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WEST AFRICA: Hopes for "re-eradicating" polio

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Health specialists are increasingly optimistic that growing acceptance of the polio vaccine in northern Nigeria offers hope that an upcoming...

Nigeria tests drug after deaths of children

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7754027.stm

Friday, November 28, 2008

All paracetamol-based drugs prescribed in Nigeria are being tested after the deaths of 29 children, who had taken contaminated medicine, officials...

'Bad syrup' kills Nigerian babies

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7750464.stm

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Nigeria's food and drug agency says that 25 children aged between three months and four years have died after taking a contaminated teething syrup....

No HIV test - no marriage

http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=81573

Friday, November 21, 2008

Getting married in Nigeria often requires more than just the bride and groom turning up at the altar, and having witnesses and wedding rings present:...

ALERT – NIGERIA: Unidentified gunmen kill journalist, police involvement suspected

Thursday, August 21, 2008

On 17 August 2008 at about 10.30 p.m. (local time), Mr. Paul Abayomi Ogundeji, a member of the editorial board of the Lagos-based private daily...

NIGERIA: No condoms for Anambra State

IRIN http://www.irinnews.org

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

It is now illegal to encourage the use of condoms in southeast Nigeria’s Anambra State. The state government has also banned the advocacy and...

NIGERIA: Worst cholera outbreak in years in Benue State

Sunday, March 30, 2008

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...

NIGERIA: Govt hits tobacco companies with whopping law suit

IRIN

Sunday, November 11, 2007

The Nigerian federal government filed a suit in the High Court of Abuja on Tuesday against tobacco companies British-American Tobacco, Philip Morris...

NIGERIA: Biafra separatist leader free and defiant

IRIN

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

The jailed leader of a separatist movement in the south-east of Nigeria known formerly as Biafra was released from detention at the end of October...

NIGERIA: Plan to demolish waterfront villages suspended

IRIN

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Residents of waterfront villages around Nigeria’s oil capital Port Harcourt are relieved as a plan to demolish their homes has been shelved...

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