One of the greatest threats to the consolidation of the federal government's Amnesty deal as proposed by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua is the skewed implementation of the programme by those charged with that responsibility....
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Abuja — Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida has commended the Amnesty programme initiated by President Umaru Yar'Adua to end the militancy in the Niger Delta region. He stated this yesterday in Abuja at the...
opinion Lagos — Lately, the Federal Government is beginning to demonstrate what could pass for a genuine eagerness to transform the long-neglected but oil-rich Niger delta region. The Minister of Transport, Alhaji Isa Bio said...
Source: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Zinder, Niger, 18 November 2009 - At a UNICEF and ECHO-supported therapeutic feeding centre in Zinder, in the South of Niger, seventeen months-old Roumanatou Sani is slowly...
‘In the late 1950s around a billion people—about one-third of the world’s population—were estimated to go hungry every day. Famines were threatening millions in Asia and Africa in particular, and prospects for feeding the...