Abuja, 02 February, 2016 - As part of ongoing efforts to contain the spread of Lassa fever, the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the Journalists’ Initiative Against Polio (JAP), has taken the campaign on personal and environmental hygiene to both urban and rural communities in t...

Thousands fled fighting in late 2014 between the Nigerian army and the armed opposition in Adamawa State, north-east Nigeria. Many homes were burned to the ground. A few months ago people were able to return to their towns and villages, determined to rebuild their houses and their lives. Adana's ...

Nigeria's armed conflict has displaced 2 million people and left 7 million in need of humanitarian aid in the four north-eastern states (Adamawa, Borno, Gombe and Yobe). Violent communal clashes in the Middle Belt and urban violence in the Niger Delta states have made matters worse. In 2015, the ...

Le couvre-feu en vigueur depuis un an dans la région nigérienne de Diffa (sud-est), à la frontière avec le Nigeria, a été allégé en raison de la campagne électorale pour la présidentielle du 21 février, a annoncé vendredi le maire de la circonscription à l'AFP. "Le couvre-feu a été allégé: les pi...

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 The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has established new camps in some recently liberated communities of Borno State. The agency in a statement signed on Wednesday by the information officer of it’s North-east zonal office, Mallam AbdulKadir Ibrahim, said: “As pa...

Abimbola Adelakun Lately, the Minister of State for Education, Prof. Anthony Anwukah, announced that French was on its way to becoming Nigeria’s second official language. As a result, learning French will be a compulsory subject in Nigerian schools up till tertiary level. Anwukah did not elaborat...

OUAGADOUGOU, 7 février (Xinhua) -- Jocelyn Elliott, l'épouse du médecin australien Ken Eliott, enlevés les deux le 15 janvier dans le nord du Burkina Faso par Al-Qaïda au Maghreb islamique (AQMI), a été libérée, samedi soir, peu après la revendication du rapt, a-t-on appris de source sécuritaire. ...

Speculations groundless, says Presidency By Tobi Soniyi and Senator Iroegbu in Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has begun a short vacation from yesterday February 5 to February 10, 2016. A terse statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday insisted that the Boko Haram militant sect has been technically defeated, despite recent attacks by the group. The terrorists’ recent deadly attack was carried out on Dalori, a village in Borno State, where about 86 persons were killed. The militant group w...

Tobi Soniyi in Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in London, the United Kingdom called on the global community to give greater support to countries devastated by terrorism and civil strife. A statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, said the presiden...