IDPs
28 May
Vice President Kashim Shettima, yesterday, made a strong case for a global partnership that addresses the problem of internal displacement in Nigeria, pledging the Federal Government’s commitment to ensure the safety and well-being of citizens.
28 May
Nigeria Chief of Mission of the International Organisation of Migration (IOM), Laurent de Boeck, has described the displacement crisis in the North East as one of the world’s most complex affecting over 2.3 million persons.
19 Apr
Adolphus Onyeama, an agriculture produce buyer resident in Borno State, has had several close shaves with death in the last 14 years. The Enugu State-born businessman has lived in the North for 26 years.
4 Apr
Kaduna State Government has flagged off the distribution of palliatives to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Kajuru Local Council, pointing out that 551 communities across 12 local councils are affected by banditry, while 289,375 IDPs are recorded.
27 Mar
Eighteen years after the Federal Government approved the development of seven Inland Dry Ports (IDPs) across the country, only two are operational. According to the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), the two functional IDPs are the Dala Inland Dry...
20 Mar
United Nations, (UN), International Organization for Migration, (IOM), and the Government of Japan, have signed a $4.4 million, (N6, 690, 200, 000), on health care delivery to Internally Displaced Persons, (IDPs), in Adamawa other North-East host communities.
14 Mar
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has targeted the construction of 85,000 houses worth N3.8 trillion to resettle Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) into 66 liberated communities in the state.
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.
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