Alarming! Nigeria Emerges Third Among Nations With Highest Internally Displaced Persons

Nigeria has the third highest number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the world, behind  Syria and Iraq.

 

The country currently has about one million people displaced from their homes.

 

The chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Chidi Odinkalu revealed this on Monday, July 6, at a national conference organised by the United Nations Millennium Campaign (UNMC), the MDGs Office and the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) with the theme, ‘Good Governance Beyond 2015: Setting Agenda for Inclusive and Sustainable Development in an Era of Change.’

 

Odinkalu quoted the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) Global Overview of 2014 which said that “Boko Haram’s ruthless campaign to establish an independent Islamic state in North-eastern Nigeria also drove new significant displacements."