The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and UNISDR Chief, Margareta Wahlström, gave the acknowledgement at the 4th Africa Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Arusha, Tanzania
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After a review of the recent impacts of disasters in Nigeria, stakeholders in emergency management have adopted a position for the National Assembly to amend the Act that established the National Emergency Management Agency to strengthen its roles in response to such situations
Sani-Sidi said the Agency found the Nollywood industry an appropriate avenue to promote public awareness because most Nigerians living in every part of the world are keen on watching films from the industry
Uduaghan disclosed that it would be difficult for the state government to raise N10 billion for the reconstruction of infrastructures and resettlement of flood victims and promised to send the report to the Alhaji Aliko Dangote-led national committee on flood disaster as well as the National Emergency Management Agency for study
Ibrahim Farinloye, an official of the National Emergency Management Agency, said: “There was a ship that was trying to discharge into an oil tank owned by (Nigerian firm) MRS and there was a fire, but I don’t yet have any details as to what led to the fire
The Head of Abuja Operation Office of the National emergency Management Agency, Ishaya Chonoko, confirmed the incident
A statement by the spokesperson of NEMA, Yushau Shuaib, however, said two persons were killed by unidentified gunmen around the same area on Sunday
It was learnt that the source of the fire has been traced to an electrical fault
The clash, between the Fulani and Gwari ethnic stocks in Gwako, Gwagwalada Local Government Area over the weekend, affected 27 settlements and displaced over 1,500 persons
The Director General of NEMA, Muhammad Sani-Sidi, made the disclosure in his office at the weekend while receiving the communique of the 2012 Annual Media Retreat of Journalists and Information Officers on Disaster and Emergency Management in Nigeria
The Director General of NEMA, Muhammad Sani-Sidi, who received the delegation at the weekend in his office, noted that various groups have shown concern and great commitment towards the plight of the displaced people, just as the agency is currently working towards confronting hazards associated with harmattan and dry seasons after the rainy days
Sani-Sidi spoke when he received in his office separate teams from the United Kingdom Cabinet Office Briefing Room, led by Nick Gibbons, and the newly-appointed Commander of the Nigerian Air Force, Abuja Camp, Group Captain Joseph Malgwi
The building collapsed on Wednesday morning at Jakande Estate, Oke-Afa, Isolo, Lagos
At the ceremony, which took place at the cargo terminal of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Sani-Sidi disclosed that between June and October this year, Nigeria experienced unprecedented floods, which affected about 7.7 million people, displacing 2.1 million while 363 people lost their lives
The Forum will be jointly chaired and facilitated by NEMA and OCHA and will be initially organised on a weekly basis
This becomes necessary in view of the plans to embark on rehabilitation and reconstruction of communities affected by the disaster
NEMA, in a report from the Emergency Situation Room of the agency, said 7,705,398 persons were affected by the flood between July 1, 2012 and October 31, 2012