Niger has opened an investigation into whether a rare Mars rock was smuggled out of the country before it sold for £3.2m at a ...

"Brazen! It is brazen!" Prof Paul Sereno says down the phone line from Chicago. He makes no effort to disguise his anger that a rare meteorite from Mars discovered two years ago in the West African ...

Niger has announced that it plans to investigate the sale of the largest martian meteorite on Earth after the fragment was ...

Niger’s military government has announced the nationalisation of the country’s only industrial gold mine, accusing its ...

The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Dr Dennis Otuaro, has stated that the Niger Delta will support ...

By Wole Mosadomi, Minna Death toll of those infected by cholera epidemic has risen to 16 persons in Niger State. Two weeks ...

He said that the inspection also took him to the construction work at the 3.65-kilometre Borokiri-Okrika Road and three ...

The largest shea butter processing facility in Africa, with an annual production capacity of 30,000 metric tons, has been established in Niger State.The facility, located in Kudu, Mokwa Local ...

At least two Indians have been killed and a third abducted by gunmen during an attack in Niger’s southwest Dosso region.

Niger State Governor, Mohammed Bago, has mourned the death of former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu ...

Niger’s armed forces have been bringing in reinforcements to the capital to prepare for a potential military intervention, a military source told CNN, just hours after the military junta running ...

Niger was seen as a mainstay of Western efforts to quell Islamist insurgencies in the Sahel, the arid region south of the Sahara Desert. Mahamadou Hamidou/Reuters ...