Nigeria, Africa

Of the 50 million seedlings planted every year in the 11 northern Nigeria states worst effected by desertification, 37.5 million wither and die...

It is now illegal to encourage the use of condoms in southeast Nigeria’s Anambra State. The state government has also banned the advocacy and...

With massive fuel shortages in the north of Nigeria since mid March, transport costs have doubled exacerbating food prices. “Until last week I...

Violence was relatively low in the run-up to local elections on 29 March in Nigeria's oil-rich Rivers State but with evidence emerging of massive...

The drowning of 30 people on 1 April when a boat capsized on Lake Bagwai, 50 km west of Kano city, was one of dozens of recent boat accidents in...

At least 35 people have died of cholera in the capital of Benue State, Madurdi, and the town of Oturkpo. Both areas have a history of cholera...

A measles outbreak in northern Nigeria’s Katsina state has killed 165 children in the last three months and infected more than 3,000 children,...

Experts agree that an estimated 35 percent of land that was cultivatable 50 years ago is now desert in 11 of Nigeria’s northern states, but what they...

A leader of a Niger Delta oil militant group unseen in public since his arrest has failed to appear before a Nigerian court as expected. At a court...

A species of cattail grass known locally as 'kachalla' is taking over river banks and farmlands around the Hadejia-Komadugu-Yobe wetlands in northern...