The National Emergency Management Agency and Niger State Emergency Management Agency are working together to respond to the dynamite explosion that occurred in a residential area of Sabon Pegi, Mashegu Local Government Area of Niger State.

Minna – Twenty-five persons have been confirmed dead following another mining explosion in Niger State yesterday. This incident comes barely a week after a tanker carrying fuel exploded along the Dikko-Maje-Minna road.

At least one person was killed on Sunday morning following an explosion in Sabon-Pegi community, Mashegu LGA of Niger state.

The police in Niger State, in collaboration with vigilante members, have intercepted and recovered 520 rounds of 7.62mm live ammunition. According to the

Rice farmers in Niger State participating in the Federal Government's Value Chain Development Programme, VCDP, have reported significant increases in

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”,

A major journalist in Niger was in custody Saturday, an association said, a day after the private TV channel he runs was suspended following a report critical of the military-led regime.

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.

The Niger State police command has arrested Jamilu Saidu, a resident of Kumbashi District in Mariga Local Government Area, for allegedly killing

It was reported that a fight ensued between two villages which involved Yabawa village and Ungwar Sarkin-Daji of Kumbashi District due to a sour marriage ceremony, and in the process, the suspect Jamilu macheted the deceased Iliyasu Aminu on the head to death.

Libya deported more than 600 men from Niger last month as North African countries — financed by the European Union to tackle migration — have ramped up expulsions of sub-Saharan Africans.