People of Mariga town of Bariga Local Government Area, Niger state are searching for more than 500 buried corpses suspected to have been washed away by Floods. This was disclosed by the Chief Imam of Mariga Central Mosque, Alhaji Alhassan Na’ibi while speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria...
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Hundreds of passengers and scores of vehicles have been stranded following the collapse of a portion of the Minna- to Bida road in Niger. Motorists were now left in dilemma as crossing from Kakapangi to Minna or vice versa has become almost impossible. The collapse of the road which...
The Permanent Secretary in Niger State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Kaltum Rufa’i, says the government is determined to end the activities of commercial sex workers in the state. Hajiya Rufa’i, in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), noted that there were state laws...
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has called on electricity consumers in Niger to pay their bills promptly. The company said that prompt payment of bills would stimulate improvement in power supply. Alhaji Abdullahi Idris, the Supervisor Control Engineer, AEDC, Niger Region, made the call on Monday in an...
The Niger Police Command said it had not arrested any foreign national distributing weapons to with a helicopter to bandits in the state. Commissioner of Police, Mr Monday Kurya told the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) in Minna on Friday that such incident never occurred in any part...
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) says it has spent over N500 million to improve electricity supply from about five hours to over 15 hours per day in Minna, Niger. Mr Mahamud Keni, Regional Manager, AEDC, Niger region, disclosed this on Tuesday to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday in Minna said about 6.2 per cent of children were not exclusively breastfed by their mothers in Niger. Mrs Chinwe Ezeife, Nutrition Specialist UNICEF Kaduna Field Office, made this known at the inauguration of the 2022 Niger state Zero Water Exclusive...
There is no exact data regarding the number of people either killed, kidnapped, raped or the number of animals rustled as bandit attacks continued to happen regularly in Kagara and its surrounding villages in the Rafi local government area of Niger State, a PRNigeria investigation has revealed. An official...
Victims of armed banditry in Niger State have gotten a reason to smile again owing to the ‘rehabilitative’ support they are getting from residents of Kagara town, PRNigeria has reported. Amid corrosive insecurity, hundreds of thousands of people have been sacked from their ancestral homes as a result of...
One person has drowned and another injured in a boat mishap at Nansa village in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger. Alhaji Ahmed Inga, Director General of the state Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA), disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna on Saturday....
The Niger State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of nine residents of Kuchi Village of Munya Local Government Area by armed gunmen. Mr Bala Kuryas, the Command’s Commissioner of Police, confirmed the abduction in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Friday in Minna....
By MARY RONKE, Minna – Police operatives from Niger State Command have arrested one of the inmates in Suleja who escaped during the recent jailbreak at the Kuje Medium Security Correctional Centre in Abuja on July 5. The police spokesman, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, who confirmed the development in a...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has cautioned motorists against dangerous driving, overloading and night journey during the Sallah celebration in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Niger State. The Zonal Commanding Officer (ZCO), In Charge of FCT and Niger, Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM) Shehu Mohammed, gave the warning in...
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya has vowed to bring to justice terrorists behind attack on troops location in Shororo, Niger State. COAS Yahaya gave the assurance while addressing journalists at Mogadishu Cantonment Juma’at Mosque prayer in commemoration of the Nigerian Army Day Celebration NADCEL 2022...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned Thursday’s attack in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, describing it as a direct assault on Nigeria which will not be allowed to go unpunished. President Buhari paid tributes to the gallant men of the security forces who...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigerian Army has confirmed that its troops deployed in Shiroro area of Niger were ambushed while on a mission to deal with bandits’ attack on miners in the area. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement on Thursday said...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have attacked a mining site in Niger State and reportedly killed security agents, civilians, and kidnapped three Chinese nationals. The attack was said to have occurred on Wednesday afternoon in Ajata, Aboki in Gurmana ward of Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. The...
The Niger Police Command on Saturday confirmed the abduction of two residents of Doma village by gunmen in Lapai Local Government Area of the state. DSP Wasiu Abiodun, Command Public Relations Officer, announced this to the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) in Minna on Saturday. Abiodun said on...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Niger Area Command says it has seized more than 101 units of exotic cars, cloths, rugs and consumables worth N755.3 million in different part of the command. According to the service, the consumables include bottle water, wines, ketchup, spaghetti, basmati rice, tomato paste, foreign...
Nigerian military troops have eliminated over 35 armed bandits in Dutsen Argida and Magaman Daji communities in Niger State. The terrorists, who PRNigeria learnt emerged from Birnin Gwari forest, in Kaduna State, were reported to have invaded the two communities located in Rijau Local Government Area, via Kontagora town...