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....
Category: DISASTER MANAGEMENT
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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...
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NEMA DEFENDS ITS 2025 BUDGET BEFORE THE JOINT COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mrs. Zubaida Umar, has appeared before the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives to defend the Agency’s budget estimates for the 2025 fiscal year. The joint sitting was composed of members of the Senate Committee on Special Duties, chaired by Senator...
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WE ARE LAUNCHING DIGITAL LITERACY TRAINING FOR FEDERAL CIVIL SERVANTS – FG
The Federal Government has started a digital literacy training program for federal civil servants in an effort to improve their abilities to use digital tools and technologies. The Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation and the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) are working together on this project. The programme aims...
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Fire Outbreak at Ilorin Market: Fire Service Saves 269 Shops
The Kwara State Fire Service averted a major disaster on Friday, January 10, 2025, when it swiftly responded to a fire outbreak at the Olusola Saraki Market, Ita-Amo, Ilorin. According to a statement by Hassan Hakeem Adekunle, Head of Media and Publicity for the Director of the Kwara State Fire Service, the distress call was...
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Flood: Gov Zulum approves additional 4 weeks for disbursement Committee
By Achsdu Gabriel, Kaduna Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has approved a four-week extension for the “Borno State Flood Disaster Relief Disbursement Committee,” which is responsible for managing relief funds. Maiduguri, the Borno State capital and its surrounding local government areas, have experienced devastating flood that resulted in widespread destruction, including loss of lives, damage...
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Maiduguri: Zulum assesses roads, bridges destroyed by flood
By Achadu Gabriel, KADUNA Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum, on Thursday, conducted an assessment of some vital infrastructure including roads, bridges and hospitals, damaged by the flood disaster that struck Maiduguri Metropolis and the surrounding local government areas. The devastating September 10 flood, described as the worst seen in Maiduguri in over three...
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Humanitarian Ministry: Those calling for scrap are enemies of Tinubu – Expert Prince Yilbel
By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna In order for the renewed hope agenda to be succinctly achieved, parochial suggestions from certain quarters that the humanitarian ministry be scrapped, must be utterly jettisoned, humanitarian expert, Hon. Prince David Yilbel has said. Hon. Prince David Yilbel (Fcic,Fcp) who made the observation in an elaborate analysis he signed and made...
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NNPCL Foundation Supplies Relief Items To The Borno State Government To Assist Flood Victims.
Relief supplies have been given to the recent flood victims in Borno State by NNPC Ltd. through its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) division, NNPC Foundation. L-R: Executive Vice President, Business Services, NNPC Ltd, Mr. Danladi A. Inuwa (who represented the GCEO, Mr. Mele Kyari) and Managing Director, NNPC Foundation, Mrs. Emmanuella Arukwe condole with the...