Reports

KANO, 15 April 2008 (IRIN) - The demand for grain to feed chickens in some 350 industrial poultry farms in Kano State has strained human food security, officials say. "The (poultry) farmers are competing for grains against other consumers," said…

ABUJA, 15 April 2008 (IRIN) - In a demonstration of support for prominent Niger Delta militant Henry Okah, who the government put in trial in early April, militant leaders have said that they will escalate armed conflict. "We have pulled…

KANO, 8 April 2008 (IRIN) - Of the 50 million seedlings planted every year in the 11 northern Nigeria states worst effected by desertification, 37.5 million wither and die within two months, environmental officials say. "The 12.5 million seedlings that make…

ABUJA, 3 April 2008 (IRIN) - Violence was relatively low in the run-up to local elections on 29 March in Nigeria's oil-rich Rivers State but with evidence emerging of massive voting irregularities in favour of the ruling party, human…

The purpose of the TAG meeting was to review issues arising from the annual meeting and provide recommendations on any actions required. The TAG discussed the implementation of the control strategy, research, the next annual meeting and TAG membership.…

This report covers the period of 01 January 2006 to 31 December 2007 of a two-year planning and appeal process. In a world of global challenges, continued poverty, inequity, and increasing vulnerability to disasters and disease, the International Federation with…

The upward trend in food prices continued in March and prices of maize, sorghum and millet prices remained much higher than the four‐year average. The situation is compounded by abnormally high inflation rates, high international prices…

KANO, 28 March 2008 (IRIN) - Experts agree that an estimated 35 percent of land that was cultivatable 50 years ago is now desert in 11 of Nigeria's northern states, but what they are not so sure about is…

LAGOS, 28 March 2008 (IRIN) - At least 35 people have died of cholera in the capital of Benue State, Madurdi, and the town of Oturkpo. Both areas have a history of cholera outbreaks but the latest toll is…

LAGOS, March 27 (Reuters) - A measles outbreak has killed at least 165 children in the remote northwestern Nigerian state of Katsina, health officials said on Thursday. About 3,064 other children have been infected with the highly contagious air-borne virus…