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Internally Displaced Persons

Gombe government constructs three special hospitals in eight years
17 May  Nigeria
The Gombe State Government has constructed and equipped three specialised hospitals within eight years, Dr Kennedy Ishaya, the state Commissioner for Health, has said. Ishaya disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Gombe while giving account of his stewardship. He said the government constructed a 150-bed capacity hospital for Pregnant…
Ayade begs Cross River IDPs in Ebonyi to return home
13 May  Nigeria
Gov. Ben Ayade of Cross River has urged all the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the state taking refuge in Ebonyi to return home, assuring that their safety would be guaranteed. Ayade made the call on Monday at Nguzu Edda in Afikpo South Local Government Area of Ebonyi when he led a 10-man delegation to…
Plateau denies diverting IDPs’ N20b
12 Apr  Nigeria
Plateau State government has denied allegations by the opposition that it diverted N20 billion meant for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the state. The denial came during the 2019 budget breakdown by the Commissioner of Budget and Economic Planning, Mr. Sylvester Wallangko, at the ministry’s conference hall of the cabinet office. Wallangko explained that…
Buhari tasks security agents on Kaduna killings, violence in Rivers
10 Apr  Nigeria
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday condemned the recent violence in Kaduna State, which culminated in the death of no fewer than 20 residents of Adara Community. He stated this in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu in Abuja, saying: “These unfortunate deaths are the latest incident between the…
Nigeria: 2,000 flee village as army prepare Boko Haram offensive
9 Apr  Nigeria
Some 2,000 people have been forced to flee to the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri ahead of a major offensive against Boko Haram, emergency services and residents told AFP on Tuesday. Nigerian troops herded residents of Jakana village into trucks and ferried them 40 kilometres (25 miles) to a displacement camp in the Borno State…
Food shortage hits Fufore IDPs Camp in Adamawa
6 Apr  Nigeria
No fewer than 1,400 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) including the elderly, women and children from Fufore in Adamawa are complaining of acute food supply in the camp. Malam Bakura Umar, an IDP and leader of IDPs in Fufore Camp, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Yola. Umar complained that…
Winners Chapel donates relief materials to Taraba IDPs
5 Apr  Nigeria
The Living Faith Church yesterday donated relief materials worth over N5 million to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Jalingo, Taraba State. Presenting the materials to the IDPs in one of the camps in Howai Primary School, Mile Six, the president, Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo, called on the IDPs not to lose hope.…
Elections: IDPs defy early morning explosion scare to vote
23 Feb  Nigeria
Thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) defied the early Saturday morning explosion scare in Maiduguri and came out en mass to cast their votes in the Presidential and National Assembly elections. The News Agency of Nigeria of Nigeria (NAN) reports that there was a large turnout of voters at the Teachers Village’s IDPs in Maiduguri,…
NGO tasks federal government on security in IDP camps during elections
16 Feb  Nigeria
The Centre for Community Health and Development (CHAD) International has urged the federal government to beef up security at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in Adamawa state to enable them participate in the general elections. Team leader in Adamawa, Paul Ekere, who visited the two official IDP camps and other displaced persons settlements in…
Court quashes Akerele’s suit against The Guardian over rice scam report
13 Feb  Nigeria
Edo State High Court sitting in Benin City yesterday struck out a case filed by the governor’s Chief of staff, Mr. Taiwo Akerele, against The Guardian Newspaper over a report on the diversion of rice meant for internally-displaced persons (IDPs) in the state. Counsel to the first and second Defendants (The Guardian and its correspondent…
Returning Benue IDPs seek more security posts at border areas
20 Dec  Nigeria
The returning Benue State Internally-Displaced Persons (IDPs) have urged the Federal Government to provide more security posts at the border communities to guarantee their safety. The locals particularly complained of being afraid of their border areas with Nasarawa State along the bank of River Benue. However, the Force Commander, Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS), Maj.-Gen. Adeyemi…
Over 160,000 bags of rice donated to IDPs by China ‘rots away in NEMA stores’
15 Nov 2018  Nigeria
Despite the widely-reported cries of hunger by Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the north-east and the acute malnutrition ravaging their children, 162,696 bags of rice donated by the Chinese government to the IDPs have been abandoned and left to rot in stores belonging to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), according to an online medium,…