Reports

Executive summary It is estimated that only about three percent of the cultivated area (0.9 hectares) in Nigeria use water management techniques, of which approximately 0.2 million hectares are irrigated with equipment such as pumps and tube wells. Of the…

Three actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and none improved in October 2010, according to the new issue of the International Crisis Group's monthly bulletin CrisisWatch, released today. Twin bomb blasts struck the Nigerian capital Abuja at the…

Overview & key elements of interventions - The African Development Bank Group commenced operations in Nigeria in 1971. - It has invested over USD 3.75 billion (UA 2.5 billion*) on concessionary terms in all sectors of the country's economy. - In the…

Kathleen Flaherty, Gbolagade Ayoola, John Ogbodo, and Nienke Beintema Country Note - October 2010 LONG­TERM INVESTMENT AND CAPACITY TRENDS IN AGRICULTURAL R&D In the mid-1990s, average spending on agricultural research and development (R&D) in Nigeria began to increase substantially. This increase occurred after…

Abstract This study analyzes the application of an input voucher program implemented in 2009 in two Nigerian states, Kano and Taraba. Using primary data collected from 1000 households, we explore the effect of the voucher program on the quantity and…

Executive summary In March 2010, an unusually high number of deaths, primarily among children under age 5 in Bukkuyum and Anka Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Zamfara State, northern Nigeria, was reported by Médecins sans Frontières (MSF-Holland) to state health…

- The month of October signals the peak of main harvest across the country. Key determinants of food access such as market food prices, household food replenishment and agricultural-based labor opportunities improved significantly across the country except in few areas…

Nigeria: Over 200,000 people at risk of losing their homes The Nigerian authorities must suspend a series of planned demolitions and evictions in waterfront areas of Port Harcourt that will leave over 200,000 people at risk of homelessness Amnesty International said…

28 Oct 2010 17:21:56 GMT Source: Reuters * Arms shipment first arrived in Nigeria in July * Ship's last port of call before Lagos was in India * Weapons include heavy mortars By Nick Tattersall LAGOS, Oct 28 (Reuters) - An illegal shipment of rocket…

October 28, 2010 | by Ike Okonta The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) arrived at the very center of Nigeria's turbulent politics when two bombs exploded in a public square in Abuja, the nation's capital, on…