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Edo IDP Centre Overwhelmed as Displaced Families Fleeing Katsina Attacks Beg for Shelter — "We Have No Space, No Resources," Coordinator Cries Out
The Home of the Needy IDP camp in Ovia North-East has become a last resort for families fleeing terrorism in northern Nigeria.
A humanitarian crisis is quietly brewing in Ovia North‑East Local Government Area, where the Home of the Needy internally displaced persons camp has become an unwilling magnet for some of Nigeria's most desperate families. Founded years ago to shelter victims of violence from Borno, Plateau and Kebbi, the camp is now being flooded with pleas from families fleeing fresh terrorist attacks in Katsina — and its founder says there is simply no room left.
Pastor Solomon Folorunsho, who runs the centre, spoke with the exhaustion of a man who has spent years saying yes and has finally run out of yes to give. "People from Katsina are calling us every day asking to come to our centre, but where are we going to keep them?" he said on Sunday. "We have no space. We have no resources. We are stretched beyond anything we have ever faced." The camp, which has relied largely on donations and personal sacrifice, now finds itself at the sharp end of a conflict that has spread far beyond its original epicentre. Folorunsho warned that the insurgency has crept into Kwara, Kogi, Ondo, Oyo and Ekiti states, with killings that go unreported and victims who never make the news.
In the face of this overwhelming demand, the centre has begun a quiet pivot towards a longer‑term solution. It has secured farmland in the Federal Capital Territory and is working to resettle displaced families into agricultural communities where they can feed themselves rather than depend on aid. It is an ambitious plan for a small organisation running on faith and fumes, but Folorunsho believes it is the only sustainable path forward. "We cannot keep people in camps forever," he said. "They need dignity. They need land. They need a future." For now, however, the phones keep ringing with voices from Katsina, and the camp's gates — already full — cannot open wide enough.
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