Disaster Risk Management

A lecturer at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Prof. Christian Madu, has called for proper funding of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to enable it to meet its mandate. Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr Ahmed Habib Madu, a professor of Environmental Management and Control, made the call in an interview in Enugu on Friday, August 13, ...

The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has urged the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) to develop an emergency response plan to ensure effective management of electricity disaster. The Director-General of FEMA, Alhaji Abbas Idriss, and the Executive Director Corporate Services, AEDC, Mr Faruk Aliyu, on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 in Abuja Director-General of FEMA, Alhaji Abbas Idriss, gave ...

Thousands of people fled their homes on the outskirts of Athens on Friday, August 6, 2021 as Greece faced a fourth day of wildfires fuelled by strong winds and searing temperatures. A burning wildfire. Photo credit: Keith Pakenham/AFP/Getty Images Hundreds of residents were also evacuated by boat from the nearby Island of Evia Like elsewhere in Europe, Greece has been ...

An environmentalist, Ms Gloria Bulus, has urged states emergency management agencies to identify communities that will be worst hit by the predicted floods to prevent casualties. Flooded highway in Lekki, Lagos Bulus made the call in an interview on Friday, August 6, 2021 in Lagos. The Nigeria Hydrological Service Agency (NIHSA) warned Nigerians to expect heavy flooding in 2021, listing ...

Greek authorities ordered more evacuations on an island near Athens on Thursday, August 5, 2021 and battled a blaze near the site of the ancient Olympic Games in the western Peloponnese as wildfires burned for the third day. Athens, Greece Temperatures of more than 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) and strong winds have fanned more than 150 wildfires in different areas ...

Dozens are feared dead after a flash flood hit a village in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nuristan, officials said on Thursday, July 29, 2021. Flooding in Afghanistan According to the provincial council chief of the province, Saaedullah Nuristani, the flood destroyed at least 80 houses, and so far, the bodies of at least 35 people were recovered. Nuristani said that ...

Not more than 118 people have died in the devastating floods that have engulfed parts of Europe, while the search continues for those still missing continued. Damaged houses are seen at the Ahr River in Insul, western Germany, Thursday, July 15, 2021. Photo credit: AP Photo/Michael Probst The missing people occurred after raging waters turned once picture-postcard landscapes and historic towns ...

Floods following a torrential rainfall in the night of Wednesday, July 14, 2021 displaced some residents of Ado Ekiti, in Ekiti State, from their homes and destroyed properties. Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State Mostly affected were residents of Balemo and Tinuola areas, off Afao Road in Ado Ekiti, where flood submerged over 10 buildings and destroyed properties worth millions ...

The Society of Energy Administrators (SEA) has called on Federal Government to enact energy service criminal laws to capture health, safety and environment risk management in the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva President of SEA, Dr Yekeen Adeboye, made the call when he led executives of the society on a courtesy visit ...

A Cuban newspaper, the Granma daily, on Monday, July 5, 2021 reported that more than 200,000 Cubans had been evacuated from their residence in the face of coming tropical storm Elsa. Tropical storm Elsa killed at least three people over the weekend in the Dominican Republic and St. Lucia, after it slammed the eastern Caribbean islands as the first hurricane ...