NIGERIA is to get an early warning body by the end of the year to avert ethnic and other civil unrest The Guardian reported on Monday. The Lagos daily quoted the director of Conflict Prevention in the Presidency, Udenta O. Udenta as saying that government and the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution were thinking of setting up the unit in Abuja. He said it would comprise all bodies that promote peace in Nigeria. Nigeria has been plagued by civil unrest since its return to civilian rule in 1998. Current flashpoints include the southeastern state of Ebonyi, where at least 27 people died and more than 1_000 were displaced as a result of a land dispute between communities in Iro and Afikpo South local councils. Clashes between the two communities claimed nine lives last year, while over a dozen people went missing. – IRIN