After sneaking into the State, a middle aged man, identified as Mallam Yunusa Idris, has been whisked to an isolation center in Minna by the Niger State Task Force on COVID-19.
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A mobile Court sitting in Minna, the Niger State capital, has convicted 204 persons for violating the COVID-19 Order 2020 of the State.
The Niger State Government says it has concluded arrangements to repatriate all Almajiri children to their states of origin.
Youths in Niger East Senatorial District of the state have expressed their displeasure over the attitude of political leaders to the incessant attacks by bandits in their communities.
The Federal Government has begun the release of 70,000 metric tonnes of assorted food items to vulnerable Nigerians as part of efforts to cushion the effect of the lockdown in some states.
Fear gripped a family in Limawa area of Minna in Niger State as they denied a family member access to the family compound over fear that he had contracted the Coronavirus Disease.
Commercial vehicles plying routes within Niger State and motorists on transit to other states have defied restriction of movement order by the state government to curtail the spread of Coronavirus Disease.
A joint security patrol team compromising officers and men of the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police Force and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps exchanged heavy gunfire with armed bandits around Galkogo Forest in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State last weekend.
The Niger State Government has been hailed for scaling up the budgetary provisions from N80 million in 2017 to N210 million in 2020.
Major General Abubakar Tarfa, Commandant, Training and Doctrine Command, Minna, Niger State, has said the Nigerian Army was focused and ready to win the ongoing fight against insurgency, kidnapping and armed banditry in the country.
The Organised Labour in Niger State has suspended the strike it started on February 4 over non implementation of the N30,000 minimum wages.
Organised Labour in Niger State on Friday said the ongoing strike embarked upon on February 4 would continue until its demands are met by the state government.
Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State has condemned the renewed armed banditry attacks on Kudodo Nakpala, and Gulapai communities of Shiroro Local Government Area of the state.
The Federal Road Safety Corps Command in Niger has confirmed the death of three people in an auto crash on Bida – Kutigi road in Bida Local Government Area of the state.
The Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, has called on intending Christian pilgrims from the state not to abscond when they get to the Holy Land of Jerusalem.
The ruling All Progressives Congress in Niger State and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party are throwing tantrums at each other over the true position of the N1.4 billion meant for the abandoned 5-star Hotel in Minna.
Alhaji Ahmed Matane, Secretary to Niger State Government, said on Saturday that arrangements had been concluded to install CCTV cameras across the state in the ongoing fight against armed banditry, kidnapping, cattle rustling and other criminal activities.
No fewer than 550 pilgrims from Niger who performed this year’s hajj in Saudi Arabia on Saturday escaped death at the Minna International Airport as the Max Airline plane conveying them back to Nigeria skidded off the runway.
Alhaji Ahmed Inga, Director, Niger State Emergency Management Agency, says that three more victims of last Friday’s petrol tanker explosion at Diko junction on Abuja-Kaduna highway have died.
The Niger State Emergency Management Agency has confirmed the death of one person while 10 others were injured in a petrol tanker explosion at Dikko-junction on the Abuja-Kaduna expressway.