Rapports

The consumption of pro-vitamin A cassava could help Nigeria reduce economic losses in Gross Domestic Product that is estimated at about $1.5billion, says the Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Dr. Nteranya Sanginga. “But…

Anne Look | Dakar Resistance to polio vaccination remains in northern Nigeria, and the region is repeatedly blamed for cross-border polio outbreaks. Authorities in one state are threatening to prosecute parents who do not immunize their children,…

Summary: CHF 92,995 was allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) on 22 July, 2011 to support Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS) in delivering assistance to some 10,000 beneficiaries affected by cholera in Bauchi…

Deadly attacks by the radical Islamic sect Boko Haram have turned life upside down for residents in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, since the group's re-emergence there in 2010. Thousands of children are now unable,…

On February 23, United States Ambassador Terence McCulley was joined by senior federal and state level Government of Nigeria officials in Lagos to launch the Strengthening Private Sector Family Planning and Reproductive Health project. This five-year…

Tensions in the troubled city of Jos are running high after a suicide bomber targeted St Finbar’s Church on Sunday morning. Eye witnesses confirm an attack occurred at 10.15am local time, when a suicide bomber in an…

Islamists strike police stations, banks U.S. urge development in north to beat Boko Haram MAIDUGURI, March 8 (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram insurgents attacked a police station and two banks in a remote part of northern Nigeria on…

DAKAR/PORT HARCOURT, 8 March 2012 (IRIN) - Despite longstanding laws against gas flaring - the burning of natural gas during oil extraction - in Nigeria, and shifting deadlines to end the practice, the activity continues, with…

Attacks Threaten Children, Undermine Right to Education (Nairobi, March 7, 2012) – The militant Islamist group Boko Haram has set more than a dozen schools on fire in northern Nigeria, Human Rights Watch said today. Since the…

U.S. planning to establish consulate in violent north Washington says holistic approach needed to defeat sect Nigeria says kills 5 Islamists trying to burn down school By Camillus Eboh ABUJA, March 5 (Reuters) - The United States urged Nigeria to…