Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday.Niger is 'the fifth ...

The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) the omnibus sociopolitical body of the South-South region, has condemned the exclusion of the Niger Delta region in the siting of the newly launched five Mini ...

Niger’s Minister of Public Health, Population and Social Affairs Garba Hakimi, officially declared at a ceremony on Thursday ...

The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has expressed strong opposition to the exclusion of the Niger Delta region from the siting ...

Polygamous marriages are common in many parts of northern Nigeria, particularly among Muslim communities where Islamic ...

THE World Health Organisation (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it the fifth country globally and ...

For a foreign correspondent in Mali, the assignment seemed like a dream: as Islamic extremists upended the region, Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, secured a rare interview with a leader of JNIM, ...

Reactions have continued to trail the regular petrol tanker explosions in Nigeria, which have claimed several lives and destroyed property worth millions ...

This Monday, a conference was convened by the Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development, with other civil society ...

Nigerian man Usman Abdulmalik marries two women, Hasiya Ahmad and Maryam Mahmud, on the same day. The ceremony took place on ...

He assured the commission of PANDEF’s continued collaboration, reiterating the group’s role as the voice of the Niger Delta ...