•Tijani Aliyu Ahmed and Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu The Nigerian Army has expressed readiness to assist agencies to address the challenges of refugees, migrants and internally displaced persons in the country. The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, gave the assurance yesterday when he received the Federal Commissi...
•Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) A high-level United Nations delegation will visit Nigeria from October 20 to 22 to assess and showcase the country’s ongoing efforts to address the needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs). The delegation will be led by Ms Ugochi Daniels, Deputy Director General of the International Organisation for Mig...
•Protesting Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Over 3,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Yelewata community in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State today staged a peaceful protest in Makurdi over alleged food shortages at their temporary shelter. The displaced persons, who are currently taking refuge at the Makurdi Internationa...
•Bandits Bandits have killed two farmers in a fresh attack on the Umogidi community in the Entekpa Council ward of Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State. Two other community members were injured and another was abducted by the bandits in the renewed attack, said to be aimed at displacing the people from their ancestral […]
•Boko Haram insurgents The United Nations (UN) yesterday strongly condemned the abduction of internally displaced persons (IDPs), many of them women, boys and girls, in Borno State. The insurgents struck three Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Ngala tow, the headquarters of Gamboru Ngala Local Government Area at the border of Camero...

