internally displaced persons

Over 5,000 IDPs have returned to their villages in Zamfara – Army

Over 5,000 Internally Displaced Persons have returned to their villages in Zamfara State, the Army has said.

PHOTOS: Joy, as IDPs return home to resume normal lives in Borno

The locals had been displaced from their homes following Boko Haram’s invasion of their communities.

Osinbajo visits troubled Benue communities, responds to criticisms

Osinbajo responded to criticisms that he was turning a blind eye to the killing of Christians.

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.

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.

UNICEF gives N410 million medical supplies to Nigerian IDPs

UNICEF said the supplied will serve at least one million people for three months.

Photos: 592 IDPs leave Yola camp, return to Borno homes

The internally displaced persons left the IDP camp in Malkohi – a town in Yola, Adamawa state.