The Niger State Government has issued a warning about a fraudulent online portal circulating on social media, falsely claiming to be a registration platform for the Niger State Youth Empowerment and Farmers’ Grant Programme.

The Niger State Government has issued a warning regarding a fake online portal circulating on social media, claiming to be a registration platform for the Niger State Youth Empowerment and Farmers’ Grant Programme.

Despite a deadly tanker explosion that killed over 90 people days earlier, residents in Bida town, Niger State, gathered around

Tsukwam said those who went to scoop fuel were engulfed by the flames just as those who went to rescue them were also affected.

General, NEMA, Mrs Zubaida Umar, who led a delegation to the scene of the incident on Monday, expressed deep sympathy for the victims and their families.

The University of Abuja Teaching Hospital has revealed that N112 million will be spent on the treatment of 16 victims of the recent fuel tanker explosion in

Orano has announced it is lodging a second arbitration procedure against the State of Niger following its loss of operational control of SOMAÏR, the operator of the Arlit uranium mine. ;

SENATORS of the 19 Northern states, Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, and others, yesterday, raged as the death toll of Saturday’s petrol tanker accident at Dikko Junction,

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu convened a closed-door meeting with key stakeholders from Rivers State, including Governor Siminalayi Fubara, former Governor

NIAMEY, Niger — An Austrian woman has been kidnapped by gunmen in Niger’s Agadez city, local residents and the Austrian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, the first time a European citizen is known to have been kidnapped in the conflict-hit West African nation since a military junta took power in 2023.

Such incidents are common in Niger State. On 8 September 2024, more than 50 travellers died in a midnight tanker explosion along the Agaie-Badeggi road. In 2022, another petrol-laden tanker exploded at Badeggi village near Bida. Although there were no casualties from the incident, the fire gutted two other vehicles.

Two days after scores of people were burnt to death or injured when a fallen petrol tanker exploded in Niger State, another tanker fell in Bida town of Niger State on Monday. However, Fatimah Mohammed, a resident of Bida, told PREMIUM TIMES that the tanker was carrying groundnut oil.