Nigeria, April 2 -- The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said on Thursday that 10,884 people were displaced across nine states between January and February this year.

This shows "a persistent and growing protection crisis", the Executive of the NHRC, Tony Ojukwu, said during a dashboard presentation on the protection of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at the commission's headquarters in Abuja.

Mr Ojukwu, who was represented by the Director of Legal Services of the NHRC, Rabi Anwar, lamented that the displacement was driven by insecurity across nine states monitored by the commission.

The states are Kano, Akwa Ibom, Yobe, Borno, Taraba, Katsina, Adamawa, Benue and Cross River.

Benedict Agwu, the head of monitoring and the sp...