"CURRENT HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN THE COUNTRY, A MAJOR CHALLENGE TO NEMA" ... DG
NEMA DELIVERS 1,460 BAGS OF FOOD ITEMS TO NIGERIAN REFUGEES IN THE REPUBLIC OF CAMEROUN
29,581 DISPLACED NIGERIANS RETURN FROM NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES
NEMA EFFORTS IN MANAGING HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN THE NORTH EAST (feature)
NEMA OPENS NEW OFFICES IN KANO, ADAMAWA AND EDO STATES
NEMA COMMITTED TO THE SUPPORT OF IDPs IN BORNO
NEMA partners NAMA to strengthen search and Rescue
FLOOD ALERT: NEMA ADVISES STATES TO EVACUATE COMMUNITIES ALONG RIVER NIGER
NEMA PRESENTS FOOD ITEMS FOR REHABILITATION OF 800 REPENTED BOKO HARAM INSURGENTS
13,400 BAGS OF FOOD ITEMS FOR IDPS IN MAIDUGURI
NIGERIA, UNHCR AND CAMEROUN TO SIGN AGREEMENT ON RETURN OF IDPS
1,934,765 IDPS LIVE IN FORMAL CAMPS, HOST COMMUNITIES AND SATELLITE CAMPS… NEMA
NEMA, Federal Ministry of Health move against epidemic
NEMA CALLS FOR DEPLOYMENT OF MORE MEDICAL PERSONNEL TO IDP CAMPS
FINANCIAL REFORMS: NEMA TRAINS ACCOUNT STAFF
AGATU ATTACKS: NEMA DEPLOYS HUMANITARIAN RELIEF ITEMS
NEMA, UNICEF, OTHERS REVIEW FLOOD RESPONSE PROFILE AHEAD OF 2016 RAINS
NEMA, UNICEF, OTHERS REVIEW FLOOD RESPONSE PROFILE AHEAD OF 2016 RAINS
NEMA DECRIES INCESSANT FIRE INCIDENTS IN THE COUNTRY
UPDATE: 65 DEAD AND 136 INJURED IN DALORI VILLAGE ATTACKS, MAIDUGURI
DISPLACED NIGERIANS IN CAMEROUN RECEIVE ADDITIONAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
NEMA CALLS ON TRADERS TO OBSERVE FIRE SAFETY MEASURES IN MARKETS
NEMA presents foods and building materials to Borno State
... ECOWAS donates 1.4million Dollars to Borno State IDPs
Saturday, April 22, 2017
Friday, April 21, 2017
New NEMA Boss resumes office
NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
Press release
New NEMA Boss resumes office
…Seeks Staff, stakeholders cooperation
The new appointed Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Engr. Mustapha Yunusa Maihaja has resumed office (April 21, 2017) with a promise to position the agency for effective disaster management in the country.
Addressing the management staff, he thanked the President Muhammadu Buhari for giving him the opportunity, saying, “it is a call to service and work has commence in earnest”.
He said, “ I am taking over at a time the country is faced with major emergency involving Internally Displaced Persons IDPs, Meningitis ravaging various states and other challenges requiring urgent response from NEMA and concerted efforts with various agencies”.
He said within the next few days “ we shall role out an agenda for the activities of NEMA under my management” adding that the he will also ensure the agency is positioned for effective disaster management especially in areas of prevention leveraging on globally accepted frameworks.
He therefore solicited cooperation of the staff and stakeholders to increase the momentum of disaster management in the country as well as set the pace for others.
Engr. Mustapha Yunusa Maihaja was born in Nguru, Yobe state on 13th April 1963. A graduated of Electrical Engineering from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; he is a fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers.
The new Director General has worked in public and private organizations that includes National Electric Power Authority NEPA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Afri Project Consortium and Buba Brothers Nigeria Limited.
Sani Datti
Head Media and Public relations
21st April 2017
Saturday, April 8, 2017
Update: Maiduguri explosion
Update: Maiduguri explosion
Following explosions that ocurred at about 5: 25am this morning around a Mosque close to Federal high court Jiddari Polo area in Maiduguri, emergency response team have removed the bodies of 2 female suicide bombers believed to have died in the incident.
Four (4) other injured persons were administered with first aid and evacuated to hospitals.
Sani Datti
Head Media and Public Relations
8th April 2017
Thursday, April 6, 2017
Valedictory speech by outing DG NEMA Muhammad Sani Sidi
VALEDICTORY SPEECH BY MUHAMMAD SANI SIDI, OFR OUTGOING DIRECTOR GENERAL, NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (NEMA) AT THE HANDING OVER TO THE NEW DIRECTOR GENERAL ON MONDAY, 3RD APRIL, 2017
PROTOCOL
It is with utmost gratitude to Almighty God; most beneficial and most merciful, that I address you on the occasion of handing over of mantle of leadership of this agency to my brother; Engineer Mustapha Yunusa Maihaja, who has been appointed by His Excellency, the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR.
