500,000 families displaced by Boko Haram to receive N17,000 each...

At least 500,000 households displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency will benefit N17,000 each from the World Food Programme in 2016, an official has said.

The World Food Programme is a project of the United Nations that addresses hunger and promotes food security.
The Chairman of Borno State Emergency Agency, Ahmed Satomi, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Maiduguri, said 35,000 households had so far benefited.
He said that the agency planned to reach out to 1.4 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) taking refuge in other communities.
Mr. Satomi also spoke of the procedure for giving out the money.

“We will go to each and every of these households to obtain their bio-metric data and head count.

“We will also try to see how we can empower them on basic skills acquisition as well as entrepreneurship which will go a long way in assisting the beneficiaries.

“So far, we have started with Gwange one, two and three, Meri and Shettimari areas in the state capital,” he said.

He said that the state government would soon start distributing food items to the IDPs in their host communities.