The Bama Initiative for Human Development, an NGO, on Sunday in Maiduguri staged a peaceful protest demanding the return of internally displaced persons, IDPs, to their respective communities in Bama. Muhammad Hassan, chairman of the NGO said that the IDPs would want to return and continue their normal activities in view of the prevailing peace in […]
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Thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) being accommodated at the International Market Camp, Makurdi on Tuesday protested alleged diversion of relief materials by camp officials. The protest was said to have started when a truck, 2 Hilux vans, a bus and a saloon car loaded with relief materials from the camp warehouse, were about to […]
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Boko Haram terrorists have allegedly killed 11 people on Friday in an Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Banki, Borno State. The Islamist group was said to have killed their victims silently with knives after penetrating the camp, which houses 45,000 IDPs. “At around 12:30 am (2330 GMT Thursday) this morning some Boko Haram terrorists […]
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The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has confirmed the death of four people after suicide bombers attacked two internally displaced persons, IDP camps in Maiduguri. Reports have it that the attacks on Dalori 1 and 2 IDP camps was carried out by four different suicide bombers between late Sunday and early Monday morning. In a […]
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Justs hours after Boko Haram insurgents attacked some towns in Maiduguri, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo travelled Maiduguri, Borno state, to launch the special intervention relief plan for internally displaced persons (IDPs). On Wednesday, security agents engaged the insurgents in a gun battle that lasted hours. Though residents were assured of safety, many of them fled their […]
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The Nigeria Army has confirmed that 112 persons were killed in January’s accidental airstrike at the Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs) camp in Rann, Borno State. The Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Maj-Gen. Lucky Irabor, in Maiduguri, said 97 persons were injured in the attack. He also revealed that 26 foreigners that had contacts with Boko […]
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Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, says his men have killed 15 Boko Haram fighters, who were part of insurgents responsible for the mistaken deployment of rockets on an internally displaced persons’ (IDP) camp in Rann, Borno state. Speaking when he paid a visit to troops of 3 Battalion, Buratai said two days after the […]
Continue ReadingThe Presidency has dismissed reports by some aid agencies that a good number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria might die due to mass starvation. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, dismissed the reports in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday. […]
Continue ReadingNo fewer than 22 marriage contracts were sealed and 81 babies delivered in the past 20 months at the Pompomari Internally Displaced Persons camp in Damaturu, Executive Secretary, Yobe Emergency Management Agency, Alhaji Musa Jidawa , has disclosed. He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Damaturu on Saturday that the camp, established in March […]
Continue ReadingThe Borno Government says it has so far received cash donations of N345 million for the upkeep of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the state. Governor Kashim Shettima stated this while speaking with journalists in Maiduguri on Sunday. He said the state never received any cash donation from international donors for IDPs in the last […]
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