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A starving New Year for stranded IDPs who are desperate for government payout
No food, no water and no money – the New Year does not look good for those stranded in internally displaced persons’ camps of Maiduguri, who are still waiting for […]
Thousands of IDPs get reprieve as government payout agreement is delayed
The festive season and the arrival of President Muhammadu Buhari to commission projects in Maiduguri on Wednesday, December 23, has given thousands of internally displaced persons some reprieve. They were […]
Brief: Soldiers quash yet another attack on village in Askira-Uba region
The Nigerian army in Mussa in the Askira-Uba Local Government Area of Borno State swiftly repelled insurgents attempting to attack the military base on the outskirts of the village on […]
Maiduguri explosions: I went to the hospital to see my injured wife and daughter – I saw a child die
“I had left for work in the morning when I received a call that a rocket hit my house and that my wife and daughter were injured and had been […]
Blood was flowing from my body and I thought I was dying, says survivor of Kilangar attack
“God helped me. When the fighters caught us, they lined us up on the ground. I put my head on my hands. The bullet hit me in my back and […]
Fear as letter from insurgents threatens attack on mainly Christian communities on Christmas Day
Christmas could be a gory day for residents in Michika and Bazza towns, as well as other communities in Adamawa State, if a letter from insurgents threatening a major attack […]
Teenager dreads evacuation from Teachers Camp in Maiduguri
Many men have tried to have sex with her, her brother was hit by a car while begging and now 17-year-old Adama Muhammad, who looks after her five siblings and […]
Kilangar attack: Bullets were flying, many were killed and even more wounded
“Bullets were flying everywhere. We were fleeing for our lives. Some of the insurgents on motorbikes followed us, still shooting, as we ran into the bush and into farms to […]
Government lied to us about food assistance, claim IDPs
In Brief – The government has not kept its promise to provide healthy and essential food and, when it did help feed internally displaced persons in Maiduguri’s Teachers Village Camp, […]
Lack of power supply, insecurity and the handling of repentant insurgents, main issues tackled by governors’ forum
Power supply, or rather the lack of it, insecurity and the handling of repentant insurgents were three of the main issues tackled at the sixth meeting of the Northeastern Governors’ […]