I remain indebted to God Almighty, for the opportunity to serve my fatherland over the last six and the half years. I also remain grateful to Mr President for deeming me fit serve as the head of the nation’s foremost emergency management agency. This is indeed one of the many divine favours, I cannot dare deny.
Over the years, we have built on the successes of our predecessors who led the agency at inception. In line with global best practice, we made deliberate efforts to shift from disaster response to mitigation and risk reduction towards effective disaster management, in all ramifications within and outside the shores of this country.
As a coordinating agency in disaster management, we worked closely with local and international partners in disaster mitigation and response. This facilitated effective partnership and cooperation among critical stakeholders at both vertical and horizontal levels.
These partnerships provided the opportunities for continual human capacity improvement, cross fertilization of ideas, visible exposure and cooperation among various stakeholders, which led to the emergence of NEMA as a key emergency management platform in sub-Sahara Africa, as well as active collaboration with the United Nations Systems and International development partners for enhanced emergency preparedness, response and mitigation.
In order to ensure efficiency in response, we established eight new Operations Offices of NEMA in Adamawa, Edo, Ekiti, Gombe, Imo, Kano, Niger and Sokoto States to complement activities of the existing Zonal Offices in the six geo-political zones of Nigeria. This led to effective risk management at the grassroots and guaranteed timely humanitarian response.
Since our assumption of office, we nurtured and sustained advocacy and partnership with all State Governments and the FCT, with a view to promote establishment and strengthening of State Emergency Management Agencies (SEMAs) with requisite legal backing, manpower and funding.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to report to you that we have made huge progress from 10 states emergency agencies in the past to the present establishment of 31 states emergency agencies across the country.
With a view to further reduce response; we established Emergency Response Ambulance Bays (ERABs) equipped with Mobile Intensive Care Unit ambulances and Incidence Response vans at strategic locations within and around Abuja city on pilot basis. Plans are underway to extend the services to other major towns and strategic locations nationwide.
We established a functional Call Centre for 24-hour reception, processing and dissemination of distress call from members of the public, for prompt emergency response. We also established a state of the art Geographic Information (GIS) laboratory for satellite image interpretation, disaster risk mapping and Early Warning information dissemination.
We also acquired heavy-duty equipments for emergency response such as excavators, air ambulance and rescue helicopter. I make proud to say that the NEMA Air Ambulance has the capacity to undertake medical evacuation across Nigeria and can fly non-stop to any European and Middle Eastern capital. The Agency has signed memorandum of understanding with major national and foreign hospitals for the reception of medical emergencies.
In line with international best practices, NEMA has established a full-fledged Department of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and has trained thousands of Emergency Volunteers at ward levels, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members and high level Executive Volunteers.
Discussions had reached advanced stage with the Society of Family Physicians of Nigeria (SOFPON) to engage 1500 medical doctors and specialists as volunteers across the country.
We successfully infused Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) into Basic and Post Basic education Curriculum in Nigeria. And in collaboration with Six Federal Universities, the Agency offers Post-Graduate Course on Disaster Management and Development Studies. We established Seismological Stations at Ebonyi State University, Abakalaki and Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State and concluded the Vulnerability Capacity Analysis (VCA) study of six States and FCT in Nigeria.
Furthermore, in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, NEMA has developed nine comprehensive plans to streamline Emergency Response Operations during disasters. These plans include: The National Response Plan, The Search and Rescue and Epidemic Evacuation Plan, The National Disaster Management Framework, The National Contingency Plan, National Contingency Plan on Infrastructural Resuscitation,
Other plans developed include; The National Nuclear and Radiological Emergency Plan, National Influenza Pandemic Preparedness, Draft Guidelines for the use of Military Assets during emergencies and The National Pandemic Disaster Response Plan.
We have also ensured effective contingency prepositioning of relief items and sustained rapid humanitarian response to ongoing emergencies across Nigeria, especially during the unprecedented floods of 2012 and ongoing insurgency in the North East, during which the Agency provided consistent leadership in Camp Management and Coordination of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camps.
Ladies and gentlemen, with change in humanitarian dashboard, we have sustained humanitarian support to the victims of the ongoing insurgency in the Northeast and the communal crises in several states of the country. We have also established the Vulnerable Group Care Unit (VGCU) to provide support to women, children, the sick and the elderly during emergencies.
The Agency signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Borno State Government; while we provide raw food, the state government provides condiments for the feeding of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
Also in collaboration with the UN Resident Coordinator (RC), we have established and inaugurated the Humanitarian Co-ordination Forum for the review of current humanitarian concerns and planning appropriate mechanism for interventions.
