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Osun Guber Polls: INEC disqualifies over 88,000 voters

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the registration of 88,630 new voters in Osun State as invalid. The development comes weeks to...

22 govs apply as FG begins model ranch fund’s disbursement next week

    No fewer than 22 states have written to the Federal Government to indicate interest in the National Livestock Transformation Programme. The Senior Special...

15 Niger kidnap victims escape from Zamfara forest as drunken guard sleeps off

    NOT less than 15 persons recently abducted by bandits in Tegina town of Niger State on Sunday escaped from their captors’ den in Zamfara State. The 15...

Four West African countries to buy Nigeria’s idle electricity

    Niger, Togo, Benin and Burkina Faso are collaborating to buy the unutilised power produced in Nigeria, the Chairman of the Executive Board of the West...

Two parents die of shock, emotions as headmaster, TV presenter breakdown in tears

    Distraught parents and management of an Islamiyya School in Niger state where pupils were kidnapped by bandits last Sunday have cried out to the Federal...

How two parents of abducted students died of heart attack

    Abubakar Alhassan, the headteacher of an Islamiyya school located at Tegina in the Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State where bandits abducted 200...

State Govt Dismisses 20 Teachers For Certificate Forgery, Abscondment

    Niger State Universal Basic Education Board (NSUBEB) has dismissed 20 teachers in public primary schools for certificate forgery and absence from work....

ACF worries over silence on helicopter distributing weapons to bandits in Niger

    The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has expressed worry over the alarming state of insecurity in the country, saying the government’s silence in these...

Woman stabs JSS1 student to death

  A middle-aged woman has stabbed a 14-year-old boy Joseph Thomas to death in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. The incident which reportedly occurred yesterday...

Four women remanded in Niger

  A woman Amina Aliyu who allegedly killed her rival, Fatima Aliyu, has been remanded in a correctional centre in Minna, the Niger State capital. Three other were...

Niger president to be sworn in after ‘attempted coup’

  Niger’s newly-elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, is set to be sworn into office on Friday, a democratic watershed overshadowed by jihadist violence and alleged...

Man Kills wife after argument over pap

  A 20-year-old man, Lawali Danladi has been arrested by the Niger state Police Command for killing his wife due to a misunderstanding over the pap she prepared for...

BREAKING: Gunmen Kill PDP Chieftain

  A former Peoples Democratic Party Chairman in Tafa Local Government Area in Niger State, Sule Ishaya, has been killed by unknown gunmen. The gunmen also whisked...