Internally Displaced Persons and the Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria.

Abstract

Nigeria’s North East region is one of the most prominent, multi- faceted and complex humanitarian crises region experiencing various levels of insecurities. Such unbridled level of security breaches continue to produce avalanche of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the days that are currently facing dire humanitarian crises which are increasingly creating obstacles for the achievement of most of the Sustainable Development
Goals, (SDGs) in the country. Of critical importance in these Sustainable Development Goals that have been seriously hampered by various conflicts and insecurities in the country are the Health related goals of 1-No Poverty, 2- Zero Hunger, 3-Good Health and Well-being, 4-Quality Education, 6-Clean Water and Sanitation and 16-Peace, Justice and Strong Institution. This paper adopts a qualitative method based on secondary data sourced from newspapers, government documents, internet resources and extant scholarly works. The study traced the making of Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria to trilogy of unresolved diverse conflicts, bandits and terror attacks in the country. The study further examined how these violent episodes have constituted obstacles to achievement of SDGs particularly as it concerns the health and welfare of the  people that have been so displaced from their places of abode in the country.