Funke Adeuyi, the State Comptroller of the NIS, gave the figure on Thursday in Calabar while addressing newsmen on the successes recorded by the Command in 2017 in the state.
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According to a report by the British Broadcasting Corporation on Monday, their remains have since been recovered from the warship, Cantabria
The UNHCR said that two women entered the camp in Kabelawa, around 50km north of the border with Nigeria, and joined a group of young people before detonating suicide belts just before midnight on Wednesday.
The UNHCR issued a similar warning in May when about 12,000 refugees returned to the border town of Banki in Borno State
The International Organisation for Migration in Libya said seven people were rescued off the north-western city of Zawiya, and one of them said 113 others were missing
Power said: “What you all have done is really a model for how universities in not only Nigeria but all around the world can wade into some of the most complex and seemingly intractable challenges facing their communities.”
Four civilians were killed in the remote north of Cameroon in a cross-border attack by Boko Haram militants, according to state radio.
Dikongue-Atangana told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that an intelligence assessment carried out in May had blamed their displacement on the recent crises in the North East
The UNHCR, in its reports made available at the UN Headquarters in New York on Friday, reported that several people had been killed, their villages bombed and at least two villages burned to the ground
“Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are the main places of origin of these migrants and asylum-seekers, particularly Somalia and Eritrea
UNHCR’s annual Global Trends report covers displacement that occurred during 2012 based on data from governments, NGO partners, and UNHCR itself. The report shows that as of the end of 2012, more than 45.2 million people were in situations of displacement compared to 42.5 million at the end of 2011. This includes 15.4 million refugees, 937,000 asylum seekers and 28.8 million people forced to flee within the borders of their own countries
He said, “Crossings of Nigerians into Cameroon began a week ago, with people telling us they had fled a confrontation between the Nigerian Army and Boko Haram insurgents some 10 kilometers from border
In a statement issued in Geneva on Wednesday, the Agency also urged governments of the neigbouring countries to throw their borders open so as to accommodate fleeing refugees and those who may want to seek asylum