The Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Engineer Mustapha Maihaja, has declared flooding a national disaster. The agency declared the emergency in four states including Kogi, Niger, Delta, Anambra, placing others on the watch list.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday opened the N50bn Sunti Golden Sugar Estate in Mokwa Local Government Area of Niger State. Addressing guests at the inauguration, Buhari called on private investors in the country to partner with the government in creating Read more
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Deputy Chairman in Niger State, Aminu Yusuf, has left the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC). The is following the defection of the Minority Whip of the State House of Assembly, Liman Iya. Meanwhile, Read more
Sen. Godswill Akpabio (left); Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar and standing from left: brother of the bride, Mohammed Babangida; a guest; the bride, Halima and her husband, Alhaji Auwal Abdullahi, at the wedding of the last daughter of the Read more
A Minna High Court on Wednesday granted bail in the sum of N150 million to former Gov. Babangida Aliyu of Niger, charged with N4.568 billion misappropriation. Aliyu was arraigned last Tuesday on a six-count charge alongside Umar Nasko, the Chief Read more
Former governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, and his Chief of Staff, Umar Nasko, have been remanded in prison. Aliyu and Nasko, who was the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2015 election in the state, were Read more
Niger Government says it has spent N39 million to combat the outbreak of Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) in the state. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Mustapha Jibril, told newsmen on Friday in Mina that the state recorded 33 deaths out Read more
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it may declare a former Commissioner of Local Government in Niger wanted after a further N2 billion was traced to his UBA account by the agency. EFCC sources on Friday in Abuja Read more
The Niger State government has ordered the re-arraignment of a man sentenced to one-month imprisonment for abduction and rape of a nine-year-old boy, who eventually died. The convict, Nuhu Musa, 37, was sentenced to one-month imprisonment with an option of Read more