For refusing to be raped, two women were recently killed in Sabon Gari, Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, alongside ...

West Africa's Niger river connects four ecoregions of outstanding importance ... Twenty of the river's 250 species of freshwater fish are endemic, and a crucial food source for millions of people. In ...

Divers and local volunteers have been searching the River Niger following the incident Dozens of people are feared dead after a boat capsized in north-central Nigeria. The boat was ferrying more ...

"The river is part of the border. Niger says its borders with Benin are closed. It's a consequence," the source told AFP. "With the flow of people on the river and the boats whose loading no one ...

Mohammed, in a statement yesterday, also urged residents along the River Niger to move to safer areas. He explained that the management of Kainji and Jebba Dams is working to manage the increased ...

"If you go to Lokoja, you see massive developments along the Niger River," says Mr Barau. These developments are almost always unregulated, with people building on floodplains, reducing the ...

Two major rivers have flooded across central Nigeria displacing tens of thousands of people, the Red Cross told AFP.

The Senate on Thursday decried recurring flood disasters in communities along the River Niger channel mandated its Committee on Environment to conduct an urgent assessment of the affected flooded ...