Reports

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Churches, homes and the police headquarters in the small northeast Nigerian town of Geidam were set ablaze in a wave of night time gun and bomb attacks by a radical…

JOS, Nigeria, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Several people were killed in religious violence in central Nigeria on Thursday, prompting the military to impose a 24-hour curfew in one region at the border between the West African…

WARRI, 25 November 2011 (IRIN) - Two years after the Nigerian government granted amnesty to militants fighting mainly for development and job opportunities in the oil-rich Niger River Delta, [ http://www.irinnews.org/InDepthMain.aspx?InDepthId=8&reportid=58954 ] violence has diminished, and…

WARRI, 25 November 2011 (IRIN) - Frustrated by a lack of development and environmental degradation caused by oil extraction in the Niger Delta, Jeffrey James joined a militant group, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger…

Getting the youths involved in conservation could help preserve the African forests, sustain efforts on reforestation, and slow down the alarming rate of deforestation and natural resource degradation, says Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, Director General of the…

MAIDUGURI, 24 November 2011 (IRIN) - Across the road from Maiduguri railway station, in the corner of a now abandoned property, a leefy neem tree provides a canopy for the remains of a mosque flattened by…

One of the key weapons to combat 300,000 child deaths from malaria each year in Nigeria is long-lasting insecticidal nets. Charlotte Jenner tracks the programme of distribution and education behind their use. Read the full article in…

PORT HARCOURT, 23 November 2011 (IRIN) - Over 200,000 people living in shantytowns on the waterfront in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State, southern Nigeria, could be forcibly evicted if local authorities carry out their threat…

In Nigeria, a presidential committee on terrorist attacks says the government should consider offering an amnesty to Islamist militants in the north similar to an amnesty ended separate violence in the oil-rich south. Former militants in the…

Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan says the military is moving to fight and defeat what he calls the evil of the militant Islamist sect Boko Haram. The sect is being blamed for more than 100 deaths…