ABUJA, Nigeria — At least 27 people died and more than 100, most of them women, were missing Friday after a boat transporting them to a food market capsized along the River Niger in northern Nigeria, ...

President Bola Tinubu recently declared a state of emergency in Nigeria’s oil-rich Rivers State, in the country’s south-south region. The president has placed the governor, the deputy governor and the ...

The feud between two the current governor and the former governor in Nigeria’s oil-rich Rivers State has prompted threats by ethnic groups to hijack oil facilities. Shell has cautioned staff to be on ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — An accident involving a boat carrying passengers on the Niger River in north-central Nigeria has killed at least 26 people, an official said Wednesday. The accident happened ...

The Nigerian Navy has frustrated renewed attempts by crude oil theft syndicates to re-establish a major illegal refining network in Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, reinforcing ...

As Nigeria edges closer to the 2027 election, Rivers State is emerging as one of the country’s most closely watched political ...