Father identifies insurgent who tried to enter IDP in Yobe

Alhaji Musa Jidawa, the Executive Secretary, Yobe State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), has confirmed the arrest of four insurgents who attempted to enter the Pompomari Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Damaturu.

Boko Haram member in Female hijab

Jidawa told newsmen on Sunday in Damaturu that two suspects initially disguised as visitors to see relations at the camp but were apprehended.

He added that two others, who came separately later, were also arrested while trying to enter the camp.

He explained that “security operatives and some IDPs screening entries and exit from the camp identified the suspects, who were later confirmed as insurgents by the IDPs from their communities.’’

He said that the last suspect came to the camp where his father, mother, wife and child were all taking refuge.

The SEMA executive secretary said “a member of his Turo Kura village identified the suspect and raised an alarm, saying he belong to the sect and the suspect’s father, also an IDP at the camp, confirmed it, which led to his arrest.’’

The suspect’s father, who pleaded not to be identified, told newsmen that he narrowly escaped from the son in the village when he targeted to kill him.

The father said “I have nothing to do with him; he should be arrested and killed just like he killed others.’’

The SEMA secretary said the Agency had reinforced security checks and means of identification to ensure that non-members do not slip into the camp.

Father identifies insurgent who tried to enter IDP in Yobe

NEMA, Red Cross fume as Cameroon humiliates, deports 2,600 Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram

The National Emergency Management Agency and Red Cross officials have dragged Cameroon authorities to the United Nation High Commission on Refuges over the country’s alleged dehumanization and unlawful repatriation of 2,600 Nigerians.

Hostages freed from Boko Haram

An official of NEMA, Sa’ad Bello, said this while fielding questions from journalists, and added that the manner Internally Displaced Persons from Nigeria were threatened and deported by Cameroonian authority was unacceptable.

“It’s so disturbing that what Cameroon authority did to Nigerians refuges was totally against norms and violation of the International Refuges Rights .

“We only received a call from the men of Nigerian Immigration who were patrolling along Nigeria- Cameroon border.

“They called our attention that there were trucks fully loaded with Nigerians who after investigation are refuges, internally displaced by Boko Haram and repatriated by Cameroon gendarmes,” Mr. Bello said.

He blamed the Cameroon government for not informing the Nigerian authority of the development to enable it prepare well and receive its citizens.

He explained that the IDPs, after thorough investigation were Nigerians from Bama and Gamboru Ngala in Borno state, who escaped from Boko Haram attacks.

He said the agency has formally forwarded its complaint to the country representative of United Nation High Commission on Refuges to look into the situation.

Mr. Bello further explained that the IDPs were dumped by Cameroonian at Sahuda village in Mubi South Local Government Area, a boarder town along Nigeria-Cameroon border.

According to the Coordinator, the victims included men, women children, pregnant and nursing mothers.

“Their situation is pathetic they were traumatized,” he said.

He said the agency, with the assistance of the State Emergency Management Agency, are doing everything possible to convey the IDPs to Yola camps.

Also corroborating, Aliyu Maikano, the representative of Nigeria Red Cross on IDPs in Adamawa, confirmed that the organization heard about the situation.

“We have sent a rescue and first aid teams to assist the IDPs who were dumped by Cameroonian security at the Nigerian boarder.

“The society is liaising with NEMA on how to evacuate the IDPs,” Mr. Maikano said.

NEMA, Red Cross fume as Cameroon humiliates, deports 2,600 Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram

NEMA delivers relief materials to victims displayed by Boko Haram

National Emergency Management Agency NEMA North East zone has delivered relief items to victims displaced by insurgency from Gwoza, Madagali, Michika , Uba and Mubi LGAs in IDP camps in Adamawa State.

Relief Materials to North East

While handing over the materials to the camp central coordinating committee which comprises various stakeholders (like Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency SEMA, Red cross, civil defence , police , faith based organisations,local and international NGOs like JNI oxfam, SISCOPE, IRC, MSF and UNFPA) at the NYSC Orientation camp in yola; the Zonal Coordinator NEMA North East Alh Muhammed Kanar who was represented by Senior Relief and Rehabilitation officer Saidu Alkali said that the Agency was Impressed by the level of assistance and donations by individuals and corporate entities towards alleviating the suffering of the IDPS.

