That Nigeria is facing its worst security crisis in decades is no longer in question. What is often not examined or talked about is the human cost of Nigeria’s slow descent into doom.

According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, 55,000 people were displaced between December 2018 and February 2019, over 30,000 of whom arrived in Borno’s capital Maiduguri. Maiduguri already hosts more than one million internally displaced persons (IDP) in 14 camps and host communities. Because the existing camps cannot cope with the sudden influx, the authorities are in the process of opening a new IDP camp.



Nearly 22,000 Nigerians have been reported as missing to the ICRC during a decade of conflict in northeast Nigeria, the highest number of missing persons registered with the ICRC in any country.



What is more damning in this development is that nearly 60 per cent were minors at the time they went missing, meaning thousands of parents don’t know where their children are and if they are alive or dead.

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