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Flood Has Displaced 5,021 Persons In Benue State – Boniface Ortese

David Folami — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 10:18:21 +0000

The Benue State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) said over 110,000 people in 24 communities including Makurdi were chased out of their homes by flood. Mr Boniface Ortese, said in Makurdi on Wednesday that over 2, 769 households were also affected. Reports have it that places affected included Achusa, Idye, Wurukum Market, Genabe, Industrial Layout, Demekpe, [...]

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240 Displaced Kids Die Of Malnutrition In Borno State

David Folami — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 02:33:00 +0000

A humanitarian aid group, Doctors Without Border (MSF), on Monday said a total of 240 displaced children had died of malnutrition in Borno in the last five months. The MSF’s Emergency Officer, Mr Moctar Abari, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) in Maiduguri. Abari said that the cases were recorded [...]

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Emulate Citizens Of Niger, Embark On Solidarity March For Soldiers, FG Urges Nigerians

Wale Adebayo — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 21:15:54 +0000

The Federal Government on Wednesday called on Nigerians to borrow a leaf from their Nigerien counterparts and march in solidarity for soldiers fighting insurgency in the North-Eastern part of the country. Coordinator of the National Information Centre, Mr. Mike Omeri, who made the call at a press briefing on the war against insurgency in Abuja, [...]

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Yoruba Community Donates Relief Materials To Displaced Persons In Borno

Wale Adebayo — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 00:16:11 +0000

The Yoruba community in Borno state, Tuesday, donated relief materials to people who were displaced from their communities following attacks by insurgents Boko Haram in the state. Oba of Yoruba in Borno, Alhaji Hassan Yusuf Alao led other members of the community to the NYSC orientation to present relief materials to the IDPs. Alhaji Alao, [...]

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Three Million People Displaced By Insurgency In 3 Months – NEMA

David Folami — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:36:19 +0000

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Tuesday said that three million people were displaced by insurgency in the North-East between January and March. . NEMA Director-General Mohammad Sani Sidi made this known at the 7th National Humanitarian Coordination meeting organised by NEMA for donor agencies in the country in Abuja. . Sani-Sidi said NEMA [...]

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About Three Hundred Thousand Displaced In Northeast Nigeria By Boko Haram

David Folami — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:14:23 +0000

Nearly 300,000 people, more than half of them children, have fled their homes in northeast Nigeria since May last year because of violence linked to radical Islamist group Boko Haram, the United Nations said on Thursday. . Three states in the region have been under emergency rule since last May 14, when the military launched [...]

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