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Benue SEMA Official page of the Benue State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA).

Coordinating disaster preparedness, emergency response, and humanitarian support across Benue State.

BENUE-SEMA IS CURRENTLY HIRING CREATIVE AND DATA PROFESSIONALSThe Benue State Emergency Management Agency (BENUE-SEMA) i...
14/04/2026

BENUE-SEMA IS CURRENTLY HIRING CREATIVE AND DATA PROFESSIONALS

The Benue State Emergency Management Agency (BENUE-SEMA) is inviting applications from skilled creatives and analysts to join its field documentation and communications team.

This recruitment is aimed at strengthening how emergency response, relief operations, and humanitarian efforts are documented and communicated across Benue State.

Open Positions:

📸 Photographer
🎥 Videographer
🎨 Graphic Designer
📊 Data Analyst
✍️ Content Creator

This is a field-based role.

Selected candidates will work directly within emergency response environments, including relief camps, distribution centers, and active intervention sites, documenting real-time operations and telling the stories of affected communities.

The goal is simple:
To ensure that humanitarian impact in Benue State is properly captured, communicated, and preserved through data, visuals, and storytelling.

If you are a creative professional who wants your work to serve a real public mission, this is an opportunity to contribute directly to that effort.

Applications are now open.
Apply here: www.benuesema.com/applications

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No Displaced Person is Invisible.One of the most critical steps in ensuring that relief reaches the right people is know...
14/04/2026

No Displaced Person is Invisible.

One of the most critical steps in ensuring that relief reaches the right people is knowing exactly who those people are. That is why BENUE-SEMA has commenced a biometric review and issuance of new identity cards to internally displaced persons in camps and host communities across Benue State

This programme, carried out in collaboration with our partners, ensures that every displaced Benue State resident is properly documented and included in the agency's relief and services framework. It means that when food is distributed, every registered household is on the list. It means that when medical services are provided, every eligible person can access them. It means that when families begin the process of returning home, their identity and their entitlements are on record.

Biometric registration also protects displaced persons from exclusion, duplication, and the diversion of relief materials that has historically plagued informal displacement settlements across Nigeria.

Not just a number in a report, but a name, a face, a card, and a record that says: this person is known. This person is included. This person will not be left behind.

If you or someone you know is displaced and has not been registered with Benue-SEMA, contact us immediately.

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Benue State has known more than its share of hardship.Floods that swallow farmlands overnight.Communities displaced by v...
13/04/2026

Benue State has known more than its share of hardship.

Floods that swallow farmlands overnight.
Communities displaced by violence.
Families forced to start over, again and again.

These are not just headlines to us.
We do not wish any misfortune on the good people of Benue State. But when disaster happens, we show up to intervene.

Benue-SEMA exists to ensure that when disaster strikes, no family in Benue faces it alone.

Across IDP camps, rapid response teams, and humanitarian partnerships, we continue to stand with those affected, not because it is easy, but because it is our responsibility.

To every displaced family waiting to return home, we see you.
To every community rebuilding, we are working for you.

Benue State, we are here. And we are not going anywhere.

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Good news, you can now find us on LinkedIn too.Follow our LinkedIn page and stay connected with BENUE-SEMA across every ...
13/04/2026

Good news, you can now find us on LinkedIn too.
Follow our LinkedIn page and stay connected with BENUE-SEMA across every platform.

Share with your network and let's keep growing together.

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Build Your Emergency Go-Bag Today, Before You Need ItWhen the flood comes, you will have minutes. Not hours.Benue-SEMA h...
13/04/2026

Build Your Emergency Go-Bag Today, Before You Need It
When the flood comes, you will have minutes. Not hours.

Benue-SEMA has responded to hundreds of flood emergencies across Benue State, and one of the most heartbreaking things our field teams encounter is a family that had time to evacuate but lost everything because they were not prepared.

An emergency go-bag changes that. It is a bag you prepare now, in calm, that you grab and go with when there is no time to think.

Here is exactly what your emergency go-bag should contain:

Clean drinking water for at least three days, one litre per person per day as a minimum.
Non-perishable food items, including dry food, biscuits, and canned goods that do not require cooking.
Photocopies of your important documents, including your National ID, your children's birth certificates, your land documents, and your phone numbers list.
A torch or lantern with extra batteries.
A basic first aid kit with pain relief medication, antiseptic, bandages, and any regular prescription medication your family needs.
Cash in small denominations, because ATMs and mobile payments may not work during a flood.
Warm clothing and a change of clothes for each family member.
A charged power bank for your phone.

