•Refugees The Federal Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), Aliyu Tijani Ahmed, has disclosed that an estimated 145,000 Nigerians are currently refugees worldwide. He disclosed this today while addressing a press conference ahead of the 2026 World ...
The United Kingdom’s Home Office has announced plans to phase out government-funded asylum hotels as part of broader immigration reforms aimed at reducing the number of refugees entering the country. In a statement posted on its official X account today, the Home Office claimed that some asylum seekers were deliberately travelling through safe...
•Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State The federal government and the Borno State government have completed the repatriation of the fourth and final batch of Nigerian refugees from Cameroon with the arrival of 680 refugees, comprising 162 households, from the Minawao refugee camp in Cameroon to Banki in Bama Local Council of the state. The [&...
•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...
•World Refugee Day road walk in Abuja Nigeria has over 250,000 refugees in Libya, South Sudan, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and other parts of the world. Conversely, at least 135,000 refugees live in Nigeria, reports The Nation. Out of the 250,000 Nigerian refugees, 125,000 are resident in Cameroon. The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and...
•Peter Obi The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has lamented that Nigerians have been turned into refugees in their own country even when it is not at war. He also called on members of the Obidient Movement to keep faith and hope alive despite the outcome of […]
•US President Donald Trump President Donald Trump yesterday defended the decision to resettle a group of white Afrikaners in the United States as refugees, saying they were fleeing a “terrible situation” in South Africa. Trump’s remarks to reporters at the White House came just hours before an initial group of around 50 Afrikaners was set [&he...
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State has led a delegation of Nigerian government officials to commence the repatriation of refugees who fled the Boko Haram crisis to Baga Sola in Chad Republic. About 1,768 families comprising 7,790 people are set to be repatriated in the first batch of the exercise, reports Daily Trust. Governor [&hell...
•Nigerian refugees seek shelter in Chad The federal government today said it would repatriate no fewer than 6000 Nigerian refugees from Chad and Cameroon. The Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugee, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), Tijani Ahmed, disclosed this in Abuja at the end of a Technical Working G...
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