Over 3,000 Nigerian refugees return from Cameroon

Over 3,000 Nigerian refugees from Cameroon on Friday returned to the country, the National Emergency Management Agency said.

A statement by the agency’s information officer in the North-East, AbdulKadir Ibrahim, said 3,000 refugees were still at the border undergoing registration formalities before relocation to Mubi for onward transportation to Borno State.

He said the refugees were displaced by insurgency and were putting up in Cameroon.

Ibrahim said the NEMA Director-General, Alhaji Sani Sidi, accompanied by the Borno State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Zannah Mustapha, were in Mubi to receive the refugees.

He also said the refugees were currently camped at the border of Nigeria with Cameroon, noting that 2,000 internally displaced persons were earlier transported to safer locations in Mubi while 600 of them had been transported to Borno State earlier in the week.