FILE PHOTO: NEMA official addressing Internally Displaced Persons
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Niger state on Thursday said it had received no fewer than 300 Internally Displaced Persons (IDP’s) in the state.
The agency said that the IDPs comprised men, women, children and the aged, who were victims of the Boko Haram insurgency were recently evacuated from Niger Republic.
NEMA Coordinator in the state, Mr Slaku Lugard, disclosed this at a news briefing in Minna, and said that the IDPs were received in three batches on Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday.
“We received letter from NEMA Zonal Coordinator in Maiduguri informing us that …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
