A nutrition specialist with United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), Mrs. Philomena Irene, has disclosed that 34,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition in Adamawa State. She said due to the alarming malnutrition in children of the state, the UNICEF and the state government w...

Abuja, 26 January 2017 – In a major vaccination campaign concluding this week, 4.7 million children are being vaccinated in response to a measles outbreak in northeast Nigeria. The campaign is covering the three states most affected by the Boko Haram conflict – Adamawa, Borno and Yobe – where insecu...

The Ministry of Interior has approved the deployment of 5, 000 personnel from the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to secure the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the North East and to also carry out other national assignment as may be required. The Commandant General of t...

DAKAR/ GENEVA/ABUJA, 23 June 2017 – More than 5.6 million children are at increased risk of contracting waterborne diseases, such as cholera and diarrheal infections, as the rainy season begins in conflict-affected areas of countries around Lake Chad, UNICEF warned today. The threat of disease outbr...

Iyobosa Uwugiaren, Tobi Soniyi, Paul Obi in Abuja and Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri Tuesday was another day of tragedy for Borno State as a Nigerian Airforce fighter jet mistakenly dropped bombs on some settlements, believed to also harbour Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs), in Rann, Kala Balg...

Families left Bosso and are heading towards surrounding villages and Diffa city Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in south-east Niger following a series of attacks since last Friday by Boko Haram insurgents on the town of Bosso in the troubled Diffa region. The attacks occurred on F...

Des families fuient Bosso, et se dirigent vers des villages environnants et la ville de Diffa. NIAMEY, NIGER, 7 juin (HCR) - Des dizaines de milliers de personnes ont fui le sud-est du Niger suite à une série d’attaques commises ces derniers jours par des insurgés de Boko Haram contre la ville de...

A Nigerian army court has sentenced 54 soldiers to death for refusing to fight the militant group Boko Haram.The soldiers were charged with mutiny and cowardice after they refused orders in August to help retake three towns held by the Islamist militants in northeastern Borno state. A lawyer for the...

Maiduguri, Nigeria | AFP | Wednesday 2/10/2016 - 21:41 GMT by Bukar HUSSAIN Two female suicide bombers killed at least 58 at a camp for people made homeless by Boko Haram's Islamist insurgency in northeast Nigeria, emergency services said on Wednesday, in the latest violence to hit the remote ...

GUNMEN killed three policemen and three ci­vilians during an attack on some foreign workers in the Guba Shango axis of Gombe State on Sat­urday. A security source confirmed the attack to an online newspaper, TheCa­ble. He said it happened at 9:00 p.m on Saturday. The source said the at­tackers al...