According to Chonoko: “The objective of the workshop is to among other things inculcate disaster risk awareness among school children, promote integrating of disaster risk reduction in school curriculum and to help understand the threats of measles, cholera and
“This workshop is coming at the right time because it is geared towards a preparedness measure following this year’s rainfall prediction by NIMET. Niger state is identified to be among the states to be likely affected by flood
Browsing: NEMA
The NEMA coordinator explained that the one-day workshop was aimed at creating awareness and sensitise stakeholders to the ways of mitigating the spread of cerebrum-spinal meningitis, measles, cholera and Lassa fever, especially during the rainy season
The statement said: “The agency has embarked on the distribution of
food items to communities affected by the state of emergency in the
three states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe
Speaking at the opening of the 7th annual consultation of the Regional Committee for Disaster Management in West Africa at the ECOWAS Secretariat, Abuja on Tuesday, Sani-Sidi said climate change-related challenges have significantly increased the occurrences of disasters across the globe in recent years
The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction is the the world’s foremost gathering of stakeholders committed to reducing disaster risk and building the resilience of communities and nations
“The meeting is however expected to continue on Monday to further deliberate on issues at stake after the parties agreed that dialogue remains the best way of resolving industrial crisis,” Atobatele said
Farinloye said that while the children were playing in the flooded school premises, some of them almost drowned while some sustained injuries
The excavators are to be deployed along with the other specialized equipments such as life locator, search cameras and concrete cutters
Two survivors have been taken to the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital
These twin challenges, which have resulted unfortunately to loss of lives and property, have also led to loss of telecommunications equipment and an attendant degeneration of quality of service
Jonathan, according to Abati, noted that the apparent objective of the criminal and unpatriotic elements and forces behind the attack is to set back the progress the Administration has made in the fight against terrorism in the country
Three passengers survived the plunge into the river at J4 area in Ogun State
Maigida died over the weekend at the National Hospital, Abuja at the age of 56
The IDPs were registered by emergency and rescue workers after the floods that consumed their houses and washed away several farmlands
The agency has so far registered 35,126 IDPs in six affected local government areas of Bayelsa State, while 19,237 have been registered in four affected local government areas in Rivers State
This was revealed by the National Emergency Management Agency in a statement by its Head, Public Relations, Yushau Shuaib