New global data shows the fertility rate gap is widening further between high-birth and low-birth countries. According to the CIA World Factbook and World Population Review 2024-25 estimates, the ...

It’s still unclear what — if anything — the administration will do to counter Islamic militants in Nigeria, but precision ...

For many decades, since the discovery and exploration of oil in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, oil spillage has been a recurring health, ...

A two-month-old fuel blockade by al Qaeda-linked militants has all but paralysed the capital of Mali, turning the screws on ...

A well-armed jihadist group affiliated with al Qaeda is closing in on Bamako, the capital of Mali. The country’s military junta and their Russian partners are struggling to counter the jihadis, who ...

President Donald Trump was heading to Florida on Friday, watching Fox News, when he saw the network run a story on how ...

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, recently redesignated Nigeria as a 'Country of Particular Concern' (CPC), ...

According to experts, Trump's threat of military intervention in Nigeria on behalf of persecuted Christians is likely a negotiating tactic.

The Hausa people commonly referred to as Hausawa form one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa, predominantly found in Northern Nigeria and parts of Niger, Ghana, and Sudan .

Since his coming to power, against the overwhelming opinion of Americans, he has lurched from one fiasco locally and internationally to the other, embarrassing his countrymen who have had to bear the ...

BY JOHN KOKOME Once the pride of Africa’s political rebirth, democracy now stands battered by corruption, manipulation, ...

Nigeria's return to the US list of countries of "particular concern" over Christian persecution has drawn mixed reactions from church leaders and triggered a heated debate in Africa's most populous ...