“Artistes for Refugees” - a livelihoods project funded by UNHCR was officially launched on 20 April with the arrival of Henry Ohanga (commonly known as Octoppizzo), a leading rap musician in the country and Victor Ndula, a respected illustration artist/journalist. The two artistes arrived in Kakuma ...

On 21 February Nigeriens go to the polls to elect a president and a new parliament. It is the second election after the last military coup in 2010. President Mahamadou Issoufou hopes to be re-elected for a second term. In the weeks ahead of the polls, Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou and ...

The Nigerian Army said on Sunday that it had commenced large scale operations to smoke out Boko Haram terrorists from their Sambisa forest hideout in Borno. Maj.-Gen. Lucky Irabor, the Theater Commander Operation Lafiya Dole said this while briefing newsmen in Maiduguri. “I want to inform you ...

The Borno State Government said on Saturday that it had resorted to distributing food items to households to tackle alleged poor feeding at Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the state. Mallam Satome Ahmed , Chairman of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) who disclosed this in ...

Greenfield Dawei Japan Village-GDJV consortium held a ceremony to introduce its project, in conjunction with Japanese traditional cultural ceremony at the DDPC of the Royal Palace Hall in Dawei yesterday. The ceremony was opened with the Japanese traditional drumming and Taninthayi Region Chief M...

Afeez Hanafi with agency reports Three mothers of schoolgirls abducted from Chibok, Borno State on April 14, 2014 said they had identified their daughters in a video released by Islamist group Boko Haram, the first possible sighting of the girls since a video in May 2014. Reuters reported that...