A report by the United Nations Human Rights Council has shown that not less than 12,000 foreigners thronged Nigeria as refugees or asylum seekers between January...
In light of the increased insecurity in different parts of the country, a report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has shown that Nigeria...
A United Nations report on Wednesday confirmed that nearly five million Ukrainians have fled the country since the Russian invasion on February 24, making it the...
The third batch of 174 Nigerians stranded in Ukraine returned home on Friday night. The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission’s (NiDCOM), which confirmed the development on its...
The United Nations says at least one million Ukranian refugees, mostly women and children, have fled the country as the Russian invasion enters day eight. “At...
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), on Tuesday, confirmed that more than 660,000 people, mostly women and children, have so far fled Ukraine to neighbouring...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, has confirmed in a tweet on Monday that more than 500,000 refugees have now fled from...
A report by American State Department has revealed that approximately 305,000 Nigerians are refugees in several countries around the world, with over 2.1 million in Internally...
Eight people have been declared missing after a boat carrying about 45 migrants and refugees sank off a coast in southwest Turkey on Thursday night, the...
The Qatari Ambassador to Nigeria, AbdulAziz Mubarak AlMuhannadi, Tuesday, donated the sum of $50,000 (N25 million) to the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced...
The governor of Borno state, Babagana Zulu’s has called for the return of over 200,000 refugees from his state who are in neighbouring countries to return...
Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, said on Monday at least 1,860,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and refugees who fled the state in the last five...
Security operatives in South Africa have arrested no fewer than 100 foreigners from a United Nations building in Cape Town. The arrested foreigners who are mostly...
The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons on Thursday said it was prepared to receive 4,000 Nigerian refugees from the Cameroon Republic. The...
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has confirmed that some Nigerians were among the 40 people killed in Tuesday night’s attack on the Tajoura Detention Centre...
Amid violent clashes and a deteriorating security situation in Tripoli, the UN has called for the evacuation of vulnerable refugees and asylum-seekers from the detention centres....
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has said that over 15,000 Nigerians, from Sokoto and are Zamfara are currently in Niger Republic as refugees. According to...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has condemned the August 31 attack by Boko Haram insurgents at the Banki camp for displaced persons in...
Spanish coastguards say no less than 49 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to seek greener pastures in Europe drowned after their rubber boat sank in...
The executive order signed by newly sworn-in American President Donald Trump closing US borders to Muslim refugees while also suspending the US Refugee Admissions Program for...
Senate President, Bukola Saraki has lamented the increasing cases of social injustices like rape, diversion of food items and other corruption related cases within the Internally...
Hungarian camerawoman Petra Laszlo who was filmed kicking and tripping refugees fleeing police during the heat of migrant crisis in Europe has been charged with disorderly...
The bodies of at least 34 refugees abandoned by people smugglers and left to die of thirst have been found in the Niger desert. According to...
Over 80,000 Nigerian refugees in Cameroun are expected back into the country. The Federal Government has signed a tripartite agreement with the UN High Commission for...
The United Nations refugee agency has informed that over 700 refugees have been feared drowned in three separate shipwrecks in the last one week after attempts...
A group of rescued migrants who made an attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea in order to get to Europe told an Italian NGO Save the...
Greek riot police have launched a gradual effort to remove more than 8,000 people from the informal Indomeni refugee camp on the border with Macedonia. More...
The Greek government has announced that it will begin to evict thousands of stranded refugees who are in dire conditions at a make-shift camp on its...
As summer tourists begin to warm up, the Greek government has moved ten of thousands of tourist from camps in central Athens to new settlements on...
EU officials led by German chancellor Angela Merkel have given Turkey a pass mark saying the new deal with the country to stop refugees and migrants...
Desperation and disillusionment now pervades the air as refugees in fully packed camps in Greece seek ways to move further into Europe. There are also signs...
About 1,000 refugees putting up at a makeshift jungle camp in Calais, France have been given the marching orders to leave due to the fact that...
The European Union has called on Turkey to allow the entry of thousands of Syrian refugees stuck at the border of Kilis after fleeing fighting in...
The Middle-East Asian country of Jordan may have reached it tethers end due to the unending influx of refugees into the country from neighbouring war-torn Syria....
Despite protest by international human rights organisations, the Danish parliament has passed a bill considered to be detrimental to refugees. The law in-the-making is a...
Despite criticism from the United Nations, Norway has started deporting migrants and refugees across a border point in the Arctic Circle back to Russia. The route...
A journey of the unknown has left at least six Afghan kids dead including a baby after an inflatable boat carrying refugees drowned in the Aegean...
Germany has translated the first 20 articles of its constitution into Arabic and printed 10,000 copies for distribution at registration centers, a move meant to help...