African states should act quickly and collectively to curb the growing threat posed by Nigeria's militant Islamists, the African Union chief has said. Cross-border raids into Cameroon showed the dangers the Boko Haram group posed, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said. Nigeria has rejected AU or UN inte...

The Nigerian military reported fresh fighting with Boko Haram insurgents on Monday, a day after the group seized an army barracks in northeastern Borno state and attacked the state capital, Maiduguri. Defense spokesman General Chris Olukolade told VOA that an "operation involving air and land ass...

New York, US - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has begun distributing food to thousands of refugees who were recently displaced by the escalating Nigeria's terror group, Boko Haram violence and urged that it required some US$11 million to continue to meet those needs. WFP spokesperson Ms. Elis...

The North-west Zonal office, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA on Thursday said it recorded a total of 44, 398 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in 2014. The agency’s Zonal Coordinator, Malam Musa Ilallah, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna that the victims were displaced ...

By Tom Garba,Yola European Commission Humanitarian Aid and civil protection, an international donor agency that has the sole mandate of reaching to those displaced and hurting especially those areas been attacked by all forms of insurgencies. The NGO has been in Nigeria since March last year with...

The National Emergency Management Agency is set to build a camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Revealing this to LEADERSHIP yesterday, the zonal coordinator of NEMA in the FCT, Ishaya Chonoko noted that the enormous challenges of recognising the re...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, January 21, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, continues to closely follow the situation in the countries affected by the activities of the Boko Haram terrorist group. She reiterate...

by JAMES ABRAHAM Over 2,000 internally displaced persons, IDPs, taking refuge in Jos, Plateau State capital, yesterday received free medical services. The free medical treatment was organised by Tina Bawa Ministries, TBM, a Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, in partnership with Stephanos Fou...

By Caleb Ayansina Abuja—The Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Muhammad Sani-Sidi has said that there were currently 981,416 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the country. “There are currently 981, 416 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the country,” h...

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has indicated that 92.4 per cent of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) live with host families while a paltry 7.6 per cent live in official IDPs’ camps, which has been a challenge to having proper accountability. It would be recalled that Nation...