On international operations, NEMA has been actively involved and successfully repatriated thousands of stranded Nigerians from Libya, Mali, Gabon, Saudi Arabia, the Central African Republic (CAR) and South-Africa.
Apart from provision of humanitarian assistance to crisis-hit countries like Kenya, Guinea, South-Sudan, Saharawi Arab Republic, Congo and Central Africa Republic, in collaboration with Foreign Affairs, NEMA delivered relief assistance to our neighbours including Niger, Mali and the Gambia. We also signed an MOU towards assisting The Gambia in the establishment of its National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA).
All these modest achievements were possible simply because everyone played a role. I therefore say a big Thank You to the entire management and staff of the Agency for your unwavering support during my stay as the Director General.
According to renowned philosopher/author, ‘To lead the people you must walk behind them,’ to all of you I wish to say that in the last six and half years, you have led the way, I followed you carefully from behind and together; we saw and we conquered.
You have exhibited commitment, passion and patriotisms especially during the most trying moments of my stewardship at the Agency. I therefore sincerely urge you all to extend the same support to the new leadership.
I must also pay special tribute in memory of members of staff of NEMA that lost their lives while on active service and those that have suffered injuries and deprivation in the course of call to duty. Their contributions shall forever remain fresh in our memory.
At this juncture, I once again express appreciation to President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR for the opportunity given to me to serve his administration. Your Excellency Sir, I remain indebted to you.
I cannot conclude these remarks without acknowledging the support of all stakeholders including but not limited to the security agencies, critical institutions, development partners, state governments, the media, civil society groups and hosts of others too numerous to mention.
I thank you all most sincerely for listening, may God bless us and may He continue to strengthen Nigeria.
PROTOCOL
It is with utmost gratitude to Almighty God; most beneficial and most merciful, that I address you on the occasion of handing over of mantle of leadership of this agency to my brother; Engineer Mustapha Yunusa Maihaja, who has been appointed by His Excellency, the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR.
I remain indebted to God Almighty, for the opportunity to serve my fatherland over the last six and the half years. I also remain grateful to Mr President for deeming me fit serve as the head of the nation’s foremost emergency management agency. This is indeed one of the many divine favours, I cannot dare deny.
Over the years, we have built on the successes of our predecessors who led the agency at inception. In line with global best practice, we made deliberate efforts to shift from disaster response to mitigation and risk reduction towards effective disaster management, in all ramifications within and outside the shores of this country.
As a coordinating agency in disaster management, we worked closely with local and international partners in disaster mitigation and response. This facilitated effective partnership and cooperation among critical stakeholders at both vertical and horizontal levels.
These partnerships provided the opportunities for continual human capacity improvement, cross fertilization of ideas, visible exposure and cooperation among various stakeholders, which led to the emergence of NEMA as a key emergency management platform in sub-Sahara Africa, as well as active collaboration with the United Nations Systems and International development partners for enhanced emergency preparedness, response and mitigation.
In order to ensure efficiency in response, we established eight new Operations Offices of NEMA in Adamawa, Edo, Ekiti, Gombe, Imo, Kano, Niger and Sokoto States to complement activities of the existing Zonal Offices in the six geo-political zones of Nigeria. This led to effective risk management at the grassroots and guaranteed timely humanitarian response.
Since our assumption of office, we nurtured and sustained advocacy and partnership with all State Governments and the FCT, with a view to promote establishment and strengthening of State Emergency Management Agencies (SEMAs) with requisite legal backing, manpower and funding.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to report to you that we have made huge progress from 10 states emergency agencies in the past to the present establishment of 31 states emergency agencies across the country.
With a view to further reduce response; we established Emergency Response Ambulance Bays (ERABs) equipped with Mobile Intensive Care Unit ambulances and Incidence Response vans at strategic locations within and around Abuja city on pilot basis. Plans are underway to extend the services to other major towns and strategic locations nationwide.
We established a functional Call Centre for 24-hour reception, processing and dissemination of distress call from members of the public, for prompt emergency response. We also established a state of the art Geographic Information (GIS) laboratory for satellite image interpretation, disaster risk mapping and Early Warning information dissemination.
We also acquired heavy-duty equipments for emergency response such as excavators, air ambulance and rescue helicopter. I make proud to say that the NEMA Air Ambulance has the capacity to undertake medical evacuation across Nigeria and can fly non-stop to any European and Middle Eastern capital. The Agency has signed memorandum of understanding with major national and foreign hospitals for the reception of medical emergencies.
In line with international best practices, NEMA has established a full-fledged Department of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and has trained thousands of Emergency Volunteers at ward levels, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members and high level Executive Volunteers.
Discussions had reached advanced stage with the Society of Family Physicians of Nigeria (SOFPON) to engage 1500 medical doctors and specialists as volunteers across the country.
