In the two years since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ended Nigeria’s popular fuel subsidy, residents of Ngwoma have seen their world shrink.

The medieval village blacksmith has been reinvented as a social-media-savvy student selling his wares internationally, while a town crier, once used to spread breaking news to townsfolk, now ...

ALFORD, LINCOLNSHIRE — The not-quite-undisputed world’s loudest town crier and his latest challenger bellowed like wounded water buffaloes in a high noon shout-out at the Corn Exchange … ...

At least 111 people were confirmed dead in central Nigeria on Friday after floods submerged the market town of Mokwa in the country's Niger State following torrential rains, officials said. The ...

The tradition is still maintained in suburban Mariemont, where a town crier is an official and elected village position, complete with a bell and the habiliments of an 18th-century squire.

10 competitors (and one crier-turn-judge from England) made their way to Provincetown to compete in the art of the unamplified voice on Monday.

Armed men killed at least 20 people and injured dozens in a mining village in Nigeria’s northwestern Zamfara state, a rights group said. Gunmen arrived on motorcycles in the village of Gobirawa ...

At least 50 people were killed and an unspecified number kidnapped, including women and children, when gunmen attacked the village of Yargoje in northwest Nigeria at the weekend, residents said on ...

A man said he was "absolutely elated" to win a British town crier competition on his birthday. David Summer, from Mablethorpe, was among 16 criers from Britain and one from Canada who competed in ...

Over 30 town criers from across the UK, Bermuda, Nova Scotia and Australia are taking part in a national competition. The Calne Town Crier Competition is being held at Beach Terrace on the bank of ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Armed men killed at least 20 people and injured dozens in a mining village in Nigeria’s northwestern Zamfara state, a rights group said.