The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has designated 11 Local Government Areas in Niger State, including Mokwa, as high flood-risk zones ahead of the 2026 rainy season.
Director-General of NEMA, Zubaida Umar, who made the disclosure in Minna during a stakeholders’ engagement meeting on the 2026 National Preparedness and Response Campaign on flood disaster and related hazards, said they have developed a Climate-Related Risk Management, Preparedness and Mitigation Framework to minimise the impact of flooding nationwide.
As part of efforts to build resilient communities, NEMA has organised a one-day stakeholders meeting in the State with the theme Strengthening Disaster Risk Governance for a Resilient Community in Nigeria”.
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Among the mitigation measures are capacity building for local responders, simulation and tabletop exercises, strict adherence to rainfall and flood advisories, prepositioning of relief materials and development of evacuation plans.
This was demonstrated when the NEMA and the NSEMA teams went to Bakin Gada in Bosso local government area, a Fulani settlement prone to flooding for advocacy.
Stakeholders, at the end, prayed that the resolutions reached and messages should be practical-based to ensure resilient communities.
Editor: Ebuwa Omo-Osagie
