Informes

LAGOS, Aug 03, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Nigerian federal government has ordered the State Security Service (SSS) to deploy special forces in the troubled states across the country following the outbreak of violence in northern part of…

LAGOS, Aug 03, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Nigeria's Delta State Government has commence a mass relocation of some 5,000 persons displaced by recent military operation in the Niger Delta to their various communities, local media reported on Monday. The…

By Toye Olori LAGOS, Aug 2 (IPS) - The sectarian violence which broke out in several parts of northern Nigeria at the end of July has more to do with popular anger and frustration with prevailing economic conditions than religion,…

Search for bodies continues, death toll could rise - Authorities hope leader's death has ended uprising - Residents return to streets By Ibrahim Mshelizza MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Aug 2 (Reuters) - More than 700 people were killed during a five-day uprising by a radical Islamic…

Bodies arriving from outside city; at least 300 killed - Women and children held by sect against their will - House to house searches to continue By Ibrahim Mshelizza MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Residents ventured onto the streets of the Nigerian…

MAIDUGURI, 31 July 2009 (IRIN) - Security forces have killed innocent civilians and unarmed men in a crackdown on the radical religious group known as Boko Haram, which reportedly left several hundred people dead in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria, residents and…

Amnesty International today condemned the illegal killings by the Nigerian security forces during the recent fighting in the north of the country and called on the Inspector General of Police to publicly state that anyone responsible for illegal killings…

Kebbi State, Nigeria, 31 July 2009 UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman emphasized the contribution that breastfeeding can make to improving children's nutrition, health and development, speaking in Nigeria today at the start of World Breastfeeding Week (1-7 August). Nigeria is…

ABUJA, 31 July 2009 - UNICEF Executive Director, Ann M. Veneman and the Nigerian Health Minister, Professor Babatunde Osotimehin, launched the first ever National Health Week in Nigeria which will take place 1 to 8 August, 2009. "Nigeria is the…

COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION Brussels, 31 July 2009 12518/09 (Presse 240) P 92/09 The European Union expresses its deep concern over the recent violent developments in parts of Northern Nigeria, including attacks by militant groups, known as Boko Haram. The EU…