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  • 487 Nigerian returnees arrive Port Harcourt from Libya

    487 Nigerian returnees arrive Port Harcourt from Libya

    The second batch of 487 Nigerian returnees from Libya arrived Port Harcourt International Airport at about 10.43 p.m. on Monday in Max Air.

    On Friday, the Federal Government announced the establishment of a reception centre in  Port Harcourt for 5,037 Nigerians being evacuated from Libya.

    The returnees were received by officials of National Emergency Management Agency ( NEMA ), led representatives from other Federal Government agencies.

    NEMA officials conveyed the returnees to Haji camp where they were profiled and fed.

    Officials were on ground to check the returnees’ body temperature and also gave immediate first aid to those in need.

    Read also: 1,295 Nigerians returned from Libya in November

    Officials also said that 487 returnees are expected to be transported back to their states of origin within few days.

    The Federal Government on Monday said it has so far evacuated 1,030 stranded Nigerian migrants from Libya between January 7 and January 8.

    Mustapha Maihaja, the Director-General of National Emergency Management Agency, disclosed this at a joint news conference by the Federal Government delegation to Libya.

    Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, had on January 5 led a delegation on fact finding mission to Libya to secure the release of Nigerian migrants stranded in that country.

    Onyeama said the Nigerian mission in Libya was coordinating the identification of the Nigerian migrants with the support of International Organisation for Migration.

    According to him, they are being joined by a technical team comprising representatives from NEMA, Immigration and other relevant Nigerian government agencies.

    The minister said that the political and security challenges in that country made it difficult to secure the evacuation of some Nigerians back home.

    He added that “there are different centres of power in that country.

    The central government recognised by the UN and AU do not have full control of the territories controlled by rebels.”

    He pointed out that there were over 50 detention camps in Libya, many of them under the control of rebels and militia groups.

    NAN

  • 10 worshipers killed in Borno attack

    10 worshipers killed in Borno attack

    The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Wednesday confirmed the killing of 10 worshipers at a mosque in Gamboru Ngala in Borno State.

    The North East Zonal Coordinator of NEMA, Mr. Bashir Garga, told our correspondent in Maiduguri that several other injured people have been evacuated to the various medical formations in the town for proper medical care.

    Garga said officials of NEMA and the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) with the help of the military and police in the town were able to clean up the place and provide assistance for victims of the attack.

    The NEMA official added that a suicide bomber blew up himself behind the Dalori Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp on Tuesday night.

    He said: “I can confirm to you that there was an attack in Gamboru Ngala where 10 people were killed. The attack was carried out by a male suicide bomber. Officials of NEMA, SEMA, other agencies, the military and police assisted in evacuating the wounded people to different medical formations in the town.

    “I also want to inform you that another suicide bomber detonated and killed himself on Tuesday behind the Dalori IDP camp here in Maiduguri.

    “I want to call on the general public to be very alert and conscious as ever with strangers who come closer to them. My team are working on some safety tips that we are going to distribute to the general public on the new trends of suicide bombings in the state.”

     

     

  • Fire at NAFDAC building in Abuja

    Fire at NAFDAC building in Abuja

    The headquarters of National Agency For Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in Abuja was gutted by fire on Friday.

    The Director, Search and Rescue of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr. Sonny Ohemu, who led a team to inspect the scene, said the cause of the inferno was being investigated.

    Ohemu said the fire incident started at 6: 20 a.m. and the cleaners as well as security guards in NAFDAC called the Federal Fire Service immediately.

    “We arrived the place promptly to put out the fire,’’ said the director, adding that the inferno touched only two offices.

    “We must commend the management of NAFDAC for training people like cleaners to know what to do in case of fire disaster.

    We have to also appreciate the Federal Government for the recent purchase of equipment for Fire Service which has really helped to curtail the situation.”

     

     

  • NEMA urges traders to take group fire insurance policy

    NEMA urges traders to take group fire insurance policy

    The National Emergency Management Agency ( NEMA ) has advised traders to take group fire insurance policy to protect them in case of fire out-break.

    Mr Brandon Walson, the South-East Zonal Coordinator of NEMA, gave the advice in Enugu on Wednesday in an interview.

    He was speaking on ways to reduce losses by traders yearly from infernos.

    Traders in some parts of the country witnessed losses due to infernos in markets, losing goods worth millions of naira within minutes.

    Fire incidents are particularly enhanced by the dry Harmattan weather.

    Walson said group fire insurance policy, as done in advance countries, would make insurance companies to bear all losses from fire incidents.

    He said that it was mandatory to always have a group fire insurance policy before the commencement of trade in most modern open markets or shopping malls.

