IDP Camp

EFCC finally files 10-count charge against Babachir Lawal over N272m grass-cutting scandal

The date for hearing the case has not yet been disclosed.

Jalingo IDP camp suffers food shortage

The people living there have been crying out for help with no additional supply in sight.

Boko Haram kill 8 in attack on IDP camp, 4 villages in Maiduguri

At least eight people have been killed after Boko Haram insurgents attacked an IDP camp in Maiduguri.

3,000 births recorded in Borno IDP camp in 6 months

SEMA has said the increase in births was as a result of high number of couples staying at the camps.

Nigerian officials jailed for selling food aid

Two Nigerian officials in the north-east of the country have been sentenced to two years…

“We are enjoying in camp, we don’t want to go home” – IDPs in Yobe

The displaced residents say they eat beans, spaghetti, rice and other delicacies at the camp.

“The heat in IDP camps is overbearing” – Femi Kuti blasts FG again

Femi says the living conditions internally displaced persons are subjected are not befitting.

Borno: 8 dead, 20 injured, as suspected terrorists drop bombs on IDP camp

The IDP camp in Borno was attacked by five male bombers on Wednesday morning.

TRAGEDY: Fire guts IDP Camp in Borno, leaves 3 dead

Fire gutted a section of an IDP Camp in Borno on Thursday morning, killing three.

Borno: Councillor, others arrested for allegedly stealing bags of rice belonging to IDPs

EFCC said some of the suspects had confessed that the rice was sold to two traders in the area at the rate of N8,500 per bag.

“It’s a lie, NAF dropped bombs on us thrice” – Victim of Nigerian Air Force’s “accidental” bombing

Victims of the “accidental” bomb blast that rocked IDP camp in Rann, Borno State have rubbished the Nigerian Air Force’s claim that the bombing was a mistake as untrue.

Breaking: Several feared dead as military “mistakenly” bombs IDP camp in Borno

A bomb was said to have been “mistakenly” dropped on the embattled persons inside the Rann IDP camp in Borno State by a military plane on Tuesday.

Nigeria: Desperate IDP kid beats camp security to gather spilled beans for starving mother

“As I enter the gate, I see a boy sieving beans from the sand; he has his way past the security to do this. I walk to him, go on one knee and ask him, what he wants to do with the beans and he says, he wants to take it to his mother because they do not have food. I am broken.”

IDP camps in Borno to be closed down in 2017

Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, has said displaced persons in the state, numbering about 2million, will be made to return to their towns and villages after the state government’s reconstruction of communities destroyed by Boko Haram insurgents.

Troops avert multiple casualties, gun down suspected suicide bomber at IDP camp

Nigerian troops have averted multiple casualties by gunning down another suicide bomber who attempted to penetrate a Transit Camp of Internally Displaced Persons along Muna Garage, Maiduguri.

“I saw hell in Borno,” Lai Mohammed cries for help

“Most are at the mercy of the elements. We must be our brother’s keeper by assisting these unfortunate victims of a senseless war.”