Alh kanar said that the Director General of NEMA had instructed the Zonal office to ensure that all arrangements have been put in place to ensure that the IDPS stay in camps is made as comfortable as possible.

Receiving the items on behalf of the IDPs, the permanent secretary ADSEMA Alh Haruna Furo, appreciated the support of the Federal Government towards addressing the plight of the people in distress within the North East region.

He said the humanitarian intervention from NEMA would go a long way to ease condition of the displaced people and their host communities.

The humanitarian relief delivered to the camps in three trucks are made up of food and non food items such as rice,

Maize, millets, mattresses, blankets,mosquito nets, sanitary items, detergents, and clothing for women and Children, other items delivered are buckets, soaps and noodles among others. More interventions have been arranged as part of the plans aimed at ensuring the return and rehabilitation of the IDPs.

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NEMA delivers relief materials to victims displayed by Boko Haram

T. Joshua Members Refused to Allow Us Rescue Trapped victims In Collapsed Building — NEMA

By Premium times

Officials of the National Emergency management Agency, NEMA, were prevented from rescuing more victims of the collapsed Synagogue of Nations Church’s Guest House, which collapsed Friday afternoon.

T.B Joshua church refuses to allow us rescue trapped victims – NEMA

The spokesperson of the agency, Ibrahim Familoye, stated this in a telephone interview with PREMIUM TIMES on Friday night.

The building, which was initially a two-storey complex, was being refurbished with three additional floors already added to it when it collapsed.

Mr. Familoye, who had earlier indicated that about three persons died and 20 others injured, said the agency could not rescue more victims because the church chased its officials away.

“The church members attacked us,” he said.

“First responders ran away for their own safety. I don’t know what they’re hiding, they said they are capable of handling the situation but they doing a shoddy job of it. People are still trapped in the rubble.

“If we were allowed to work we would have worked all night but the safety of the emergency responders comes first. If they can attack us in the day, there is no knowing what they would do at night.”

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Nyanya blast: Name of hospitals, dead, injured (Photo)

By Ehi Ekhator

The National Emergency Management Agency has released the names of the hospitals and the figures of the dead and the injured.

A bomb blast at Nyanya motor park claimed the lives of many innocent Nigerians, yesterday and according to the record, 60 people are currently receiving treatment while 19 died in the blast.

Nigeria government has promised several times to get rid of the dreaded Boko Haram, with many security meetings called for its purpose, none of the strategies adopted seemed to work against the insurgents.

Politicians from both the ruling party and the oppositions are at longer head, accusing themselves of orchestrating and sponsoring the terrorist, but for many years, no names have been mentioned among the accused.

 

Nyanya blast: Name of hospitals, dead, injured (Photo)

How Nyanya blast happened - NEMA

ABUJA- DIRECTOR- General, National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Sanni Sidi disclosed that yesterday’s bomb blast happened when a parked car with explosives exploded.

Speaking with Journalists at Asokoro General Hospital, Abuja, Sidi who noted that the gravity of the blast was not as intensive as the previous one, stressed that yesterday’s blast happened fifty metres away from the last one, but the same Nyanya, outskirts of Abuja.

Senator Mohammed arrived Asokoro Hospital at 10. 55 pm in company of the FCTA permanent Secretary, John Chukwu, Secretary, Social Development, Mrs Blessing Onuh; Health Secretary, Ademola Onakomaiya, other FCT executive members.

Also speaking with Journalists at same Asokoro Hospital, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Senator Bala who described the incident as unfortunate especially coming barely some weeks after the last one, however assured residents of the territory of government’s readiness to provide security as well as protect lives and property, adding that it was early to give numbers of casualties as he was at the hospital to assess the level of services be rendered by his staff.