    “This advice will avail the traders the desired indemnity of their goods and wares in cases of loss from fire.

    Read also: NEMA receives another batch of 167 from Libya

    “What the agency offers to victims, especially traders, is palliative succour.

    “But, with a group fire insurance policy, the insurance company is liable to shoulder all the losses by indemnifying them, which is like a calculated full compensation to the traders.

    “This is a standard practice in all advance countries so that traders will remain in business, no matter what had happened to their market or markets,’’ the coordinator said.

    He said that such step would also stand as pro-active measure since business and life were full of risks.

    “It is one way of implementing NEMA’s recent mandate, which is being pro-active in stopping disasters and other unwanted developments,’’ the coordinator said.

    He said that NEMA would synergise with insurance companies to see how best to sensitise traders to take-up this all-important group fire insurance policy.

    “This will be extended to other people, whose businesses or livelihoods, are prone to disasters both natural and man-made,’’ Walson said.

    NAN

  • Federal and states partnership crucial to national development – Osinbajo

    Federal and states partnership crucial to national development – Osinbajo

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the collaboration of the Federal and state government is crucial to achieving development plans of the country.

    He stated this on Tuesday at the retreat of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation with Secretaries to the State Governments held in Abuja.

    He noted that the business of governing needs innovations to tackle complex challenges, adding that the two tiers of government were in a better situation to resolve them through partnership.

    “But despite the important initiatives and decisions of fg we will achieve little if we do not have relevant state government agencies actively working with the federal government to implement them.

    “So, the role of the SGFs is clearly central to cascading the action points and conclusions to the relevant MDAs in their states.

    “And this is so, whether we are implementing the federal government’s fertilizer policy or the anchor borrowers scheme in the states.’’

    He said that one of the challenges of federalism is that while the federal and state governments enjoy individual autonomy, they must still operate as one government.

    He noted that the objective was for the government of the federation to serve the best economic and social interest of the people.

    “So when we speak of the Nigerian economy it is the sum of the economies of the federal government and the states.

    “Yet each government determines its own priorities, draws its own budget and implements its own programmes and projects.
    “So a meeting such as this, where the agenda and modalities for collaboration may be set is in my view an eminently sensible idea and requires the support of all of us if we are to meet the expectations of our people,’’ he said.

    The Vice President stated that one of the crucial concerns of the federal government’s economic development agenda was to improve local and foreign investments in the country.

    Osinbajo remarked that the SGFs office coordinates the Ecological fund and NEMA that frequently intervened in the states.

    He said it was the responsibility of the SGFs office to interface with the states to ensure that such interventions were improved.

  • NEMA receives another batch of 167 from Libya

    NEMA receives another batch of 167 from Libya

    The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) yesterday received 167 stranded Nigerians from Libya, bringing the number of Nigerians brought back to the country in the last four days to 532.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Boeing 737-800 aircraft, marked 5A-DMH, arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at 7:47p.m.

    The returnees were brought back by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the European Union (EU).

    They comprised of 21 women, 145 men and a child.

    NEMA’s Director-General Mustapha Maihajja, who received the returnees confirmed that three of them had medical cases and were promptly given treatment by doctors and paramedics.

    Maihajja, who was represented by the Southwest Zonal Coordinator of NEMA,  Suleiman Yakubu, said two of the returnees were now in stable condition, while the third person had been referred to hospital for further treatment.

    He advised the returnees to acquire vocational skills or further their education to contribute their quota to national development.

    Also on hand to receive the returnees were officials of Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the Police.

     

     

     

  • 1,317 Nigerians returned from Libya in 10 days

    1,317 Nigerians returned from Libya in 10 days

    The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said yesterday that a total of 1,317 Nigerians had voluntarily returned from Libya in the last 10 days having been stranded in the volatile country en route Europe.

    The Director-General of NEMA, Mustapha Maihajja, spoke  while receiving a fresh batch of 116 Nigerians who arrived the country yesterday  morning.

    The latest  returnees arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos aboard a Buraq Airlines with Registration Number 5A-WAC at about 5.39 a.m.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported  that no fewer than 3,000 Nigerians have voluntarily returned from Libya through the IOM supported programme in the last few months.

    Mr. Maihajja, represented by Suleiman Yakubu, the South-West Zonal Coordinator, said the Nigerians returned in various batches between December 5 and 15 with the assistance of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the European Union (EU).

    According to him, the figure has already surpassed the 1, 295 Nigerians who voluntarily returned from Libya in the month of November.

