Nigeria, Africa

FAO calls for increased surveillance A strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza previously not recorded in sub-Saharan Africa has been detected...

Thousands of people have fled an oil town in the Niger Delta, Nigeria yesterday after an unknown militant group said that all people not originally...

The trafficking of girls from villages to cities in Nigeria is increasing and the state is powerless to stop the trade, officials told IRIN. “The...

Nigerian environmental and health officials warn that slightly radioactive tailings found in abandoned mines in central Nigeria’s Plateau state poses...

An overall trend towards economic growth in Nigeria masks the fact that millions have been forced into low-wage jobs in the once industrial north,...

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

A decision by the Nigerian government to reverse an earlier decision to import 50,000 metric tonnes of rice from Thailand to ease supply pressures on...

Supplies of bread have dwindled in Lagos and other cities across Nigeria since 5 May when the Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria...

In a demonstration of support for prominent Niger Delta militant Henry Okah, who the government put in trial in early April, militant leaders have...

The demand for grain to feed chickens in some 350 industrial poultry farms in Kano State has strained human food security, officials say. “The...