Tag: National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA)
Flood: NEMA sends team to Benue
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has deployed a team to provide humanitarian services to residents in Benue that were…
North-East: Emir of Biu commends FG’s food intervention
The Emir of Biu in Borno, Alhaji Mai Umar Mustapha, has commended the Federal Government over its Emergency Food Intervention…
Rain: Over 300 houses submerged in Ibadan
The South West Zonal Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Mr Yakubu Sulieman has revealed that over 300 houses were…
Boko Haram: NEMA evacuates 270 Nigerian refugees returning from Cameroon
National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Thursday evacuated 270 Nigerian refugees who returned from Cameroon Republic to Nigeria, from Mubi…
We still have 32 IDP camps in Borno – NEMA
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in Borno remained 32 in spite of recent…
Solution to Kaduna crisis lies with warring parties
The Deputy Governor of Kaduna State, Barnabas Bantex, has said that the solution to the unending crisis at Godogodo in…
NEMA wants Niger farmers to embrace irrigation farming
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has advised farmers to embrace irrigation instead of the raining season farming to reduce…
NEMA, SEMA to provide relief materials to Osun flood victims
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the Osun Emergency Management Agency (OSEMA) are working to provide relief materials to…
Flood, windstorm displace 7,290 in 3 states – NEMA
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), says flood and windstorm displaced no fewer than 7, 290 people and destroyed many…
FRSC creates data bank for road traffic accident
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says the need to have a unified road accident data in the country informed…
People living in flood-prone areas urged to relocate
Officials of emergency management agencies in some states of the North East said that concerted efforts were being made to…
162 Nigerian migrants voluntarily return home from Libya
An Airbus 320 aircraft with registration number 5A-WAT on Thursday arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport , Lagos with 162…
Government trains 800 repentant Boko Haram members
The office of the Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. General Gabriel Olonishakin is currently training over 800 members of the…
NEMA holds Christmas party for IDPs in Yola
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Friday organised a Christmas “get-together’’ for returnee Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Yola,…
FG releases N56bn to develop insurgency-ravaged areas
The Federal Government has released N56 billion toward rehabilitating victims and places ravaged by insurgency in the North-Eastern part of…
Over 6000 flee Boko Haram violence in one week – NEMA
Boko Haram violence has forced over 6,000 people in the northeast Nigerian state of Borno to flee their homes within…
Jos Blast: FG to settle victims’ medical bills
The Federal Government has pledged to bear the hospital bills of victims of Tuesday’s twin bomb explosions in Jos. A…
At least 118 killed in Jos blasts – NEMA
At least 118 people were killed in a car bomb attack in the central Nigerian city of Jos, the country’s…
46 Killed in Jos Blasts – Police
Twin car bombings killed 46 people on Tuesday at a crowded market in the central Nigerian city of Jos, as…
NEMA confirms fire outbreak near Port Harcourt refinery
Umesi Emenike, the South-South Zonal Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has confirmed a fire incident near the…
NEMA decries poor technology infrastructure in disaster management
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has decried the low institutional capability in data generation, risk analysis and early warning…
Boko Haram Scare On Lagos/Ibadan Expressway
Kazeem Ugbodaga There was panic in Lagos and some parts of Ogun State this morning following rumours that members of…
Prepare For Heavy Rains –NEMA
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Monday, warned residents of the southern parts of the country against severe weather…
Lagos And The Coming Rains
By Tayo Ogunbiyi While some parts of the country experienced flooding of greater dimension last year, the situation in Lagos…
NEMA Builds Bridge To Pipeline Fire Site
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has commenced building a foot bridge in order to have access to the site…