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Most economic losses from disasters are climate-related – UN

Climate-linked disasters accounted for three-quarters of overall disaster losses in the past 20 years causing at least $2.25 trillion of damages, the UN reported...

admin - October 10, 2018

Disaster Risk Management

Geoethics as solution to Abuja tremor, other hazards

On October 18, 2018, Nigeria and the world shall join the International Association for Promoting Geoethics (IAPG), to celebrate the International Geoethics Day. The...

admin - October 9, 2018

Disaster Risk Management

Death toll from Indonesia’s quakes rises to 1,424

The death toll from multiple quakes and a tsunami in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province had risen to 1,424, an official said on Thursday, October...

admin - October 4, 2018

Disaster Risk Management

World Bank intervenes in erosion-threatned Awka court premises

The World Bank has visited the Alex Ekwueme gully erosion site which is threatening the Federal High Courts, Awka and other properties in the...

admin - October 2, 2018

Disaster Risk Management

150,000 persons displaced by flood in Bayelsa

No fewer than 150,000 persons have been displaced by flood in Bayelsa State, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) disclosed on Sunday, September 30,...

admin - September 30, 2018

Disaster Risk Management

Flood submerges over 200 houses in llorin, renders hundreds homeless

Flood wreaked havoc in Ilorin Township on Wednesday, September 26, 2018 as over 200 residential houses were submerged with hundreds of victims displaced and...

admin - September 26, 2018

Disaster Risk Management

Preventing flooding via pre-emptive, preventive measures

In recent times, flooding has been a recurrent problem in most parts of the world including Nigeria; there exist reports of flooding in some...

admin - September 26, 2018

Disaster Risk Management

NEMA confirms death of pastor, wife in Imo flood

Head of Imo/Abia Operations Office, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr Evans Ugoh, has confirmed that a pastor and his wife died in Monday’s...

admin - September 25, 2018

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