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August 8, 2019
The National Emergency ManagementAgency, NEMA has restated its commitment to tackle any impending floodsituation predicted in the 2019 Seasonal Rainfall Prediction and Annual FloodOutlook.
The Director-General of NEMA,Mustapha Maihaja, gave the assurance while declaring open a one-day nationalworkshop on Flood Risk Mitigation, Preparedness and Response, in Abuja.
Maihaja said that the workshop wasconvened to provide the needed platform for principal actors in disastermanagement to collectively review the 2018 flood management operations.
He said that the impact ofhydrological hazards on lives, property and environment depended on the levelof preparedness, which to a large extent relied on efficient early warningsystems.