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Why gender should be mainstreamed in disaster management, by NEMA

A call has been made by the Director General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Engr Mustapha Maihaji, for gender perspective to be adopted in...

Lake Nyos tragedy revisited, 26 years after

On August 26th, 1989, Cameroon’s remote village of Nyos witnessed a strange scientific occurrence in lake water history. A volcanic mountain cracked and sunk into...

Ban Ki-moon: Disaster planning must accommodate older people’s limited mobility

United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, has said that planning for disaster should take account of the reduced mobility experienced by many older persons....

Groups analyse Lagos climate disaster

In 2012, Nigeria experienced remarkable floods that affected over 7.7 million people, causing the worlds’s second largest disaster-induced displacement event of the year. The floods,...

Living with disability, disasters

With the widespread challenges arising from last year’s floods still very vivid, and even as the government institutions at the federal, state, and local...

2012 flood: Nigeria adopts disaster recovery plan

Nigerians are not in a hurry to forget the widespread flooding that ravaged a considerable part of the nation in 2012. The disaster was...

Forced migration: Concern over displaced persons’ status

Makoko community is a clustered community of mainly fishermen and artisans that live on the shores of the Lagos Lagoon. With population explosion in Lagos,...

NEMA slams states, LGs’ attitude to disaster management

Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Muhammad Sani-Sidi, has said the inability of most states and local governments in Nigeria to establish...

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Kano vows to judiciously utilise funds appropriated for ecological remediation

The Kano State Government has vowed that funds appropriated for remediation of ecological impacted areas will be used judiciously. The...
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COP29: Rich nations must double climate funding from taxes by 2030 – Experts

Wealthy countries must more than double the amount of climate finance paid from taxpayers’ money annually by 2030, UN-appointed...

COP29 climate talks urged to find $1trn annually for poorer countries

Pay now to help poorer countries cope with climate change or pay more later, negotiators were warned on Thursday,...

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Kano vows to judiciously utilise funds appropriated for ecological remediation

The Kano State Government has vowed that funds appropriated...

COP29: Rich nations must double climate funding from taxes by 2030 – Experts

Wealthy countries must more than double the amount of...
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