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 ...

A 14-year-old girl, Elizabeth Peter, from Korokpa in Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State, has drowned in the Chanchaga River while fetching water. Miss Peter was an SSS1 student of Saint ...

Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, and the fifth worldwide, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).