We successfully infused Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) into Basic and Post Basic education Curriculum in Nigeria. And in collaboration with Six Federal Universities, the Agency offers Post-Graduate Course on Disaster Management and Development Studies. We established Seismological Stations at Ebonyi State University, Abakalaki and Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State and concluded the Vulnerability Capacity Analysis (VCA) study of six States and FCT in Nigeria.
Furthermore, in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, NEMA has developed nine comprehensive plans to streamline Emergency Response Operations during disasters. These plans include: The National Response Plan, The Search and Rescue and Epidemic Evacuation Plan, The National Disaster Management Framework, The National Contingency Plan, National Contingency Plan on Infrastructural Resuscitation,
Other plans developed include; The National Nuclear and Radiological Emergency Plan, National Influenza Pandemic Preparedness, Draft Guidelines for the use of Military Assets during emergencies and The National Pandemic Disaster Response Plan.
We have also ensured effective contingency prepositioning of relief items and sustained rapid humanitarian response to ongoing emergencies across Nigeria, especially during the unprecedented floods of 2012 and ongoing insurgency in the North East, during which the Agency provided consistent leadership in Camp Management and Coordination of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camps.
Ladies and gentlemen, with change in humanitarian dashboard, we have sustained humanitarian support to the victims of the ongoing insurgency in the Northeast and the communal crises in several states of the country. We have also established the Vulnerable Group Care Unit (VGCU) to provide support to women, children, the sick and the elderly during emergencies.
The Agency signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Borno State Government; while we provide raw food, the state government provides condiments for the feeding of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
Also in collaboration with the UN Resident Coordinator (RC), we have established and inaugurated the Humanitarian Co-ordination Forum for the review of current humanitarian concerns and planning appropriate mechanism for interventions.
On international operations, NEMA has been actively involved and successfully repatriated thousands of stranded Nigerians from Libya, Mali, Gabon, Saudi Arabia, the Central African Republic (CAR) and South-Africa.
Apart from provision of humanitarian assistance to crisis-hit countries like Kenya, Guinea, South-Sudan, Saharawi Arab Republic, Congo and Central Africa Republic, in collaboration with Foreign Affairs, NEMA delivered relief assistance to our neighbours including Niger, Mali and the Gambia. We also signed an MOU towards assisting The Gambia in the establishment of its National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA).
All these modest achievements were possible simply because everyone played a role. I therefore say a big Thank You to the entire management and staff of the Agency for your unwavering support during my stay as the Director General.
According to renowned philosopher/author, ‘To lead the people you must walk behind them,’ to all of you I wish to say that in the last six and half years, you have led the way, I followed you carefully from behind and together; we saw and we conquered.
You have exhibited commitment, passion and patriotisms especially during the most trying moments of my stewardship at the Agency. I therefore sincerely urge you all to extend the same support to the new leadership.
I must also pay special tribute in memory of members of staff of NEMA that lost their lives while on active service and those that have suffered injuries and deprivation in the course of call to duty. Their contributions shall forever remain fresh in our memory.
At this juncture, I once again express appreciation to President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR for the opportunity given to me to serve his administration. Your Excellency Sir, I remain indebted to you.
I cannot conclude these remarks without acknowledging the support of all stakeholders including but not limited to the security agencies, critical institutions, development partners, state governments, the media, civil society groups and hosts of others too numerous to mention.
I thank you all most sincerely for listening, may God bless us and may He continue to strengthen Nigeria.
NEMA CALLS ON TRADERS TO OBSERVE FIRE SAFETY MEASURES IN MARKETS
NEMA CALLS ON TRADERS TO OBSERVE FIRE SAFETY MEASURES IN MARKETS
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has called on traders to always observe fire safety measures in the markets to prevent the frequent occurrence of fire incidents in the country.
The Director General of the Agency, Muhammad Sani Sidi stated this while presenting food items and building materials to victims of market fire in Nguru, Yobe state at the weekend.
He said NEMA will continue to live up to its responsibilities by partnering with state governments to come to the aid of traders affected by fire incidents. This is necessary in order to show the Federal Government's concern for its citizens.
Sani Sidi said market fire was among the major disasters in the country which causes incalculable losses, stressing that all hands must be on deck to put in place a robust disaster risk reduction programme that will be geared towards disaster prevention and mitigation in our environment.
The Senate leader, Ahmed Lawal, who was present at the occasion and sympathized with affected persons said the relief assistance was meant to ameliorate the suffering of the victims and to assist them to resume their businesses.
Items which were directly presented to the market leaders included 600 bundles of roofing sheet, 3000 piece of ceiling boards, 100 bags of 3” nails and 100 packets of zinc nails. Others were 100 cartons of milk, 100 cartons of spaghetti, 100 bags of beans, 100 cartons of tinned tomato and 100 bags of guinea corn.
Sani Datti
Head, Media and Public relations
5 th February 2017
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