A UK court heard a case brought against the international oil company Shell by communities in Nigeria’s Niger River Delta. The Ogoni people claim that decades of oil spills by Shell and its local ...

A group of rural farmers in Kwara state, under the aegis of the Millennium United Rural Farmers Foundation (MURF), has commended efforts of the state government aimed at revitalising agriculture and ...

African countries are working together to create larger markets and benefit from economies of scale. In the energy sector, ...

One of the most heart-warming stories in Nigeria last week was that seven governors, only three of them from Nigeria, met in Maiduguri to push forward with concerted efforts to salvage the Lake Chad ...

The Technical Assistance Project for Hydropower Development on the Sanaga River (Patdhs) has completed its mission and ...

In a first for the continent, Niger was certified by the WHO for eliminating onchocerciasis as a public health problem ...

Most of the water comes from the Ubangi-Chari River in Central Africa and Chad ... Governors of the eight most affected territories of the Lake Chad Basin (LCB) in Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria ...

A newly released report by the socio-economic platform Tracka, owned by BudGIT, has revealed that only 16.1% of projects undertaken by the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs between September 2023 and ...

By eliminating river blindness, Niger has created an estimated USD$2.3 billion in economic benefits. The country added more than 17.8 billion working hours as families with river blindness-infected ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially recognized Niger as the first country in Africa and the fifth globally to eliminate onchocerciasis (river blindness), marking a historic milestone in ...

He reminded the meeting of the vision of LCBC’s founders – Davao Baleo of Nigeria, Ahmed Ahijo of Cameroon, Amani Diori of Niger ... basin, such as transferring water from Nigeria’s River ...