Tag: NEMA
6 Die In Early Morning Auto Crash
Kazeem Ugbodaga A ghastly motor accident occurred Friday morning on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State, western Nigeria, killing six people instantly…
Jos bombing: NEMA, Police disagree on death toll
The Nigerian police and the National Emergency Management Agency NEMA are locked in conflict over the number of the dead…
Jos bombing catastrophic, says NEMA official
. The dead and injured still being evacuated The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Tuesday declared that the casualty…
10 Escape Death As 2-Storey Building Collapses In Lagos
Kazeem Ugbodaga Ten people escaped death on Thursday morning when a two-storey building under construction collapsed at 11, Sand Beach…
NEMA names 136 injured bomb blast victims
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Thursday in Abuja, released the names of 136 casualties of Monday’s bomb blast…
Nyanya Blasts: ‘My Wife Died On Way To Buy Wedding Items’
Sola Adeola/Abuja Understandably, Alpha Moro became disturbed on the whereabouts of his wife who left home less than an hour…
Abuja blasts: NEMA wants blood donors as one more person dies
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Twenty four hours after the fatal attack masterminded by suspected Boko Haram insurgents at a Bus…
8 Dead, 12 Rescued As Another Boat Capsizes In Lagos
Kazeem Ugbodaga At least eight people have been confirmed dead and 12 rescued as another boat capsized in…
4 Boko Haram suicide bombers killed in failed attack
Four would-be suicide bombers planning to blow up a petrol station in Maiduguri, Borno state have been killed by soldiers…
More than 1000 killed by Boko Haram in 3 months
More than 1,000 people have been killed so far this year in three states in northeastern Nigeria worst hit by…
Poisonous Gas Knocks Out Another Student
Kazeem Ugbodaga Students of Ogba Junior Grammar School, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, are now studying in fear as another female student…
13 bodies recovered from Lagos boat mishap
Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), on Wednesday confirmed that 13 dead bodies have been recovered from the boat accident…
Boko Haram turns 2,000 people into refugees
More than 2,000 people were forced from their homes after a market attack in northeast Nigeria blamed on Boko Haram…
5 drown at Lagos Bar Beach
Kazeem Ugbodaga No fewer than five persons have drowned at the Lagos Bar Beach, Lagos, Western Nigeria, in the last…
CAR evacuation: NEMA appeals to states to pick their people
The Director General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Mohammad Sani-Sidi,has appealed to state governments whose indigenes were affected in…
Fire Guts Great Nigeria House
Fire guts 22-storey Great Nigeria House in Lagos Hundreds of tenants and traders wept on Monday as fire engulfed the…
50 Houses Collapse As Rain Wreaks Havoc
Following the torrential rain that fell for about 22 hours in Benin City on Monday, residents of the Edo State…
Floods Displace 7m Nigerians —NEMA
At least seven million Nigerians were displaced in various floods recorded nationwide by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in…
Lagos Uncovers Another 20 Defective Buildings
The Lagos State Government has uncovered another 20 distressed buildings at Ebute Metta area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria, as more…
Collapsed house kills 5 In Lagos
Kazeem Ugbodaga Several persons have been confirmed dead as another two-storey building under construction collapsed today in Surulere area of…
7 Killed As 3-Storey Building Collapses
Six bodies have so far been removed from the rubble of a three-storey building which collapsed at Ebute Meta, Lagos,…
NAPTIP Uncovers 300 Human Traficking Routes
About 300 illegal routes used by human traffickers to ferry their victims out of the country have been discovered in…
Boko Haram: NEMA helps Nigerian refugees in Niger
Nigeria’s emergency agency said Thursday it has sent relief items to its fleeing nationals in nearby Niger following an ongoing…
Solving Nigeria’s Common Problems With Space Technology
By Olawale Salau Since Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation returned to civilian rule in 1999, Nigerians are desperate for a…
Ombatse: The Lethal Cult
How a previously little known group, which calls itself a spiritual organisation, rose to prominence through astounding brutality Until 7…
Another person dies in fresh collapsed buildings
Kazeem Ugbodaga Another person has been reported dead as two more buildings collapsed in Bariga and Ikorodu areas of Lagos…
Baga: ACN demands independent probe
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has rejected the preliminary reports on the Baga tragedy, submitted by the military high…
Jonathan backs fresh Baga massacre probe
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has endorsed an independent investigation into the alleged massacre of 287 civilians in the fishing town…
Relief camps set up for victims of Baga carnage
Nigeria rescue workers have now set up temporary camps in the remote northeastern town of Baga and distributed aid to…
INEC registry office gutted by fire
Nigeria’s National Emergency Agency, NEMA has confirmed that only one office was gutted by fire in the Abuja national headquarters…