The North East Cooperative Stakeholders Forum has queried the rationale behind Nigeria's 2025 budgetary increase from N49.7 trillion to N54.2 trillion presented to the National Assembly by President ...

Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, ...

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

This makes it the fourth explosion -- as documented here -- in less than a month in Niger State alone. A rice mill, fuel tanker and other properties have been destroyed in a gas explosion that rocked ...

The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups ...

A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and ...

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

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

The three junta-led West African nations withdrawal is the culmination of a yearlong process during which the grouping tried ...

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.

Forecasts suggest that by 2100, a majority of the world’s babies will be African, leading to predictions of an African ...