Today, at the National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC), Office of the National Security Adviser in Abuja, I launched Nigeria’s Anticipatory Action Framework – designed to shift disaster management from reactive responses to proactive preparedness by leveraging early warnings, local empowerment, and pre-arranged financing to save lives and livelihoods.
A key component of the strategy involves establishing a dedicated trigger group comprising meteorological and emergency management agencies that will synthesise data to enable forecasts up to two weeks in advance.
I described the framework as a timely intervention to confront the rising threats of climate-induced disasters, such as floods, which affected over five million Nigerians in 2024.
