Nigeria’s president on Tuesday placed security forces on maximum alert after two days of battles with radical Islamists in the north.
Posters of Barack Obama festooned the streets of the Ghana capital, Accra, on Thursday ahead his visit.
Men trying to keep several wives happy and women competing with co-wives for their husbands’ attentions has led to a boom in the sale of aphrodisiacs.
When 32-year-old Talatu Umar tested positive two years ago after the death of her husband, she ruled out the possibility of ever marrying again.
Time is running out in the fight against global warming, the United Nations’s top climate change official warned as new talks got under way.
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/ 21 October 2007
Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria, takes old cars and motorbikes to pieces in the back yard at home and builds his own helicopters from the parts. ”It took me eight months to build this one,” he said, sweat pouring from his forehead.
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/ 17 February 2006
Nigerian officials on Friday pressed on with mass poultry culling in the ravaged north to prevent bird flu from claiming human lives amid fears that the virus could have spread to yet another farm. Ali Hussani Dutsin-Ma, the top health official in the northern state of Katsina, said that the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus that can kill humans may have surfaced in a second farm near the state capital.
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/ 11 February 2006
Nigerian officials battled to contain an outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu on Saturday amid reports that it is spreading rapidly through poultry flocks and approaching the Niger border. Agricultural officials were preparing to quarantine and disinfect two farms where tens of thousands of birds have died on the outskirts of Kano
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/ 9 February 2006
Africa’s first outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu has spread to at least four farms, Nigerian officials said on Thursday, as the continent braced itself for a possible epidemic. Nigerian agriculture ministry spokesperson Tope Ajakaiye said tests on chicken carcasses had identified the H5N1 type of avian influenza.
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/ 11 January 2006
Defeated in the field by a bloody military crackdown, Nigeria’s home-grown Islamic insurgency has dispersed amid the dusty back streets of the country’s teeming northern cities and is plotting its comeback. Small numbers of militants await the moment to re-launch their campaign for a Muslim revolution in Africa’s most populous state.