Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Burning of schools, the latest strategy to be employed by the Islamic sect Boko Haram, has forced an estimated 10,000 pupils out of schools after their institutions were burnt in the past…
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Mary Alice Salinas Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation and its biggest oil producer. The West African country exports more than two million barrels of crude oil a day. Despite its oil wealth, however, a new government study…
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By Alex Duval Smith UNICEF’s flagship report, ‘The State of the World’s Children 2012: Children in an Urban World’, was launched on 28 February, focusing attention on children in urban areas. One billion children live in urban…
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A constitutional debate is under way in Nigeria over whether the government can prosecute parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated against polio, or if it has the power to force parents to have their…
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Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Living true to its name, Boko Haram (Western Education is Sin) has embarked on a new campaign of burning schools in its home base of Maiduguri, capital of northern Borno state. At least…
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Localized food insecurity in the extreme north as civil insecurity persists in the north. Domestic cereal and tuber crop production in 2011 is at mostly normal levels, and will meet basic food needs throughout the country through…
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Suicide bomber kills two in blast, youths kill two Muslims Boko Haram has been targeting churches since Christmas Ethnic, sectarian tensions run high in volatile Jos Police defuse bombs at barracks in northeast's Gombe (Adds Gombe bomb blasts, paragraphs…
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A series of bomb blasts and shootings in northern Nigeria has killed at least 17 people, including five worshippers. At least 12 people were killed at police headquarters in Gombe, in the northeast. Police have not…
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By Brenda Hartman-Souder Feb. 23, 2012 JOS, Nigeria – To walk into Zipporah Moses’ tailoring shop is to enter a swirl of color and activity. Sewing machines hum while Moses and several of her helpers cut and baste…
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Tapping research outputs from international agricultural research centers could help national and state governments to tackle the twin problems of food insecurity and the rising wave of unemployment, says the Director General of the International Institute…
