With about one million people displaced from their homes, Nigeria harbors the third highest number ofInternally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the world, behind Syria and Iraq.
The chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Chidi Odinkalu revealed this.
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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.
The IDMC report stated that as at the end of 2014, 38 million people around the world had been forced to flee their homes by armed conflicts and generalised violence, and were living in displacement within the borders of their own country while 11 million people were newly displaced during the year, the equivalent of 30,000 fleeing each day.