She stressed the need to properly address their needs to avoid continuous humanitarian crises and called on the Federal Government to partner stakeholders in meeting needs of women and girls in IDPs camp
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The N10 million was donated to the Internally Displaced Persons in Katsina by Alhaji Umar Tata, the All Progressives Grand Alliance governorship candidate in the state in the 2015 general election
Shettima said: “We thank God for today, because the day is significant in our efforts to return all people in liberated communities back home.
The displaced persons, uprooted by the Boko Haram, are found in refugee camps that dot the three most affected states of the North east region, and other parts of the country, including Abuja, the nation’s capital. The camps aside, there is also the issue of security for those who have returned to liberated areas of the states of Adamawa, Yobe and Borno who occasionally suffer from sporadic attacks of remnants of the Boko Haram, and Fulani herdsmen, who loot and pillage rural and isolated communities
She said the organization had been supported by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Nigeria and the Benue Government
Babagana Umara, the Commissioner for Reconstruction and Rehabilitation, stated this while meeting with Brigadier General Victor Ezugwu, the General Officer Commanding 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, in Maiduguri. Umara said the action followed the directives of Governor Kashim Shettima after the attainment of peace in the areas, which were hitherto under the control of the Boko Haram terrorists
The school comprised 6 military tents in which soldiers not on essential duty served as teachers. In addition, some of the IDPs who were teachers before the their displacement, also teach in the school
The state NSCDC Commandant, Ibrahim Abdullahi, who made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri, said the suspects were arrested in Bakassi camp
Adamu, who stated this at the 1st NOUN Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday in Abuja, said the university was working in collaboration with a local bank on the initiative
“We have already introduced household feeding system in most camps where households are given foodstuffs that will last for some time instead of centralised system.
He said: “We have shared jerseys to them; we want to see how we can engage them in some recreational activities to make them to forget what happened.
The business mogul, who recently donated N2 billion and millions of Naira worth of food items on behalf of the Dangote Foundation to the IDPs when he visited some of the camps in Maiduguri, Bornu State, urged Nigerians to have empathy for those in the camps
The UNHCR official said about 15,000 displaced persons had relocated from camps in the North East to Abuja, while some others had moved to the South West for survival
The SGF said the exercise was part of Federal Government’s effort in assisting communities of six states in the North Eastern region affected by Boko Haram attacks
The Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, Muhammad Sani-Sidi, disclosed this when an African Union Humanitarian Mission, led by Dr. Aisha Laraba Abdullahi, the Commissioner Political Affairs, visited the Headquarters of the Agency at the weekend
At the event organised by CSIS Africa Programme in Washington DC, USA, Saraki noted that gender-based violence has plagued Nigeria and there is a desperate need for the nation’s policymakers and the international community to invest in protecting the women and girls in the camps
Bello explained that the IDPs decided to return to their various towns and villages after the enormous successes recorded by the military in reclaiming and restoring peace to areas under Boko Haram insurgents
Dangote said apart from the funds and food items that will be donated by his company through the Dangote Foundation, he would explore avenues to drive investments and production in the state in order to promote entrepreneurship and create opportunities for the people to work and earn a decent living in the course of time
Presenting the trainees with working kits and certificates at a ceremony in Malkohi Camp near Yola, the Managing Director of the foundation, Betty Olutunde, said the gesture was to help in bringing succour to pregnant women in the camps
Nwankwo stated that the project, tagged: “Emergency Assistance to Internally Displaced Women/Girls and Survivors of Boko Haram Terrorism Attacks in Nigeria,” was in partnership with the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).