Rapports

School children between 3 and 12 years from the Ibadan International School (IIS) have raised about three hundred and fifty thousand naira (N0.35 million or $2,000) to support the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture’s Forest Project.…

Dakar/Brussels, 17 December 2012 Unless addressed immediately, recurrent violence in Nigeria’s Plateau state will continue to fuel settler-indigene tensions and exacerbate intercommunal strife across the country. Curbing Violence in Nigeria (I): The Jos Crisis, the first in…

LGA ranks first in Kano state in vaccinating children against polio 14 December –The Local Government Area (LGA) of Sumaila, in Kano State, was among the worst-performing when it came to vaccinating children against polio. When the…

A group of Rotarians from India gave hope and dignity to about 400 children crippled by polio during a 10-day medical mission in Nigeria this month. The team of 19 physicians -- most of them orthopedic surgeons…

Dar es Salaam, 12 December 2012 -- Strengthening Africa’s immunization systems, curbing the increase in the number of wild polio virus cases in Nigeria and closing the funding gap for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI)…

Date : 13 December 2012 ABUJA - Nigeria and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria signed five grant agreements today worth a total of US $335 million to support programs that will help significantly…

by David Olayemi The GAVI Partners’ Forum meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, has come and gone. I almost missed it, but I am glad I did not, as it contained some important lessons for the world…

By Nwakpa O. Nwakpa and Moustapha Diallo Three months after devastating floods swept through Nigeria, the initial shock has passed. However, reality is now settling in for thousands of people fighting to rebuild their lives. Their needs…

The government of the Republic of Korea has decided to provide humanitarian assistance worth 200,000 US dollars to Nigeria that sustained enormous damage from heavy rains from July through October. The flood affected some 770,000 people in…

Published December 10, 2012 By Nate Haken, Filipa Carreira, Elizaveta Egorova, Rachel Hersh Publication CUNGR1215 Report available in PDF and Flash formats Not every explosion in northern Nigeria stems from the radicalism of Boko Haram. Nor is every outbreak of…