Speaking at the ceremony marking the 25th anniversary/women and youth conference held in Owerri on Wednesday, the ...

A Russian-built SU-24M bomber crashed into Niger River near Gao, Mali, a day after a major Africa Corps–FLA clash. The cause remains unknown.

Floodwaters from torrential overnight rainfall inundated a town in Nigeria on Friday, killing at least 151 people, according to officials, who said the severity of the flood had taken them by ...

Earlier this year, Niger became the first country in the WHO African Region to receive verification from WHO for having eliminated river blindness. Timothy Jesudason reports.

In response Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s president, declared a state of emergency in Rivers, the oil-rich state in the Niger Delta where the explosion happened.

An explosion has rocked a section of the Trans Niger Pipeline in Bodo Community in Gonna Local Government Area of Rivers State.

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 staggering 70 ...

99% of cases of the disease are in Africa – impacting millions of people. It can cause itchiness, skin damage, and eventually blindness. Show more River blindness – or onchocerciasis – is a ...

Niger River The Niger River, which spans 2,600 miles (4,180 kilometers), starts near the Atlantic Ocean, travels inland to the Sahara Desert, and then bends south to the Gulf of Guinea.

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).