Borno | Bizcommunity

News

Innovative efforts have been put in place to reach populations in partially and totally inaccessible parts of Borno state. Wikimedia Commons

Infectious Diseases

Valuable lessons from Nigeria's marathon effort to eradicate polio

Oyewale Tomori 21 Oct 2019

Immunisation coverage stagnating in Africa

Public Health

Immunisation coverage stagnating in Africa

25 Jan 2019

An alleged arson attack on Cameroon's Sky FM gutted the private community radio station in the Northwest Region town of Ndu destroying equipment, furniture, and the studio. Credit: Barnard Tata Gibip/CPJ Africa.

Radio & Audio

Cameroon community radio destroyed in alleged arson attack

14 Aug 2018

Photo by Kholodnitskiy Maksim on Unsplash

Railway

Nigeria needs $16bn to construct, modernise rail lines

Sani Tukur 9 Oct 2017

WHO Nigeria/L. Ozor

Malaria

WHO programme to prevent 10,000 malaria deaths in Nigeria

11 Aug 2017

New Forbes Woman Africa show premieres this week

TV

New Forbes Woman Africa show premieres this week

28 Jun 2017

Agriculture

FAO distributes seeds and fertilisers to a million people in north-east Nigeria

22 Jun 2017

IITA Director General Nteranya Sanginga (right) welcomes the Nigerian Minister of Finance, the Hon. Kemi Adeosun (left) to IITA, Ibadan. Photo: O. Adebayo, IITA

Agriculture

Nigerian Minister of Finance encourages national roll out of youth agri programme

20 Jun 2017

Aliko Dangote and Bill Gates. Source:

Public Health

Gates and Dangote talk health in Africa

26 Apr 2017

ESG

Nigeria hunger crisis deepens, spills over into Lake Chad Basin

6 Mar 2017

ESG

Famine declared in South Sudan

Louise Marsland 22 Feb 2017

Photo: WHO/Clements-Hunt

Public Health

Nigeria uses tracking system to evaluate medical resources

3 Jan 2017

Doctors Without Borders to host fundraising event in Joburg

Health & Welfare

Doctors Without Borders to host fundraising event in Joburg

25 Aug 2016

New cases thwart Nigeria's polio-free plans

Infectious Diseases

New cases thwart Nigeria's polio-free plans

15 Aug 2016

Mike Blyth via - Farmers in Nigeria

Food Security

FAO: urgent farming support needed for 385,000 people in Nigeria

10 Aug 2016

ESG

Ongoing conflicts, drought intensify food needs

10 Jun 2016

Can the hotel industry survive terrorism challenges in Africa?

Tourism

Can the hotel industry survive terrorism challenges in Africa?

Josephine Wawira 25 May 2016

Lagos set to host global leaders at The Economist's Nigeria Summit 2016

Events & Conferencing

Lagos set to host global leaders at The Economist's Nigeria Summit 2016

25 Jan 2016

One week mark for detained Al Jazeera journalists in Nigeria

Media Freedom

One week mark for detained Al Jazeera journalists in Nigeria

1 Apr 2015

Two Al-Jazeera journalists detained in NE Nigeria

Media

Two Al-Jazeera journalists detained in NE Nigeria

27 Mar 2015

Digital

Looking back at Nigeria's hot digital topics in 2014

Tolu Onile 11 Mar 2015

Media

The script of the Western news media

Janine Lazarus 4 Feb 2015

Nigeria military restores phone service in Maiduguri

Network

Nigeria military restores phone service in Maiduguri

5 Dec 2013

Satellite phones banned in Nigeria

Military

Satellite phones banned in Nigeria

20 Jun 2013

Nigeria cuts phone services

Network

Nigeria cuts phone services

28 May 2013

Mobile

Nigerian Islamists threaten attack on telecom firms

14 Feb 2012

Media

Nigerian journo killed, Islamists claim responsibility

25 Oct 2011

Infectious Diseases

Nigeria: Fighting lethal Lassa fever

5 Mar 2009

Infectious Diseases

Nigerian children dying needlessly from measles and other preventable diseases

12 Jul 2007