INNOCENT OWEH ABUJA Commissioner for Primary Health Care, in Niger State, Dr. Ibrahim Dangana has underscored the importance of having Emergency Operations Center (EOC) across the state. He said it ...

Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest man, has announced a major agricultural investment in northern Nigeria, in partnership with ...

Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, have expressed ...

Niger has asked that some Chinese employees working on oil projects leave the country, documents seen by Reuters on Friday showed, a move that could affect dozens and further strain bilateral ties.

Wave after wave of the insects sweeps across West Africa and Niger is one of the worst-hit countries. Crops are normally harvested in October, but even in one of the world's poorest countries - which ...

French uranium mining company Orano says it has sued the government of Niger after the disappearance of its director and the ...

In a drearily familiar African paradox, Niger is mineral rich, the world’s fifth largest producer of uranium, even as it ranks lowest on the United Nations’ Human Development Index.

In January, the West African nations of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger completed their year-long process of exiting the ...

So future negotiations will focus on the remaining seven ECOWAS countries: Cape Verde, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, ...

Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited has announced plans to increase its gas production capacity to 300 million standard cubic feet ...

Militant Islamist violence in the Sahel continues to shift southward and westward, putting ever more pressure on population centers in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger—as well as on their coastal West ...

Reuters reported on Saturday that 12 soldiers had been killed in the attack a day earlier near the village of Sakoira in the tri-border region, where the West African Sahel countries of Niger ...