The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says the country supplies electricity to neighbouring nations such as Togo, Benin Republic and Niger Republic. TCN’s Chief Executive Officer Sule Abdulaziz said this last night on Channels Television. Nigeria’s power sector has in the last week experienced a series of blackouts with the national grid c...
In Lagos, a couple died on Sunday at the Isolo General Hospital, after contracting the disease. Mr. Emeto and his wife, Augustina, their daughter and a neighbour were allegedly rushed to the Accident and Emergency Unit of the hospital in the wee hours of Sunday, reports The Nation. Besides the couple, another man and a […]
•Boat mishap The Niger State Emergency Management Agency has recovered an additional 16 corpses following the tragic boat accident in Gbajibo, Niger State. Among the newly recovered bodies were two females and 14 males, adding to the earlier discovery of nine bodies—comprising two females and seven males—bringing the total number of recovered ...
•ECOWAS defence chiefs meet in Abuja The Chiefs of Defence Staff of the Economic Community of West Africa States today called for the return of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso to the regional bloc. Speaking in Abuja while on a visit to the National Counter Terrorism Centre, the Chairman of the ECOWAS Committee of Chiefs […]
•Niger’s General Abdourahamane Tiani (R) salutes next to his Burkinabe counterpart Captain Ibrahim Traore (L) upon his arrival in Niamey on Friday The military regimes of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso marked their divorce from the rest of West Africa Saturday, with Niger’s ruling general saying the junta-led countries have “turned their backs o...
More than three weeks after a mining pit collapsed in Galkogo, Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, over 30 miners have remained trapped, victims’ families and residents said. Recalls that labourers were working inside the 400-metre-deep pit owned by African Minerals and Logistics Limited when it caved in on June 3 after a heavy [&hel...
•Terrorists Internally displaced persons in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State are lamenting that terrorists have turned their communities to their permanent base, slaughtering their chickens and pounding the yams they kept in their stores. Speaking with our correspondent in Kuta, Ahmed Almustapha, a displaced person from Rumace-Mada...
Niger Republic has reopened its border with Nigeria in the regions of Diffa, Tahoua, Maradi and Dosso. The land border between the two neighbors was closed following the coup d’état of July 26 and the ECOWAS sanctions that followed, reports Daily Trust. In a radio message broadcast on social networks, yesterday, the Nigerien Ministry of [&hell...
•Bandits Armed Bandits numbering well over 50 yesterday invaded a village market in Madaka community, Rafi local government area of Niger State and killed no fewer than 21 persons in one of the brutal attacks in recent time. Also killed is the village of Madaka whose name was not immediately known as at the time […]
•ECOWAS leaders in Abuja yesterday The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has resolved to lift some sanctions on Niger Republic, Mali and Guinea. The resolution was taken at the extraordinary summit on the peace, political, and security situation in the ECOWAS sub-region in Abuja yesterday, reports Channels TV. While the region...
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