OGONILAND, located in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, is home to the Ogoni people, who have long suffered the consequences of oil exploitation. Since the discovery of oil in the region by Shell in 1958, ...

Maru town in Nigeria’s Zamfara State, Northwest Nigeria, remains under severe threat from Fulani terrorists despite military onslaught, a lawmaker said on Feb. 14.&nbs ...

Heat, drought and floods are growing security risks, Western defense officials say, feeding instability and violence that ...

The Nasarawa State chapter of the National Youth Council of Nigeria has protested against the alleged relocation of the headquarters of the North-Central Development Commission from Nasarawa State to ...

More than 1,200 residents from oil communities in the Niger Delta have filed a $323 million lawsuit against UK-based Royal Dutch Shell to halt their planned exit from the region. In Jan. 2024, Shell ...

The discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at an Indian residential school in Canada in 2021 was just the catalyst for ...

Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an ...

A UK court heard a case brought against the international oil company Shell by communities in Nigeria’s Niger River Delta. The Ogoni people claim that decades of oil spills by Shell and its local ...

Police arrested Niger Johnson, 21, for reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon ... She has spent months feeling forgotten or neglected by police and city officials, like maybe her ...

CAIRO (AP) — Libya authorities have uncovered nearly 50 bodies from two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert, officials said Sunday, in the latest tragedy involving people seeking to reach ...

The Niger State Police Command has arrested 19 suspected ... The vehicle was stolen on January 31, 2025, in Tunga, Minna, and intercepted at City Gate while the suspect attempted to take it ...