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Internally Displaced Persons

IDPs in Niger raise alarm over strange aircrafts, seek help

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in four camps in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger state have raised alarm over the presence of strange aircraft flying over the camps before bandits’ attacks and have called on the state government to intervene, According to the Director of Social Development in Shiroro Local Government, Musan Adullahi, a strange […]

COVID -19: VSF distributes food, medical consumables to Yobe IDPs

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Victims Support Fund (VSF) Task Force on COVID-19 has distributed food items and medial consumables to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and the vulnerable in Yobe state. Mrs. Toyosi Ogunsiji, chairperson, VSF Task Force on COVID-19, disclosed on Wednesday in Damaturu that the COVID-19 task force intervention was to strategically provide some form of palliative supports […]

COVID-19: Edo IDP coordinator calls for FG’s palliatives

The management of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Uhorgua, near Benin, Edo state, has called on the federal government to consider the camp in the distribution of palliatives. Pastor Solomon Folorunsho, coordinator of the camp, said in Benin on Wednesday that the camp has yet to receive any palliative two weeks after the […]

COVID-19: VSF distributes relief materials to IDPs in FCT

The Victims Support Fund (VSF) Task Force on COVID-19 on Tuesday distributed food items to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at the Malaysian Gardens in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Mrs. Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji, head of the task force, said that the exercise was to mitigate the hardship that Nigerians, particularly the vulnerable, were experiencing at this […]

Adamawa: Angry IDPs reject NEMA’s food intervention

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…Say food supplied was contaminated and would not go round to all in the camp …We pleaded with them to accept it, but they refused – NEMA Aggrieved Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Fufore International Transit Camp in Adamawa State have rejected the foodstuffs supplied to them by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). The […]

Adeboye’s wife: We share food every week at IDP camp

Adeboye’s wife -Folu Adeboye, wife of Pastor Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God has revealed that the church is actively involved in ensuring that the internally displaced persons in Nigeria are well fed, irrespective of their religions. She made this known on Wednesday on her verified twitter page. READ ALSO: Don’t marry a […]

Commission establishes shoe factory to empower Borno IDPs

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The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) has established a cottage shoe and an Information and Communication Technology centre to fast track livelihood support for internally displaced persons in Borno state. The commission’s Head of Media and Communication Strategy, Alkasim Abdulkadir, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Maiduguri. Abdulkadir […]

IDPs farmers assured of FG intervention – Minister

Farmers of the Internally Displaced Persons have been assured of Federal government intervention to create enabling environment for input in generating production. This assurance was given by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh when he recently inspected the IDPs Beans Market in Auta Ballefi, Nasarawa State, owned by the Internally Displaced […]

INEC in C’ River moves to register IDPs in Bakassi

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Cross River State has said that it is taking steps to ensure that the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Bakassi Local Government Area of the state exercise their franchise in 2019. The Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Dr Frankland Briyai, said this in an interview with the […]

FG to review military rules of engagement

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday in Abuja said that government would progressively review the rules of engagement by the military and across the nation’s security system, and take into considerations human rights issues. A statement issued Monday by his spokesman, Mr. Laolu Akande, said Osinbajo made the promise during a meeting with members of […]

Foreign Boko Haram terrorist captured, 15 killed

A Boko Haram terrorist suspected to be a foreigner has been captured by Nigerian troops in Rann, Borno State. The suspect not yet identified by Nigerian military authorities, was among the ban of terrorists that staged an attack on Rann, the location of the Internally Displaced Persons Camp, that was accidentally hit by Nigerian Air […]