Kanar said: “We still have 32 camps in the state; 16 of the camps are in Maiduguri, while 16 others are in the local government areas, which we call satellite camps
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The National Emergency Management Agency has confirmed that about 3,000 refugees are still at the border with Cameroon undergoing registration…
Alhaji Muhammadu Kanar, its North-East Coordinator, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Yola, shortly after he distributed relief materials to no fewer than 3,000 IDPs at Daware camp in Fufore Local Government Area
The Coordinator of Niger and Kwara States Zone of NEMA, Lugard Bijimi, gave this advise on Thursday while distributing relief materials to 34 fire victim families in Minna, Niger state
lbrahim Farinloye, South West NEMA spokesman, however, told the News Agency of Nigeria on telephone that nobody died in the incident
Sani-Sidi spoke through NEMA’s Director of Administration and Supplies, Dr. Zanna Mohammed, during a courtesy call on the Secretary to the Sokoto State Government, Alhaji Sahabi Gada
A statement by NEMA’s Information ffiOcer, North East Zone, Abdulkadir Ibrahim, in Yola, Adamawa State, said over 2,000 were also internally displaced after the raid
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
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
The Director General of NEMA, Mohammed Sani-Sidi, in a statement on Tuesday, said the Agency’s record shows that about 2,367 persons have crossed the border, out of which 126 are Nigerians and have since been registered by the Nigerian Embassy in Niamey.
Sani-Sidi states further: “We want to state categorically that from information available to us, about 2,367 persons have crossed the border from Kashagar, Baga and Kuros communities all in Borno State to Diffa in the Republic of Niger. Out of this figure 126 are Nigerians while the remaining are citizens of the Republic of Niger who have returned home due to the ongoing crises in the North East
Farinloye said that while the children were playing in the flooded school premises, some of them almost drowned while some sustained injuries