Reports

Abuja (dpa) - Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), a government agency responsible for aiding victims of natural disasters, sent relief materials Tuesday to victims of Sunday's flood in the northern province of Kaduna. The River Kaduna flooded its banks…

KANO, NORTHERN NIGERIA, 7 September (IRIN) - An outbreak of cholera in Zamfara State in northwest Nigeria has killed dozens of people with scores admitted in hospitals, officials said on Friday. The first cases were reported more than a week ago…

LAGOS, 26 August (IRIN) - Several people were killed at the weekend when gunmen in speed boats raided a village in Nigeria's volatile Niger Delta oil region, burning houses and firing weapons, residents and police said. Police and local residents…

LAGOS, 22 August (IRIN) - The Nigerian Red Cross said on Friday about 100 people were killed in five days of ethnic violence that rocked the southern oil city of Warri. The federal government meanwhile set up a task force…

LAGOS, 21 August (IRIN) - Rival ethnic militias have agreed to end fighting after days of bloody clashes in Nigeria's southern oil city of Warri in which dozens of people died, the local Delta State governor said on Thursday. Governor…

LAGOS, 18 August (IRIN) - A new outbreak of ethnic fighting has left at least 20 people dead in Nigeria's southern oil city of Warri, residents and police said on Sunday. The violence broke out on Friday night in the…

LAGOS, 29 July (IRIN) - Renewed fighting between militias from the Ijaw and Itsekiri ethnic groups in Nigeria's volatile Niger Delta have killed at least 25 people in the past week and displaced hundreds, residents said on Tuesday. And in…

Searching for new opportunities for progress towards peace and stability in West Africa, members of the United Nations Security Council are set to leave tomorrow for a special mission to seven countries in the conflict-plagued sub-region. The mission, which will…

LAGOS, 19 June (IRIN) - More than 3,000 people have been evacuated from Liberia in the past three days as the Nigerian authorities begin to move an estimated 6,000 of its citizens to safety from the war-torn country, officials…

People continue fleeing Communal Violence in Nigeria The Global IDP Database of the Norwegian Refugee Council has now updated its country profile on internal displacement in Nigeria. A summary is presented below. The Database and the country profile can be accessed…