An unknown illness in Bida has hospitalised at least 24 residents, causing sudden collapse and loss of communication abilities, outbreak sparked widespread panic.

The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has emphasized the need for a more proactive and decisive approach to combat banditry in the country, ...

Earlier this month, soldiers swooped by helicopter into a vast mining complex in western Mali and made away with three tonnes of gold -- all done on the orders of the military government.

The death toll of an explosion from a crashed gasoline tanker in central Nigeria over the weekend has risen to 98, after ...

Peter Obi, former governor and 2023 presidential candidate, has called for urgent safety measures to prevent recurring ...

There is a prominent perception or assumption that the Nupe people, the major ethnic group in Niger State, are highly educated, particularly in Western education. My attention was recently drawn ...

The late Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner mercenary force has been accused of plotting attacks against Western ...

The Niger State Government has issued a warning about a fraudulent online portal circulating on social media, falsely ...

In an effort to empower adolescent girls and address critical challenges affecting their education and well-being, the Niger state government, in collaboration with the World Bank, has launched the ...

Niger’s defense minister says the junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force that will soon be deployed in the restive Sahel region to face rising extr ...

The United Nations will this week appeal for $910 million to help tackle a humanitarian crisis in northeastern Nigeria, which ...

Libya deported more than 600 men from Niger last month as North African countries — financed by the European Union to tackle ...