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The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) has issued an urgent flood warning to communities along the River Benue and River Niger, following significant rises in water levels due to ...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Niger State, Jonathan Vatsa, has alleged that the level of violence being witnessed in Plateau and Benue states has political undertones and ...
This is particularly so because the River Niger, which emerges from The Futa djalon highlands in Guinea, and runs thousands of miles through several West African countries, eventually terminates ...
At the bank of the River Niger in Lokoja, we waited for the person that would take us to the point of Confluence between the Rivers Niger and Benue.
For two consecutive weeks, a wave of panic has swept through Nigeria following brutal attacks on communities in Benue and Plateau States, resulting in the deaths of no fewer than 150 people, all ...
At our monitoring station in Wuro-Boki, Adamawa State, the first monitoring station as River Benue enters Nigeria, the water level has risen to 5.36m as at 8th August, 2016, as against 4.88m ...
The River Benue has its origins in the Adamawa Plateau of Northern Cameroon. The Lagdo Dam, a 40m high dam, has been built across the river about 50km upstream of Garoua, a major town on the river ...
The "mother of waters," as River Benue is often called, has historically served as a suitable source from which many ethnic groups and societies have drawn their identities from ...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — At least 74 people were killed in Nigeria's Benue state in two attacks by gunmen this week, local officials and police said on Saturday, the latest clashes in an area where ...
“The map shows critical flood-prone zones across Nigeria, particularly around stations along the River Benue and River Niger. “Makurdi, in particular, has recorded dangerously high water ...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Niger State, Jonathan Vatsa, has alleged that the level of violence being witnessed in Plateau and Benue states has political undertones and ...