Internally Displaced Persons

As First Lady, I Will Be Voice Of The Voiceless – Remi Tinubu

September 11, 2022 4:34 am

The Wife of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Sen Oluremi Tinubu, has declared that she would be the voice of the voiceless while providing support for the less privileged and vulnerable Nigerians if she becomes the country’s first lady post-2023.

Mrs Tinubu made this vow when she met with Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) and people with special needs at Karon-Majigi Ward of Gwarimpa and Yar Goje community of Abuja Municipal Area Council in Abuja.

She was accompanied to the IDP camps by Hajiya Nana Shettima, wife of APC vice presidential candidate, Sen. Kashim Shettima, and the party’s national …

Nigerian Army Sends Message To Gov Zulum

September 29, 2020 3:44 am

The Nigerian Army says it is fully in support of the ongoing efforts of the Borno State government to relocate and resettle the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the state back to their ancestral homes.

The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.

Musa described the effort of Gov. Babagana Zulum aimed at resettling the IDPs as a commendable and the right step in the desired direction.

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He said that the Nigerian army being a patriotic and key agency in …

Goodluck Jonathan Foundation Makes Donations To IDP Camps

April 2, 2020 1:34 pm

The Goodluck Jonathan Foundation has distributed food and WASH (Water, Hygiene and Sanitation) materials worth millions of naira to different internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Abuja to help them cope with the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Executive Director of the Foundation, Mrs Ann Iyonu who distributed the materials round various IDP camps in the FCT on Wednesday, said as an organisation with a vision of promoting inclusive government in Africa, it became necessary for them to assist vulnerable groups in the FCT to help them cope with challenges of coronavirus.

According to her: “the consequences of coronavirus …

COVID-19: Borno Shuts IDPs Against Visitors

March 25, 2020 12:09 pm

The Borno State Government has banned visitors to all Internally Displaced Persons’ camps across the state in order to properly curtail the spread of the dreaded Covid-19.

Governor Babagana Umara Zulum who gave the directive to shut all IDP camps from visitors said the strategy will contain the spread of the virus if there is no contact with visitors coming.

The governor said, with about two million Internally Displaced Persons in camps in the state, government was not going to play around with the lives of these vulnerable people who by their conditions are living in a high risk situation

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