humanity in Benue State due to a combination of

natural and man-made crisis that has resulted to

death, population movement and displacement. In Tivland

for instance, the activities of herders and farmers, military

reprisals and flood disasters have since 2001 caused many

deaths and displaced millions especially of the rural

populace. The intermittent clashes between herders and

farmers in MINDA, Buruku, Tarka, Kwande and Logo; the

Jukun/ Tiv crisis at the Benue/Taraba border had

disconnected people from their ancestral land who ended

up as IDPs taking refuge in both official and unofficial

camps.

The 2001 and 2021 military interventions in Ukum

and Konshisha have also caused internal displacements

and set people on movement who took refuge at different

places. The incessant flooding occasioned by River Benue

over-flowing its banks has caused deaths and equally

displaced millions of people between 2009 and 2022.

These series of displacements have led to a humanitarian

crisis in Tivland and have stressed the urgent need for

state and non-state actors’ interventions in the

management of the rising profile of IDPs majority of who

are women and children. This led to the interventions of

the Red Cross Society to provide succour and

humanitarian support.

It is however unfair that the

intellectual sector has completely neglected the

humanitarian work of the NGOs in Tivland whose

interventions have brought relieve to the IDPs .The idea

for this paper therefore originates from the desire to

interrogate the conditions of IDPs and establish the

intervention strategies of the Nigerian Red Cross Society

and the impact such humanitarian activities of the Red

Cross has created in the lives of IDPs in Tivland since 2001.

The paper adopts the qualitative content analysis method

of research based on the use of primary and secondary

sources of data. The paper found that about four million

people have been displaced in Tivland who are taking

refuge in about 24 official and unofficial camps in 7 LGAs

in Tivland. These IDPs are living in tight conditions and

their survival is dependent on the humanitarian activities

of NGOs such as the Red Cross society.

Red Cross humanitarian interventions in this area have been in the

provision of food and non food items, health facilities,

accommodation, nets, beds, buckets, education and

counselling services. These interventions are significant in

addressing common challenges of hunger, malnutrition,

preventable diseases, social security and illiteracy. The

victims (IDPs) through this development have feelings of

belongings as part of the larger social conundrums

deserving to live normal lives not minding where they are,

who they are and what they are. The study found however

that the humanitarian activities of Red Cross are being

impeded by the activities of bandits who sometimes

abduct humanitarian workers of the organization in

demand for ransom particularly in the South Eastern

Tivland.

The study thus recommends for the provision of adequate security and proper collaboration of the locals

with the officials of the Red Cross society. There is also the

need for a policy framework on the management of IDPs

and the involvement of non state actors in Benue State.