Tag: Nigeria

In 2016, when the terrorist organisation Boko Haram seized control of Abadam, a local government area in Borno State, North East Nigeria, Aisha’s family fled, leaving behind their livestock, farmland, and more.The Fulani family sought refuge in Maiduguri, the state’s capital. They found shelter at the Shuwari II for ...

At about 8pm on Tuesday night two young men, just in from Afghanistan, arrived at the International Protection Office in Dublin city centre – not to apply for asylum, which they had already done in the afternoon, but to find a space on the pavement to sleep.Carrying a small ...

German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Integration Svenja Schulze opened the first Migration Resource Center in Ado, Nasarawa State. The center is part of a strategy to offer information and employment advice to young people in Nigeria who have been making the dangerous journey across the Sahara Desert ...

Almost 50 overseas trained nurses and midwives in the UK who 'likely' qualified fraudulently are still being allowed to treat patients while under investigation, MailOnline can reveal.The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) today confirmed that 48 Nigerian professionals are suspected of paying someone to a sit computer-based exam that ...

The Pakistani education advocate – who was shot by the Taliban for her activism - was speaking exactly 10 years after her landmark ‘Malala Day’ address to youth at UN Headquarters in New York, where she called for global action against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism.Passionate messageUN Deputy Secretary-General Amina ...

Slowing birth rates mean Southeast Asia’s largest economy is set to slip down global population rankings over the next two decades, to be replaced by Pakistan and Nigeria. Source link

#Pakistan News Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Türkiye are looking to create a new collaborative mechanism to combat natural disasters. The eight nations, known collectively as the Developing-8 or D-8, aim to bolster their disaster assistance capabilities to meet the needs of each member in the ...

With about 35,000 delegates from almost 200 countries attending Cop27, navigating the sprawling poorly signposted conference centre in Sharm el-Sheikh has been a huge challenge for grassroots activists, and so has finding a way to participate meaningfully within the confines of the UN rules and a repressive state.Days are ...

The heavy rain behind recent devastating flooding in Nigeria, Niger and Chad was made about 80 times more likely by the climate crisis, a study has found.The finding is the latest stark example of the severe impacts that global heating is already wreaking on communities, even with just a ...

Despite recent setbacks, UNICEF and partners are determined to finish the job of eradicating polio.A father holds his 2-year-old son while he receives his polio vaccine in Masulama Village, Karonga District, northern Malawi. © UNICEF/UN0700326/ Polio, a highly contagious and sometimes deadly virus that can cause paralysis, was nearly ...