Tag: Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)

While the humanitarian response has increased substantially, “we have not turned the corner yet.”

Several trucks transported grains on Friday to local government areas.

Cameroon pulled back after signing an agreement with Nigeria to assist with keeping the returnees.

“We have distributed food, fertiliser and equipment to 30,000 farmers in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa.”

The returnees are part of the 43,000 IDPs that signified interest to return home.

The official said the insurgents are now operating on motorcycles.

The agency is targeting to provide about 48,000 children with food and medical care every month.

The insurgency inflicted damages to the tune of $9 billion on north-east Nigeria.

A government circular asked that then striking resident doctors be replaced.

The panel is to submit its report not later than 2 February 2017”.

The rice was donated by Danish Refugee Council, the EFCC said.

The UN called on the Nigerian government to ensure a thorough probe of the attack.

“Four officials were said to have been arrested by the police after IDPs held them."

Sixteen of the camps are located in Maiduguri.

IDP camps have been targets of suicide attacks.

Six people were killed when a female suicide bomber targeted the same camp.

The returnees were going to Gamboru-Ngala from Maiduguri.

The Nigerian leader also lamented the high number of internally displaced persons.

"Let me be frank with you. I must confess, I am not a great fan of IDP camps," he said

A former governorship candidate says the Senate failed to do its homework well.

He said the “pockets of attacks” by Boko Haram in the north-east do not threaten the returnee IDPs.

"We are going to conduct a survey to know who the real IDPs are," the official said.

The Nigerian leader condemned all new forms of racism, xenophobia and hate ideology.

Konduga, about 35km from Maiduguri, the state capital, is the gateway to the dreaded Sambisa forest.

IDPs from Konduga, Mafa and Dikwa LGAs.