Nigeria

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.

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