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

NIGERIA: Economic growth masks high unemployment

Anoverall trend towards economic growth in Nigeria masks the fact thatmillions have been forced into low-wage jobs in the once industrialnorth, trade...

NIGER-NIGERIA: Porous border aids human trafficking

Nigeria’sporous border with its northern neighbour Niger is being exploited bytraffickers smuggling teenage girls to Europe where they will work...

NIGERIA: Emergency rice import cancelled

Adecision by the Nigerian government to reverse an earlier decision toimport 50,000 metric tonnes of rice from Thailand to ease supplypressures on...

NIGERIA: People compete with chickens for food

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

NIGERIA: Fuel shortages cause price hikes for northerners

With massive fuel shortages in the north of Nigeria since mid March, transport costs have doubled exacerbating food prices. “Until last week I had...

NIGERIA: Dozens of boat accidents in the north

The drowning of 30 people on 1 April when a boat capsized on Lake Bagwai, 50 km west of Kano city, was one of dozens of recent boat accidents in...

NIGERIA: Measles kills 165 children in Katsina state

A measles outbreak in northern Nigeria’s Katsina state has killed 165 children in the last three months and infected more than 3,000 children,...

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