Informes

LAGOS, May 1, 2006 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- An outbreak of Cerebra Spinal Meningitis (CSM) in Sabon-Birni local government of Nigeria's northwestern state of Sokoto has killed at least five people, local media reported on Sunday. According to the official…

data indicates that some states in northern Nigeria are recording a higher incidence of polio than at the same time in each of the previous three years.

Summary The population of every state and local government in Nigeria is officially divided into two categories of citizens: those who are indigenes and those who are not. The indigenes of a place are those who can trace their ethnic…

Federal Government Must End Discrimination Against 'Non-Indigenes' (Lagos, April 25, 2006) -- Government policies that discriminate against "non-indigenes," loosely defined as people who are not native to an area, have relegated millions of Nigerians to the status of second-class citizens and…

Tim Shenk MCC helped to provide food and other aid to about 4,000 people who were recently displaced by a conflict in central Nigeria's Plateau State. Violence broke out on April 11 in the farming town of Namu because of a…

In Brief The International Federation undertakes activities that are aligned with its Global Agenda, which sets out four broad goals to enable the International Federation to meet its mission to "improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power…

By Estelle Shirbon NAMU, Nigeria, April 13 (Reuters) - Tribal militia armed with guns, machetes, and bows and arrows killed about 25 people in three days in a land dispute in the central state of Plateau, authorities and witnesses said…

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Over 100 people, including security officials, have died and property worth millions of naira destroyed after four days of inter-ethnic clashes in Namu town in Quaan Pan local council area of Nigeria's northern Plateau state,…

Not far from the confluence of the great West African rivers of 'the Benue' and 'the Niger', Zekeri Atabo tends to his crops. He has been a farmer for as long as he can remember, just like his parents…

Tunis, 5 April, 2006 -- The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank on Wednesday in Tunis approved a grant of US$500,000 dollars as emergency assistance in support of the Nigerian Government's effort to combat Avian Influenza in…