Voters in Malkohi Camp for the internally displaced victims of Boko Haram in Adamawa State joined other citizens across the country to take part in today’s presidential and parliamentary elections. Although there were initial glitches that forced a delay in accreditation and voting for about two hours, the issues were later resolved and voting was […]
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The Aliko Dangote Foundation recently launched a major philanthropic programme in Zamfara State, where it doled out food items running into several millions of naira to support victims of insurgency. Group Executive Director, Government and Strategic Relations, Dangote Group, Mansur Ahmed, who presented the food items on behalf of the Group President, Aliko Dangote, said […]
Read More Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at Riyom Town Hall camp in Plateau are complaining of starvation, degradation and inhuman condition. Aside from insufficient food and sustenance, they also complain of sleeping on bare floors. Mr John Langai, one of them, told a delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), that many of them […]
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No fewer than 1,801 persons have been confirmed killed and 50,212 others displaced in recent attacks in Plateau state. The Committee on Resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, set up by the Plateau Government, made the confirmation on Monday. AVM Bala Danbaba (retired), Chairman of the committee, presented his report to Gov. Simon Lalong on […]
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No fewer than 17 children have been born in various holding centres provided by Anambra State Government for people displaced by floodwaters over the last three weeks. Commissioner for Health, Dr. Joe Akabuike, announced this while receiving a team of medical doctors from Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Anambra State Chapter, who were on medical outreach […]
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Plateau State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) says a total of 38, 051 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are taking refuge in 31 camps in the state following recent violence. She said that the IDPs were victims of the June 23 and 24 violence involving suspected herdsmen and villagers in Barkin Ladi, Riyom, Mangu, Bokkos and Jos […]
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The Federal Government says it will commence disbursement of the recovered 322 million dollars Abacha loot through Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) to 302,000 poor households in 19 states in July. Mr Tukur Rumar, of the National Cash Transfer Office (NTCO), said this at a roundtable on assets recovery organised by the Swiss Embassy on Thursday, […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday assured the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) his administration would restore their devastated communities. While congratulating the 2,000 IDPs at the Kuchingoro Camp, Federal Capital Territory, who are preparing to return to their communities in the North East, the President assured Nigerians that his administration would not forget citizens in their […]
Read More THE Aliko Dangote Foundation has inaugurated the Dangote village built for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The gesture has been described as another massive philanthropic gesture coming barley two weeks after the foundation donated 150 cars to the police. The Dangote village is a self-sufficient set of 200 housing […]
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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has distributed 252,666 (50kg) bags of rice worth ₦3.79 billion in the last 22 months to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the Northeast and Benin. The Public Relations Officer of the Service, Mr. Joseph Attah, who made the disclosure in Abuja on Sunday said the exercise was in compliance with […]
Read More Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) can be found all over the world and they are handled in different ways by the countries when domiciled. Nigeria does not have refugee camps but countries where there are refugees employ the same method of handling them as those used in handling displaced persons, yet there have not been scandals […]
Read More The Chairman, National Logistics Committee (NLC), Assistant Comptroller-General of Customs Abdulkadir Azarema, on Thursday handed over 18,968 (50kg) bags of rice and other relief materials to assist Internally-Displaced Persons in Yobe. Azarema made the donation during the fifth round of distribution of government’s relief materials to victims of insurgency in Damaturu. “ President Muhammadu Buhari, […]
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