 Mr. Mustafa Ahmed, Director General National Emergency Management Agency, has stated that humanitarian crisis as well as human displacement in the country has remained a threat to achieving the sustainable development goals by 2030. Mr. Ahmed, at a one-day strategic workshop with disaster-risk management stakeholders in Abuja, said that the country may not attain the SDGs due to nature and human indecent hazards such as floods, windstorms, drought, erosion, epidemic, conflict and banditry. He called on stakeholders, states and local governments to get involved to mitigate and prepare ahead of disasters before it occurred. Speaking in a similar vein, Dr. Daniel O'Bott, Director of Disaster-Risk Reduction, NIMA, added that the workshop was aimed at sharing ideas with stakeholders on how to reduce disaster risk in the country. You see, disaster management, as they say, is local. It happens, it hits a community within a local government, within a state. So the first responders is always the local government. We have written countless times to states that they should set up local emergency management committee. NIMA cannot be in every community in Nigeria, there are thousands of communities. The local government must step in first. The state, when the capacity is exceeded, the NIMA comes in. Disaster-Risk Reduction is a new methodology, a new tool for addressing disasters, not only in Nigeria, globally. Before now, everybody knows of disaster in terms of relief intervention. So with this perspective that we have created this forum to speak to ourselves at the national level, it is expected that with what they have gained here, they will take back to their various institutions and realign their activities to key into disaster-risk reduction. Because when the risks are reduced, the impacts will be less, the effects and the consequences will be less. I think there is a general statement that prevention is better than cure. So this event is to stimulate preparedness, stimulate prevention and create awareness on mitigation measures.