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Kano, Nigeria

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NIGERIA: Painkiller leaves 84 ...

NIGERIA: Painkiller leaves 84 children dead

Saturday, February 7, 2009
Health authorities in Nigeria announced on 4 February that 84 children have died and a further 27 have fallen ill since November as a result of...
NIGERIA: Northern states on hi...

NIGERIA: Northern states on high alert for meningitis

Saturday, February 7, 2009
Nigerian health authorities have placed northern states on high alert following a meningitis outbreak in neighbouring Niger, which according to the...
NIGERIA: Malaria kills 401 peo...

NIGERIA: Malaria kills 401 people

Saturday, October 18, 2008
Malaria has killed 401 people in the last four weeks in northern Nigeria’s Katsina state, according to local health officials. “In the last 28 days...
NIGERIA: Cholera outbreak kill...

NIGERIA: Cholera outbreak kills 97 in north

Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Local government officials say cholera outbreaks across Katsina, Zamfara, Bauchi and Kano states in northern Nigeria have killed 97 people in the...
NIGERIA: Sickle-cell disorder ...

NIGERIA: Sickle-cell disorder killing 100,000 infants a year

Thursday, August 21, 2008
At least 100,000 infants die from the sickle-cell genetic disorder in Nigeria every year, and the country still has the highest incidence of the...
NIGERIA: New bird flu strain c...

NIGERIA: New bird flu strain confirmed

Thursday, August 14, 2008
A highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza never previously registered in sub-Saharan Africa has been detected in northern Nigeria but local...
NIGERIA: Two million at risk o...

NIGERIA: Two million at risk of radiation cancer

Monday, July 7, 2008
Nigerian environmental and health officials warn that slightly radioactive tailings found in abandoned mines in central Nigeria’s Plateau state poses...
NIGER-NIGERIA: Porous border a...

NIGER-NIGERIA: Porous border aids human trafficking

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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Nigeria’s porous border with its northern neighbour Niger is being exploited by traffickers smuggling teenage girls to Europe where they will work as...