Thousands of people uprooted from their homes by the Boko Haram insurgency took to the streets in Maiduguri on Sunday to protest food shortages and poor conditions in their camp. More than 2.6 million people have been displaced by the deadly violence in northeastern Nigeria that erupted eight years ago and forced into camps and […]
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The Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) on Saturday said it spent over ₦2 billion distributing food items and condiments to IDPs in the last four years. SEMA’s Chairman Alhaji Satomi Ahmad, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri. Ahmad said that the amount went into procurement […]
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The United Nations’ World Food Programme could in a few weeks run out of funding to feed millions living on the brink of famine in Nigeria, four people familiar with the matter said, intensifying one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises. In the northeast, 4.7 million people, many of them refugees from the conflict with […]
Read More An estimated two million Nigerians displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency are living in Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPS) camps in six NorthEast States, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said yesterday. Yola Camp Coordinator Saas Bello stated this at the weekend after taking United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Samanthan Power, round the facilities […]
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VIOLENCE across the country must be put to an end if the crisis of internally displaced persons is to be contained, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon.Yakubu Dogara, has said. Dogara made the statement Thursday while receiving a delegation from the National Commission For Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons led by its […]
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