Journalists Against AID (JAAIDS) Nigeria has commenced an advocacy campaign to support access to affordable treatment and care for Nigerians living with HIV/AIDS. The two-year campaign aims to secure access to HIV-related care and treatment by empowering a wide body of stakeholders with the appropriate information and skills to act on these issues.

Normalcy started to return to Nigeria on Friday
after labour unions called off a two-day-old general strike which had shut down most of the country’s major cities.

Hundreds of people fled a rural town in Nigeria’s northern Katsina State fearing reprisal attacks after a mob killed seven policemen, residents said on Monday.

A consortium of Nigerian lawyers opposed to the death penalty, are representing Safiya Husseini Tungar Tudu, the 30-year-old woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, in the northern state of Sokoto.