News Nigeria Niger: Agbakoba challenges 2027 presidential candidates to put Niger Delta pollution on agenda
Olisa Agbakoba, senior advocate of Nigeria and veteran environmental rights campaigner, has challenged politicians seeking Nigeria’s presidency in 2027 to ...
News Nigeria Niger: Niger: Bago inaugurates commission to investigate deaths of 37 persons in NSCDC custody
Niger State Governor, Umaru Bago, has inaugurated a nine-member Judicial Commission of Inquiry to investigate the deaths of 37 persons who died in the ...
News Nigeria Niger: Niger Delta must invest in itself as oil shifts offshore, NDDC boss says
The Niger Delta can no longer rely on its traditional dominance of Nigeria’s oil and gas industry as production shifts to deep offshore...
News Nigeria Niger: Troops raid suspected terrorist hideouts near Nigeria-Niger border
Troops of Sector 2 have raided suspected terrorist hideouts around Gumki in Arewa Dandi Local Government Area of Kebbi State, forcing the terrorists to ...
News Nigeria Niger: Nigeria eyes industrial boost as Indian billionaire set to build multi-billion naira solar steel plant in Niger State
A major private sector investment aimed at tackling Nigeria's chronic electricity shortage while boosting industrial production is taking...
News Nigeria Niger: Boat capsizes in Nigeria’s Niger state and at least 25 people feared dead, authorities say
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A boat transporting passengers to a market in north-central Nigeria capsized, killing at least 25 people, authorities said Sunday. The accident happened Saturday near Gumu ...
News Nigeria Niger: Nigeria: Man Who Jumped On Plane Is Nigerien - FAAN
The man who prevented an Azman Aircraft from taking off on Friday at the Murtala International Airport, Lagos after jumping on its engine, came from Niger Republic, the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has said.
News Nigeria Niger: Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria launch $100m fund against jihadists
The four countries bordering Lake Chad on Friday launched a fund aimed at collecting $100 million to help counter climate change and a devastating jihadists insurgency. This screen grab image taken on ...
News Nigeria Niger: Nigeria don sign African trade agreement
Nigeria and Benin don sign di African trade agreement for di African Union (AU) Summit, wey dey go on for Niger today. Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari and Benin President Patrice Talon sign di ...
News Nigeria Niger: Violent Attacks in Nigeria Drive Thousands of Refugees Into Niger
Recent spike in violence in north-western parts of Nigeria has forced an estimated 20,000 people to seek safety and security in Niger since April. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned about deteriorating security inside Nigeria, and is working closely with authorities in Niger to provide basic assistance and register the new arrivals. More than 18,000 people have already gone through the initial registration process so far. The latest upsurge in violence is not linked to Boko Haram...
News Nigeria Niger: Nigeria: Widespread Violence Ushers in President’s New Term
Kano state, in northwestern Nigeria, has the highest number of registered voters in the country. Rivers state, in the Niger Delta, receives the largest share of crude-oil-based national revenue ...
News Nigeria Niger: Ethnic Clashes in Nigeria Send 20,000 Fleeing into Niger
The U.N. refugee agency says an upsurge in violence in northwest Nigeria since April has driven an estimated 20,000 people to seek safety in neighboring Niger.U.N. refugee spokesman Babar Baloch says the jump in violence is not linked to the Boko Haram insurgency, which has displaced 2.4 million people in the Lake Chad Basin since 2009."People are fleeing due to multiple reasons, as far as we understand, including clashes between farmers and herders of different ethnic groups, vigilantism, as well as kidnappings for ransom in Nigeria's Sokoto and Zamfara states," he said.
News Nigeria Niger: West Africa: Our Lives in Niger Republic – Nigerians Fleeing Bandits
Many locals from some villages in Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State that were attacked by bandits had to flee the country to neighbouring Niger Republic to escape further attacks. Hundreds were noted to have been displaced by last month’s bandit attacks on some villages of Sabon Birni, while several others took refuge at Gatawa Town of Sokoto and others decided to make a gateway from their homeland to Niger Republic.
News Nigeria Niger: Making Oil & Gas Projects Viable in Niger Delta
Often times, disagreements in the Niger Delta have led to conflicts with many people ... which leads one to believe the ugly face of conflict enterprise is actually happening here in Nigeria. “That is ...
News Nigeria Niger: Islamic State group claims deadly ambush on Niger soldiers
Jihadists linked to the Islamic State group on Thursday claimed responsibility for ambushing a military convoy in the West African nation of Niger, killing 28 soldiers in an area near the Malian border where extremists killed four U.S. soldiers in 2017.
News Nigeria Niger: Nigeria: FG showers persons living with disabilities, 188 others with N3m empowerment package
WorldStage Newsonlinee– The Federal Government has delivered N300,000 each as empowerment package to fewer than 40 persons living with disabilities and 188 youths and women from the Niger Delta region ...
News Nigeria Niger: Violent kidnappings-for-ransom spread across Nigeria
Aminu Magami, a taxi driver in northwest Nigeria, froze in fear when more than 20 gunmen stormed an expressway one night in February, shooting into the air. "One of them ran towards my car" as Magami was stuck, the road blocked. Magami was taken hostage in his native Zamfara State, where
News Nigeria Niger: Nigeria: Second Niger Bridge to Be Ready By 2022, Says Julius Berger
Julius Berger Nigeria Plc has said the tremendous progress made in the construction of the second Niger Bridge project in such a short time, reflects the company's continued commitment to timely completion of the project.
