A Niamey court on Monday scrapped a nine-month jail sentence handed to Abdoulaye Seydou, head of a leading activist group that supports the ruling military, his entourage said. Members of Niger’s presidential guard seized power in a coup late last month. Seydou, head of the M62 group, had been behind bars for seven months in a case involving an army …

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) against the use of military force to remove the military junta in Niger Republic, stating that the disadvantages clearly outweigh the benefits. The leaders of the ECOWAS member states met on Thursday in Abuja and decided to send out a “standby force” in an effort …

The Muslim human rights advocacy group, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has cautioned President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s planned military intervention in Niger Republic. Reacting on Saturday to the President’s request to the Senate to implement a resolution of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Niger Republic, MURIC’s Kano State chairman, Hassan Indabawa said that the group believed …

The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Niger State, Haliru Zakari Jikantoro has resigned. He said that the resignation was voluntary and did not mean that there is a crisis in the party in the state. After an emergency State Executive Council meeting, which he called, Jikantoro to newsmen that his resignation was in the best interest of …

Bandits have freed 14 more abductees kidnapped after spending 76 days in the hideout of the bandits leaving only seven still in their hideouts. They were all abducted from Adunu and Kwagana communities in the Paikoro Local Government Area and the Beni community in Munya Local Government Area of Niger State. This brings to 49, the number of victims that …

The Managing Director of Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC), Alhaji Abubakar Yelwa has said that the dredging of River Niger, River Benue, and River Kaduna to check perennial flooding in affected areas will cost over $20 billion. He stated this on Thursday at the 2023 stakeholders meeting on flood mitigation and other related issues held in Ilorin, the …

Niger state Governor-elect, Alhaji Umar Mohammed Bago has approved the governorship inauguration sub-committees’ leadership and members. A statement by Chairman of the inauguration Committee, Dr Mohammed Santuraki stated that Bago approved the constitution and membership of nine Inauguration subcommittees. The sub-committees are Security; Health and Safety; Venue; Accommodation, Transport and Logistics; Inauguration Lecture; Protocol, Welfare and Entertainment; and Special Events. …