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The spokesman said Bazoum and his other “accomplices” would have to stand trial.

The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, caught the attention of many Nigerians last week. On Wednesday, at the end of the plenary session, the former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, oblivious he was still on live television, announced to his colleagues that the clerk of the National Assembly would send tokens to their various bank accounts to enable them enjoy their holiday. Aghast, few of his colleagues immediately approached him to call his attention to the gaffe and Akpabio had to withdraw his statement in an embarrassing attempt to switch “tokens” to  “prayers”. I and many others had a good laugh after watching the clip that quickly went viral.  Akpabio is a good man with a large heart. I met him while he was the Governor of Akwa Ibom state, and he came across as someone who is ready to go out of his way to make others comfortable. 

The Arewa Economic Forum (AED) has declared that the financial loss occasioned by the closure of the Nigerien border with Nigeria is N13 billion on a weekly basis.

There is no doubt that the Northern region, especially the people of Fulani ethnic stock share filial, cultural and religious affiliations with the Republic of Niger. 

Niger’s military junta has appointed 21 ministers that will form a cabinet to work with the transitional Prime Minister, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine.

President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday received a delegation of Nigerian Muslim leaders, led by Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi, and accepted their mediation in the Niger Republic conflict.

It would be imprudent and unwise for Nigeria to attempt to clean up France’s mess in Niger Republic.

Italy has urged the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to extend its deadline for the reinstatement of Niger’s…

Not only are military coups becoming frighteningly frequent in West and Central Africa, virtually all of them, it appears, also speak French. For the fifth time in three years in West Africa, soldiers struck again in Niger, Nigeria’s Northern neighbour, where former President Muhammadu Buhari had teasingly longed for refuge from Nigeria’s hostile press. 

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said the closure of Nigeria borders with Niger Republic is not a declaration of war between the two countries as speculated.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olabode Ibiyinka George, on Friday sent a letter to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the planned invasion of the Republic of Niger by forces of the Economic Community of West African States over a coup plot that removed President Mohamed Bazoum from power.

Demonstrators took to the streets of Niger’s capital Niamey Thursday in a show of support for the country’s new leadership, a week after a military coup in the West African country.

The military intervention in the Republic of Niger has created tension across the West Africa sub-region, and it is a development that has caused international attention to that neighbouring country of ours.

Sarki of Agwara Duwatsu in Agwara local government of Niger State, Zakari Mohammed has appealed to the State and Federal Governments FG to provide essential socio-economic amenities in the area.

Members of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, on Sunday, issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Nigerien military to restore constitutional order and reinstate ousted President Muhammed Bazoum into office.

Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has weighed in as information filtered in that presidential guards in Niger Republic are holding President Mohamed Bazoum inside the presidential palace in the capital, Niamey, which has been blocked off by military vehicles since Wednesday morning, security sources said.

Niger Government has constituted a Claims and Verification Committee for compensation of individuals affected by the construction of Minna-Bida Road in the State.

He spoke at the 13th Synod of the Anglican Communion of the Province of the Niger, Awka Diocese on Sunday.

He scored his fourth and fifth goals of the tournament in the first-half to secure emphatic victory for the Desert Warriors.

Tinubu performed the inauguration shortly after addressing a crowd of supporters during the flag-off of his campaign in the state.