The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Wednesday said it recovered two more bodies from the debris of collapsed building in Lagos, bringing the death toll to eight.Ibrahim Farinloye, south-west spokesman for NEMA, gave the update in an interview with NAN in Lagos.Farinloye said the four-storey building collapsed on Tuesday afternoon.He told NAN that the rescue team completed the operation [...]
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At least 150 houses and farmlands are believed to have been destroyed and many people rendered homeless, following a downpour in Gwarzo local government of Kano state.The incident occurred in the early hours of Tuesday.Ibrahim Shuaibu, a witness, said the fence of Gwarzo local government secretariat also collapsed while many vehicles were submerged as a result of the flood.Shuaibu listed [...]
Mustapha Maihaja, director-general of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), says the agency will convince international non-governmental organisations to increase their support towards alleviating the crisis in the north-east.He made this known at an interactive meeting with humanitarian stakeholders on Sunday in Maiduguri, Borno state.Maihaja said the agency is also looking at ways to improve on its shortcomings with regards to handling [...]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said on Wednesday that another batch of 250 Nigerians would voluntarily return to the country from Libya on Thursday.Ibrahim Farinloye NEMA’s spokesperson for south-west zone, told NAN that the returnees were expected to arrive at the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO)/Hajj camp section of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, at about 3pm.More than [...]
At least seven people lost their lives, while 136 are yet to be accounted for after a boat carrying 150 passengers capsized in kebbi state.Sulaiman Muhammad, coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), in-charge of Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara states, confirmed this to NAN on Saturday.Muhammad said the ill-fated boat was returning from Malali market in Ngaski local government [...]
Zahrah Musa, a 90-year-old internally displaced person (IDP), who survived a bomb attack in Maiduguri on Wednesday returned to the scene of the explosion to save potatoes which she bought the previous day.While other IDPs kept a safe distance, Zahrah searched her burnt tent in an effort to recover the potatoes.The woman, who kept saying “I am very hungry,” ignored [...]
Four teenage girls blew up two men in Maiduguri, capital of Borno, in the early hours of Wednesday, resulting in a total of six deaths.Acoording to National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the girls detonated strapped explosives along Muna Garage, Maiduguri."Four female teenage suicide bombers and two other men died ( 6 people) when they detonated explosives at Usmanti along muna [...]
Three suspected suicide bombers have died in an explosion which took place along Damboa Road, Maiduguri, Borno state.According to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the blast occurred in the early hours of Friday.Three petrol tankers were said to have been destroyed in the explosion."Three 3 suspected suicide bombers died along Damboa Road, Maiduguri as a result of explosions [...]
At least 43 Nigerians arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Thursday night after being deported from Germany, Belgium and Italy.The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said they were sent back to the country for various immigration offences.They were conveyed in a Hi-Fly chartered Airbus 330 with registration number CS-TQW.Bandele Onimode, NEMA’s deputy director, search and rescue [...]
At least 171 Nigerians voluntarily returned from Libya on Tuesday aboard a chartered Nouvelair aircraft with registration number TS-1NB.The aircraft landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, around 4:18pm.Gift Peters, one of the returnees, said she got to Libya 11 months ago after being deceived that she was being taken to Germany.“When I got to Libya, it was not [...]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed the death of a woman whose vehicle plunged into Mekwe river near Bonny camp, Lagos, on Saturday night.Ibrahim Farinloye, spokesperson of the agency, told journalists that the vehicle was a KIA Ultima SE model with registration number MUS 38 BL.Two passengers were said to have been in the vehicle when the incident [...]
In October 2016, the senate began probing the alleged diversion of funds and relief materials meant for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Borno state. After disguising as a relief-aid donor — for eight straight days in November — in order to penetrate an IDP camp and the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), ‘Fisayo Soyombo, editor of TheCable, presents a [...]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed that 20 persons lost their lives and about 10,000 others were displaced in the recent communal clash in Dan-Anacha village in Gassol local government area of Taraba state.Sa’ad Bello, the agency’s coordinator in charge of Adamawa and Taraba operational offices, confirmed the development to NAN in Yola, capital of Adamawa state capital.Bello [...]
A total of 140 Nigerians who voluntarily agreed to return home from Libya arrived the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA) Lagos, on Tuesday.Among the returnees, who had reportedly been stranded, were 74 adult females, 52 adult males, one female child, two male children, three female infants, two male infants and six unaccompanied kids, out of which five are female and one [...]
Two suicide bombers on Sunday detonated explosives near a market in Maiduguri, Borno state.According to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), only the attackers died in the blasts, but 17 persons were wounded."A male and female suicide bomber have detonated explosives near Monday Market Maiduguri this morning. Rescue workers at the scene," it said."Only the suicide bombers lost their lives [...]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says the number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Yola, Adamawa, has dropped from 60,000 to 18,958.This was made known in a statement signed by Sani Datti, head, media and public relations of NEMA.Datti said Sa’ad Bello, head, NEMA operation office, Yola, disclosed this on Friday during an oversight visit by the senate committee [...]
