State of Emergency: Legal and Political Implications in Nigeria

According to http://www.ready.gov/business/implementation/emergency explains the steps that need to be taken and the importance of an emergency plan. “When an emergency occurs, the first priority is always life safety. The second priority is the stabilization of

Firstly, you should give examples of emergency incidents as described in the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.

Emergency powers allow for a Governor during situations that could cause damage to the state, to ensure that the state is adequately prepared for the emergencies and disasters. The powers given to the governor here is usually within statue or constitution and usually found in the state emergency management laws (Zimmerman, 2012). Additionally, these powers relate to the US President, as the Governors will declare state emergencies and then petition the President for a major disaster declaration to open up federal FEMA funding and response to help

-Under the emergencies act temporary measures are taken considering the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms.

The National Emergency Act is the first actually written law that outlined the power that the executive branch (President of the United States) had when an emergency requiring the federal government’s intervention has happened. This is the first statute. Since its creation, the National Emergency Act has outlined the process in which the president must take to actually declare an emergency. During the 1970’s is when the legislative branch decided to look into making procedures such as this one uniform. In 1973, a committee put together by congress started to look into national emergencies and emergency powers of the executive branch. They had found that there were approximately 470 laws that somehow delegated the powers of government during times of national emergency. This is why the National Emergency Act,

Worst of the fires, was on Oct 18, there were over 100 fires blazing statewide. The Premier of New South Wales Mr O'Farrell professed a state of emergency on 20 October, authorizing firefighters to evict residents and annihilate fire-affected structures.

An emergency is defined as “a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action.” (Oxford University).

Because like Walzer said “it’s only if millions of people are getting killed such as in Germany”, but before even looking into what it really was about. The Syria conflict came to my mind and I thought that would be considered the United States intervention was to protect innocent human lives. President Obama’s only problem in justifying a strike against Syria is one that involves jus ad bellum because his choice is not about “how” to fight, but “whether” or “on what authority” to do so. The problem lies in what actually justification will be on what kind of force will be used by the United States in Syria. So, I guess I’m just a little undecided on what could really be considered an emergency within the United States because the shootings of colored people and like the Charleston Church massacre in North Caroline. Many more things, happening internationally that involved the United States may be considered that; so let me know if I got the concept or not. It’s a very interesting one but also hard to understand on what can be, what in some

Along with deployments over seas the National Guard has state mission. These state missions comprise of multiple parts. Part one of the mission is to respond to the natural disasters of their state and country. Most everyone has heard of the National Guard going out and battling fires, helping general public deal with all aspects of the floods, tornadoes and civil unrest. In these situations the governor of the state, territories or district, places his province in a state of emergency. This allows him to control the National Guard until the crisis is exerted and in which case the National Guard is returned to its normal state as the protector of freedom and safety of their state and country. The second part of this mission is to

At the state level, EM authority lies in Chapter 252 (Chapter 252, Florida Statutes, "State Emergency Management Act", 2015). While this Chapter sets forth express language, it also contains broad language, such as “to take such measure as are necessary and appropriate to carry out the provision of 252.31 - 252.90.” (Chapter 252, 2015). Chapter 252 provides the Governor with the authority to declare or proclaim a state of emergency either for an emergency that has occurred or one that is imminent. This state of emergency cannot last longer than 60 days, unless renewed by the Governor. This grants the Governor the following powers: (1) Suspending the provisions of any regulatory statute; (2) Utilizing all resources of state government; (3) Compelling the evacuation of some or all areas of the population; (4) Commandeering private property, subject to appropriate compensation; (5) Suspending the sale of alcohol, firearms, and explosives; and (6) Controlling the movement of pedestrian and vehicular traffic (Chapter 252, 2015).

Governor Greg Abbott issued an Emergency Disaster Proclamation. “Pursuant to Section 418.017 of the code, I authorize the use of all available resources of state government and of political subdivisions that are reasonably necessary to cope with this disaster.” If there is a rule of a state agency or procedure for conduct of state businesses that are preventing the recovery from a natural disaster Greg Abbott authorizes that they are suspended during the duration of the natural disaster.

Emergency Changes: emergency changes are those that are implemented in a time sensitive manner. These changes prevent potential failure , lack or loss of functionality or lack or loss of revenue.

What is considered an emergency? It depends. An emergency to some may not be considered one to others but a short list includes the

The idea of emergency law is focused around the reality that the general motivation behind all government truly is the benefit of the individuals. Emergency law implies that the ruler or the government in an emergency circumstance can take measures that are outside the boundary of confinement of the law or against the immediate letters of the law.

This extract will elaborate on some of the legal considerations that the emergency manager must consider when conducting searches, seizures, and evacuation operations during an emergency management activity. Unfortunately with the unforeseen nature of the emergency and/or disaster one must consider whether this event involves imminent threat of widespread or severe damage, harm, lost of life or property resulting from any natural or man-made cause, the choices that must be made by local officials frequently are not easy to make in a split of a second (Nicholson, n.d.). Most of their decisions may not be the most popular choice but must be the course of action that will benefit the cause.