Giving the number of injured persons at the various hospitals, Secretary, Health and Human Services, Ademola Onakomaiya who disclosed that the total number of those who sustained injuries and Asokoro, Maitama General Hospitals and National Hospital were 41 with 30 at Asokoro, 2 in Maitama and 9 at National Hospital, adding that arrangements have been put in place as 20 bed spaces have been created in three hospitals where those at Asokoro would be taken to.

According to him, 8 for Maitama, 8 in Wuse General Hospital and 4 in Gwarimpa Hospital.

Meanwhile, as at the time of filing this report, relations, friends of affected persons were outside the gate of Asokoro hospital as they were still locked outside.

 

How Nyanya blast happened - NEMA

Abuja explosion: NEMA releases more casualty details

Asokoro General hospital received the highest number of Nyanya bomb blast victims.

The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has provided a breakdown of the casualties of the explosion that rocked a populous motor park in Nyanya, a suburb of Abuja, on Monday morning.

The agency’s released figures tallies with that of the police, although witnesses said the casualty figure was higher. NEMA said 71 people have so far died from the explosion.

In a statement by its Senior Information Officer, Sani Batti, NEMA said Asokoro General Hospital received the highest number of casualties and injured persons from the explosion.

Mr. Batti said that the Director General of NEMA, Mohammed Sidi, visited some of the hospital where the injured victims are receiving treatment.

Maitama General Hospital had the second largest number of victims while Garki Hospital received only one injured person.

The Nigerian Police had earlier confirmed that at least 71 people died in the bomb explosion.

The site of the explosion was visited by President Goodluck Jonathan, the security service chiefs and the National Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Adamu Mu’azu.

Mr. Jonathan, expressing his condolence to the families of the bereaved, said the government will do everything necessary to ensure that the country moves forward despite the activities of those who preferred to move the country backwards. 

 

Hospital		Injured victims		Death
Abuja Clinic		4		-
Nyanya General  Hospital		11		-
Customs Hospital, Karu		14		1
Asokoro		25		27
Maitama Hospital		27		14
Wuse General  Hospital		10		15
National Hospital Abuja		25		14
Garki hospital		1		-
Medical Centre, Maraba		7		-
Total		124		71

Abuja explosion: NEMA releases more casualty details

Abuja bomb update: ‘Dozens’ killed in Abuja bombing, says NEMA

Twin blasts at a packed bus station in Nigeria’s capital killed “dozens of people” on Monday, a spokesman for the state-run emergency services said.

“It’s correct to say dozens of people were killed following the bomb blasts in Nyanya Bus Park this morning,” Manzo Ezekiel of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said.

The cause of the explosions at the Nyanya Bus Park roughly five kilometres (three miles) south of Abuja was not immediately clear.

The city has been attacked previously by Boko Haram insurgents, who say they are fighting to create a strict Islamic state in northern Nigeria.

“We have been able to bring some of the dead to the morgue and some injured have been taken to the hospital,” said Charles Otegbade, head of search and rescue at the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).

He said his team had not yet been able to provide precise figures on casualties.

An AFP reporter at the scene said there were signs of a major explosion, with the remnants of charred vehicles scattered in the area.

Some of the small shops at the station had been damaged or destroyed.

NEMA spokesman Manzo Ezekiel told AFP that the Nyanya station was crowded with people on their way to work in Abuja when the explosions rang out and that witnesses reported hearing two separate blasts.

Security officials at the scene were working to determine the cause of the explosions.

Boko Haram is blamed for scores of attacks across northern and central Nigeria that have killed thousands since 2009.

In 2011 it carried out a suicide car bombing at a United Nations building in Abuja that killed at least 26 people, one of its most prominent attacks.

Most of the group’s recent violence, however, has been in the remote northeast of the country.

An attack on the outskirts of Abuja would cast further doubt on the military’s claim that the insurgents have been weakened and lack the capacity to strike prominent targets.

Boko Haram attacks have already killed more than 1,500 people this year, according to Amnesty International.

The Islamists rebels stormed a northeastern village on the border with Cameroon early Sunday, killing at least 60 people with heavy weapons and explosives, a local official said.( AFP)

 

Abuja bomb update: ‘Dozens’ killed in Abuja bombing, says NEMA