Rapports

LAGOS, Apr 30, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- About 120 people were feared dead in hours of clashes between rival ethnic militias in central Nigeria, local media The Guardian reported Friday. The clashes between ethnic Tarok fighters in Plateau state…

LAGOS, 23 April (IRIN) - A fragile five-month ceasefire between rival tribes in Nigeria's troubled Niger Delta region is in danger of falling apart as armed clashes between the two sides escalate. A military spokesman said 10 people were killed in…

LAGOS, 9 April (IRIN) - An umbrella group representing various Christian churches in Nigeria said on Friday it had pulled out of peace talks with Muslims in the volatile northern Nigerian state of Kaduna after accusing Islamic militants of…

KANO, 6 April (IRIN) - Tension has gripped the volatile northern Nigerian Kaduna State after irate Muslims razed several churches and a police station in a remote town, alleging that a Christian youth had desecrated the Koran, residents and…

The Ministry of Health has reported a total of 327 cases and 46 deaths in 21 local government areas in Jigwa state. Samples have been taken to determine the serogroup. The Ministry of Health has provided 150, 000 doses…

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The federal government has set up a technical committee to work out the modality for the repatriation of 17,000 Nigerian herders from Cameroon. The 17,000 mostly Fulani herders were part of a 28,000-strong Nigerian population that…

LAGOS, 11 March (IRIN) - Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Thursday began distributing relief supplies to thousands of people made homeless by a fire that destroyed homes in a shanty town of the Nigerian economic capital, Lagos. Officials…

KANO, 8 March (IRIN) - Nigeria's predominantly Muslim Kano State, which is boycotting a global polio immunisation programme on suspicion that the vaccines are tainted by anti-fertility substances, plans to order its own supplies from Muslim countries in Asia, a…

LAGOS, 4 March (IRIN) - At least 2,500 people have fled Plateau State in central Nigeria following a fortnight of violence between Muslims and Christians that has left 62 dead and more injured, the Red Cross said on Thursday. Patrick…

Lagos, Mar 1, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A non-governmental organization Food Aid International (FAI) has said that about 3,000 people die daily of hunger and poverty in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, local newspaper The Punch reported Monday. The…