Rapports

Piero is deployed as a WFP logistician, sent on mission to Nigeria to manage the coordination and transport of a huge quantity of Nigerian sorghum, intended to aid those affected by drought in neighbouring Chad and…

MAIDUGURI, 16 July 2012 (IRIN) - How to deal with Boko Haram violence splits Nigeria: in the north, the centre of bombings and shootings by the Islamist extremists, there is an almost universal demand for dialogue,…

Northern Nigeria is coping with a violent underground group, Boko Haram, that has been able to carry out attacks mainly in northern states, but also in Abuja by bombing the United Nations Nigerian headquarters. The targeting of…

KANO (Nigeria), 13 July 2012 - Kano State, northern Nigeria, is one of the highest risk states in the country, where more than one-third of all children still remain under-immunized. Along with other high-risk states, Kano…

Press Release No:2013/014/AFR WASHINGTON, July 12, 2012 – The World Bank’s Board has approved an International Development Association (IDA)* credit of US$95 million for the Nigeria Polio Eradication Support Project, which will help the country to achieve…

by David Olayemi One of the many good aspects of the EVERY ONE advocacy project in Nigeria, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is the opportunity it gives Save the Children to go into partnership…

Watch the video KANO, Nigeria — Attacks and suicide-bombings are multiplying in northern Nigeria after the Islamist group Boko Haram re-emerged on the scene in 2009. The group - which aims to establish Islamic law (Sharia) -…

In Nigeria, one out of every 18 women dies as a result of childbirth. The country has the second-highest maternal mortality rate in the world. That’s why the Rotarian Action Group for Population Growth and Sustainable Development…

Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo today called on the Nigerian government and African nations to invest in international agricultural research by supporting the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) to tap into the opportunities offered…

ABUJA, 6 July 2012 (IRIN) - Nigeria's health services halved the maternal mortality rate between 1990 and 2010, but in parts of the predominantly Muslim north, which is less socio-economically advanced, women are 10 times more…