Abuja—The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, said on Thursday that it had delivered 540 tonnes of relief items to Nigerian refugees taking shelter at different locations in the Diffa Region of Niger Republic.

This is contained in a statement by Mr Sani Datti, a Senior Information Officer in the agency, and made available to newsmen in Abuja.

The statement said the relief items, which included food and non-food items, were delivered to the refugees who fled the country due to the Boko Haram insurgency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.

It quoted the NEMA Director-General, Alhaji Muhammad Sani-Sidi, as saying that the provision of the relief items was in obedience to President Goodluck Jonathan’s directive to NEMA to repond to the humanitarian crisis and to assist the refugees, to provide humanitarian relief to them.

Sani-Sidi said in the statement: “President Jonathan’s government is committed to ending the plight of victims of terrorism.

“NEMA will also continue to liaise with the Government of Niger to ensure that all Nigerian refugees live in better condition.”