Reports

Heather Murdock November 30, 2012 ABUJA, NIGERIA — Most rural residents of the Niger Delta barely have enough money to stay alive, and the economy of the countryside is changing for the worse, with fishing and farming becoming…

Highlights A total of 21,360 new cases of children (10,466 boys and 10,894 girls) with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) have been treated in September in the 466 Community Management of Acute Malnutrition sites 159,143 are from Sahelian states…

NIGERIA, 28 November 2012 - Baby Jummai Sumaila is 49 days old. He and his mother Khadijat, live in Camp Lokoja in the outskirts of Lokoja the Kogi state capital in north central Nigeria. He is…

LONDON, 29 November 2012 (IRIN) - The major atrocities in northern Nigeria’s violent insurgency have been widely reported: church bombings, including an attack on Christmas Day; attacks on government buildings, newspaper offices, and the UN building…

By Nwakpa O. Nwakpa and Moustapha Diallo Mohamed Momo, 58, lives in the village of Ozahi, in Kogi State, and still finds it difficult to find the words to describe the nightmare he and his neighbours have…

KANO, 28 November 2012 (IRIN) - Attempts by the Nigerian government and the Boko Haram militia to peacefully resolve a three-year-old insurgency by the Islamist group have thus far floundered, dashing hopes of an imminent end…

by Susan Akila A common saying goes: “He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day”. This, I believe, is so because all fights are meant to end. The fight to kick polio out of…

Areas hit by massive floods in Bayelsa region of Nigeria will benefit from seeds conserved in the genebank of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), as the Institute plans to assist farmers rebuild their livelihoods…

By Moustapha Diallo The scars left by devastating flooding in Nigeria are still raw in many communities. Floodwaters have receded but now a new disaster is unfolding. The few who are returning to their villages have found…

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) dispatched emergency relief supplies to the Republic of Nigeria in response to the floods caused by torrential rainfall. Emergency goods to the value of JPY 52 million arrived in the capital,…