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A new report by the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees (UNHCR), has revealed that the number of people transferred internally (IDP) in Nigeria has increased to 8.18 million, making the country the highest in West Africa.
In the June 2025 situation report released on Sunday, UNHCR stated that the Nigerian IDP calculation alone had exceeded that Burkina Faso which had 3.58 million, Niger with 2.06 million, Mali in 931,000 and Cameroon who contributed 1.42 million refugees, with around 44 percent of all person people who were fired in their own bororders.
UNHCR who collects monthly returns from the National Emergency Institution said that the June index includes an international organization for the Migration and NGO Mitra Moving Tracking Matrix which operates in 14 States of West Africa.
“Eight million Nigerian refugees excluded wandering in transit and migrants of city that are not registered, both are considered large shadows but unlucky in the country’s humanitarian profile,” the report said.
Continue, he said:
“The Nigerian refugee population has been bulging since 2014, when Boko Haram attacked the villages that were first remote in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe stated.
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“More than a decade later, the same rebellion, now split into rival factions, collided with bandits in Zamfara and Katsina, clashes of farmers in Benue and highlands, and bunkering oil violence in several parts of the delta.
“This overlapping crisis has pushed the new wave of the family to the informal host community rather than a special built camp, making it difficult to send assistance and leave many formal statistics outside.
“On the other side of the broader Sahel, the driver of a similar transfer; jihadist attacks in the northern province of Burkina Faso, the expansion of the Islamic state along the Tillabéri Niger corridor, and livestock conflicts in the Mopti Mali region.
“However, the number of Nigerian IDPs has increased faster than its neighbors. This is associated with the density of the country’s population and the relative abundance of road networks that allow households to be moved to continue to seek safety.
“Nigeria also acted as a heaven and exporter of refugees. This accommodated around 223,000 refugees, most of the Cameroon residents fled from the Anglophone separatist war, but around 2.76 million Nigerians lived as refugees or asylum seekers abroad.
“The Nigerian National Commission for refugees, migrants and internal refugees is the main agent who manages the request of asylum with the supervision of the Nigerian immigration service, guided by the UnhCR global framework,” the report added.
