The Imperatives of Disaster Management in South East Nigeria: Addressing the elephantine issues

Abstract

Disaster has become endemic in Nigeria and the South
East Region is not an exemption. Time and time again,
reports are circulated in the social media, national
dailies and other media platforms on incidences of
flood, fire outbreak and other related disasters that
threaten human existence. The ugly situation motivated
this study which is primarily to examine the imperatives
of disaster management in the South East Nigeria with
a view to addressing the elephantine problems. The
study adopted qualitative research method and
specifically, content analysis was used as mode of
analysis. Findings revealed that the South East region
does not apply strategic methods in managing disaster
in the region and recommendations were made in line
with the findings.