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  • 55 parents pick 142 kids from Edo IDPs’ camp

    55 parents pick 142 kids from Edo IDPs’ camp

    Fifty-five parents yesterday identified and picked their 142 children from the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp at Uhogua, Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State.

    The camp is being run by the International Christian Mission under Pastor Solomon Folorunsho.

    Six of the parents only came to see their children and were not going back with them.

    Governor Adams Oshiomhole, who hosted the families and their children to a dinner at the Edo Government House, said the Red Cross reunited the children with their parents.

    Oshiomhole said the state was not rejecting them, adding that the children were happy to return to their families.

    The governor assured that President Muhammadu Buhari would flush out Boko Haram in the Northeast.

    He said noting could be compared to the warmth of living with one’s family.

    Oshiomhole advised then IDPs to be free to live in any part of the country as a Nigerian and that the state government was prepared to make their stay comfortable.

    Oshiomhole said the other 800 IDPs at the camp would be given necessary education and facilities.

    Nahata Ayuba, who was at the camp for his four children, said he lives in Nasarawa State with his wife.

    The elated father said he was farming in his new location in Nasarawa State.

    He promised to return his children to the camp so that they could continue their education.

    Amos Azawarha, 50, a farmer in Abuja, said he wanted his family to be together.

    A woman, who identified herself aimply as Mrs. Daniel, said her husband was killed by Boko Haram insurgents.

    The woman said she lived in Abuja with her brother, adding that she would leave with two of her children while three others would remain at the camp.

    Pastor Folorunsho said he was happy that the state government reunited some of the affected families.

  • Badeh: I’m an IDP too

    The Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex S. Badeh, said yesterday that he is also a victim of the insurgency and an Internally-Displaced Person (IDP), following attacks by the Boko Haram.

    Speaking in Kaduna at a church service and inauguration of the Nigerian Air Force Protestant Church, Kaduna, the defence chief said he was not spared in the attacks by the sect, as his house was torched in Adamawa.

    He said enough was enough for the group and that the Boko Haram insurgency must end.

    Badeh urged Nigerians to pray for their success in the fight against the militia.

    The Chaplain, Rev. (Wing Commander) Yunana G. Gada, assured that the church would support the military in prayers.

  • Borno govt to NEMA: Take over IDPs’ feeding

    Borno govt to NEMA: Take over IDPs’ feeding

    The Borno government on Tuesday appealed to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to take over the daily feeding of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the state.

    Alhaji Mustapha Zanna, the Deputy Governor of the state, made the appeal while receiving a donation of relief materials worth about N7 million for the IDPs by the Nigeria Flour Mills in Maiduguri.

    He said that the takeover would enable the state government to focus on other development areas in the state.

    Zanna said the burden of feeding over 500,000 IDPs by the government was getting unbearable.

    “Presently, all the residents of the 22 out of the 27 local government areas of the state are living in Maiduguri as refugees.

    “Some of them are staying in about 21 IDPs camps, while the rest are squatting with relatives in town,” he said.

    Zanna said both the IDPs staying at the camps and those living with relatives relied on government feeding to survive.

    “Government provides three square meals to the IDPs at the camps.

    “The current hardship in the country has also forced those residing outside into feeding at the camps,” he said.

    Zanna said that the exercise was eating deep into government purse, especially with the dwindling resources.

    He said taking over the feeding by NEMA would enable the government concentrate on other areas such as provision of welfare, medical care and other essential services to the people.

    Earlier, Alhaji Ma’aji Shettima, the General Manager of the Maiduguri Flour Mill, said that the gesture was aimed at ameliorating the sufferings of the victims of insurgency in the state.

  • I-G orders tight security around INEC facilities, IDP camps

    I-G orders tight security around INEC facilities, IDP camps

    The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Suleiman Abba, on Thursday ordered tight security around the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) headquarters and centres around the country ahead of the general elections.

    This is contained in a statement signed by the force spokesman, Mr. Emmanuel Ojukwu, an Acting Commissioner of Police.

