L-R: Gov. Umo Eno, Akwa Ibom State; Gov. Siminalayi Fubara, Rivers State; Gov. Douye Diri, Bayelsa State; Gov.Bassey Otu, Cross Rivers State, and Gov. Sheriff Oborevwori, Delta StateThe Niger Delta ...

The NT government has given billions of litres of water from the Roper River to irrigators. When will Australia start ...

Its emperor Mansa Musa was placed on medieval European maps of Africa with description: "The king is the richest and most noble because his country abounds in gold." Under him, the empire reached its ...

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).

Libya authorities uncovered nearly 50 bodies this week from two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert, officials ...

The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious ...

This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway across the globe. Some of the more well-known examples ...

African countries are working together to create larger markets and benefit from economies of scale. In the energy sector, ...

Shell reported an oil spill yesterday at Ogale, near Port Harcourt, after a saver pit overflowed during flushing operations ...

One of the most heart-warming stories in Nigeria last week was that seven governors, only three of them from Nigeria, met in Maiduguri to push forward with concerted efforts to salvage the Lake Chad ...

In a small village in Niger’s Tahoua region, an 80-year-old man sits in the shade, his eyes clouded by irreversible blindness ...

It straddles four countries, so the Governor of Niger Republic's Diffa Province ... the shrinking of the once mighty lake was the beginning of its problem. In old maps of Africa dating back to the ...