Reports

ENUGU, le 9 septembre (IRIN) - La police anti-émeute a arrêté 45 manifestants dans la ville d'Onitsha, dans le sud-est du pays, au cours des manifestations qui se sont déroulées dans toute la région à l'initiative d'un groupe sécessionniste,…

By Christine Jaulmes ABUJA, Nigeria, 9 September 2005 - A new donation of €33.3 million (about $41.4 million) from the European Commission for a UNICEF water and sanitation project will help provide safe drinking water for 2.1 million people across…

The International Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. The Federation is the world's largest humanitarian organization, and its millions of volunteers are active in over 180 countries. All international assistance…

LAGOS, Aug 27, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) has said it feared that an outbreak of cholera could spread from Niger to neighboring areas of Nigeria, local media reported on Saturday. Christine McNab, spokeswoman of…

ABUJA, le 22 août (IRIN) - Le président nigérian Olusegun Obasanjo a confirmé que de nombreuses exécutions extrajudiciaires de suspects et de citoyens innocents avaient été commises par la police fédérale et a promis de prendre des mesures draconiennes…

Abuja, 19 August 2005. Immunization activities and malaria prevention in Nigeria received a boost today, as the Government of Japan donated N 690 Million (US $ 5.2 Million) to UNICEF under the project for Infectious Diseases Prevention for Children…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] ABUJA, 19 August (IRIN) - Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo has confirmed widespread extrajudicial killings of suspects and innocent citizens by the country's police and promised tough action to clean-up…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the fourteenth to eighteenth periodic reports of Nigeria on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] KANO, 16 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - More than 3,000 people displaced by flash floods in Nigeria's eastern Taraba state are facing tough conditions at their temporary shelters, with…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] ABUJA, 8 August (IRIN) - Dozens of people were killed and hundreds displaced when flash floods overwhelmed a bridge in the eastern Taraba state capital, Jalingo, and washed…