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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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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Over 35,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have so far returned to their ancestral homes from various camps in Borno North in the last two weeks, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. NAN quoted the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai as giving the figure of returnees in an address during the closing ceremony […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday arrived in Maiduguri, Borno state, for a one-day state visit. Buhari arrived the Maiduguri International Airport at 10.30 a.m. in company of his Chief of Staff, Alhaji Abba Kyari. Buhari was received by Gov. Kashim Shettima, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, the Chief of Air Staff, Air […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 Association of Bureau De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) on Tuesday, pledged to assist in reducing the plight of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North-East. Alhaji Aminu Gwadabe, President of the group, made the pledge in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. Gwadabe said that members of […]
Read More The Presidential Committee on North East Initiative (PCNI) has said Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are still in camps because some of the communities they should return to are not safe. The IDPs will remain in camps until their communities become safe and habitable, the committee added. The committee’s Vice Chairman Tijjani Tumsah, spoke to News […]
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Devastating conflicts, violence and persecution in Syria, South Sudan and elsewhere left a record 65.6 million people uprooted from their homes by the end of 2016, the UN said Monday. That number marks a jump of just 300,000 from the end of 2015, but is more than six million higher than at the end of […]
Read More Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Borno on Monday appealed to the State Government to improve current arrangements made for their feeding. Some of the IDPs told newsmen at the Teacher’s Village camp in Maiduguri, that current feeding arrangement in the camp was not favourable to them. The IDPs particularly accused the State Emergency Management Agency […]
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