•Notorious bandit leader, Bello Turji Some displaced residents of Isa Local Government Area of Sokoto State have lamented increased banditry in the area, saying their family members are undertaking huge risks to move to Niger Republic. They told our correspondent that their relatives fled to the West African country following renewed threats a...
131 Nigerian returnees from the Niger Republic, assisted by the International Organisation for Migration (IMO) in collaboration with the Federal Government’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA ) have arrived safely in the country. They came back into the country from Agades in the Republic of Niger. NEMA in its X statement today ...
•A kidnap victim An American missionary was kidnapped in Niger’s capital Niamey, three security sources said today. The missionary, who is a pilot for the evangelical missionary agency Serving in Mission, was seized by three unidentified men as he headed to the airport on last night in Niger’s Plateau neighbourhood, a diplomat speaking on cond...
•Morocco forward Ayoub El Kaabi celebrates scoring with his teammates yesterday Morocco trounced 10-man Niger 5-0 in Rabat on Friday to win Group E and become the first African qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup. Ismael Saibari scored twice in the first half after Abdul-Latif Goumey was sent off and second-half goals from Ayoub el […]...
•General Abdourahmane Tchiani Niger’s lawyers have announced a two-day strike tomorrow and Friday to protest against the military government’s dissolution of the West African country’s justice unions. The lawyers accuse the junta, which seized power in the jihadist-hit Sahel nation in a July 2023 coup, of threatening the independence of the ju...
•Rams market As this year’s Eid al-Adha approaches, livestock dealers and buyers have expressed concern that rams and other sacrificial animals may become more expensive due to rising cases of rustling in parts of the North West and a recent livestock export ban imposed by the Niger Republic. Earlier in May, the Nigerien government temporarily...
•Niger junta leader, General Abdourahamane Tchiani Junta-run Niger, which has severed links with former colonial ruler France, yesterday said it was quitting a global group of French-speaking nations — an organisation resembling the Commonwealth. “The Nigerien government has independently decided to withdraw Niger from the Organisation interna...
•Tinubu and fuel pump Niger Republic has turned to Nigeria for help after being hit by fuel shortage. The West African country reached out to Nigeria despite months of diplomatic tensions and hostile rhetoric, reports Sunday PUNCH. It was learnt that a delegation of senior officials of the military junta travelled down to Abuja to […]
The Republic of Niger has begun enforcing restrictions on Nigerians traveling with the ECOWAS passport, barring entry for those without a valid international passport. This move follows the country’s recent withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African States alongside Mali and Burkina Faso, reports The PUNCH. Despite maintaining an o...
Niger’s ruling military junta has asked the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to leave the country immediately. Niger has “terminated its agreements” with the ICRC and some foreign staff have started to leave the West African country, the source said, adding the organisation had closed its office in the capital, Niamey, on Tuesda...
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