Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an ...

SEGOU, Mali - Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger ...

Nigeria shares land borders with four countries, Benin Republic, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger Republic, across 17 states. These ...

The recent influx of foreign fighters into Nigeria, particularly from the Sahel region, has raised significant concerns ...

Troops of the 6th Division of the Nigerian army, have arrested 29 oil thieves and recovered 60,000 litres of stolen crude in ...

Its emperor Mansa Musa was placed on medieval European maps of Africa with description: "The king is the richest and most noble because his country abounds in gold." Under him, the empire reached its ...

The amount budgeted for personnel costs, including salaries and allowances to state civil servants, has increased from ...

Infrastructural projects worth billions of naira have been abandoned by past and current governors in 29 of Nigeria's 36 states.

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 ...

The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), has chided the Federal Government for locating mini Liquefied Natural Gas Plants (LNGPs) in Ajaokuta, Kogi State, describing it as a misplaced priority in the first ...

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).