Tag:Disaster management

Disaster Risk Management

Govt releases report to enhance amelioration of plights of 2022 flood victims

Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, has presented the Global Rapid (Post Disaster) Damage Estimation (GRADE) Assessment report...

Michael Simire - January 29, 2023

Disaster Risk Management

Group calls for establishment of Disaster Management Teams across Nigeria communities

An NGO, Christain Rural and Urban Development Association of Nigeria (CRUDAN), South-West zone, has called for the establishment of Disaster Management Teams across communities...

Michael Simire - August 17, 2022

Disaster Risk Management

Flood: NEMA releases disaster management report, harps on early action

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Thursday, July 1 released its 2021 Disaster Risk Management Implications Report (DRM) to guide effective and timely...

Michael Simire - July 1, 2021

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Need for disaster management-gender mainstreaming policy implementation underscored

Participants at the just concluded two-day National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) organised and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) supported Expert Review Workshop held at...

Michael Simire - June 2, 2017

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Why gender should be mainstreamed in disaster management, by NEMA

A call has been made by the Director General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Engr Mustapha Maihaji, for gender perspective to be adopted in...

admin - June 1, 2017

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Lake Nyos tragedy revisited, 26 years after

On August 26th, 1989, Cameroon’s remote village of Nyos witnessed a strange scientific occurrence in lake water history. A volcanic mountain cracked and sunk into...

Michael Simire - February 11, 2015

Sustainable Devpt

Ban Ki-moon: Disaster planning must accommodate older people’s limited mobility

United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, has said that planning for disaster should take account of the reduced mobility experienced by many older persons....

Michael Simire - October 14, 2014

Climate Change

Groups analyse Lagos climate disaster

In 2012, Nigeria experienced remarkable floods that affected over 7.7 million people, causing the worlds’s second largest disaster-induced displacement event of the year. The floods,...

Michael Simire - June 5, 2014

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