Niger is the first African country and fifth in the world to eliminate onchocerciasis, also known as 'river blindness', a ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), which just sent its congratulations, Niger has gone down as the first ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it ...

Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, is parasitic disease, and 2nd-leading infectious cause of blindness ...

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.

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

Niger's president Mohamed Bazoum has spent 550 days as a hostage of the military junta in the capital, Niamey. His lawyers say that his detention is setting a dangerous precedent and have launched ...

At least 98 persons have been confirmed dead and 69 injured from the petrol tanker explosion that occurred on Saturday in ...

Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, expressed his heartfelt condolences to the ...

Heineken Lokpobiri, has expressed profound sorrow over the tragic tanker explosion at Dikko Junction along the ...

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has advised the Niger Governor, Mohammed Umar ...