Niger State

Chief Emmanuel Ezeugo, President of the chapter, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Minna that Igbo people should, rather, stay and vote where they are ordinarily resident so as to determine the leaders of such societies.

Dr Mustapha Jibrin, the state Commissioner for Health, disclosed this during a news briefing in Minna.

While saying the use of veterinary drugs in food producing animals has the potential to generate residues, the State Commissioner for Livestock and Fisheries, Zakari Bawa, said butchers and rearers now induce animals with steroids before…

The Nigerian Union of Teachers, Niger State Wing has on Monday disclosed that between 2015 and 2017, the Union recorded over 2,000 deaths and various transfers.

Niger State Commissioner for Information, Alhaji Danjuma Sallau, said on Monday that the State Government was spending about N4.7 billion on reconstruction/rehabilitation of two major federal roads in the state.

A witness who pleaded anonymity, said though none of the officials was injured, a Hillux van with registration number Abuja BD826KWL belonging to ActionAid had its windscreen smashed.

The All Peoples Democratic Alliance has called on the Federal Government to upscale the issue of food security to make it more meaningful to Nigerians.

While making this known on Friday during a campaign on organizational strategy development workshop organised by the White Ribbon Alliance Nigeria, a representative of the NSPHCDA, Dr. Inuwa Jinaidu, said the total number of women of…

Dr Joseph Oteri, Director, Special Duties and Chairman of National Measles Yellow Fever Technical Committee, disclosed this during media orientation forum for yellow fever preventive mass vaccination campaign in Abuja on Tuesday.

The programme, through Tradermoni, targets two million petty traders across the country for N10,000 for each trader with repayment tenure of six months. 

Students went agog as old students of the Federal Government College, Minna, Niger State donated chairs and tables valued at about N3.6 million to the school.

It said: “The burial will take place same day at 2.00 p.m. at the Gudu Cemetery, Abuja, after the Janazah prayers at the National Mosque, Abuja.

The Niger government on Monday said it’s in partnership with a foreign consortium to reconstruct the 84 kilometre Kateregi/Bida road to a dual carriageway at the cost of N30 billion.

Sado Daniel, the North Central Secretary of the association, said this in Bida while inaugurating a micro-finance bank established by the Federal Polytechnic, Bida.

Pastor Toyin Araromi, the State Overseer of the Deeper Life in Niger, on Sunday said the church is not a political organization and it does not involve itself in politics.

IGP Idris in a condolence message in Abuja on Sunday, said he was deeply touched when he received the news that late Legbo Kutigi had passed on.

A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Minna, Niger, has sentenced a 23-year-old commercial motorcyclist, Adamu Mohammed, to four years imprisonment for having sexual intercourse with six boys through the anus.

A mother, Asmau Shehu, and her four children: Yusuf, Rabiat, Ummul and Hadi, have been electrocuted in Anguwan Sarkin Hausawa, Bosso Local Government Area of Niger State.

The National Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday said that 17,631 residents of Niger affected by the recent flood were in urgent need of relief materials.

The chairman of the chapter, Dr Abdullahi Jibril, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna on Saturday that such gap had robbed the state of medical doctors in their numbers, saying it was high time Niger Government established school of…