Rapports

Abuja, 30 March 2012 – “Nigeria has the tools to improve quality, to reach and immunize every child and to eradicate polio. The challenge is to fully and consistently implement the National Polio Emergency Plan.” This…

Peter Clottey An official of Nigeria’s Bar Association said President Goodluck Jonathan’s pronouncement that his government will end the menace of Boko Haram by the middle of this year could worsen the security crisis in the country. Husseini…

Nigeria is one of the most entrenched reservoirs of wild poliovirus in the world. It is the only country with on-going transmission of all three serotypes: wild poliovirus type 1, wild poliovirus type 3, and circulating…

Abuja, 26 March 2012 - With the support of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), NPHCDA, UNICEF and PEI partners are starting to scale up a Volunteer Community…

FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT Favourable rains in the major producing areas resulted in good crop production in 2011. Cereal prices in 2012, however, are higher than in 2011. Adequate rains in 2011 result in good cereal production Harvesting of the 2011…

By ADAM NOSSITER The insurgent violence stalking northern Nigeria has struck a long list of official targets, killing police and army officers, elected officials, high-ranking civil servants, United Nations workers and other perceived supporters of the Nigerian…

GLIDE n° FF-2011-000088-NGA The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) is a source of un-earmarked money created by the Federation in 1985 to ensure that immediate financial support is…

DAKAR, 23 March 2012 (IRIN) - Health volunteers, aid agency and health authority staff are trying to immunize 111.1 million children under five across 20 countries in West and Central Africa against polio. The four-day campaign…

To see this news alert with links to the sources click here Nigeria: Violence causes death and displacement in central and northern Nigeria Since January more than 2,000 people have fled from the north-eastern town of Maiduguri following…

Sect calls on Nigerian Muslims to fight government Says cannot trust unbelievers in peace talks (Adds details, quotes) MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, March 20 (Reuters) - A purported spokesman for Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram said on Tuesday the group…