The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Sunday said Boko Haram insurgents came on a robbery mission on Saturday night at Bale Shuwa village in Jere Local government of Borno state and made away with cows, sheep and goats. Alhaji Bashir Garga, NEMA’s Northeast Zonal Coordinator, made the disclosure in a statement in Maiduguri. Garga…

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has commenced distribution of relief materials to over 1,800 households affected by the July 13, 2018, flash flood disaster in Abeokuta, Ogun State. NEMA, in conjunction with the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), through the Ministry of Environment, presented relief materials to first batch of 125 beneficiaries at the…

No fewer than 141 Nigerians, including 11 pregnant women, have voluntarily returned from Libya to Nigeria with the assistance of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the European Union (EU). Mr. Segun Afolayan, Chief Planning Officer, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Lagos. Afolayan…

He who feels it, knows it. That is the untold pains that cannot be fully captioned in words but which has become the dire reality of over two million people displaced by flood and families of the more than a hundred people who already lost their lives to flood this year alone in 10 states…

About 200 households have been displaced by flood in Rikkos community of Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau, following heavy downpour on Sunday afternoon. Mr Al’Amin Yakubu, Head, Emergency Response Team of the community disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Jos. Yakubu said though no life was lost,…

Industry experts have commended the federal government on this initiative to ensuring that deliberate measures are adopted to monitor construction projects. They explained that the document will curb the loss of life and property, improve the quality of infrastructures and, facilitate economic growth and development. As part of its commitment to infrastructural development and ensuring…

The management of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has carpeted its staff members for embarking on industrial actions over what it described as frivolous allegations. The local branch of the Association of Senior Civil Servant of Nigeria (ASCSN) shut down NEMA’s headquarters last week without any prior notice to the management before the action…

Officials of 16 state governments and some Federal lawmakers witnessed distribution of relief materials to internally displaced persons (IDPs), according to the Director-General of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mustapha Maihaja. He denied claims that relief materials were not distributed to states in the North-East since his assumption of office in 2017. He said the…

The fourth batch of 465 Nigerian returnees from Libya have arrived Port Harcourt, Mr Martins Ejike, South-South Zonal Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said. Ejike who received the returnees on Friday, told news that they arrived Port Harcourt International Airport at about 12.25 a.m. on board Max Air. Ejike told newsmen that the evacuation…

Alhaji Muhammad Sidi, Director General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said on Wednesday that 41 Nigerians deported from the United Kingdom for various immigration offences had arrived the country.

A female suicide bomber who attacked a town in northeast Nigeria earlier this month was carrying a baby at the time, the country's main relief agency said on Tuesday.

The Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER) has called on governments to strengthen agencies responsible for prevention, control and management of disasters.