The Upper Niger River Basin Development Authority received N9 billion in the 2025 fiscal appropriation, which was allocated to Niger State for various projects, the managing director, Aliyu Tajudeen ...

Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth ...

The Hadejia Wetlands National Park in northwestern Nigeria is a vital ecological treasure, designated as both a globally ...

On proposed completion in 2030, the Great Green Wall is expected to be the largest living structure on the planet, three ...

The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Dr Samuel Ogbuku has said the commission is committed to the speedy completion of the Gbaregolor-Ogulaha Road project Phase I, in ...

While humans had long survived in savanna and forests, they shifted into everything from from dense rainforests to arid deserts in the period leading up to 50,000 years ago, developing what Hallett ...

On a dusty scrap of desert in northern Niger, the runway at Airbase 201 is gradually taking shape. A squadron of rollers driven by American troops is readying the long strip of land for a thick ...

Sahara Flooding map -credit, NASA Earth Observatory 11,000 years ago and beyond, the Sahara looked a lot more like the savannah of Kenya and Tanzania than the world’s largest non-polar desert ...

At least 50 migrants, hailing from different African countries, on a journey through the desert on the border between Niger and Libya, died as a result of water shortages and high temperatures.

Sani Musa, the senator representing Niger East Senatorial District, disclosed the tragic news on Friday while commenting on the beheading and killing of 20 youths and members of Bassa, a community ...

The United States was forced to stop its military operations in March 2024 in Niger – a landlocked, western African country in the Sahara desert. Niger may not immediately seem like a key ally ...

Agadez, a desert outpost in the West African country of Niger, was officially closed to migration for years in a deal with the European Union. Now, the gate has reopened.