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The National Emergency Management Agency is an agency in Nigeria. [1] The agency focuses on disaster management in all parts of the country. [1] The agency was established in 1999, [2] and functions to formulate policies relating to disaster management in Nigeria. Directors general included: Muhammad Sani-Sidi; Abbas Idriss [3] Zubaida Umar [4]
At least 49 people have been killed and thousands displaced in Nigeria after heavy rains caused flooding in the northeast of the country, the National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA), said ...
The 2023 Nigeria floods was caused by climate change and heavy rain fall. Most often, climate changes causes flooding in Nigeria, it causes a lot of damages to properties and kills a lot of people. In the Oba-Ile neighborhood of Akure, the capital of Ondo state, numerous places were flooded earlier in 2023, and a resident was carried away by a ...
Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission; National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NaHCON) [10] ... National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) National Human Rights Commission ...
Floodwaters that gushed from an overflowing dam in northern Nigeria engulfed a zoo and swept animals including crocodiles and snakes into communities, as the region battles some of the worst ...
Zubaida Umar Abubakar (born 21 May 1977) is a Nigerian public servant, administrator, and Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), [1] appointed on March 15, 2024, [2] by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. She is a native of Birnin Kebbi in Kebbi State in the Northern part of Nigeria. [3] [4]
Borno State, Nigeria, faced flooding after the collapse of the Alau Dam on 10 September 2024. The Maiduguri and Jere local government areas were particularly affected: according to the National Emergency Management Agency, over 70% of the residents in Maiduguri were displaced. At least 150 people died.
According to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), 30 of Nigeria's 36 states were affected by the floods and the two most affected areas were Kogi and Benue States. [88] The floods were termed as the worst in 40 years, [89] and affected an estimated total of seven million people. [90]