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NEMA advises immediate relocation as flood hits 27 states
NEMA added that mobilised search and rescue teams are distributing essential relief supplies in partnership with State Emergency Management Agencies…
9,733 households affected by windstorm in Adamawa – NEMA
Ayuba also urged residents who reside in the flood front areas to relocate to safer places or higher ground for…
NEMA receives 103 Nigerian deportees from Turkey
Addressing the returnees, the Director General NEMA, Mrs Zubaida Umar, admonished them to accept their experience in good faith and…
Tinubu appoints first female Director-General for NEMA
As Executive Director, Finance and Corporate Services at the Federal Mortgage Bank, Mrs. Umar drove the strategy and repositioning of…
Police, NEMA place operatives on red alert against Lagos hoodlums
“We are taking worse scenario precautionary safety measures to safeguard both human and other assets of the Federal Government from…
NEMA breaks silence on looted Abuja warehouse
Some said residents of neighbouring Jiwa and Karmo communities trooped toward the site with the intention of partaking in the…
NEMA gives update on havoc caused by Lagos flood
Meanwhile, Farinloye said the Director-General of NEMA, Alhaji Mustapha Habib Ahmed, appealed to Nigerians to start clearing their drainages and…
975 stranded Nigerians repatriated from Niger Republic
Abdullahi said the returnees were brought back under the care of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) from Niamey, Niger's…
Pedestrian crushed to death in Lagos
Farinloye said that the victim was also mangled by high speeding vehicles and the body could not be identified.
Three escape death as another truck falls in Lagos
ConOil truck which took off from Apapa heading to discharge its product at Ikeja had lost control after the driver…
Another three-storey building collapses in Lagos
The building came down at about 10.00 p.m. on Friday night at No. 14 Ikpoh Street Surulere.
‘Disobedient’ motorcyclist dies in Lagos flood
By Fabian Ekeruche A commercial motorcycle rider simply identified as Mr. Abe was swept into a canal at the Ile-Epo…
NEMA issues heavy rainfall, flood alerts to 50 communities in 13 states
Farinloye added that due to the rise in the water levels of Rivers Benue and Niger, communities along the two…
NEMA issues flood alert to 13 states over release of water from Lagdo Dam
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA has put 13 states across Nigeria on red alert about potential massive flooding following…
NEMA distributes relief materials to 24,640 flood victims in Yobe
The governor said the Phase one SNELEI intervention targeted more than 9,000 beneficiaries out of the 24,640 registered victims.
Lagos helicopter crash: Two people rescued – NEMA
Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Territorial Coordinator, NEMA confirmed the helicopter crash in Ikeja to newsmen in Lagos.
126 more Nigerians arrive Abuja from Sudan
This brings to 2,660 stranded Nigerians evacuated to the country in 16 batches since the crisis broke out in Sudan.
Tinubu orders return of NEMA, Hajj Commission to VP’s office
Tinubu orders the return of NEMA to the Office of the Vice President for supervision in compliance with its establishment…
Fire kills 3, destroys N860m property in Sokoto
Kafindangi lamented that based on disaster forecasts, NEMA had issued five letters of caution, the need for early response and…
137 stranded Nigerians in Libya land in Lagos
NEMA said the returnees arrived at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Cargo Wing, Ikeja on board of Al Buraq Air…
126 more Nigerians back from Libya
The Nigerian returnees brought back from Libya comprise 46 male adults, 62 female adults, two male and six female children,…
Anambra floods: NEMA, military begin operation to airlift trapped victims
The Military DRU have engaged and have started ‘Air Recce’ or Aerial view to collect imagery intelligence of the affected…
Anambra flood: 76 dead, NEMA seeks aircraft to rescue trapped victims
Thickman Tanimu, Zonal Coordinator of NEMA, South-East said as at Friday, the flood level in Anambra has risen above the…
180 Nigerians stranded in Niger Republic return home
The NEMA official said the returnees comprised 144 males, 13 females and 23 children, adding that the children included 17…
Anambra floods: One dead, 651,000 people displaced
NEMA said flood has submerged houses, farmlands, schools, health centres, Police Stations and Churches and other critical infrastructure in Anambra
300 dead, 100,000 others displaced in devastating flood in Nigeria
He said that the meeting was convened to urgently review emergency situations and plan for further action by all emergency…
Many trapped as 7-storey building collapses in Lekki
According to Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, the Lagos Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), emergency responders have been deployed…
15 bodies recovered from Maiduguri river
The Borno Command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), had deployed its personnel along the river banks to…
1 dead, 7 injured in Kano building collapse
Abdullahi said so far, eight persons were rescued and were taken to Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital, Kano, for treatment.
Flood ravages 225 communities across Kano, Jigawa
Abdullahi said the Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NiMet) on Aug.16, predicted above normal rainfall in 19 states between August and September…