Day: June 19, 2023

As the world mark Sickle Cell Day on Monday, Nigeria accounts for about 33% of the 300,000 children diagnosed every year with the disease.The World Health Organization and Nigeria’s Health Ministry say 25% of the country’s total population are carriers…

Clashes between farmers and herders killed at least 13 people in central Nigeria over the weekend, community leaders and local authorities said.In recent weeks, the central state of Plateau has seen a resurgence of violence between herding and farming …

According to figures from the World Food Programme, 4.3 million people in Nigeria’s Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states are at risk of serious famine. Chronic insecurity linked to ISWAP (the West African branch of the Islamic State) is preventing many peopl…

Nigeria, 19 June 2023 – On the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) sat down with Ms. Nkiruka Jones-Nebo, the Deputy Director of Public Prosecution and Head of the Complex Casewo…