Garam, a border town between Niger State and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) was again attacked by bandits on Tuesday night. It was gathered that the Hoodlums killed one person and abducted nine others. Tuesday’s attack was the fourth…
Armed-men have abducted three persons in Niger state. This recent spate of attack is coming barely a week after bandits invaded Garam village, a Niger community bordering Abuja killing one person. Speaking with journalists, a resident, Lucky Barnabas said the…
The Nigerian Army says its troops have killed 14 insurgents and rescued 13 kidnapped victims in Niger and Kaduna States. The Acting Deputy Director, Army Relations, 1 Division Nigerian Army, Lt.-Col. Musa Yahaya, said this in a statement on Sunday…
The First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, on Thursday disbursed N25 million to 250 vulnerable elderly people in Niger as part of her Renewed Hope Initiative. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the disbursement was done during the maiden…
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Federal Capital Territory Command, has arrested two vandals of railway infrastructure and 11 illegal miners as part of efforts to prevent vandalism and protect critical national assets and infrastructure. The two…
The Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS/CEDEAO) has officially suspended the Republic of Niger by all sub-regional bodies, until constitutional order is restored in the country. This is contained in a statement by the regional organisation,…
The ECOWAS Commission said more than 4.8 million people across Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger are facing food insecurity resulting from the spate of terrorist attacks and military takeover of their governments. President of the ECOWAS Commission Omar Touray said…
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Friday, called for Niger’s democratically elected officials to be released at once, following their detention in the July coup. Türk, in a statement, urged the generals to restore constitutional order…
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja has urged troops of the Nigerian Army to remain resolute in bringing the nation’s adversaries to their knees and restore sanity in troubled areas across the country. Lagbaja gave the charge…
The military chiefs of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will meet on Thursday and Fiday in Accra, Ghana amid tensions over a possible military intervention in Niger, according to Ghana’s army spokesman. ECOWAS member states had initially…
