Internally displaced people in Borno state return home
25 October 2022 |
4:57 am
Ngarannam residents were looking forward to move back in their hometown over the weekend as the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) along with the Borno State government on Saturday (October 22) officially re-opened the community which was destroyed by Boko Haram fighters in 2015.
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