At least 100 people, mostly women, are missing after a boat transporting passengers to a food market capsized on the river ...

Fringing the delta of the Niger River, local mangrove forests are essential to biodiversity and the survival of local communities. In Nigeria, scientists, activists and lawyers are joining forces ...

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 ...

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).