The programme, through Tradermoni, targets two million petty traders across the country for N10,000 for each trader with repayment tenure of six months.
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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 medicine to address the huge dearth of doctors.
Making this call on Thursday at a media parley in Minna, the Executive Secretary, Civil Society-Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria, Beatrice Eluaka, said in 2017, about N90 million was budgeted for nutrition in 2017 but not released by the government.
Lado currently represents Gurara/Suleja/Tafa Federal Constituency of Niger State.
Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger has called for calm among residents of the state during and after the ongoing All Progressive Congress primaries in the state.
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria on Wednesday urged the Association of Table Water Producers to ensure strict compliance with the Nigerian Industrial Standards to eradicate waterborne diseases.
Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger has granted unconditional pardon to four prison inmates on death row and two others convicted and kept in prison custody as part of Nigeria’s 58th Independence anniversary.
While announcing the result, the Chairman of the Congress Committee, Dr. Baraka Sani, said the total number of delegates were 2,894, while the total number of votes cast was 2,779, with two invalid votes.
Makinde, who contested with one other aspirant, Senator Ayo Adeseun, scored 2,772 votes to secure the PDP ticket while the second contestant scored 21 votes.
The All Progressives Congress in Niger has endorsed Governor Abubakar Bello as the Party’s flag bearer for 2019 governorship elections in the state.
Dibal Yakadi, Commissioner of Police in the state, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna that the command deployed 1,290 security personnel to each of the two political parties.