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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: Government unprepared...

NIGERIA: Government unprepared for returnee influx

Thursday, September 25, 2008
The Nigerian government has announced it is unprepared for the tens of thousands of returnees who have fled the southern Bakassi province over the...
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: Bloody week in the Ni...

NIGERIA: Bloody week in the Niger Delta

Monday, September 22, 2008
Even by the usual violent standards of Nigeria’s conflict-ridden, oil-rich southern Niger Delta region, it has been a bloody seven days, with dozens...
Cameroon-Nigeria: Bakassi retu...

Cameroon-Nigeria: Bakassi returnees overwhelm authorities

Sunday, September 14, 2008
Up to 100,000 Nigerians displaced from Bakassi in southern Nigeria are sheltering in makeshift camps 10 kilometres away in the state of Akwa Ibom....
NIGERIA: Should stopping gas f...

NIGERIA: Should stopping gas flaring be a priority?

Thursday, September 4, 2008
Environmental experts warn gas flaring by the Nigerian oil industry in the southern Delta region causes acid rain, respiratory infections, skins...
ALERT – NIGERIA: Unidentified ...

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: 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: Sex, trucks and HIV

NIGERIA: Sex, trucks and HIV

Thursday, August 14, 2008
Petrol tankers parked nose-to-tail line the five-kilometre stretch of road from the southern Nigerian town of Eleme to its refinery, waiting to fuel...
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...
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