Three baby Nigeria plan "tricky"

 Nigeria is one of the most dangerous countries in the world to have a baby a Nigerian, family planning expert told the BBC it would be difficult to implement the suggestion that Nigerians should only have three children.

Isaac Ogo noted the tradition of polygamy and the belief that children were considered as a "gift of God" in a society dominated by men.

Recent United Nations figures suggest the population of Nigeria could move to 730 million by 2100 - behind the India and China.

The United Nations Special Adviser Jeffrey Sachs said that this perspective concerned him.

"" It is not healthy. "."Nigeria should work to reach a maximum of three children per family, he told the AFP news agency.

Mr. Ogo, of the Federation of family planning of Nigeria, is in agreement with the objective, but it will be difficult to change the point of view of many Nigerians, said.

He said that Nigeria was a "high birth, high death" society where many people think: "I need to have as many children as I want, as I do not know who will survive."

Nigeria is one of the worst places in the world to have a baby, according to the UN.

Approximately 145 women die every day in pregnancy or childbirth, as do the 2,300 children less than five years.

Not their business.

Mr. Ogo also told Focus of the BBC on the programme Africa that many women are unable to visit an organization as its without the consent of their husbands.

In the streets of the city of Kaduna North, some people told the BBC that God has decided how many children they had, and therefore it would be wrong to try to limit the number of births.

"The United Nations should try to advise the Government how to improve the lives of Nigerians, not to say Nigerian not having children - which is not their business," said an angry woman.

But a woman of agreement with Mr. Sachs, saying that, in a country poor as Nigeria, it was preferable to have fewer children and caring for them properly.

Population of Nigeria is currently 160 m - by far the most populous in Africa, but a long way behind those of China and the India.

These countries have a rich growth, the United Nations predicted their populations is stop expanding, while those in Africa such as Nigeria, will continue to grow rapidly.

Group: 800 killed in post-election riots, Nigeria

LAGOS, Nigeria - an international group of human rights said at least 800 people killed in violence linked to elections across northern Nigeria.

Human Rights Watch said in a news release Monday elections in Nigeria last "" was announced as being among the most fair in the country, but they were also the bloodiest. ""

Authorities had already estimated that at least 500 were killed, but had hesitated to release an official toll for fear of retaliatory violence cause.

The predominantly Muslim north of Nigeria demonstrators took to the streets as results showed the winner was President Goodluck Jonathan - a Southern Christian.

Many residents of the North believes that someone from their region should be the next leader after the death of Muslim President in the Office.

Attackers kill 16, burn houses of the city of Northern Nigeria

BAUCHI, Nigeria - the attackers killed at least 16 people and set fire to more than a dozen houses in a town in Northern Nigeria has been beset by years of sectarian violence, police said late Friday.

Residents, said that the attack on the town of Tafawa articulated in Bauchi State appears to have been an act of retaliation for the earlier murders, in the region while the police said that the authors had not yet be identified.

"Sixteen people were confirmed killed by unknown assailants," Bauchi police Commissioner, said John Aba Kasanga.

Bauchi neighbors of Nigeria "Middle Belt," a region Plateau State where the predominantly Muslim North meeting the predominantly Christian South and where communities of different ethnic and religious backgrounds are seated side by side.

The tension is rooted in decades of resentment among Aboriginal groups, mainly Christian or animist, are vying for control of fertile agricultural land and to political and economic with migrants and settlers in the Muslim north.

There were frequent clashes between crowds of Christians and Muslims, in the villages around Jos the capital of the State of Plateau, and Bauchi. Hundreds of people were killed in violence around Jos in the first months of the year.

At least 500 people were killed last month in protests and the murders of reprisals after President Goodluck Jonathan, a Southern Christian, was declared winner of the presidential election, defeating the leader of the former North Muhammadu Buhari Muslim army.

There were demonstrations in cities across the North, but the worst violence was in the southern part of Kaduna State, Plateau of neighbours, sharing diverse ethnic and religious in the rest of the middle belt.

Jonathan, who had broad support in the South, but also earned millions of votes, in the North promised "all included" Government to try to heal the breaches.

Congress of the Buhari for change party progressive (CPC) said that there was evidence that electoral commission computers have been rigged and that the vote count was manipulated in Jonathan favor. He promised to challenge the outcome in court.

Friday, the Group has asked a court to compel the electoral commission to preserve all the data and the ballot box capture machines used in the polls for forensic examination and to enable access to the voter new biometric register so he could cross check thumb on the ballots.