No fewer than 14 persons were burnt to death with 1,250 shelters destroyed in a fire outbreak in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Ngala Local Government Area of Borno State. Rep. Zainab Gimba, representing Bama/Ngala/Kalabalge constituency in Borno, made this disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri on ...

The United Nations and the European Union have raised serious concerns about the humanitarian situation in the North East. According to both international bodies, the situation is not improving at all as thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), who have earlier returned to their ancestral homes, are going back to the camps over fears of ...

  The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), has established a cottage shoe and an ICT center to fast track livelihood support for displaced persons in Borno. Mr Alkasim Abdulkadir, the Commission’s Head of Media and Communication Strategy disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Maiduguri. Abdulkadir said that the ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led opposition in the House of Representatives at the weekend, picked  holes in the N10.33 trillion 2020 budget, insisting that the annual estimate will be subjected to thorough legislative scrutiny to ensure that it reflects the general aspiration of over 200 million Nigerians. Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has accused  international organisations of ripping off Nigeria in the guise of donations to IDPs in the North East. He said the amount quoted to have been spent by these foreign organisations do not reflect the situation on ground, the President told members of the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) as he inaugurated ...