Pack this bag this week. Put it somewhere every adult in the house can find it in the dark.

Benue-SEMA recommends every household in flood-risk areas of Benue State has one ready before the end of April.

Emergency Contact
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The 2026 flood season is coming. And Nigeria is already preparing.This week, NEMA hosted a multi-agency technical workin...
12/04/2026

The 2026 flood season is coming. And Nigeria is already preparing.

This week, NEMA hosted a multi-agency technical working group specifically to strengthen proactive planning ahead of the floods. Benue State sits at the confluence of two of Nigeria's major rivers. When the waters rise, we are always among the first to feel it.

Benue-SEMA is not waiting. We are coordinating, preparing, and ensuring that when the rains come, Benue State is ready.

If you live near a river, a valley, or a flood-prone area, now is the time to prepare. Clear your drains. Know your evacuation routes. Save our number.

The floods do not announce themselves. But we will.

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Today, Benue-SEMA celebrates its Executive Secretary, Sir James Anodoakaa Iorpuu, on the occasion of his birthday.Since ...
12/04/2026

Today, Benue-SEMA celebrates its Executive Secretary, Sir James Anodoakaa Iorpuu, on the occasion of his birthday.

Since assuming office, Sir James has brought renewed focus and energy to humanitarian response in Benue State, from expanding official IDP camp coverage, to facilitating clean water infrastructure, to building partnerships that directly improve the lives of displaced persons across the state.
His leadership has been defined not by words, but by presence. He shows up.

On behalf of staff, partners, and the communities we serve, we wish Sir James Aondoakaa Iorpuu PhD a happy birthday and many more years of good health, impact, and purpose.

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11/04/2026

Inside an IDP camp, these children reminded us what joy looks like.

Their circumstances did not ask for their permission. But their spirit? That belongs entirely to them.

But watch their feet. Watch their smiles.
Some things are just too alive to be displaced

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No child should grow up in a camp.Not because of floods. Not because of attacks. Not because of any circumstance they ha...
11/04/2026

No child should grow up in a camp.

Not because of floods. Not because of attacks. Not because of any circumstance they had no hand in creating.

Yet across Benue State, thousands of children wake up every morning in displacement, far from their homes, their schools, and the lives they deserved.

These are not statistics. They are children with names, dreams, and a right to a better life.

Benue-SEMA is here because they deserve more than survival. They deserve dignity. And we will keep showing up for them until every family can go home safely.

See their faces. Remember their stories.

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Benue-SEMA is expanding its circle of partners, and displaced persons in Benue State will be better for it.On Friday, Ap...
10/04/2026

Benue-SEMA is expanding its circle of partners, and displaced persons in Benue State will be better for it.

On Friday, April 10, 2026, the Permanent Secretary of Benue-SEMA, Sir James Aondoakaa Iorpuu PhD, received a delegation from Terre des Hommes Benue at the BSEMA Headquarters.

Terre des Hommes works in child protection, gender-based violence, gender justice, health, and WASH, areas that sit at the heart of what our displaced communities need most. Their readiness to collaborate with Benue-SEMA is a welcome development.

Sir James Anodoakaa Iorpuu PhD assured the delegation of the agency's full support and has already planned a camp visit to give the team firsthand insight into the conditions on the ground.

Because the best partnerships are not built in offices. They are built in the field, with the people they are meant to serve.

Benue-SEMA's doors remain open to every organisation committed to improving the lives of displaced persons in Benue State

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Excellence recognises excellence.On Thursday, April 9, 2026, the Permanent Secretary of Benue-SEMA, Sir James Anodoakaa ...
10/04/2026

Excellence recognises excellence.

On Thursday, April 9, 2026, the Permanent Secretary of Benue-SEMA, Sir James Anodoakaa Iorpuu PhD, received a courtesy visit from Aondowase Mimidoo, one of 79 beneficiaries of the Jechira Scholarship Scheme he personally sponsors.

Mimidoo, a student of Rev. Fr. Moses Orshio Adasu University, Makurdi and an indigene of Tsambe, Vandeikya LGA, is not just a beneficiary. She is currently ranked second in her programme with a CGPA of 4.15.

That kind of performance does not go unnoticed. Sir James Iorpuu commended her outstanding results and made a promise on the spot, sponsor her Master's degree upon graduation, provided she finishes with a First Class.

79 students. One vision. A leader who invests in the next generation not just with words, but with action.

To Aondowase Mimidoo and every Jechira Scholar, keep going. You are being watched and supported.

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