http://factsabouth1n1.com/topic/lagos2010-10-27T12:32:09Z2010-06-12T05:13:53ZAFP Global Editiontag:factsabouth1n1.com,2010-06-12:/girl-nigerias-swine-flu-case-729918a/

<div><p>A nine-year-old American girl has become the first case of swine flu in <a title="Nigeria" href="/topic/Nigeria" >Nigeria</a>, <a title="Africa" href="/topic/Africa" >Africa</a>'s most populous country, <a title="Babatunde Osotimehin" href="/topic/Babatunde+Osotimehin" >Health Minister Babatunde Osotimehin</a> said Wednesday.</p><p>"The first case of the influenza A(H1N1), otherwise called swine flu, has been reported in Nigeria of a nine-year-old American girl residing in <a title="Lago...

2010-10-27T12:32:09ZAP Newstag:factsabouth1n1.com,2010-10-27:/photo/nigeria-arms-seizure-2370264p/

A <a title="Nigeria" href="/topic/Nigeria" >Nigerian</a> soldier, right, gestures as he and others show journalist arms at <a title="Lagos" href="/topic/Lagos" >Lagos</a>, Nigeria, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010. Artillery rockets like those often used by insurgents in <a title="Afghanistan" href="/topic/Afghanistan" >Afghanistan</a> were inside an illegal arms shipment seized by authorities in Nigeria. Authorities showed the weaponry to journalists Wednesday at Lagos' busy Apapa Port. (AP Photo/Sun...

2010-08-30T10:15:58ZAP Newstag:factsabouth1n1.com,2010-08-30:/photo/west-africa-internet-2338122p/

In this Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010 photo, <a title="Johnnie Coleman" href="/topic/Johnnie+Coleman" >Johnnie Coleman</a>, right, of MainOne Cable talks with a visitor at the cable landing station in <a title="Lagos" href="/topic/Lagos" >Lagos</a>, <a title="Nigeria" href="/topic/Nigeria" >Nigeria</a>. For a decade, <a title="West Africa" href="/topic/West+Africa" >West Africa</a>'s main connection to the Internet has been a single fiber-optic cable in the Atlantic, a tenuous and expensive link for on...

2010-06-12T13:13:02ZAP Newstag:factsabouth1n1.com,2010-06-12:/photo/nutrition-report-1933473p/

FILE - In this Friday, June 3, 2005 file photo, two unidentified homeless children beg for food and money in a street of <a title="Lagos" href="/topic/Lagos" >Lagos</a>, <a title="Nigeria" href="/topic/Nigeria" >Nigeria</a>. Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because of insufficient nutrition, according to a new report published by <a title="UNICEF" href="/topic/UNICEF" >UNICEF</a> Wednesday before a three-day international summit on the problem of world hunger. Th...

2010-06-12T13:15:07ZAP Newstag:factsabouth1n1.com,2010-06-12:/photo/aptopix-nigeria-oil-unrest-1397443p/

A member of the <a title="Nigeria" href="/topic/Nigeria" >Nigerian</a> navy patrols an oil depot alongside pipelines damaged in an attack by <a title="Niger" href="/topic/Niger" >Niger</a> delta militants, in <a title="Lagos" href="/topic/Lagos" >Lagos</a>, Nigeria, Monday, July 13, 2009. Nigeria's main militant group said Monday it set fire to an oil depot and loading tankers in the country's populous economic center of Lagos, marking the first attack by the group outside the restive <a title="...

2010-06-12T13:15:08ZZUMA Press Inctag:factsabouth1n1.com,2010-06-12:/photo/president-koehler-nigeria-956359p/

<a title="Horst Kohler" href="/topic/Horst+Kohler" >German President Horst Koehler</a> and his wife <a title="Eva Luise" href="/topic/Eva+Luise" >Eva Luise</a> tour the harbour arm in arm on a speed boat in <a title="Lagos" href="/topic/Lagos" >Lagos</a>, <a title="Nigeria" href="/topic/Nigeria" >Nigeria</a>, 11 November 2008. The politician and his wife visit Nigera for three days also participating in the three-day 4th <a title="Africa" href="/topic/Africa" >Africa</a> Forum. Photo: <a title="...