The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) has established a N360 million endowment fund for the creation of professional chairs in six Nigerian universities.

Nigerians form the largest percentage of foreign prostitutes on the rainy streets of northern Italy. Though a government crackdown making prostitution, trafficking and being trafficked illegal has slowed the trade, it has not stopped. Instead, it has gone underground, enabled by an informal network of traffickers, by parents seeking easy income and, most of all, by the inescapable poverty awaiting those who refuse to go.

The IFES-Nigeria project involves developing and conducting a variety of capacity building programs for the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria in its preparation for the April 2003 State and Federal Elections.

An Islamic appeal court has upheld a sentence of death by stoning for adultery against a Nigerian woman. Amina Lawal, 30, was found guilty by a court in Katsina state in March after bearing a child outside marriage.

In 12 states of Nigeria, Adultery is now punished by stoning to death. Sign our petition urging the Attorney General of Nigeria to seek judicial interpretation of Sharia Criminal Law.

When a group of unarmed women protesters occupied ChevronTexaco's main oil export terminal in Nigeria last month, they not only disrupted operations in a key oil facility, but also altered the rules of engagement in the longstanding conflict in the Niger Delta oil region.

A youth organisation has developed an innovative approach to education and informing people on HIV/AIDS by designing a board and card game series. Designed by Youth Now!, all the games in the series encourage high levels of message retention by teaching youths even during leisure hours. They also provide long hours of game play.

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) should go beyond creating awareness and publicising information to building coalitions across the socio-political sectors and developing action plans in order to breathe new life into the crusade against corruption.

The Nigeria Chapter of Teachers Without Borders is commencing the training of teachers, volunteers, religious and youth leaders to serve as HIV/AIDS education teachers.It will commence in Port Harcourt before the end of August.

Access to essential medicines for developing countries is a topical issue. But what do we know about the quality of drugs currently available? Use of poor-quality medicines can result in treatment failure, drug resistance or toxic side-effects. How can consumers be sure that they can trust the drugs they buy?

Nigeria's MPs have given President Olusegun Obasanjo two weeks to resign or face impeachment for incompetence and corruption - but Obasanjo is unlikely to step down.

Past control measures adopted by federal, state and local governments against desert encroachment were not only "archaic but lazy", a geologist, Alhaji Dahiru Mohammed, has said.

Government officials, political and community leaders met in Nigeria on Sunday to discuss ways to end a year of ethnic and religious turbulence in Plateau State and denounced the emergence of militia groups.

Nigeria has approved wide-ranging recommendations to secure an uninterrupted supply of contraceptive commodities as countries all over the world face a dearth of supply and donor support, increasing demand, and the growing incidence of HIV/AIDS.

Abiteye village lies in the heart of the Niger Delta region. American oil giant ChevronTexaco has a gas plant and an oil flow station here. But for its oil installations, the company's premises could pass for a maximum-security prison. Barbwire fences and iron bars separate the company from the community. Inside the company's premises, police, soldiers and naval personnel clutching assault rifles stand guard.

One woman was shot dead last Thursday in Nigeria's southern oil town of Warri when groups of women protesters besieged the premises of oil transnationals Royal/Dutch Shell and ChevronTexaco, witnesses said.

A call has gone out for African countries to skip their debt obligations under the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt repayment initiative and reinvest the money into health systems buckling under the strain of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Advocates of the plan argue for an “overwhelming practical and conceptual case” for re-cycling the remaining post-HIPC debts – those debts of HIPC countries after the completion of the HIPC process. This money would then be used in emergency grant relief for AIDS.

At least 20 people have died from cholera in Kebbi State, northern Nigeria, state radio said on Tuesday.

Duties include the planning and development of projects, coordinating activities of the various organs of the Network and acting as a focal point between member organizations of the Network and various partners and donors.

The Nigerian deputy senate president, Senator Ibrahim Mantu, has decried corruption amongst government officials in Africa.