The Niger State government has warned over 2,000 communities across 15 local government areas of the state living along ...

The Niger State Government has asked residents of over 2,000 riverine communities to relocate to safer grounds following fresh flood warnings issued by the Federal Government and the Nigerian ...

The Federal Government’s Renewed Hope Economic Shocks Response Initiative has continued its debit card distribution exercise ...

The Niger State Government has issued a directive for residents of riverine communities across the state to immediately ...

The recent flood in Mokwa, Niger State, where raging waters swept away hundreds of men, women, and children, is one such tragedy. Unfortunately, this is the second major disaster to hit Niger ...

Aliyu Abdulhameed, managing director of the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), ...

The death toll from devastating flooding in a market town in Nigeria's north-central state of Niger rose to at least 200 on Sunday, a local official said.

Mokwa community leader Aliki Musa told the AP the villagers are not used to such flooding. The chairman of the Mokwa local government area, Jibril Muregi, ...

Mayor Francis G. Slay had plans to vote for himself Tuesday at 9 a.m. Meanwhile, Downtown, just across the street from where he works, a trial was getting underway. The trial is part of the ...

Police Chief Joe Mokwa's bosses didn't believe he did anything improper in his department's dealings with a towing company, but they felt they had one choice: Move on.