20,612 foreign nationals sought asylum in Nigeria from January 2017 to December 2022, The PUNCH has learnt.
According to rights groups, over 700,000 Cameroonians have been displaced since the war broke out in September 2017.
In May 2019, the Nigeria Immigration Service produced the first set of Convention Travel Document—also called Refugee Passport—to be issued to refugees under the protection of Nigeria by the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons.
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