Tag Archives: SEMA

Windstorm has displaced over 500 people and destroyed properties worth millions of Naira in Ife- Ijumu in Ijumu Local Government of Kogi State. The member representing Ijumu State Constituency at the Kogi state House of Assembly, Victor Omofaiye, who raised the issue on the floor of the house on Wednesday, noted that the natural disaster caused untold trauma and pains ...

“The Gombe State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, said 23 persons were killed and five others missing in Gombe flood disaster between June and July.”- Premium Times Mohammed Garba, Acting Head of Rescue and Rehabilitation of the agency made the disclosure to journalists in Gombe on Monday. He said six persons died at Dadinkowa in Yamaltu-Deba flood on June 6; 16 ...

According to the Jigawa State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, floods killed 18 persons and destroyed 6,637 houses in about 19 local government areas in the state during the current raining season. Its Executive Secretary, Yusuf Sani, told journalists in Dutse yesterday that the persons died in Gwaram, Dutse, Jahun, Gumel and Ringim Local Government areas of the state, Vanguard reports. Sani ...

Earlier in the week, we brought you a report on how flood ravaged six local government areas of Kano state, destroying nothing less than 5,300 houses. Head Operations and Logistics, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Mr. Femi Giwa, also revealed that 5,000 people may lose their homes to flood during a UNICEF organised workshop on emergency preparedness response forum held ...

The Borno Government says it will offer nursery and primary school scholarships to 23,000 orphans taking refuge in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the state. Ahmed Satomi, the Chairman, State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, disclosed this on Sunday in Maiduguri in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria. Mr. Satomi said the gesture was aimed at catering for ...