United NationsUndersecretary General, Mark Lowcock, has said that more than seven millionpeople currently need humanitarian assistance in Borno, Adamawa and YobeStates, as a direct result of the Boko Haram attacks, According to Lowcock,who coordinates UN’s Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, this yearalone, another 140,000 persons had been displaced by the resurgence of BokoHaram attacks in Borno State. Lowcock, who was inNigeria last week on an official visit that took him to Maiduguri, the base ofBoko Haram insurgency, from where he carried out an assessment of the situationin the Northeast, issued a statement through the United Nations Office for theCoordination of Humanitarian Affairs UN-OCHA. In the statement,Lowcock appreciated the efforts made by Nigeria and other bodies between 2016and 2018 to regain control of areas previously ravaged by the insurgents, whichassisted more than two million displaced people to return to their homes. He said many farmers hadmissed multiple planting seasons and more than three million people were foodinsecure.