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Featured
Refugee Commission, NGO launch awareness initiative in IDP Camps
The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons has partnered with the Cormode Cancer Foundation to address cancer in Nigeria’s IDP camps and host communities. The partnership is aimed at establishing Cormode Cancer Champions Clubs in secondary schools across the country, to educate young people about cancer prevention and early detection. The Federal Commissioner for the Commission, Hon.…
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General News
Easter: IDP camp coordinator seeks support
Mr. Solomon Folorunsho, the coordinator of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Edo, is seeking support from well-meaning Nigerians for feeding the inhabitants of the camp. Folorunsho made the call during a visit to the camp on Friday, ahead of the Easter celebration on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the IDP camp is in Uhogua,…
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General News
Benue SEMA distributes relief materials to IDPs
The Benue State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has distributed thousands of food and non-food items to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the state. Performing the monthly exercise on Friday in Makurdi, the acting Executive Secretary of SEMA, Sir James Iorpuu, said the relief materials would be given to the new IDPs recorded in the state. Iorpuu said Gov. Hyacinth Alia…
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Health
Plateau Attacks: WHO commends UNFPA for being 1st respondent in harmonised plan
The World Health Organization (WHO) has lauded the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for being the first to respond following the completion of the harmonised response plan to the attacks in Plateau. Dr. Mhadi Musa, WHO’s State Coordinator, gave the commendation on Wednesday in Jos during the presentation of 2,000 dignity kits by the UNFPA to internally displaced women and…
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Military personnel not allowed into IDP camps, Commissioner tells NHRC panel
The Borno Government on Friday told the panel investigating claims of human right abuses that military personnel were not allowed into camps housing rescued women and children. The Commissioner of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zuwaira Gambo, told the Special Independent Investigative Panel on Human Rights Violations in Counter-Insurgency Operations in the North East, sitting in Maiduguri. The panel,…
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Featured
Kwara 10,000 capacity lDPs camp lacks amenities – Coordinator
 Hajia Jumai Ahmed, the North Central Zonal Coordinator of National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, says the 10,000 capacity lDPs camp in Kwara lack basic amenities. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the camp is located in Patigi, headquarters of the Patigi Local Government Area of the state. The official disclosed this on Wednesday in…
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IDPs camp demolition : ActionAid tasks FG, FCTA on provision of shelter, amenities
An NGO, ActionAid Nigeria, has called on the Federal Government and Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) to provide amenities for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp at Durumi in the FCT. Country Director of ActionAid, Ene Obi ,made the call at a news briefing at the camp on Monday in Abuja. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN),The director…
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Africa
How humanitarian crisis affects African cultures –Coalition
Humanitarian crisis remains a contributory factor to the extinction of cultures, heritage and diversity in Africa, a coalition has observed. The Coalition of Humanitarian organisations on Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria and West Africa, made this observation in Abuja at a conference. Dr JohnJohn Uket, Project Lead of the coalition, said that there were more than 50…
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NEWS
IDPs get succour from refugees’ commission
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) and other persons of concern in Borno, Adamawa, Yobe and Taraba states have benefitted from distribution of relief items by the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI). The Federal Commissioner, NCFRMI, Sen. Basheer Mohammed, disclosed this in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Sadiq Abdullateef on Tuesday…
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Defence
Nigeria Air Force avails IDPs free medical care in Katsina
The Nigeria Air Force (NAF) has conducted free medical treatment for persons displaced by bandits’ attacks in 20 communities of Faskari Local Government Area (LGA), Katsina State. The service also distributed food items and other relief materials to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the area. The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, inaugurated the exercise at the…
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NEWS
2Face appointed UNHCR goodwill ambassador
Nigerian music star Innocent ‘2Face’ Ujah Idibia, has been appointed a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations refugee agency. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) made the announcement via Instagram. “2Baba has been a committed high-level Supporter of UNHCR’s LuQuLuQu campaign – a pan-African movement of people from all walks of life investing in a better future for…
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14 Boko Haram displaced persons test positive for HIV/AIDs in Yobe
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) on Thursday confirmed that 14 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) tested positive out of 2,109 screened for HIV/AIDS in Yobe. Dr Aminu Fikin, NACA Project Coordinator in Yobe, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Nguru, Yobe. Fikin said that 759 people in Nguru, 850 in Jakusko, 400 in…
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