A motorcycle rider, simply identified as Mr Abe, was swept away after refusing to heed warnings from his colleagues not to ride along the Ile Epo Bus Stop Canal in Alimoso Local Government Area of Lagos State. The rainfall, which started at about 2am on Saturday, continued till about 2pm …
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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), says 19 states and 56 communities across the country are likely to witness heavy rainfall that can lead to flooding within the month. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Lagos Territorial Coordinator, NEMA, said this in a statement on Monday in Lagos. Farinloye listed the states and …
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Senate has called on the National Emergency Management (NEMA) and the Ecological Fund Office to implement a resettlement plan for communities facing serious gully erosion and flood The Senate also expressed concern over the continuous loss of life and property occasioned by gullies and floodwaters and charged the agencies responsible …
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By, Yunusa Purkusu, Maiduguri THE National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, North East zonal office led by the Zonal coordinator Muhammad Usman Aji has commenced the routine distribution of food items for Internally Displaced Person’s, IDPs in camps, host communities and some liberated communities in Borno state. The distribution was inline …
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An eight-storey building on Banana Island in Ikoyi Lagos State has collapsed. Eyewitnesses identified the building as Joe Faraday’s site which is under construction. Newsextra24 gathered that concreting was ongoing on one of the floors when the structure caved in on Wednesday evening. A terse statement by the National Emergency …
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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has distributed relief materials to people displaced by flood in nine local government areas of Kogi. Mr Justin Uwazuruonye, Head of Abuja Operations of NEMA, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja. According to him, the food and non-food items distributed include rice, beans, …
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THE National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said over 300 lives have been lost to disasters in various parts of the country in 2022 alone. Director general of NEMA, Mustapha Habib Ahmed, who disclosed this in Abuja on Wednesday, during a one-day strategic workshop with disaster risk management stakeholders, said the …
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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Saturday received another batch of 140 Nigerians stranded from Agadas, Niger Republic. The NEMA Coordinator, Kano Territorial Office, Dr Nuradeen Abdullahi, confirmed this while receiving the returnees in Kano. According to him, the returnees were brought back to Kano at about 9.38 p.m …
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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), on Wednesday, received another batch of 175 stranded Nigerians from Libya at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. The Director-General of NEMA, Mustapha Ahmed, who was represented by the Acting Coordinator of the Lagos Territorial Office of the Agency, Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed the …
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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said the flooding that occurred in Lagos State last weekend claimed seven lives. South West coordinator of the agency, Ibrahim Farinloye, made the disclosure in a statement on Wednesday. The affected communities were Oke Isagun, Agbado Oke, Oko LCDA, all in Alimosho LGA. “The …
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