Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Joseph Utsev, today refuted claims that water releases from the Kainji and Jebba Dams ...

The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Joseph Utsev, on Tuesday, cleared the air that no water release from Kainji and Jebba Dams caused the flooding and deaths in Mokwa, Niger State.Utsev ...

The number of deaths recorded from the Thursday devastating flood in Niger State has risen to 115, official sources have confirmed.The Director General of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency, ...

At least 151 people have died after heavy rainfall sparked severe flooding in Mokwa, a market town in north-central Nigeria.

Some fishers in Bamako, Mali’s capital, are raising concerns about dredging of the Niger River in search of gold. They say the combination of dredging and increasing plastic pollution is causing ...

adjacent to the Niger River, which shares its name. There are 11 national languages in Niger, with French serving as the country’s official language. The number of indigenous languages in Niger ...

There are also the Niger River Basin Development Authority, which is mandated to handle areas drained by the Niger River starting in the North from the river’s confluence with Malendo River and ...

Show more River blindness – or onchocerciasis – is a tropical disease which causes itchiness, skin damage, and eventually blindness. It affects millions of people across Africa. In Niger a ...

Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday. Niger is "the fifth ...

President Bola Tinubu had initially appointed one Aliyu Tajudeen as the Managing Director and the Chief Executive Officer of the agency. There is confusion surrounding the appointment of two ...