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Residents, Stakeholders Back Closure Of Mokwa IDPs Camp

Guest Writer 30 August 2025 0

The closure of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Mokwa by the Niger State government was welcomed by concerned stakeholders including residents. Supporting the closure, stakeholders argued that the camp established by the state government to provide temporary abode for victims of

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IDP Camps: From temporary to permanent abodes in Benue

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 13 January 2024 0

As insecurity lingers in many communities riddled with disturbances, the hope of victims being permanently resettled in their homes continues to be a mirage. BY TYAV SAM TYAV Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs camps, world over are not known to be permanent camps. It does not in any way become the permanent homes of the occupants. […]

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FEC calls for security beef-up in IDP camps

Ihesiulo Grace 28 April 2021 0

*Approves new policy to tackle poverty, sets 2050 agenda *Okays N2.1bn for Nigerian Content House maintenance *Approves N665m for poultry farmers in four states Kamarudeen Ogundele, Abuja To forestall attacks by bandits, the Federal Government has asked security agencies to beef up security in and around Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps. The Minister of

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Boko Haram: UNICEF, others indicted in plots to blackmail Nigerian military over fights against terrorists

Ihesiulo Grace 15 May 2018 0

The United Nations Children’s Education Fund, UNICEF, and other International organizations have been accused of frustrating the Nigerian Army over its fight against terrorists in the country. A Coalition Civil Society Organisations on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Nigeria in its first quarter report released in Abuja on the ongoing war against insurgency

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Herdsmen Killings: Plateau women took to peaceful rally, says IDP camp on the increase

Ihesiulo Grace 13 April 2018 0

A Group under the umbrella of Daffo Mangai Women Association, Plateau State on Thursday in Jos took to peaceful rally to the Plateau State House of Assembly appealing to government to help resettle the growing number of Internally displaced persons (IDP) camps back to their ancestral homes. The women also alleged that government has abandoned […]

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FG urged to use 2018 budget to end polio in IDPs camps

Ihesiulo Grace 10 November 2017 0

A Non-governmental Organisation, Rotary Club International, has urged the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to use the 2018 budget to end polio ravaging Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) across the country. The call was made Thursday by the District Governor of the club, Nnoka Mbanefo, in Jos, while commissioning two Bus Terminal Shelters, constructed by