The Governor of Niger State, Mohammed Bago ... Bago highlighted the importance of language in education. The event took place at the Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi International Conference Centre ...

Ledisi’s first name means “to bring forth” in Yoruba. Yoruba is a Niger-Congo language that is spoken primarily in Nigeria. She self-released her debut album in 2000, entitled Soulslinger. Ledisi has ...

IN SHORT: A claim is circulating on Facebook, saying that Nigeria's northern governors have rejected English as the medium of instruction in their schools. Niger state governor Mohammed Bago has ...

Both countries share more in common than the River Niger, from which they derived their names. Large sections of their populations speak a common language and share the same faith and kinship.

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa’s Sahel region, while on his way ...

Niger Republic’s military junta picked a fight ... move,” Tchiani stated in the interview conducted in Hausa language, and thus accessible to millions of Nigerians in the North.

The three junta-led West African nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known ...

The Nigerian government is in talks with local communities to restart oil production in a region that’s previously suffered ...

O. Jason OSAI urges African leaders not to allow themselves to be led into new slavery by treaties and agreements they don't understandThe 1980 Box Office comic movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy" garnered ...

The U.S. military has conducted coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the ...