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Interviews & Addresses
'Disaster management is capital intensive’
August 15, 2009
By Franca Ochigbo
Nation Newspaper of September 13, 2009
The Director General of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), AVM Audu Bida (Rtd), in this interview with Franca Ochigbo in Jos, speaks on the agency’s efforts at managing disaster across the country
Efforts by NEMA at disaster management
When I resumed as the Director General of National Emergency Management Agency, (NEMA) in 2006 the only operational base was from the Abuja Headquarter. There was no zonal or state offices, we quickly set up the zonal offices so that we could get disaster management down to the grass root. NEMA operates in the six geopolitical zone of the country... See Full Text
Why We Launched Market Insurance Scheme 
- AVM Audu-Bida
InterviewBy Jibrin Abubakar Daily Trust August 7, 2009
AVM Mohammed Audu-Bida is the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
In this interview, he says marketers and shop owners now have nothing to fear as the new insurance scheme is providing them cover against disasters. He describes the new scheme novel.
He also adds that funding for the sector is needed because disasters of any kind are capable of distorting budget planning or even wiping out the gains of planning f...
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AT A ONE DAY WORKSHOP ON SPATIO-TEMPORAL ASSESSMENT OF CLIMATE AND HUMAN IMPACT ON ECOSYSTEM DEGRADATION AND WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT USING REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES ON 9TH JULY, 2009. 
- AVM Audu-Bida
Address
STRATEGIES AND POLICY THRUST FOR REDUCING THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE-INDUCED DISASTER ON AFFECTED COMMUNITIES
A PAPER PRESENTED BY AVM MM AUDU-BIDA (rtd)
At the Formal Launching of Market Shop Owners Insurance Scheme Organized by NEMA/Nicon Insurance PLC.
- AVM Audu-Bida
AddressWe are all aware It is with great pleasure and gratitude that I welcome you to the formal launching of the Market Shop Owners Insurance Scheme.
The occurrence of disasters and emergencies in the country has increased in both frequency and intensity due to increase in population and population density. Fire disaster in particular, poses a serious threat to Nigerians’ in both urban and rural settings. In the urban areas, market-fire has been a reoccurring decimal. Year in year out , market- fires have consumed lives and properties worth...
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On the Occasion of the Establishment of Grassroot Emergency Volunteer Corps in Ikom LGA of Cross River State. 
- AVM Audu-Bida
AddressWe are all aware that when disasters occur, it is the communities that suffer the impact most. It is these communities that constitute what is often referred to as Disaster Fronts. Being at the forefront, communities need to have the capacity to respond to disaster threats. Evidence abounds to show that the communities that experience the least damage and recover fastest from disasters are those that rely on mutual support system and their own resources. Communities therefore need to be involved in managing the risks that may threaten their well-being.
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We Manage Disaster to Protect the Economy
- AVM Audu-Bida
Interview
Disasters ought to be addressed very
promptly and unless you have the agencies that are ready and
trained, you cannot respond adequately. Like I mentioned earlier,
the constraints NEMA face is getting the other relevant
stakeholders to work in sync with us.
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Taking Disaster Management to The Grass Root
- AVM Audu-Bida
AT a programme for emergency volunteers at the community level: taking disaster management to the grass root, holding at the conference hall, kano state library, 25th-27th february 2009.
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Space system-based Disaster Management Support
- AVM Audu-Bida
Nigeria notes with satisfaction the progress made at the 45th Session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of COPUOS on the effective use of communication and meteorological satellites for disaster management...
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Mainstreaming Disaster Management into National Development
Communique
A Three-Day Sensitisation Workshop on Disaster Management organized by (NEMA) in collaboration ASCON with the Theme “Mainstreaming Disaster
Management into National Development”...
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