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7 Mar
More than 200 internally displaced persons (IDPs), many of them women, boys and girls, were kidnapped by terrorists in Ngala, Borno state in northeast Nigeria. The abduction reportedly happened on February 29. The terrorists, believed to be members of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), allegedly abducted the IDPs who had reportedly ventured beyond the…
2 Mar
The recent passage of the bill seeking to establish a regional interventionist agency for the Southeast; the Southeast Development Commission (SEDC) has rekindled the debate of waste and reduplication of responsibilities...
28 Feb
United Nations (UN) Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mohammed Fall, has said that the organisation will continue to support the resettlement of displaced persons with the restoration of their livelihoods in Borno State.
21 Feb
Worried by the influx of herdsmen into Benue State in the past few weeks, Governor Hyacinth Alia has re-affirmed that the state’s Open-Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law is still active in the state.
15 Feb
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has commissioned rebuilt houses and a border market for teachers and returnee Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
6 Feb
From a level of 21.34 per cent as of end-December 2022, Nigeria’s headline inflation maintained a consistent upwards trajectory, closing year 2023 at 28.92 per cent—a rate widely considered to be the highest in about three decades.
17 Dec
James Iorpuu, the Executive Secretary, Benue State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), wants development partners in the Northeast to relocate to Benue and assist Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
30 Nov
Benue State Government, yesterday, said the ongoing herders and farmers clash in the state has claimed property, including farmlands, worth more than N425 billion in eight local councils of the state.
20 Nov
Taraba Independent Peace Committee, in collaboration with the Kukah Centre, Secretariat of the National Peace Committee, has called on the state government to intervene in the humanitarian crisis in the state. The call, which came weekend via a communiqué, in Jalingo, after the Peace Summit with the theme, ‘In Search for Peace, Unity and Reconciliation…
18 Nov
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his Borno State counterpart, Babagana Zulum, are among the high profile personalities expected from across the country and the Diaspora, at the first ever arts exhibition in Nigeria...
18 Nov
A remote part of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja is Wassa, a community not far from Waru in Apo District of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC). The community houses some Abuja residents living in dilapidated structures...
12 Nov
There appears to be succor in sight for victims of perennial flooding along the borderline between Lagos and Ogun states, and the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at Tatyo and Kyo community in Makurdi North Local Council of Benue State...

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