The Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency, Mustapha Maihaja, has placed all Disaster Response Units across the country on red alert due to rise in water level.
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The North West zone of National Emergency Management Agency on Friday said 53 lives were lost to flood in both Katsina and Kaduna States, while 30 others were missing in the last four months.
The National Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday called on states and local governments to put in place emergency response mechanisms to prevent flooding in their respective domains.
The National Emergency Management Agency on Monday held an emergency meeting with the Kebbi State Emergency Management Agency to gather data on flood victims in the state.
The National Emergency Management Agency said on Wednesday that it had concluded plans to repatriate 56,000 Borno Internally Displaced Persons from Difa, Niger Republic.
Following over-flow of water from the dam, locals of the town had circulated information to the effect that insurgents had destroyed the dam
Excavator Operator, John Iliya, was killed by Boko Haram jihadists on August 8 at Damasak in Borno, according to a statement by NEMA on Thursday in Abuja.
The South-East Director of the Agency, Walson Ibarakumo, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Enugu on Tuesday.
Mustapha Maihajja, the Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency, on Tuesday urged members of staff to accept the change that would promote the agency to global standard.
Five insurgents have lost their lives in a failed bid to infiltrate a community in Maiduguri, to cause havoc, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The National Emergency Management Agency on Friday said no fewer than 643 Nigerians voluntarily returned from Libya in the last five weeks.
The National Emergency Management Agency, Kano Operations Office, has warned residents of Jigawa and Katsina states, especially those living in flood-prone areas to desist from dumping refuse in water ways.
The last updated figure of 44 deaths was given by the Governor of the State, Alhaji Aminu Masari
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the incident occurred when the governor visited one of the IDPs camps at Zawan to give relief materials to them
The downpour, which started around 4pm and stopped by 9pm, caused river channels in the capital city to overflow their banks, resulting in loss of lives and sweeping away of several vehicles
The Planning Officer of NEMA, Segun Afolayan, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Friday that the returnees arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, at 9.45p.m. on Thursday.
The agency has also secured approval from the Bureau of Public Procurement for Group Life Insurance for NEMA workers in view of the increasing emergency needs.
The Red Chamber also urged the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing to direct Yola Electricity Distribution Company to facilitate restoration of power to the city and environs.
Osinbajo gave the assurance during an assessment visit to Internally Displaced Persons camp in the Awe Local Government Area of Nasarawa State on Wednesday.
The beneficiary companies were to supply grains to the Internally Displaced Persons in the North East