    Abba also ordered tight security around all key and vulnerable points across the country, including “Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps, Media Houses and Service Providers Installations.’’

    The others are Banks, Hospitals, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) lodges, Hotels and Government offices, among others.

    The I-G said the measure became imperative to ward off any attempt by hoodlums to attack the facilities.

    He solicited cooperation from the public in the bid to stamp out crimes in the country, and assured that the police had perfected strategies to guarantee hitch-free elections on March 28 and April 11.

  • Cleric distributes relief materials to IDPs

    Cleric distributes relief materials to IDPs

    SOME INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS DURING THE DISTRIBUTION OF RELIEF MATERIALS BY ARCHBISHOP OF CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF JOS, REV. IGNATIUS KAIGAMA, IN JOS ON TUESDAY.
    SOME INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS DURING THE DISTRIBUTION OF RELIEF MATERIALS BY ARCHBISHOP OF CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF JOS, REV. IGNATIUS
    KAIGAMA, IN JOS ON TUESDAY.

  • IDPs: Ngilari seeks help

    The Adamawa State government has called on the Federal Government, the United Nations (UN), donor organisations, corporate bodies and individuals to assist Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).

    Governor Bala Ngilari said the government alone could not continue to shoulder their responsibility due to its lean resources.

    The Director of Press and Public Affairs to the Governor, Mr. PP Elisha, in a statement, thanked the Federal Government for providing relief materials for the IDPs but said more still needs to be done.

    He said the state needs help to continue to provide three square meals daily, constant water supply, free primary health care services, make-shift classrooms for primary and secondary schools, sporting facilities and skill acquisition programmes for the IDPs.

    Madagali Local Government Chairman James Abawa and his Michika counterpart, Mr. Teri Favanza, said over one million people from their councils were displaced.

    Favanza said thousands of IDPs were hiding in the mountains, faced with hunger, and exposed to snakes and wild animals.

  • More aids for displaced Chibok residents

    The Federal Government yesterday gave more relief items to Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in Chibok, Borno State.

    The Northeast Zonal Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Muhammed Kanar, said the items were given in compliance with a directive from the presidency.

    Speaking in Yola, Adamawa State, Kanar said the agency was taking care of 10,376 registered IDPs in Chibok and its environs.

    He said experts from the Safe School Initiative (SSI) accompanied a NEMA team to assess schools destroyed by the Boko Haram insurgents.

    The coordinator said the agency would provide boreholes in the affected communities to ease water shortage, adding: “President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the agency to supply additional intervention items to Chibok. They include 1,200 bags of 10kg rice, 1,000 blankets, 500 mosquito nets and 500 mats, cooking oil and 500 bags of maize.”

    Receiving the items on behalf of the community, the District Head of Chibok, Mr Modu Zanna, who was represented by Alhaji Lawan Yerima-Amdan, thanked the president, urging him to expedite the release of their abducted girls.

    “We thank President Goodluck Jonathan for identifying with us; we hope he will intervene on the issue of our girls,” Zanna said.

  • More aid for displaced Chibok residents

    The Federal Government yesterday gave more relief items to Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in Chibok, Borno State.

    The Northeast Zonal Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Muhammed Kanar, said the items were given in compliance with a directive from the Presidency.

    Speaking in Yola, Adamawa State, Kanar said the agency was taking care of 10,376 registered IDPs in Chibok and its environs.

    He said experts from the Safe School Initiative (SSI) accompanied a NEMA team to assess schools destroyed by the Boko Haram insurgents.

    The coordinator said the agency would provide boreholes in the affected communities to ease water shortage, adding: “President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the agency to supply additional intervention items to Chibok. They include 1,200 bags of 10kg rice, 1,000 blankets, 500 mosquito nets and 500 mats, cooking oil and 500 bags of maize.”

    Receiving the items on behalf of the community, the District Head of Chibok, Mr Modu Zanna, who was represented by Alhaji Lawan Yerima-Amdan, thanked the president, urging him to expedite the release of their abducted girls.

    “We thank President Goodluck Jonathan for identifying with us; we hope he will intervene on the issue of our girls,” Zanna said.