Authorities of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Wednesday flagged off the second phase of post-disaster assessment across 16 states of the federation that were not covered in the first phase. This initiative aims to collect data from communities affected by the 2024 flood.
NEMA Director-General, Mrs. Zubaida Umar, disclosed this in Abuja, explaining that the assessment is being carried out in collaboration with the State Emergency Management Agencies (SEMAs), the Nigerian Red Cross Society, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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According to her, NEMA has established an Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) to focus on data collection for managing the 2024 flood disaster.
She explained that the joint assessment with SEMAs and development partners aims to provide a unified and accurate representation of the flood’s impact across the affected states.
The second phase of the assessment includes the following states: Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Borno, Ekiti, Gombe, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, and Lagos.
Others are Ondo, Plateau, Sokoto, Yobe, Zamfara, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
