The Director-General of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Mr. Barkindo Mohammed has described the situation in flooded Maiduguri town, the state capital, as “terrible”. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that water from Alau Dam, which collapsed early Tuesday morning, has continued to submerge various wards in the town while thousands of displaced residents are scouting for safer …

Governor Bassey Otu of Cross River State has suspended the Director General of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Chief Angela Odey, over alleged poor handling of palliatives meant to cushion the effect of subsidy removal. The suspension was contained in a 30 October 2023 press release by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr Emmanuel Ogbeche. Odey was …

The Director General of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Hajiya Yabawa Kolo has said that the agency under her leadership was able to repatriate 3,500 displaced persons taking refuge in Niger, Cameroun and Chad Republics, even as close to 1 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) were resettled back to their liberated communities in the last five and half …