In a swift response to the recent attack on Yelwata community in Benue State, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has deployed essential relief materials to provide immediate succour to those displaced and affected by the incident. The intervention followed a rapid needs assessment jointly conducted by officials of NEMA, the Benue State Emergency Management...
Category: DISASTER MANAGEMENT
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Mokwa Flooding: Situation Report Updates As At 10 p.m., Saturday, May 31, 2025
The National Emergency Management Agency, in coordination with other emergency response bodies, is intensifying efforts to track and rescue missing persons and provide relief supports to the flood affected families in Mokwa, Niger State.. On Saturday 31st May, 2025, NEMA rapid response and recovery team conducted a symbolic distribution of the relief materials to affected...
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NGF Mourns Kano Athletes, Seeks Prayers for Bereaved Families
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has expressed grief over the tragic death of several athletes from Kano State who lost their lives in a fatal road accident on their way back from the National Sports Festival held in Ogun State. The Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, described the incident...
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Mob Attacks Firefighters During Emergency Response in Ilorin
A team of firefighters from the Kwara State Fire Service came under attack on Friday while responding to a fire incident involving a Ministry of Environment bus at Adeta Roundabout in Ilorin. The spokesperson for the fire service, Hassan Hakeem Adekunle, disclosed that the emergency crew was assaulted by a mob upon arrival at the...
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Gas Cooker Sparks Fire in Ilorin, Destroys Seven Rooms in Storey Building
A fire outbreak at No. 90 Koro Compound, Oke-Apomu, Ilorin, on Wednesday afternoon left seven rooms in ruins, with firefighters battling to save the rest of the building. The Kwara State Fire Service received the distress call at exactly 1:53 p.m. and swiftly responded to the scene, where flames had already engulfed multiple rooms in...
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Boko Haram: Zulum donates N30m to family of slain army officer Alari
By Achadu Gabriel, kaduna Borno State Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has donated N30 million to the family of the late Army Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Ebisingha Alari, who lost his life in the ongoing battle against Boko Haram insurgents in the Timbuktu Triangle recently. The donation was made personally to the wife of the late...
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SEMA: Zulum appoints Ali Abdullahi Isa Acting Director General
Gov Zulum appoints Southern Borno man, Ali Abdullahi Isa Acting DG SEMA By Achadu Gabriel, kaduna Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has approved the appointment of Ali Abdullahi Isa as the acting Director General of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA). Zulum’s Special Adviser on Media, Dauda Iliya, released a statement on Wednesday announcing...
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Fifty Nine escape dead as plane crash lands in Kano
By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna A total of fifty nine people have escaped death as a Max Air aircraft with registration number 5N-MBD, B733 crash-landed at Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, (MAKIA), Tuesday night. Report had it that the incident happened when the aircraft with 53 passengers and 6 crew members arrived Kano from Lagos state....
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NEMA Delivers Food And Non-food Items To Victims of the Dikko Tanker Explosion.
In furtherance to emergency response to the tragic incident of tanker fire disaster that occurred at Dikko Junction in Niger State, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has delivered food and non-food items including medical supplies for treatment of the injured victims and relief support for families of the affected persons. The Director General NEMA,...
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Transformer catch fire day after 2 Nepa 2 narrowly escape electrocute in Kaduna
By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna At last, the worse has happen, as the consistently troubled transformer serving U/Boro area of Ecwa Hausa and De Jays hotel, Kaduna town blown -up three times and cut fire. The tragedy took the community youths some minutes to put off the flame and saved the transformer from been razed down...