Emmanuel joined the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in 2016 when they first started operations in Nigeria.
Conflict in Nigeria’s northeast region has displaced more than 3 million people and left another 4.1 million food insecure in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states. Three million of them are in Borno State, the epicentre of insurgency.
Emmanuel was one of the first humanitarian aid workers responding to the crisis, working at the epicentre of this crisis.
As a Programme Policy Officer, he designs and leads the implementation of life-saving assistance in Yobe State where WFP reaches 1 million internally displaced people and refugees each month.
In 2017, famine was declared. Using his academic and professional expertise, Emmanuel supported the state Government to develop its Nutrition Monitor to help prevent and treat child malnutrition.
From Damaturu, Yobe State, Emmanuel travels to the most remote and hostile locations to ensure that life-saving assistance reaches everybody who needs it. In 2020, he was one of the few people still working in the field during the pandemic.
In 2020, the World Food Programme was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger, promote peace in conflict-affected areas, and prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.