Tag: IDP
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IDPs in FCT want to return home
Victims of Boko Haram attacks camped in Abuja have appealed to the Federal Government to intensify efforts to make their places safe so they can return to their homes from their temporary abodes. Mr Philemon Emmanuel, the leader of the Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs) in Kuchigoro, Abuja, made the appeal when officials of National Commission…
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5 dead, 39 injured in as suicide bombers attack IDP
Five persons have been confirmed dead as suicide bombers suspected to be Boko Haram members attacked the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camp in Dalori, Borno state on Wednesday. The Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) chairman, Satomi Ahmad confirming the incident to newsmen in Maiduguri said five IDPs members and 39 others sustained various degrees…
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BORNO: Army denies suicide bomb attack in IDPs camp, ambush on soldiers
The Nigerian Army on Tuesday dismissed as ‘misleading’, reports of a suicide bomb attack at an Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Pulka community of Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno. The military also described as ‘fictitious’, the purported killing of six soldiers by Boko Haram insurgents in an ambush on Damboa Road. Col. Onyema…
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3 killed, 7 Injured as suicide bombers attack Maiduguri IDP Camp
No fewer than three people were killed while seven others sustained injuries following a suicide attack on Monday at an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Pulka, Borno State. Pulka is a town in Gwoza local government of Borno state 135 kilometres away from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. According to sources at the camp, the…
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Eid-el-Kabir: NGO donates 1,849 cows to the needy in Daura
Nyass International Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, says it has so far donated 1,849 cows to the needy and less privileged in the country. The organisation said this during the Eid-el-Kabir celebration in Daura that it made the donation in collaboration with a German based Hassene Foundation. Sheikh Adulahad Nyas said the meat of such cows…
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Digital skills: FG sets up multi-million naira training centre for IDPs in Abuja
…set to equip IDPs with digital skill …awards scholarship to 300 IDPs All is now set for the federal government to equip Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) with necessary digital skills as the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has set up a multi-million naira training centre for IDPs in Abuja. The NITDA says the multi-million…
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Rann bombing: Outdated maps caused death of Nigerians – Surveyors
Nigerian Institution of Surveyors (NIS), Saturday, blamed use of obsolete maps for the tragic bombing of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Rann village of Kala-Balge Local Government Area of Borno State by the military. A fighter jet early in the year bombed aid providers, soldiers and displaced persons in error, killing about 100 persons.…
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Borno to evacuate 78,000 IDPs from Cameroon
The Borno Government said on Sunday that it plans to evacuate 78,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) back home from Cameroon. The News Agency of Nigeria [NAN] reports that the affected IDPs fled to Cameroon at the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency in the state. The IDPs had a week ago urged the state government…
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Borno records 3,800 new cases of HIV in IDPs camps
Malam Barkindo Saidu, the Executive Secretary, Borno Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS (BOSACA), says 3,800 new cases of HIV infections have been recorded in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the state. Saidu told the newsmen in Maiduguri on Wednesday that the new cases were recorded after voluntary screening in 15 IDPs camps in…
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2Face Idibia doles out N3.5m to support IDPs
Nigerian music star, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as “2Face,” on Monday presented a cheque of N3.5million to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Idibia, who made the presentation to UNHCR in Lagos, said that he was particularly touched when he visited camps of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in North-Eastern Nigeria recently. The…