By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Managing Director/CEO, North East Development Commission, (NEDC), Ambassador Mohammed Goni Alkali has said that the commission is embarking on reconstruction of the famous Eye and Dental Hospital Maiduguri to expand on facilities and equipments of the hospital in order accommodate more...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has supervised the palliative distribution of N175m cash and food items for over 50,000 vulnerable residents in Dikwa town of Dikwa Local Government Area. The distribution started on Thursday and rounded up on Friday morning with each...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – One of the trainers of National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Sokoto State, Hajiya Zailhatu Ladan, has appealed to the Federal Government through the agency to urgently consider organizing skills acquisition training for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria. Zailhatu, who is a trainer...
The Federal Government has announced plans to set up transit schools to cater for the educational needs of the 11,000 school children displaced by banditry and other violent crimes in Niger State. According to the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, the project would...
By DOMINIC AKPENSUEN, Jalingo- The Catholic Bishop of Wukari Diocese, Most Rev.Dr. Mark Maigida Nzukwein and stakeholders from Takun, Ussa and Yangtu LGAs have called on Taraba State Governor, Agbu Kefas to prioritize security of life and properties in the state to end the incessant crisis in the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The United Nations (UN) has promised to partner with the Borno State government and North East Development Commission, NEDC in safety resettlement of IDPs and refugees in the state and region. The Assistant Secretary General of the UN, Mr. Robert Piper, who...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – A Non Governmental Organization (NGO) Cooperazione Internazionale, Nigeria (COOPI) has flagged off two days integrated emergency response workshop to Internally Displaced Persons (IDOs) in Rabah and Goronyo Local Government Areas of Sokoto State. The integrated response training is targeted at protection, nutrition,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has flagged off a fresh phase of palliatives which is targeting about 300,000 households with about six persons per household to reach one million and eight hundred thousand (1.8m) persons in need. Governor Zulum launched the distribution...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Al-Habibiyyah Islamic Society, a faith-based organisation, have entered into partnership to galvanize support for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The National Chief Imam of Al-Habibiyyah, Imam Fuad Adeyemi, made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja. He said...
As at 2021 the number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria was as a result of conflicts was about 3.1 million, according to a report by the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI). Many of the displaced persons migrated to the Federal Capital Territory...
The Presidential Committee on Repatriation, Return and Resettlement of Displaced Persons in the North East says no fewer than 300,000 displaced persons have been repatriated from neighbouring countries. Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno spoke with State House correspondents on Friday after a meeting of the committee chaired by Vice...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, says the Federal Government has released N15 billion to the Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo-led Repatriation and Settlement Committee to ensure safe return of all Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to their homes. Zulum, who is also the Vice Chairman of the...
UN says no fewer than 100,000 people have been displaced and dozens killed, following a string of attacks by an armed group in North Kivu province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Citing humanitarian sources, UN Spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, said at a news conference...
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), on Sunday celebrated Christmas at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Abagana, Makurdi. Speaking with the IDPs, Obi said that their plight would not continue, adding that they should have hope that they would soon go back to their ancestral...
Some Internally Displaced Persons (IDPS) from different locations in Kaduna State on Wednesday cried out for help over lack of shelter, hunger, and loss of means of livelihood. The displaced persons are camped in an IDP centre in Kaduna. They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate...
Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to make adequate provisions for the over two million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the state ahead of 2023 general elections. He made the call at a roundtable discussion, tagged; “Contemporary Security Challenges and their...
The Tiv Community in has urged Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku to facilitate the return of Tiv Displaced Persons to their ancestral homes in some parts of the state before the expiration of his tenure. The Tiv Traditional Leaders’ Council, made the call in a communique issued on Sunday...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has disbursed over N225 million to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and residents of Gamboru, Ngala and Wulgo host community and border towns of Ngala LGA in the northern part of the state . He also distributed wrappers to over...
The decade long insurgency by the Boko Haram in the north east part of Nigeria has wrecked havoc on many lives including families, societies and communities as well as affected a wide spectrum of social and economic sphere. The Boko Haram has transformed into a transnational threat, thereby creating...