United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) under its Rapid Response Mechanism in collaboration with UN Central Emergency Response Fund and European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) have embarked on the treatment of 14,000 malnourished children in Government Girls Arabic Secondary School (GGASS) in Mafa local government area of Borno State. The GGASS has a unique population of people …

The estimated number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Benue, Niger and Plateau States in 2023 alone has risen to about 548,751, figures collated on Sunday from various local and international organisations showed. It was also gathered, on Sunday, that the Federal Government, through its National Emergency Management Agency, has commenced the distribution of relief items under the Special National …

The Anambra State House of Assembly, on Tuesday, passed a resolution asking Governor Chukwuma Soludo to build more Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camps to enable flood victims in the riverine areas to be evacuated during flood. The Assembly added that the governor should urgently direct the state Ministry of Works to carry out palliative measures at the dilapidated portions of …

The Director General of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Hajiya Yabawa Kolo has said that the agency under her leadership was able to repatriate 3,500 displaced persons taking refuge in Niger, Cameroun and Chad Republics, even as close to 1 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) were resettled back to their liberated communities in the last five and half …

The Federal Government on Sunday took the campaign against open defecation and personal hygiene to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Edo State run by the Home for the Needy Foundation where it expressed fears of Nigeria not meeting the 2025 target to end open defecation if there is no attitudinal change by Nigerians. Addressing over 3000 dwellers in …