Tag Archives: NEMA

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has advised Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Adamawa not to sell relief materials donated to them by the agency and other donor organizations. The State Camp Coordinator of NEMA, Sa’ad Bello, gave the advice in Yola, Adamawa State. Bello said the advice became necessary as some beneficiaries of relief materials sold the items. He ...

The Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Sani Sidi, yesterday described the increase in building collapse as worrisome. He said lives and property have been lost as a result of building collapse. According to him, there is need for contractors to abide by the rules and regulations while building houses, to protect them from collapse. The director-general ...

Read statement below: On the 8th of March 2016, a sad tragedy befell our organization, the Lekki Community, Lagos State and The Federal Republic of Nigeria which led to unfortunate deaths. Due to the prompt response of the Lagos State Emergency Authority (LASEMA), the Lagos State Fire Service, Lagos State Ambulance Service (LASAMBUS), Red Cross, National Emergency Agency (NEMA), Lagos ...

Fire on Tuesday razed the top part of NITEL building now known as Bankole house, located along Marina, Lagos. The fire started around 4.30 pm but the cause was still unknown as at press time. Similarly, the extent of damage could not be ascertained. Daily Trust gathered that rescuers from Federal and State fire service as well as the police ...

The National Emergency Management Agency says over 410 births and 187 marriages were recorded at Internally Displaced Persons Camps in Borno and Adamawa in August and September. This is contained in a statement issued by NEMA and made available on Wednesday in Abuja. The statement quoted Muhammad Sani-Sidi, the Director-General of NEMA, as disclosing this when members of “Bring Back ...

Building collapse is a disaster that often times does not occur naturally. This piece draws our attention to ten most catastrophic building collapses that shook the world from time immemorial with fatality that could have been worse than a natural disaster. Building collapse has become a constant feature among disasters that has rocked the world. In our part of the world, this worrisome ...

A 3 storey building has collapsed in Odunfa street, Lagos island. According to Ibrahim Farinloye, the South-west spokesperson for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) many are feared to be trapped in the building as 4 persons have been rescued so far. “4 rescued alive, no death recorded so far, search continues”, he told our reporter. Witnesses told Naij.com that the ...

The Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency, ADSEMA, in collaboration with the National Emergency Management Agency will close down all Internally Displaced Persons camps in the state by the end of December 2015. The Executive Secretary of ADSEMA, Haruna Furo, made this known in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Yola. Mr. Furo said that the decision ...

The National Emergency Management Agency has said that some 37,610 hectares of farmland, 5,495 houses and 25,950 people were affected by flood in 12 local government areas of Kebbi. The Director-General of NEMA, Muhammad Sidi, made the disclosure in Birnin Kebbi on Friday during a courtesy call on Kebbi Governor, Atiku Bagudu. He said the local government areas affected were ...

The two-storey Islamic School structure that collapsed in Jos on Sunday was originally a bugalow that was “forcefully” converted, the National Emergency Management Agency has said. “The foundation and all the materials were for a small bungalow, but the building structure was suddenly converted into a two-storey structure, forcing it to cave in as the foundation materials could not cope ...