The police in Niger State, in collaboration with vigilante members, have intercepted and recovered 520 rounds of 7.62mm live ammunition. According to the Niger State Police Command in a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer,

The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has decried the rising wave of crimes involving women from Niger State and the Federal Capital

Ismail Sarki has teamed up with Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL side Niger Tornadoes for the second half of the season. Sarki moved to Niger Tornadoes from former NPFL champions, Enyimba. The former Bendel Insurance winger joined Enyimba from Bendel Insurance at the start of the current season.

These are the guns and RPGs we seized from Mallam Sadiku,” Mr Gide said behind the camera, showing the booties allegedly taken from the clash.

An Austrian woman has been kidnapped by gunmen in Niger’s Agadez city, local residents and the Austrian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, the first time a European citizen is known to have been kidnapped in the conflict-hit West African nation since a military junta took power in 2023.

Active case searches have been conducted in health facilities and the community to manage the situation, with local authoriti

Despite a deadly tanker explosion that killed over 90 people days earlier, residents in Bida town, Niger State, gathered around

The private channel Canal 3 TV and its editor-in-chief, who has been in police custody since 18 January, were suspended by Niger's communication minister on 17 January after broadcasting the show “Baromètre des membres du gouvernement 2024”,

The Air Component of Operation FANSAN YAMMA (AC OPFY) has eliminated several terrorists and destroyed their logistics base at Alawa in Shiroro local

The exit of military-led Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso from the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) is seen to hurt

Niger has freed an editor-in-chief arrested after his TV news channel aired a programme critical of the ruling junta, the broadcaster told AFP on Monday.

Such incidents are common in Niger State. On 8 September 2024, more than 50 travellers died in a midnight tanker explosion along the Agaie-Badeggi road. In 2022, another petrol-laden tanker exploded at Badeggi village near Bida. Although there were no casualties from the incident, the fire gutted two other vehicles.