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

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.