HUSSAINI JIBRIN, PhD
Department of History and War Studies,
Nigeria Defence Academy, Kaduna
and
BARAU FATIMA AHMED
Department of History and War Studies,
Nigeria Defence Academy, Kaduna
Abstract Internally displaced persons (IDPs) have increased across Nigeria as a result of multiple security challenges ranging from Boko Haram insurgency, farmer-herder’s conflict to ethno-religious conflicts among others. As a result of these, IDP camps emerged to house large number of people who became victims of the menace. One of these set up by the Nigerian government the Lugbe IDP camp in Abuja. The dearth of literature on the activities of UNHCR in Lugbe area prompted the carrying out of this research. This study is an examination of the impact of the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR) and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), with a particular reference to the Lugbe area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, from the period 2014 to 2022. The majority of research to date has investigated IDPs in the Northeast, giving little or no attention has been given to the IDP camp in Lugbe. The research employs a historical methodology which implies the use of both primary and secondary data. The primary data includes Oral interviews, as well as testimonies from IDPs and UNHCR officials in Lugbe. Secondary data was sourced from libraries, which includes; published books, journals, articles and online resources. This work argues that the UNHCR has played an important role in aiding the Nigerian government’s effort to safeguard the displaced persons in Lugbe, especially when it