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The Borno Government says it will offer nursery and primary school scholarships to 23,000 orphans taking refuge in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the state. Ahmed Satomi, the Chairman, State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, disclosed this on Sunday in Maiduguri in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria. Mr. Satomi said the gesture was aimed at catering for ...

The Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has decried the neglect of no fewer than 4,723 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at various locations in Taraba. A statement issued by the commission’s Deputy Director, Protection and Investigations, Lambert Oparah, on Sunday in Abuja said that Mr. Angwe made this known while on an official visit in Taraba. The statement said ...

Internally displaced persons in Adamawa State who received food and relief items in December put religious and sectarian differences aside to thank their benefactors and pray for them. At Churches and Mosques in Jimeta-Yola, and at other distribution points in the seven Local Government Areas most hit by the insurgency, grateful IDPs offered prayers for the donors, as well as ...

As part of its plans to rehabilitate communities destroyed by the Boko Haram insurgency, the federal government will build about 10,000 houses for internally displaced persons – IDPs in Adamawa State. The vice chairman of the committee constituted by the federal government to superintend the reconstruction of the region, North East Housing Reconstruction Initiative, Hajiya Hadiza Muhammed, disclosed this yesterday. ...

The displaced people in Adamawa can now express hope in getting their lives back as the United Nation has come to their rescue. The United Nation’s High Commission for refugees in Africa on Sunday said arrangements had been concluded to construct 500 housing units for the aged, physically challenged, orphans and the very sick persons who were displaced by Boko ...

Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are people or groups of people who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural or human-made disasters, and who have ...