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A Borno State High Court, sitting in Maiduguri, on Thursday sentenced two men to two years in prison for stealing rice donated by foreign donors to internally displaced persons. The two convicts are Umar Ibrahim, a supervisory councilor in Mafa local government area, and Ali Zangebe, a local politician from …

A total of 1,934,765 displaced persons are currently living in formal camps, host communities and satellite camps in liberated communities as a result of the insurgency in Nigeria’s North Eastern states of Borno, Yobe, Taraba, Gombe, Bauchi and Adamawa. The National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA), Yola Camp Coordinator, Saad Bello, …