Some twenty-one persons have died, with 5,300 rendered homeless in 8 local government areas of Kano State from flood, which has also destroyed about 2,017 houses. The Kano State Emergency and Rehabilitation Agency (SERA) said only eight councils were on its list. SERA’s Executive Secretary Aliyu Bashir Nukkel, who spoke in his office yesterday, said: […]
Continue ReadingTo strengthen existing emergency alerts system, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has begun to install a modern equipment at the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) under a partnership to further increase efficiency in response to emergency situations in the country. The new equipment which is based on the latest technology in Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication […]
Continue ReadingFollowing intense rainfall and rises in water level, the National Emergency Management Agency has advised communities along the river Niger to evacuate immediately to safer ground over the likelihood of floods that may occur at any moment from now.Director General of NEMA, Muhammad Sani Sidi who gave the advice said the agency has received alerts […]
Continue ReadingThe National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has presented food and non-food items to the military for Operation Safe Corridor Programme meant to de-radicalize, rehabilitate and re-integrate eight hundred (800) repented and surrendered Boko Haram insurgents to fast track peace process in the North east. Presenting the items in Gombe, the Director General of NEMA, Muhammad […]
Continue ReadingA total of 1, 934, 765 displaced persons are currently living in formal camps, host communities and satellite camps in liberated communities as a result of insurgency in North Eastern States of Borno, Yobe, Taraba, Gombe, Bauchi and Adamawa states. This was disclosed by Yola Camp Coordinator , Saad Bello, who, on behalf of the […]
Continue ReadingThe acting Coordinator of National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, in Adamawa, Halilu Kangiwa, has said 11 people lost their lives in Friday’s bomb blast in Gombi market. Mr. Kangiwa told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Yola that 77 persons sustained injuries in the incident. He said that out of the injured, 19 […]
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