The United Nations World Food Programme, WFP, says it will support one million displaced persons in Nigeria’s northeast in the rebuilding process.
This is coming just as peace has returned to three most security threatened northeast states – Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states.
In a press conference in Damaturu, the capital of Yobe State, the Executive Director of the WFP, Ertharin Cousin, said beneficiaries drawn from Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States would use the support to improved agriculture and fight hunger and poverty in the region.
According to her, 350,000 people inYobeState,will benefit from the arrangement also geared towards checking poverty among the people.
She appreciated the role played by the Yobe State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA.towardsactualising the assistance for the less privileged.
Ertharin assured the people that the WFP would work hard towards returning the affected states to peace, growth and even development.
This is coming just as peace has returned to three most security threatened northeast states – Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states.
In a press conference in Damaturu, the capital of Yobe State, the Executive Director of the WFP, Ertharin Cousin, said beneficiaries drawn from Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States would use the support to improved agriculture and fight hunger and poverty in the region.
According to her, 350,000 people inYobeState,will benefit from the arrangement also geared towards checking poverty among the people.
She appreciated the role played by the Yobe State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA.towardsactualising the assistance for the less privileged.
Ertharin assured the people that the WFP would work hard towards returning the affected states to peace, growth and even development.
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