1. The Katsina police commissioner was later quoted as saying that there had been no deaths, contrary to media reports.

2. Women husk corn at a village in Katsina state in northern Nigeria.

3. As in the preceding weeks, Katsina and Jigawa states are seriously affected as well.

4. Yar'Adua's body will be transported to his home Katsina state for bury at local time 2 p. m. of May, 6th.

5. At hospitals in Kaduna, Kano, and Katsina near affected farms, staff from the WHO-led teams have now examined hundreds of patient records, searching for possible cases that may have occurred earlier.

6. Nigerian officials have confirmed outbreaks at commercial farms in the states of Kano, Plateau, Katsina, and Bauchi, and in the Abuja area.

7. They are protesting a Sharia court 's recent decision which sentenced a woman to death in the northern Nigerian state of Katsina.

8. Cerebrospinal fluid specimens collected from Gombe, Jigawa, Kano and Katsina states have tested positive for Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A by latex test and/or culture.