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President @ProfOsinbajo is in Maiduguri today to flag off the @AsoRock Food
Distribution Programme. Presidency Nigeria
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Nigeria's Acting
President Yemi Osinbajo has gone to the north-eastern city of Maiduguri a day
after a suicide attack hit the area.
Media
sources report continues:
Acting
President Yemi Osinbajo is currently in Maiduguri, Borno state, to launch the
special intervention relief plan for internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Nearly
two million people need food aid in north-east Nigeria as a result of the Boko
Haram insurgency, which has led many people to flee their homes.
The
government hopes to distribute 30,000 tonnes of locally grown maize, sorghum
and soybeans.
On
Wednesday night, 14 civilians were killed and 24 were injured in a suicide
attack, police say. Three of the militants were also killed while one was
captured alive.
Osinbajo’s
visit is coming hours after Boko Haram members attacked some towns in
Maiduguri, the capital city, burning houses and killing residents.
On
Wednesday, security agents engaged the insurgents in a gun battle that lasted
hours. Though residents were assured of safety, many of them fled their homes.
The
acting president visited the palace of the shehu of Borno where he said that it
matter to President Muhammadu Buhari that IDPs are fed.
Under the special intervention relief plan, bags of grains will be distributed to IDPs quarterly.
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