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A long, lonely, lingering illness in a Spanish hospital, a once beautiful young body, wasted and emaciated by contagious diseases, a recent past that had included horrific sexual mutilation of her genital and anal areas and finally, death alone one morning and burial by strangers in an unmarked mass paupers grave on the outskirts of Barcelona. This was the fate of one of the hundreds of young Nigerian girls who have flocked to this part of Spain in the last 18 months.

Floods have swept through many villages in Kano State, northern Nigeria, killing dozens of people and rendering many thousands homeless, local officials said on Thursday.

A lawsuit filed against the US company Pfizer alleges that it violated international law by testing an experimental drug on children during a meningitis epidemic in northern Nigeria in 1996, news organisations reported on Thursday.

The Federal Government has said that it has powers to make laws on items contained on the Exclusive Legislative list, which includes laws on anti-corruption.

AS the Federal Government embarks on an overhaul of the country's contract tendering system, the World Bank has sought to insulate ministers from compliance with its new system. The overhaul is aimed at stemming the widespread corruption that attends the country's tendering process. This was disclosed yesterday by Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, who added however that the World Bank report has been rejected by the government.

Over the past four weeks a series of intercommunal clashes in central and northern Nigeria has left many dead or wounded and forced an estimated 65,000 people to flee their homes in Nasarawa, Benue, Bauchi and Kaduna states. Working with the Nigerian Red Cross Society, since the beginning of July the ICRC has distributed relief supplies such as blankets, buckets, soap and mats to a total of 22,500 displaced people living in improvised camps.

Under the project supported by The FUTURES Group International/POLICY Project Nigeria and the National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA), Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria is conducting on the Nigeria-AIDS eForum, a six-month long open discussion of key HIV-related issues among HIV/AIDS activists and advocates as well as governmental, non-governmental, multilateral and community-based organisations in Nigeria.

In Nigeria, two former ministers have been ordered to pay back the equivalent of more than $20m after being named by a commission examining corruption in Nigeria's cocoa sector.

Seventy eight (78) teacher trade unionist from Nigeria are stranded in Johannesburg because of the refusal of the Nigerian Embassy in Pretoria to clear them to be granted visas by the Thai government.

Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo has ordered leading members of former military regimes to hand back property they misappropriated from the state while in power.

Another 20 schools have been closed over the last 72 hours as the education crisis continued to deepen. Eight secondary schools in Central Province were closed over the weekend following disturbances by students. This brings to 27 the number of institutions closed in the province this month alone.

Mr. Ron Den Berg, the Royal Dutch/Shell Managing Director in Nigeria appeared today before the human rights violations investigation commission panel set up by the government in the country. Since October last year the commission has been investigating rights abuses committed before the present government in the country.

ALL public office holders and senior civil servants across the country who have not declared their assets as stipulated by law have been advised to comply or risk the wrath of the law. Giving this warning on Monday during a courtesy call on Governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju in Awka , the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau, Capt Effiong Nsa (rtd) decried the attitude of such public officers who had not complied.

Coordinate UNICEF support to social mobilisation efforts for Polio eradication and improving routine immunisation.

Over the past weeks, Nigeria's central region has been racked by violent ethnic clashes that have claimed many lives and displaced thousands of people. Fighting that broke out in June has pitted Tivs against their mainly Hausa-speaking neighbours in Nasarawa State, leading to at least 100 deaths, according to the police - more than 200, according to other sources - and the displacement of more than 50,000 people.

More than 200,000 students of Nigeria's 37 Universities are scheduled to resume studies this week following the end of a three-month strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities.

Middle Belt indigenes, under the aegis of "Joint Action Commit-tee on the Middle-Belt" (JACOMB) has petitioned the Justice Chukwudifu Oputa Commission probing human rights violations in the country over alleged human rights infractions of their people claiming N 20 trillion as compensation.