DAILY RENDEZVOUS

Daily Rendezvous  Nyahama Japhet No fewer than 1,082 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from 182 households have benefited from 215 constructed mudbrick  houses by International Organization of Migration (IOM). Also known as Malkohi New City, the 215 housing project meant for the IDPs is sited at Malkohi layout Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State. In his speech the Country Representative of IOM Laurent De Boeck maintained that the project is the modest contribution of the IOM to support displaced and vulnerable people affected by insurgency to resume their lives and livelihood without depending on aid. He revealed that the IOM in 2021 started implementing a project known as "sustainable integration of internally displaced populations in the northeast Nigeria" using an innovative post emergency approach to humanitarian assistance. According to De Boeck, the IDPs are largely from Gwoza, Bama, Dikwa, and Monguno LGAs of Borno State who endured immense ...

Daily Rendezvous  European Union has boost World Food Programme (WFP) operations in Southwest and Northwest Cameroon donating EUR 4.2 million as intervention for about 1.1 million insecure persons. The intervention will go a long way to address emergency food needs of internally displaced persons and host communities WFP is working to provide life-saving food assistance to more than 300,000 women, men and children affected by the conflict in both regions  The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) commends European Union (EU) for a contribution of EUR 4.2 million from through the union's Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations Department (ECHO) to strengthen WFP response to the emergency food needs of 598,000 people in the northwest and southwest regions of Cameroon.  WFP is providing life-saving food assistance to more than 300,000 women, men and children affected by the conflict in both regions. The funding could not have come at a mo...

Daily Rendezvous The Kukah center has presented various startup materials and facilities to over 100 carefully selected and trained persons drawn from communities susceptible to violence and extremism in Adamawa state. The participants at the event were trained in fisheries, bakery, cosmetology, poultry, among other fields, as a means of dealing with poverty and empowering locals to build up resilience following the debilitating impact of violence and extremism on their lives and communities. This was made known by the Executive Director of the center, Fr. Attah Barkindo, at the official presentation of the startup kits in Yola, Adamawa state. Barkindo said, "The Kukah center has decided to undertake this project with the view of supporting peaceful coexistence among local communities living on the fringes in this country. "Wauro Jabbe is not the only community in Nigeria that suffers from poverty, all across the country, Nigerians are struggling with ...

News Rendezvous Nigeria's Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, the Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, said that he would continue to pray that one day Muslims would build a church for Christians. Bishop Kukah made this remarks at the commissioning of 86 housing units with a church and mosque built at the Sangere-Marghi village of Girei Local Government Area of Adamawa State. The 86 housing units was built by the Catholic Bishop of Yola diocese, Bishop Dami Mamza specifically for the Internally Displaced Persons that the church has housed since boko haram overran about seven local governments in the northern part of Adamawa state in 2014. Kukah said, "The significance of building the housing estate and the mosque should not be lost. “Nigerians should learn to practice religion of tolerance and love for their neighbour. “It is important that Christians and Muslims appreciate what the Diocese of Yola has done today." As the challenges of insecurity highten...