  • 1,317 Nigerians return from Libya in 10 days – NEMA

    1,317 Nigerians return from Libya in 10 days – NEMA

    The National Emergency Management Agency ( NEMA ) said on Friday that a total of 1,317 Nigerians had voluntarily returned from Libya in the last 10 days having been stranded in the volatile North African country.

    The Director-General of NEMA, Mustapha Maihajja, disclosed this while receiving a fresh batch of 116 Nigerians who arrived the country on Friday morning.

    The latest returnees arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, aboard a Buraq Airlines with Registration Number 5A-WAC at 5:39 a.m.

    At least 3,000 Nigerians have voluntarily returned from Libya through the International Organization for Migration (IOM) supported programme in the last few months.

    Maihajja, who was represented by Suleiman Yakubu, the South-West Zonal Coordinator of NEMA, said the Nigerians returned in various batches between December 5 and December 15 with the assistance of the IOM and the European Union (EU).

    According to him, the figure has already surpassed the 1, 295 Nigerians who voluntarily returned from Libya in November.

    Maihajja said the Federal Government would continue to work with the international organisations to ensure the return of more Nigerians from Libya where they had been facing severe hardships and rights violations.

    The returnees comprised 46 adult females, 60 adult males and 10 children and infants respectively.

  • NEMA urges state govts to rehabilitate Libyan returnees

    NEMA urges state govts to rehabilitate Libyan returnees

    National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has urged state governments of the federation to facilitate the rehabilitation of their indigenes, who voluntarily returned from Libya.

    The Director-General, NEMA, Alhaji Mustapha Maihajja, made the call in Lagos on Tuesday while receiving 142 Nigerians who voluntarily returned from Libya.

    Maihajja, who was represented by Alhaji Suleiman Yakubu, NEMA’s South-West Zonal Coordinator, stressed the need for every state to complement the efforts being made at the national and international levels to rehabilitate the returnees.

    The director-general, who noted that Edo and Osun had keyed into such the rehabilitation programme, called on more states to emulate them by offering assistance to the returnees from their states.

    Read also : 149 more Nigerians return from Libya

    Maihajja applauded the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the European Union (EU) for facilitating the repatriation of the returnees and also providing assistance for their rehabilitation.

    The returnees arrived  Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at about 11.25p.m aboard a Nouvelair Airbus A320 aircraft with registration Number: TS-INA, comprising 52 adult females, 86 adult males, two children and two infants.

    The first batch of 245 returnees had earlier arrived at about 8.25p.m at the airport aboard an Afriqiyah Airbus 330-300 aircraft with registration Number 5A-ONR.

    The returnees were also received by officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN).

    NAN

  • Kaduna Inferno consumes 700 shops – Market chairman

    Kaduna Inferno consumes 700 shops – Market chairman

    The Friday fire incident at Old Panteka Market, Tudun Wada, Kaduna, consumed about 700 shops and affected the jobs of about 30,000 youths, the Chairman of the Market, Suleiman Shehu, has said.

    Shehu made the disclosure in Kaduna on Tuesday, when Dr Ja’afaru Sa’ad, ( Galadiman Ruwan Zazzau ), visited the market officials to offer his sympathy.

    He explained that the fire, which started around 1 a.m. on Friday, affected mostly timber and building materials sections, and consumed an estimated 100 trailer load of timbers and 200 machines.

    According to him, about 30,000 youths, doing all kinds of jobs lost their jobs and source of livelihood as a result of the fire.

    He said that the estimated total loss to the fire was yet to be ascertained, but added that a committee had been set up to determine the exact lost in monetary terms to the fire incident.

    “The committee will also determine the actual cause of the fire and how to avoid future occurrence.

    “We are appealing to government agencies and well meaning Nigerians to come to our aid.

    “Although Gov. Nasir El-Rufai, National Emergency Management Agency ( NEMA ) and the Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency have visited us, we need assistance in cash and in kind to help our members recover from this unquantifiable loss “the chairman said.

    Earlier, Sa’ad explained that he was at the market to sympathise with the market officials and the affected shop owners.

    Read also: WAEC loses 10 computers to fire in Kaduna

    He also called on the state government, NEMA, groups and individuals to come to the aid of the victims to alleviate heir sufferings.

    “This is urgent, particularly as the market remains a source of livelihood for thousands of youths in the state and a huge source of revenue for the state.

    “One would only imagine what could happen to the 30,000 youths who lost their means of livelihood to the inferno.

    “We must do something fast, otherwise we will have a huge problem of youth restiveness in our hands’’, he said.

    Sa’ad is a Technical Assistant in the office of the Executive Director of Finance and Administration for the Nigeria Sao Tome and Principe Joint Development Authority ( NSPJDA ).

    NAN