In the last 10 years, an estimated six million Nigerians have fled
their homes for fear of extermination, abduction, and other forms of treatments
by the Boko Haram group in Nigeria, a recent report has revealed.
The report, titled, ‘Managing Internal Displacement
Crisis in Nigeria: Toward Global Best Practices in Guaranteeing the Rights of
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) through the Media’, was published
by Journalists for Christ with support from the World Association for Christian
Communication (WACC) and the Waldensian Church’s Otto Per Mille.
The research, which is a follow –up of an
earlier project titled, ‘Monitoring Media Reportage and Portrayal of
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs): Cases studies of Nigeria, Democratic
Republic of Congo and Kenya’, stated that in the Northeast alone, the
decade-long attacks by the group have displaced over 1.8 million people.
According to the study, the Internally
Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) estimates the total number of IDPs in the
country between January and December 2018 to be above two million with Borno
State alone accounting for 1.4 million of that figure.
