A 14-year-old girl, Elizabeth Peter, from Korokpa community in Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State has drowned in the Chanchaga River while attempting to fetch water.Witnesses said ...

An overloaded wooden boat ferrying nearly 300 wedding guests across the Niger River in a remote part of Nigeria split in half and capsized, leaving at least 106 people dead, including children.

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).

River transport and market trade are common in Nigeria, where roads are often poor. The Niger, West Africa's main river travelling through Guinea to Nigeria's Niger Delta, is a key local trade route.

A 14-year-old girl, Elizabeth Peter, from Korokpa in Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State, has drowned in the Chanchaga River while fetching water. Miss Peter was an SSS1 student of Saint ...

The boat capsized on the Niger River at night, when many passengers were returning from a wedding party. By Elian Peltier and Ismail Alfa Elian Peltier reported from Dakar, Senegal, and Ismail ...

An image from Google Maps indicates with a red marker the Ogbaru area of Nigeria's Anambra state, where an overloaded boat capsized in the flood-swollen Niger River on October 7, 2022, leaving ...

Interview - Girls in nearly a third of African countries face significant barriers to education when they become pregnant. But this is changing. In 2019, the government of Niger adopted an order ...

The Nation Newspaper Niger water board truck crushes two girls to death. Wednesday, June 25, 2025 Advertise With Us E-paper. News; ... Niger State Water and Sewage Corporation ...

At least 54 bodies have now been recovered from a boat carrying more than 200 passengers which capsized along the River Niger in northern Nigeria. Divers are still searching the waters but hope is ...