plenary, a report of its Committee on Emergency and Preparedness Response, chaired by Hon. Ali Isa from Gombe State. The report indicted the governing Board of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), under the statutory supervision of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osibanjo, over an alleged illegal approval […]