Map illustrating counties of Niger State. Rafi County is on the right side, bordering Kaduna State. From Wikimedia commons.By Segun Onibiyo and Steven Kefas(Kaduna), The rural communiti ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Niger's military junta has banned the French aid group Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development ...

A militant group known as LAKURAWA, originally formed as a self-defence force for Fulani communities in Niger in 1997, has ...

For refusing to be raped, two women were recently killed in Sabon Gari, Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, alongside  eight others after terrorists invaded their community. The attack was the ...

Troops from the Nigerian Army’s 6th Division have arrested 19 suspected oil thieves and dismantled 43 illegal crude oil ...

In Niger State’s Rafi Local Government Area, at least 10 farmers, including women and a Chinese national, were killed by bandits during an attack on Tuesday morning.  The assault occurred in the ...

An APC chieftain, Yekini Nabena, has appealed to the federal government to address the flood disaster in the Niger Delta ...

Federal Government has begun distribution of relief materials to people affected by flood this year in Niger Delta . It launched the distribution in Akure, Ondo State capital. Items to be distributed ...

Spokesman for the group, Justin Alabraba threatened to bomb and shut down oil facilities and installations in the region should any judge, anywhere in the country, particularly Abuja make such a ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - Niger’s Prime Minister Hama Amadou is seen at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Nov. 21 ...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger's former Prime Minister Hama Amadou died in a hospital in the country's capital, Niamey, after ...

The World Weather Attribution (WWA) network said on Wednesday that human-driven climate change, caused by the use of fossil fuels, had made seasonal downpours across the Niger and Lake Chad basins ...