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North West IDPs Near 800,000 Amid Killings – Report

Kazeem Tunde — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:07:02 +0000

North West IDPs Near 800,000 Amid Killings – Report The number of Internally Displaced Persons in the Northwest geopolitical zone surged by 143,189 persons in six months, a 22 per cent increase. According to the latest data obtained from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the surge is driven largely by a more […]

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Benue IDPs Protest Against Hunger Hours After Remi Tinubu’s N1bn Donation

Kazeem Tunde — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:55:25 +0000

Benue IDPs Protest Against Hunger Hours After Remi Tinubu’s N1bn Donation The Makurdi-Lafia highway was Wednesday taken over by hundreds of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, housed at the Maga IDPs camp Mbayongo in the outskirts of Makurdi, Benue State capital, in protest over alleged lack of food and other necessities. The angry IDPs who […]

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Yelwata Attack: IDPs Rebuff Plans To Return Them Back Home

Kazeem Tunde — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 19:28:59 +0000

Yelwata Attack: IDPs Rebuff Plans To Return Them Back Home The planned return of the over 3,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the Yelwata community currently taking temporary refuge at the Ultra Modern International Market in Makurdi has been cancelled. The IDPs moved out of their homes after the June 13, 2025, armed herdsmen […]

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Zamfara Seeks Urgent Action On IDPs Crisis

Kazeem Tunde — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 18:51:48 +0000

Zamfara Seeks Urgent Action On IDPs Crisis The Commissioner for the Ministry of Environment and Solid Minerals in Zamfara State, Kasimu Kaura, has called for urgent and decisive action to address the state’s internal displacement crisis. Zamfara has been a hotspot for banditry and the base of notorious figures such as the bandit kingpin, […]

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Seven Die In Building Collapse At Borno IDP Camp

Kazeem Tunde — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 19:15:23 +0000

Seven Die In Building Collapse At Borno IDP Camp Seven people were killed and two others injured when a building collapsed in a camp for people displaced by jihadist violence in northeast Nigeria’s Borno State, militia sources and a resident told AFP Tuesday. A classroom sheltering scores of Internally Displaced Persons in the garrison […]

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Tragedy For Borno IDPs As Fire Guts 200 Houses

Kazeem Tunde — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 19:10:56 +0000

Tragedy For Borno IDPs As Fire Guts 200 Houses A late morning fire, Monday, February 6, razed down about 200 houses at the unofficial section of the Muna Internally Displaced Persons’ camp on the outskirts of the Maiduguri metropolis, Borno State. Eyewitnesses, who could not ascertain the cause of the fire, said it flared […]

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Trader Lynched For Abducting Child From IDP Camp

Kazeem Tunde — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 19:19:53 +0000

Trader Lynched For Abducting Child From IDP Camp A man caught abducting a three-year-old boy from the Internally Displaced Persons camp in Gwada, in the Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, has been beaten to death by youths in the community. Confirming the incident, the Chairman of Shiroro LGA, Mallam Suleiman Chukuba, said that […]

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Nearly 5,000 People Displaced By Nigeria’s Communal Violence Arrive In Benin

Kazeem Tunde — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 19:37:14 +0000

Nearly 5,000 People Displaced By Nigeria’s Communal Violence Arrive In Benin Nearly 5,000 people, displaced by Nigeria’s communal violence, have arrived at Beninese villages in Pobè, a border commune located about 100 km from Cotonou, PANA learned on Saturday from sources close to the authorities of the commune. They said 4,477 people made up of […]

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Nigeria Returns 3,000 Displaced After Jihadist Violence

Kazeem Tunde — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 13:25:48 +0000

Nigeria Returns 3,000 Displaced After Jihadist Violence By AFP Some 3,000 people began returning to their homes and deserted farms in the northeast Nigerian state of Borno on Monday, six years after fleeing jihadist violence and despite a weekend massacre that underscored the security risks they still face. And adding to their troubles, officials there […]

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Police Arrest Borno COVID-19 Patient Who Sneaked Into IDP Camp

Kazeem Tunde — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:13:16 +0000

Police Arrest Borno COVID-19 Patient Who Sneaked Into IDP Camp The Borno State government has arrested a COVID-19 patient, after sneaking into Bakassi Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Maiduguri. According to the state’s COVID-19 response team, led by the deputy governor, Umar Kadafur, the fleeing patient led the burial of an index case […]

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