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Nigeria distributes relief materials to returnee IDPs

Xinhua, April 17, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Nigerian government has inaugurated the distribution of relief materials to no fewer than one million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who returned to various communities in the states of Adamawa and Taraba.

The exercise was on the platform of the Presidential Initiative for the North East, Babachir David Lawal, Secretary to the Government of the Federation said on Saturday.

He said government would reach out to all states affected by disasters, natural or man-made.

The materials were meant to assist the returnees' to re-start their lives in their respective communities and advised them to make good use of the materials.

Among items distributed were food, building materials and wrappers. Endit