The 21st century has been so challenging for 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.