Disaster Risk Management

President Muhammadu Buhari has delegated authority to the Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mustapha Maihaja, to declare a “national disaster’’ if anticipated flooding turns a reality in parts of the country. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity in a statement in Abuja, said the President’s directive followed a warning by the Nigeria Hydrological ...

No fewer than 700 houses including large farmlands have been affected by flash floods following heavy rains in parts of Rivers, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. According to Mr Martins Ejike, the Rivers Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the flood began since August 2018. He said that areas affected by flood in the State included Rumukpokwu, Elekohia ...

No fewer than 35 communities in Etsako East and Etsako Central Local Government Areas of Edo State have been sacked by flood, occasioned by unending rains and overflow of the River Niger. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the flood, which displaced over 30,000 people, also damaged hundreds of hectares of farmland across the two council areas. NAN ...

The Kirikasamma Local Government Council in Jigawa State has commenced erection of a sandbag embankment at Marawaji Bridge to save it from imminent collapse. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the bridge, which connects 20 other communities, is being threatened by flood. Speaking at the project site on Saturday, September 15, 2018 at Kirikassama, the council’s Chairman, Alhaji ...

The Director-General (DG), National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr Mustapha Maihaja, has placed all Disaster Response Units across the country on red alert due to rise in water level. NEMA Director of Search and Rescue, Air Commodore Akugbe Iyamu, who represented the DG, announced this on Friday, September 14, 2018 in Ilorin, Kwara State, when a NEMA team visited the ...

The Katsina State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) says 4,000 houses have been destroyed by rainstorms in some parts of the state during this year’s rainy season. The SEMA Executive Secretary, Alhaji Haruna Musa, who disclosed this to newsmen in Katsina, the state capital, on Thursday, September 13, 2018, said two persons have also died in building collapse during the season. ...

The Bayelsa and Anambra state governments are taking steps to ensure that the anticipated flooding expected in some states does not have adverse consequences on residents. Mr Daniel Iworiso-Markson, the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information, gave the assurance on Thursday, September 13, 2018 in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yenagoa. Similarly, the National Emergency Management ...

Massive flooding has destroyed more than 175 houses, rendered at least 3,000 people homeless in Cross River State, according to Mr John Inaku, Director-General of State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA). Inaku gave the update on flood situation in the state on Thursday, September 13, 2018 in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar. Inaku, who said ...