The American University of Nigeria (AUN) in collaboration with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has trained 1,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), especially women, in different skills.

The women were trained in groundnut oil and cake production, popcorn production, poultry farming, fashion designing, as well as buying and selling of agricultural produce.

The training aimed at empowering IDPs that have returned home and those still staying in camps to become self-dependent.The Project Co-ordinator, Malam Ahmed Mohammed, said the project was designed to disengage IDP returnees and those still in camps from depending on government and organisations for their survival. He said their businesses would take away their minds from the trauma of the Boko Haram attacks and also restore their hopes of achieving their goals in life.