An overall trend towards economic growth in Nigeria masks the fact that millions have been forced into low-wage jobs in the once industrial north,...

Nigeria’s porous border with its northern neighbour Niger is being exploited by traffickers smuggling teenage girls to Europe where they will work as...

A decision by the Nigerian government to reverse an earlier decision to import 50,000 metric tonnes of rice from Thailand to ease supply pressures on...

The demand for grain to feed chickens in some 350 industrial poultry farms in Kano State has strained human food security, officials say. “The...

With massive fuel shortages in the north of Nigeria since mid March, transport costs have doubled exacerbating food prices. “Until last week I...

The drowning of 30 people on 1 April when a boat capsized on Lake Bagwai, 50 km west of Kano city, was one of dozens of recent boat accidents in...

A measles outbreak in northern Nigeria’s Katsina state has killed 165 children in the last three months and infected more than 3,000 children,...

Experts agree that an estimated 35 percent of land that was cultivatable 50 years ago is now desert in 11 of Nigeria’s northern states, but what they...

A species of cattail grass known locally as 'kachalla' is taking over river banks and farmlands around the Hadejia-Komadugu-Yobe wetlands in northern...

At least four people have been killed in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna during a violent protest over a three-year power blackout in a poor...