BIRD FLU RETURNS TO NIGERIA FARMS !

Poultry are still being moved, despite the official ban. New cases of bird flu have been recorded on two farms in north-western Nigeria, officials say, a year after the disease was first found there.
Katsina State health commissioner Ali Hussaini told the BBC that local health officials had culled 1,070 chickens.
Some of the infected birds were found in a backyard farm in Katsina town.
There are fears that two other farms, one owned by the chairman of Nigeria's poultry farmers' association, may also be infected.
"We've heard it, but we are not yet sure. Our surveillance team is yet to give us the report of their visit to the affected farms," said Ayokanmi Osinlu, spokesman for Nigeria's health minister.
There have been no human victims in Africa's most populous country since the deadly H5N1 strain was first recorded early last year.
The World Health Organisation says about 157 people have died of H5N1 bird flu since its outbreak in December 2003 - most of them in South-East Asia
The UN had expressed concerns about the Nigerian government response to the disease, as poultry are still being moved around by local farmers despite an official quarantine and promised compensation for infected birds.

BBC NEWS REPORT.