The two communities were destroyed by Boko Haram in 2014.
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has donated food items worth N50 million to 500 women at selected Internally Displaced (IDP) Camps in Kaduna State.
He had to appoint a leader among the men, whom he tutored on the need to ensure that the surroundings are kept clean while open and indiscriminate defecation was checkmated. Due to the harsh economic condition in the country, he has not been able to raise enough funds to continue the project and ejecting his ‘uninvited tenants’ has become a herculean task.
This is as the wife of the Speaker, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, Salamatu, led scores of members of the 9th House of Representatives Members’ Spouses Association (9th HORMSA) to the Kuchingoro IDPs camp for the maiden edition of Project Uplift where a health and wellness talk by officials of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency took place and a mobile clinic health check where blood and other tests were carried out on the IDPs and members of the Kuchingoro community.
In a statement read at a press briefing in Maiduguri on Saturday, the Secretary-General of Northern Borno Youths Frontier, Musa Alhaji-Saleh, said the development was a major step that would facilitate the return of normalcy to recovered areas.
The chairperson of the committee, Khadija Bukar-Abba, made the pledge in Maiduguri during a two-day oversight tour of the NEDC’s activities.
Also at the meeting were Hajia Sadiya Umar-Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development; National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno; and Comptroller General, Nigeria Customs Service, Colonel Hameed Ali (retd), among others.
While the relief materials comprising of 10,000 pieces of sleeping mats, 10,000 cardigans and sweaters, as well as 10,000 assorted blankets were donated to the Katsina State Government, the cash sum was donated to the Federation of Muslim Women Associations in Nigeria to provide special support to women and children in the Internally Displaced Camps in the State.
The Borno State Government has banned visitors from entering all Internally Displaced Persons camps for four weeks.
Intense hunger as a result of inadequacy of food items in an Internally Displaced Persons camp in the outskirts of Bauchi has forced adolescent children to feed on onion leaves for survival.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Salisu, who hailed from Gidan Dan-Guntu village in Maradun District gave birth on Sunday, without complications.
Audu made the appeal at the Internally Displaced Persons camp in Keana Local Government Area on Wednesday to donate relief materials to victims of communal fights.
The camp was constructed by the Presidential Committee on Flood, Relief and Rehabilitation, which came into being after the 2012 flood disaster that ravaged 24 states in the country.
Chief Dan Orbih, the state Chairman of the party, made the allegation while receiving about 400 members of the All Progressive Grand Alliance in the state who defected to PDP.
The directive followed report that hundreds of IDPs apprehended some officials of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday morning for alleged theft of food meant for their upkeep
“And from what we have seen here, all aspects of life need improvement, the feeding, water supply, schools and hospital require more support
Ben Onwudinjo, the Proprietor and Chief Executive of the school, made this known in statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Wednesday
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the gesture was part of the community’s humanitarian week tagged: “MMM cares,” to mark its one year anniversary
Abbator said: “Fifty five doctors, midwives and nurses were trained non-active Reversible Contraceptive Management, 174 health workers and programme managers have been trained on minimal humanitarian health and reproductive health in humanitarian settings
According to him, officials of the commission will consult with state governors and community leaders in the North East to identify critical areas of intervention and partnership