The Niger State Deputy Governor, Comrade Yakubu Garba, has said that more non-indigenes were affected in the Mokwa floods as people from over 15 states who were living in Mokwa were affected.

Two communities in Bida Local Government Area of Niger State have been devastated by heavy rainfall and erosion, which ...

Despite sounding like a nightmare, it likely helps give the Guugu Yimithirr people an acute sense of direction.

Nearly two years after Niger's military seized power and the border with Benin was shut, tensions over security, sovereignty ...

The linguistic landscape is far more complicated than it first appears, with many isolated languages and sub-families that ...

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One of the latest profound efforts at decolonisation by the military government was to adopt Hausa as the national or official language of Niger Republic in place of French. On 9 April ...

Africa’s sixth-biggest country, Niger, has taken a bold step to distance itself from its troubled past by adopting a new official language. For over 60 years, France controlled the country as ...

Niger’s junta has adopted Hausa as the national language in the place of French in a further break from Paris, its former colonial master. Since overthrowing civilian president Mohamed Bazoum in ...

The decision is expected to impact education, governance, and media in the coming years as the country navigates this bold linguistic transition. Niger Republic military junta, Abdourahamane ...

Niger’s military government has officially designated Hausa as the country’s national language. The decision was formalized in a new charter released on March 31, published in a special ...

In a move to further distance itself from its colonial past, the government of Niger has officially adopted the Hausa language as the nation’s national language. In a new charter released last ...