Managing Director of Dangote Tomato Processing Factory, Kadawa, Kano, Alhaji Abdulkarim Kaita, has disclosed that the company is relying on local fresh tomatoes as raw materials for its operations. Kaita said in a statement in Kano on Friday that the factory did not require any foreign
By Alfred Davies, MSF Field Coordinator in Nigeria Alfred Davies is an MSF Field Coordinator in Nigeria. He was in Rann when the aerial attack occurred, and in the hours that followed. Here is what he witnessed: “The first bomb fell at 12.30pm and landed just a few metres away from the Red Cross office. […]
While IDPs often flee their homes for similar reasons to refugees (armed conflict, human rights violations, natural disasters) technically, they are not refugees. IDPs have not crossed an international border to find refuge and therefore remain legally under the protection of their own government, even though that government is often the cause of their flight. […]
Médecins Sans Frontières has said there are fears that over 170 persons must have died in the attack on the Internally Displaced Persons camp in Rann, Borno State by a jet of the Nigerian Air Force. However, the MSF said it has only been able to confirm 90 dead. In a statement on its website, […]
The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Paul Arkwright, has commended the Federal Government for its readiness to dialogue with the people of the Niger Delta, in seeking political, rather than military solutions to the problems in the region. This was his position as he spoke on Channels Television’s breakfast show, Sunrise Daily, while analysing the […]
The Saudi Arabian Authority says it will introduce new standards for pilgrims’ accommodation in the forthcoming 2017 Hajj exercise. Malam Mousa Ubandawaki, Chief Information Officer of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), made the disclosure in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Ubandawaki quotes the Saudi Minister of Hajj, Dr Muhammad Saleh Benten as […]








