Lagos — IT is widely agreed that disaster is a serious disruption of the functionary of a society causing wide-spread human, material or environmental losses which exceed the ability of the affected society to cope using only its own resources as well as any event or circumstances.
Most disasters happen without prior knowledge or warning which cause or threaten injury, disruption of the community, damage to property and lead to death. Unfortunately, on several occasions, the environment, so affected in large scale, cannot be handled by the emergency services and local authorities.
Disasters in Nigeria have often been attended and managed through fire-brigade-approach and as such, to tackle such emergencies require comprehensive, holistic strategies at local and national levels.
It is obvious that certain previous disasters witnessed in the country have shown lack of proactive policies and programmes to prevent reoccurrence. Usually the response to disaster has been that of crises management. A national disaster management policy is therefore, needed to define roles of relevant agencies, stakeholders, funding, partnership among other undertakings.
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