The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has drawn up a five-year programme to boost girls' education in six Nigerian states starting next year, Maman Sidikou, head of UNICEF's education unit in the country has said.

Nigeria is set to launch Africa's first trial programme to use cheap, imported, generic Aids drugs to combat the disease sweeping the continent. Aiming to tackle the effects of an epidemic now affecting almost 3,5 million Nigerians, and more than 28 million Africans, the programme will start in 18 federal health centres on a limited number of patients.

The women's wing of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) under the aegis of Social Securities Outreach (SSO) on Monday staged a peaceful demonstration to the Lagos State Governor's office protesting the death sentence passed on Safiya Hussain by a Sokoto State Sharia Court.

The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) says there were at least 2.6 million Nigerians living with HIV-AIDS and about one million children without parents as a result of the HIV scourge by the end of last year.

In the northern Nigerian state of Sokoto, a woman is awaiting the outcome of an appeal against a conviction for adultery by an Islamic, or Sharia, court. If the appeal fails, Safiyatu Huseini will be stoned to death.

Members of the Lagos state security outfit- Rapid Response Squad (RRS) numbering about 50 yesterday stormed the premises of the Ikeja High Court, beat mercilessly three lawyers and assaulted 13 students of the Lagos State University for selling or buying a legal-biased, magazine - squib.

Hundreds of Nigerian women and girls have been lured into prostitution in Europe and the Middle East, where they are vulnerable to abuse and violence. This website profiles those who are campaigning to put an end to this insidious trade.

The requests forwarded due to current events in the world, involving international travel, safety and security, "Communications Africa 2002" will be delayed by three months. In the mean time, however, we would like to request advertisers on the Event Booklet should send your adverts beforehand.

The Nigeria Immigration Services (NIS), on Sunday deported six Pakistani nationals who were arrested two days earlier for threatening the peace and security in Sagamu, the capital of southwestern Ogun State, The Guardian reported on Friday.

Immigration Officers nationwide have been advised to abstain from corrupt tendencies as the present administration would not spare anybody caught in the act.

With dislocation in the Nigerian economy, women and children, have been at the receiving end. The report presented by UNICEF in Lagos recently painted a gloomy picture of the situation, but at the same time, gave a ray of hope that with concerted effort, this vulnerable group of humanity can be rescued from disease, ignorance and want. Godwin Haruna was there.

Reputed for decades to be the melting pot of Nigeria's cultures, the northern state of Kaduna has witnessed some of the most violent confrontations between different ethnic and religious groups since President Olusegun Obasanjo was elected in 1999.

The House of Assembly of Bayelsa State, southeastern Nigeria, has condemned the proposed dredging of the River Niger by the federal government. In a resolution, the state house members said the dredging would cause negative environmental and ecological effects to riverine communities, vanguard newspaper reported on Monday.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has drawn up a five-year programme to boost girls' education in six Nigerian states starting next year, Maman Sidikou, head of UNICEF's education unit in the country said.

More than two months after the introduction of Islamic Sharia (laws) in northern Nigeria, women, in working class neighbourhoods such as Tudun Wada in Gusau, the capital of Zamfara state, are beginning to get rid of their chador, or veil, and to wear "sexy" clothing.

The bushmeat on which the villagers in Buanchor in Nigeria used to grow fat is all but gone.

The Alternative Trade Network of Nigeria is an NGO based in Jos Nigeria and works with the less privileged rural artisan on product development, quality control, packaging and marketing for the aim of empowering them in a sustainable way. The network was formed in 1996 and currently works with over 65 cooperative groups from all over Nigeria. ATNN is a pioneer member of International Federation for Alternative Trade(ifat).

The Federal and Sokoto State governments are poised for a fight over the sharia verdict passed by a Gwadabawa sharia court to stone a woman, Safiya Hussaini to death for committing adultery.

Performance improvement advisor sought to be responsible for building the capacity of primary family planning and reproductive health providers in the application of USAID’s Performance Improvement Approach to improve their performance in the delivery of services.

The Federal Government has set up a judicial commission of inquiry into the Benue killings and warned that it was now an offence for anybody to treat any Nigerian resident in any part of the country, other than his state of origin, as a non-indigene or a settler.