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NIGERIA: Polio vaccine back in...

NIGERIA: Polio vaccine back in the headlines

IRIN
Thursday, October 4, 2007
A report in an American medical journal that children in northern Nigeria have been infected with polio by the vaccine designed to prevent it have...
NIGERIA: President halts priva...

NIGERIA: President halts privatisation of Unity Schools

IRIN
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
President Umaru Yar'Adua's administration has halted an initiative of his predecessor to privatise 102 elite public secondary schools across...
NIGERIA: What has Yar'Adua don...

NIGERIA: What has Yar'Adua done for basic services?

IRIN
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua recently declared the energy crisis a national emergency, but aid groups say he should also declare a state of...
Missing Gambian Journalist’s C...

Missing Gambian Journalist’s Case Resumes Today

The Point
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
The Community Court of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Abuja, Nigeria, will today, September 26, 2007 resume hearing of...
Gambia’s CJ chairs Ecowas CJ m...

Gambia’s CJ chairs Ecowas CJ meeting

The Daily Observer Newspaper
Monday, September 24, 2007
The Gambia’s Chief Justice was elected to preside over a two-day meeting of Supreme Court Chief Justices of Ecowas members states on September 13th...
Nigerian

Nigerian "free puppy" scam revealed on the internet

Wikinews
Saturday, September 22, 2007
A Nigerian "free puppy" scam has been circling the internet for months without any reports on television or on radio. Just yesterday the Toronto...
NIGERIA: Wave of repression on...

NIGERIA: Wave of repression on so-called ‘amoral’ behaviour

IRIN
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Human rights advocates in Nigeria are voicing alarm about recent arrests of cross-dressing men and of women allegedly wearing ‘indecent’ clothes,...
NIGERIA: Curfew in Port Harcou...

NIGERIA: Curfew in Port Harcourt makes life safer but harder

IRIN
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Many residents of Port Harcourt, the main city in Nigeria's poor but oil-rich Niger Delta region, are complaining that a night-time curfew imposed...
NIGERIA: With new flooding in ...

NIGERIA: With new flooding in Sokoto, 50,000 people displaced nationwide

IRIN
Thursday, September 6, 2007
More than 5,000 people were made homeless by flooding in and around the northern city of Sokoto this week, bringing the number of victims to 50,000...
NIGERIA: Flooding, rainstorms ...

NIGERIA: Flooding, rainstorms force people from homes in the north

IRIN
Monday, September 3, 2007
Flooding and rainstorms in two northern Nigerian states have left thousands more people displaced and killed many livestock, local officials said. ...
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