At least 227 students and teachers were abducted by suspected terrorists from St. Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools in Papiri, Agwara Local Government Area of Niger State. The Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Niger State chapter, Most Rev. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, confirmed the abduction, emphasising that the ass...
•Bandits Terrorists have reportedly abducted students at St. Mary’s School, a Catholic institution in Papiri community, Agwara Local Government Area of Niger State. The incident was said to have occurred around 2am today. Secretary to the Niger State Government, Alhaji Abubakar Usman who confirmed the incident said the number of pupils abducte...
The Niger State Emergency Management Agency, (NSEMA) has confirmed that 39 passengers were on board in the ill-fated boat that was involved in an accident last Saturday around Gini, Zumba, in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. Confirming the information yesterday in a release signed and made available to journalists in Minna was the...
The Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, Kayode Opeifa, has said that the Kano-Maradi Railway project is key to improving food security in Nigeria. Opeifa, who stated this yesterday on Channels Television, said the rail connection between Niger and the Niger Republic was important because mobility could not be removed from th...
•Atlantic Ocean The landlocked nations of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are seeking further option to access the sea by partnering with the Kingdom of Morocco. An announcement on the development was made during a meeting with King Mohammed VI in Rabat, according to the Moroccan state news agency, which revealed that the three countries [&hellip...
•Flags of Economic Community of West African States Commission (ECOWAS) countries The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has finalised plans to relocate its institutions and agencies currently based in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, following the formal withdrawal of the three countries from the regional bloc. This decision was...
•ECOWAS The Council of Ministers of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is set to hold an Extraordinary Session from today, Tuesday, April 22 to tomorrow, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Accra, Ghana, to deliberate on the formal withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger from the regional bloc. According to a statement [&hell...
•General Abdourahamane Tiani (2nd L), the head of the military regime in Niger Niger military government has officially made Hausa the country’s new national language, moving away from its colonial past where French played a central role. The change was announced in a new charter released on March 31, published in a special edition of [&hellip...
•Mahama and Tinubu in Abuja Ghanaian President, John Mahama, yesterday visited his Nigerian counterpart, Bola Tinubu, at the State House in Abuja. The visit, the first since his inauguration on January 7 is to brief Tinubu – who also doubles as the Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government – on […]
•Petrol tanker explosion The recurring tanker explosions across Niger State have claimed at least 112 lives, with multi-billion-naira properties destroyed between January and March 2025. In the three months, data compiled by this paper revealed seven tanker accidents have left many people injured and properties worth billions destroyed, report...
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