Civil society organisations call for the adoption of Additional Protocol on Freedom of Expression in Africa The Forum on the participation of NGOs...

Government experts responsible for applying international treaties in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have called on member...

Despite a good harvest in 2008 Nigeria’s grain stocks are running low causing cereal prices – which usually fall post-harvest – to climb, according...

A 18 October rebel attack on the Bakassi peninsula exposes the region’s continued vulnerability to “insurgency, piracy and unruliness,” according to...

The Nigerian Ministry of Health is trying to determine what caused a gastroenteritis outbreak that has claimed 120 lives in northern Nigeria’s Sokoto...

Hundreds of people on death row in Nigeria did not have a fair trial and may therefore be innocent, according to a new Amnesty International report....

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...

The Nigerian government has announced it is unprepared for the tens of thousands of returnees who have fled the southern Bakassi province over the...

Local government officials say cholera outbreaks across Katsina, Zamfara, Bauchi and Kano states in northern Nigeria have killed 97 people in the...

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...