‘It is total disconnection in line with ECOWAS moves to restore democracy in that country. Military intervention in Niger is last resort’

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adamu Garba said the West – United States and France – have set a trap for the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, to go into a total war in the region.

French President Emmanuel Macron described a coup that ousted Niger’s elected leader as “dangerous” for the Sahel on Friday, as Western powers scramble to preserve a key ally in the insurgent-stricken region.French President Emmanuel Macron described a coup that ousted Niger’s elected leader as “dangerous” for the Sahel on Friday, as Western powers scramble to preserve a key ally in the insurgent-stricken region.

A former Kaduna lawmaker, Shehu Sani has condemned the military coup in Niger Republic, saying that military rule must be resisted in the country.

Here are five things to know about Niger, where the country’s president was being detained by guards in what the African Union on Wednesday condemned as an “attempted coup”.

Gunmen have attacked two villages in Niger’s vast Tillaberi border region, killing a dozen people working in the fields, security and local sources told AFP on Friday.

IN April this year, the Federal Government disclosed that the railway line it is constructing to Maradi, a city in a foreign country, Niger Republic, would start operation in 2023. The project costs Nigerian taxpayers $1.8 billion. It is being financed with foreign loans, meaning that we and our children will pay for it. The […]

Tension yesterday enveloped communities in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory as hundreds of nomadic herders crossed Abuja-Kaduna highway into Sabon-Wuse in Niger State to camp there.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari last night condemned the attempted coup in the Niger Republic, saying “any illegal effort to depose a democratically elected government was not only despicable but also unacceptable to democratic governments around the world.”

President Muhammadu Buhari has given an assurance that Nigeria will give robust support to Republic of Niger which will hold its Presidential and National Assembly elections on Sunday. Mr Femi Adesina, the president’s spokesman, said Buhari gave the assurance on Tuesday in Abuja while receiving in audience former Vice President Namadi Sambo who heads the […]

Jihadists from the Boko Haram group killed at least 27 people in an attack of “unprecedented savagery” in southeast Niger, local officials said on Sunday. Other people were wounded and some more reported missing in the assault on Saturday evening in the village of Toumour in the Diffa region, said a senior local official. Witnesses […]

By Bashir Bello – Kano Kano State Government has said it will expend the sum of N107 million to sponsor not fewer than 50 students to study in Niger Republic under it exchange programme. The State’s Commissioner of Education, Muhammad Sanusi Kiru made this known during the distribution of instructional materials to primary and Junior […]

Commends Reps for stepping down Water Resources Bill By Peter Duru – Makurdi Governor Samuel Ortom has urged the National Assembly to prevail on the federal government to drop its plans to build a rail line from Nigeria to Niger Republic at the cost of $1.9billion. The Governor insisted that the rail project to the […]

By Bose Adelaja & Olayinka Latona “How could the FG come up with such an idea? Potable water, is a luxury; no electricity, roads are death traps, health facilities lack basic drugs, education sector is in a shambles; agreements reached with ASUU a decade ago are yet to be met! $1.96bn is about N800bn. “It […]

Gunmen on motorcycles killed eight people including a group of French aid workers as they visited a part of Niger popular with tourists for its wildlife, officials said. “There are eight dead: two Nigeriens including a guide and a driver, while the other six are French,” the governor of the Tillaberi region told AFP on […]