STORY: At a makeshift roadside studio in Niger's capital Niamey, Boubacar Djibo's brush brings a landscape of undulating sand dunes to life. The message of this canvas is ominous. Missiles reflect the ...

A dinosaur skeleton at the National Museum of Niger, which is also a zoo, in Niamey, Niger, on December 29, 2020 Photo: AFP Visitors look at a hippopotamus at the MNN on December 29, 2020. Photo: AFP ...

Lagos — For 40 years, international fuel companies have mercilessly polluted the oil-rich Niger Delta. Today, the region which used to be an area of natural beauty is an ecological disaster. Many of ...

Ambassador Fubara Blessing, the Managing Director and CEO of D’Consiglories LLC, has announced his commitment to organizing and hosting the Niger Delta Music and Arts Project (MAP) as part of the ...

A succession of high and low sounds from the Nigerien musician's drum is a kind of telegram but few today understand its message. Each beat is a syllable in the Hausa language. "You see, he heard his ...

Sylvester Ebigbagho is an associate professor of Fine and Applied Arts at the Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Amassoma, Bayelsa State. In this interview with Edozie Udeze in Yenagoa, he ...

The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta has intensified peacebuilding efforts across Bayelsa and Delta States through a weeklong series of arts and culture solidarity events. The ...

N1.7 billion has been earmarked for the development of modern arts and crafts in Niger State. This is to be done by The Bank of Industry (BOI) . Mr Emmanuel Zhiri, the Acting Executive Director, ...

Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an annual festival coloured this year by political shifts roiling West Africa. Tens ...