Informes

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has ordered an immediate evacuation of citizens living along the River Niger plains. This alert comes because the dams have attained their highest water levels in 29 years which is…

The outbreak in Katsina, northern Nigeria, is continuing, with four new wild poliovirus (WPV) type 1 cases reported this week. Katsina has reported 16 cases of WPV1 since May, more than any other state in the…

Heather Murdock September 05, 2012 ABUJA — While most of the world sees polio as a thing of the past, the disease appears to be on the rise in Nigeria. The Council on Foreign Relations, a U.S.-based…

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the Jigawa State government have formally signed a Memorandum of Understanding, opening a fresh chapter of transfer of agricultural innovations from IITA to that state. The agreement aims to…

Vidushi Sinha September 03, 2012 The three countries where polio is still endemic - Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan - are conducting aggressive immunization campaigns to vaccinate more children against the disease. Experts say with India now polio-free and…

It was a hectic task for staffs of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) as they moved from camps to camps in Adamawa State, Nigeria to assess and provide relief materials to the victims of excess…

Over 4000 Households Affected, 9 Truckload of Relief Materials Presented Climate Change is real as it continues to change the held notion about ecological environments as towns that are mainly dry savanna belt and close to Sahel…

Summary: CHF 279,715 was allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to support the Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS) in delivering immediate assistance to 15,000 households (75,000 beneficiaries). The recorded number of cases of Lassa…

This week Nigeria officially started talks with the Islamic sect popularly known as Boko Haram in an attempt to remedy the security crisis that has crippled the country for the past two years. This dialogue takes…

Nigeria Five new cases were reported in the past week (four WPV1s from Katsina and one WPV3 from Yobe), bringing the total number of cases for 2012 to 77. The most recent case had onset of paralysis…