Eighteen Internally Displaced Children drawn from IDP camps in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states have emerged winners of an Essay Writing Competition which is part of a federal government’s de-radicalization programme for children and young people in the insurgency-ravaged states.
The National Emergency Management Agency has said that the number of Internally Displaced Persons in Yola, Adamawa State, has dropped from 60,000 to 18,958.
The Nigerian government is not doing enough to protect displaced women and girls from sexual abuse and exploitation from officials in charge of Internally Displaced Persons camps across the Northeast region of the country.
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has urged humanitarian agencies working in the North east, to focus more attention on the communities that have been liberated from Boko Haram Insurgents in order to provide succor for the people returning to their homes.
