Niger: Southern Villages Emptying as Drought Bites

When we talk of a 'food crisis', what are we referring to? Beyond cold and disembodied statistics, a Malian journalist has visited a few parts of Niger and reports on means of life, indeed, to surviving.[1]

Oil giant Shell has offered some of its oilfields in the Niger Delta valued at between $150 million to $2 billion for sale, THISDAY investigations have revealed.

The authorities in Niger have suspended a June 3, 2010 Decree which the country's media and civil society groups say would restrict information flow and gag foreign journalists.

Cross River State Government has said it is collaborating with the Niger Delta Ministry to build an ultra-modern town for people displaced in the wake of the hand-over of Bakassi Peninsula to the Republic of Cameroon.

House of Representatives yesterday raised objections to the 2010 Appropriation Bill of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) particularly certain seeming "frivolous provisions" contained in the budget proposal.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, and ECOWAS Chairman, has assured the United Nations (UN) that the military leaders in Niger Republic will hand over power in March 2011.

An umbrella body of groups driving the struggle for better deal from the federal government in the Niger Delta region, Joint Revolutionary Council, has warned against any attempt to frustrate the rumoured presidential bid of President Goodluck Jonathan under the pretence of zoning in his ruling Peoples Democratic Party.