Reports

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] LAGOS, 12 November (IRIN) - While Nigeria signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1991, it is yet to establish a law…

LAGOS, 6 November (IRIN) - Two main lobby groups in northern and southeastern Nigeria said on Tuesday President Olusegun Obasanjo should give up his bid for re-election in 2003 in the interest of national unity. The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), which…

ABIDJAN, 5 November (IRIN) - Tension is mounting in Nigeria's oil region Delta state over recent deployment of troops amid allegations by residents that they were subjecting several ethnic Ijaw communities to harassment. Residents of villages including Diebiri, Batan, Ajuju, Ewerigbene…

ABIDJAN, 1 November (IRIN) - The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concern at the rejection of Nigeria's first Children's Bill by the country's House of Representatives. A news release on Friday quoted the officer-in-charge of UNICEF Nigeria, Roger Wright,…

LAGOS, 31 October (IRIN) - African heads of state are due to meet on Sunday in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, to discuss key aspects of a continental development initiative adopted early this year, officials said. According to information released on Thursday…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] LAGOS, 30 October (IRIN) - Born 29 years ago in Lagos, Osaro Achidi left the Nigerian commercial capital at the age of 10 years when his parents moved…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] LAGOS, 28 October (IRIN) - The killers who snuffed life out of Barnabas Igwe, president of a local branch of the Nigerian bar association, and his wife at…

LAGOS, 28 October (IRIN) - The Governor of Plateau State in Nigeria's central region has ordered the arrest of religious preachers who incite the people to violence, blaming them for the protracted ethno-religious clashes in the state in the…

LAGOS, 25 October (IRIN) - Scores of people have died in central Nigeria?s Plateau State in a series of raids by bandits and clashes between farmers and herders, residents and officials said. In the latest incident, on Tuesday night, a group…

LAGOS, 25 October (IRIN) - Nigeria's federal legislature has passed a presidential bill which abolishes the dichotomy between onshore and offshore oil revenues, thus increasing the revenue which states in the restive Niger Delta region stand to obtain from petroleum-mining…