A 14-year-old girl, Elizabeth Peter, from Korokpa community in Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State has drowned in the Chanchaga River while attempting to fetch water. Witnesses said ...

Show more River blindness – or onchocerciasis – is a tropical disease which causes itchiness, skin damage, and eventually blindness. It affects millions of people across Africa. In Niger a ...

Niger Delta leaders have asked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to prevail on the warring groups in Rivers State to embrace ...

[Courtesy] Niger became the first African country ... of nearly fifty years of collaboration in West Africa to control or eliminate river blindness. According to a press release by The End Fund ...

Fringing the delta of the Niger River, local mangrove forests are essential to biodiversity and the survival of local communities. In Nigeria, scientists, activists and lawyers are joining forces ...

Niger lies in a region of West Africa known as the Sahel. This area has been afflicted with numerous coups in recent years that have made it the "longest corridor of military rule on Earth," The ...

since he first entered the business in 2001 and continuing even after Niger’s government made it illegal in 2015. The flow of travelers has not stopped, and it will not stop. West Africa’s ...

Nigeria’s Tinubu Declares Emergency in Rivers State, Suspends Governor | Firstpost Africa | N18G Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has declared an emergency in the Rivers state. He has suspended the ...