Disaster Risk Management

Disaster Risk Management

Pakistan struggles to avert danger as floods rise

Pakistani authorities are struggling to prevent the country’s biggest lake bursting its banks and inundating nearby towns after unprecedented flooding. The Pakistan’s National Disaster Management...
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Disaster Risk Management

Emergency responders recover two bodies at Lekki building collapse

Emergency responders have recovered two dead bodies from the rubbles of a building that collapsed in the early hours of Sunday, September 4, 2022,...
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Disaster Risk Management

Flood: 15 bodies recovered in Maiduguri river

No fewer than 15 bodies have been recovered from flooded River Ngadabul in Maiduguri. The North  East Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA),...
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Flood destroys bridge, farms in Yobe

Flood triggered by days of torrential rain has destoyed Katarko bridge in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State. Dr Mohammad Goje, Executive Secretary, State...
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33m people, 72 districts of Pakistan affected by floods

Over 33 million people and 72 districts have been affected by the ongoing floods in Pakistan caused by monsoon rains started in mid-June. The country’s...
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Disaster Risk Management

Xi sends condolences to Alvi over severe floods in Pakistan

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday, August 29, 2022, sent a message of condolence to his Pakistani counterpart, Arif Alvi, over the severe floods...
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Disaster Risk Management

NEMA, NAF to collaborate on emergency management

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) have expressed commitment to collaborate on emergency management in Lagos State. They made...
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Disaster Risk Management

Pakistan floods: Nigeria calls for global attention

President Muhammadu Buhari has extended sympathies for the sea-like flooding of Pakistan, the worst natural disaster in the country’s history. This is contained in a...
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