Reports

Highlights Information and data collection since the last sitrep has been erratic, largely due to the national holidays. Nonetheless, a total of 2,137 new cases of cholera and 95 deaths from the disease were reported by six states during the…

(Abstract) The Status of Projects in Execution (SOPE) Report for FY10 provides information on all International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), International Development Association (IDA), and trust funded projects that were active as of June 30, 2010. The report is…

01 Oct 2010 14:38:04 GMT * Eight dead in independence day car bomb blasts * Explosions near national day parade * Niger Delta rebels had issued bomb threat * President vows to bring perpetrators to justice (Updates with govt condemnation, analyst) By Kingsley Igwe ABUJA, Oct…

1 October 2010 - A United Nations team has finished collecting dozens of soil and water samples in a region of northern Nigeria where acute lead poisoning due to backyard gold digging has sickened hundreds of children this year,…

SG/SM/13155 AFR/2046 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General condemns the car bombing today near the venue of the National Day parade in Abuja, which reportedly resulted in a number of deaths…

ANKA, 1 October 2010 (IRIN) - Efforts to treat children poisoned by lead and to clean up contaminated sites in northern Nigeria's Zamfara State are being hampered by the reticence of communities to divulge cases, for fear of a…

KADUNA, 30 September 2010 (IRIN) - Some 27 million people in Nigeria need treatment for river blindness, also known as onchocerciasis, according to NGO Sight Savers. The disease is spread through the bite of a black simulium fly, which…

Introduction Despite recent studies on improved seed varieties estimating the adoption rates of maize in 1998 at 40 percent (Manyong et al. 2000) and rice at 60 percent (Larsson 2005), true adoption rates appear to be unknown. This knowledge gap…

Hundreds of thousands of people have been affected by weeks of flooding in three northern Nigerian States, said to MISNA Seyi Soremekun, spokesman for Nigeria's Red Cross. The worst-hit is the Sokoto state, along the border with Benin, where…

INTRODUCTION Nigeria is a country of overlapping regional, religious, and ethnic divisions. Rifts between the North and the South of the country, ethnic groups, and Islam and Christianity often coincide and have sometimes resulted in sectarian violence. This has been…