Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara has revealed his mandate to entrench a synergy with the Niger Republic to end banditry in the North West. This was...
Not less than 25 primary school children have been killed when their thatched-roof classrooms caught fire in southern Niger Republic on Monday, the country’s Council of...
Heavily armed gunmen riding on motorcycles have killed at least 14 people in an attack in a village in western Niger Republic, near the restive border...
An increasing number of young Nigerians are looking to leave the country in search of a brighter economic future, according to the World Bank. This was...
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO), has slammed those who have continued to criticize the Kano to Maradi (Niger Republic) rail line project embarked upon by the...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday revealed the reason behind the construction of the Maradi Rail Project which truncates in the Niger Republic. This was during an...
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has disclosed that some Nigerians now take children to Niger Republic to get assistance from...
19 people have been confirmed dead after armed men suspected to be members of the ISIS terrorists group raided a village in the western region of...
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has revealed what he says are the economic benefits Nigeria will get from constructing a rail line to Maradi in...
President Muhammadu Buhari has called for stronger collaborations between countries, to end terrorism in the sub-Saharan and Sahel regions in Africa. Buhari made this call on...
Barely one week after 58 people were killed by insurgents in the Niger Republic, armed men on Sunday night killed at least 40 people in villages...
Fifty-eight people have been killed by insurgents suspected to be Boko Haram fighters after they struck three market communities in Niger Republic near the Malian border....
President Muhammadu Buhari has named a road in the federal capital territory (FCT) after President Issoufou Mahamadou of Niger Republic. This is coming hours after President...
The Katsina State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has arrested two suspected human traffickers and rescued 18 victims in the Charanchi Local Government Area...
Nigerians on social media have massively opposed the new directive by the Central Bank of Nigeria, which imposes a new flat charge of N6.98k for customers...
The Niger Republic government has conferred the country’s highest national honour, Grand Croix Des Ordre National Du Niger, on President Muhammadu Buhari. The Special Adviser on...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday explained why his administration has continued to show a keen interest in the happenings in the Niger Republic. He said Niger...
The former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, on Wednesday, February 24, implored a federal high court in Abuja to vacate an...
Violent protests broke out in Niger Republic on Tuesday, spilling into the early hours of Wednesday, after the West African country’s electoral commission named ruling party...
A second round of voting in the inconclusive presidential elections in Niger Republic has been fixed for February 21, after the first round of voting on...
The death toll arising from a deadly attack on two villages in Niger Republic by heavily armed militants which witnessed the killing of 49 people and...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday condemned the killing of 70 people by militants in Zaroumdareye, a border town between Niger Republic and Mali. In a statement...
The presidential election in Niger Republic which was held on December 27, 2020, is heading for a second round run-off on February 20, as no candidate...
Tragedy struck in two villages in Niger Republic when heavily armed militants struck, killing no fewer than 49 people and injuring 17 other victims in the...
Niger Republic is set to hold its elections today, December 27, in the country’s first democratic transition of power between two democratically elected presidents. Former Minister...
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday only God can effectively “supervise” Nigeria’s border with the Republic of Niger. The president, according to a statement issued by...
Some farmers who fled the Gudu and Tangaza local government areas of Sokoto State to seek refuge in Niger Republic, have narrated how constant attacks and...
Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has said that most Almajiris seen roaming the streets in Kano and other northern states came from neighbouring countries. According to...
On November 26, 2020, Nigerian authorities issued a terse statement saying wanted fugitive, Abdulrasheed Maina, had been traced to Niger Republic, Nigeria’s northern neighbour, long suspected...
The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday approved the immediate reconstruction and dualisation of the Kano-Danbatta- Kazaure-Daura-Niger border road. The Senate took the resolution after adopting a motion...
Social media users in Nigeria have continued to place more value on topics of national importance, and Tuesday was no exception. Most of the discussions challenged...
The runaway former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, has been arrested. Maina was arrested in Niger Republic by operatives of...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said on Thursday the Federal Government has reached out to the Niger Republic and the United States in search...
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, on Monday said Nigerians should rather be proud that the Federal Government was set to resume the...
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, said on Friday Nigeria would restart fuel importation from the neighbouring Niger Republic to meet local energy...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said on Friday the Federal Government approved the extension of rail line construction to Marradi in Niger Republic...
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has querried the economic benefits of the a rail line the Federal Government plans to construct from Kano to Niger...
The Presidency said on Thursday Nigeria was not building a rail line into Niger Republic but to the border between both countries. The Senior Special Assistant...
The Federal Government on Thursday received 177 Nigerian returnees from Niger Republic. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, who...
Tragedy struck in the south-eastern part of Niger Republic when no fewer than 20 people, many of them women and children, were killed during a stampede...
Niger Republic on Monday began three days of national mourning after suspected terrorists killed 89 people in an attack on a military camp near its border...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has asked international electricity customers to pay up their $7 million electricity debt. Usman Mohammed, managing director of TCN, while...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will leave Abuja for Niamey, Niger Republic, later on Friday for the extraordinary summit of the Economic Community of West African States...
The end to the closure of Nigeria’s land borders may take longer than expected as the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele,...
At least $1.7 million has been found in the Niger Republic home of a former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina. The Nigerien...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the four-year tenure practised by Nigeria was quite a short period, for a president in a developing country, who...
Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) announced on Saturday, that two citizens of Niger Republic had been arrested at Kongolam border in Katsina state. The Public Relation Officer...
Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has revealed that the six mine-resistant military vehicles intercepted by authorities in Adamawa were bound for Niger Republic. Customs spokesperson, Joseph Attah,...
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived Niger Republic where he will be attending the 12th Extraordinary Session of the Assembly of the Union on African Continental Free...
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has said that over 15,000 Nigerians, from Sokoto and are Zamfara are currently in Niger Republic as refugees. According to...
