Informes

LAGOS, Sept 11, 2006 (Xinhua via COMTEX) - The wild polio virus is being widely spread in 22 local government areas of Jigawa state in north Nigeria bordering the Republic of Niger, a state healthcare official said on Monday. Hajia…

LAGOS, Sept 8, 2006 (Xinhua via COMTEX) Nigeria has spent 30 million U.S. dollars on polio vaccine procurement since the beginning of this year, an official from Nigeria' National Program on Immunization ( NPI) said on Friday. Edugie Abebe, interim…

Abuja_(dpa) _ A cholera outbreak has killed 68 people in Borno state in northern Nigeria, local reports said Tuesday. The reports said about 1,500 persons fell ill at the weekend after drinking water from contaminated streams and ponds in the affected…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] ONITSHA, 4 September (IRIN) - Armed soldiers shielded behind sandbags stand guard on both ends of the bridge over the River Niger and into Onitsha, a sprawling trading…

LAGOS, Sept 2, 2006 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Cholera which broke out in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno three days ago has killed more than 80 people, a state government official said on Saturday. Talba Alkali, permanent secretary in the state…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] KWACHIRI, 30 August (IRIN) - Three-year-old Mustapha Kabiru hobbles to keep up with the other village kids after polio withered his right leg. When Mustapha was a baby,…

Government Must Initiate Independent Inquiry, Compensate Victims (Port Harcourt, August 29, 2006) - The Nigerian government must immediately investigate and hold accountable army personnel involved in setting ablaze a slum community near Port Harcourt and compensate those whose homes and businesses…

ABUJA, 23 August 2005 - The Government of Japan donated US $4.2 million (JPY 495 million) to UNICEF today to support polio immunization and malaria prevention in Nigeria. The country accounts for nearly 70 per cent of the world's…

By Tume Ahemba BORO CAMP, Nigeria, Aug 12 (Reuters) Nigeria has pulled thousands of troops out of the Bakassi peninsula ahead of a Monday deadline for a complete withdrawal, but many residents said they would resist a handover to Cameroon. The…

Africa Report N°115 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS A potent cocktail of poverty, crime and corruption is fuelling a militant threat to Nigeria's reliability as a major oil producer. Since January 2006, fighters from a new group, the Movement for the Emancipation…