Nigeria’s urgent polio vaccination drive targets 25 million
Many recently freed from Islamic extremists
DATE: Sep 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Michelle Faul
Leopards have lost 75 percent of historic range, study shows
Several factors have led to decline
DATE: May 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Calamitous famine eradicated in last 50 years
LAGOS, Nigeria – Those horrendous images of stick-like victims of famine may disappear from your screen.
Calamitous famines appear to have vanished from the planet, but more must ...
DATE: Oct 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Nigerian airlines cancel flights amid fuel crisis
Africa’s biggest oil producer struggles through delivery-strike
DATE: May 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ to show in Nigeria
LAGOS, Nigeria – “Half of a Yellow Sun” finally will premier in its home country in August, the film’s producer and distributor announced Tuesday of the movie that Nigerian censors earlier r...
DATE: Jul 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming
Islamic attack in Nigeria reportedly kills hundreds
LAGOS, Nigeria – Islamic militants killed hundreds of people in an attack on a border town in Nigeria’s remote northeast, escalating the country’s violent insurrection in which more than 270...
DATE: May 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Nigeria group claims kidnapping girls
LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigeria’s Islamic extremist leader is threatening to sell the nearly 300 teenage schoolgirls abducted from a school in the remote northeast three weeks ago, in a new videota...
DATE: May 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Outsiders fighting in Nigeria
Soldiers come from Chad, Niger, Cameroon
DATE: Oct 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Lead-poisoned children receiving care in Nigeria
LAGOS, Nigeria – The Nigerian village that suffered one of the world’s worst recorded incidents of lead poisoning is now habitable and doctors can begin treating more than 1,000 contaminated...
DATE: Aug 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Islamic extremist supports attacks on Nigerian schools
LAGOS, Nigeria – Shaking a finger while cradling an assault rifle, the bearded leader of Nigeria’s extremist Islamic sect threatens to burn down more schools and kill teachers. But he denies...
DATE: Jul 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
