Tag: Niger

Achieving gender inclusion and women's empowerment is crucial for the development of Nigeria.

As a result of the expected moderate to heavy rainfall, the agency said there are prospects of flash flooding and ...

Three pilgrims from Kebbi and Lagos State died recently in Saudi Arabia where they were performing the hajj.

There are 774 local governments in Nigeria. But their administration has been stifled by the overbearing influence of the state ...

Nigerians should mobilise to say NO to US and French military bases in Nigeria. In any case, since foreign relations ...

The minister described the plan to marry off the 100 orphans as “unacceptable” emphasising that a full-scale investigation has commenced ...

Central to our concerns is the importance of responding to current geopolitical dynamics in our region and, indeed, in the ...

Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye says she prefers “sustainable empowerment” of women to organising conferences and ...

Mr Abiodun said that the children were found to have suffocated in the vehicle, while their bodies were later removed.

Mass defections crippled JAS, one of two Boko Haram factions, but the same fate is unlikely to befall ISWAP.

President Tinubu described Mr Onu as a luminous star in Nigeria’s political firmament.

The bill proposes that widows should be entitled to five months leave in their places of work while widowers take ...

The air force said the air strike, east of Palele, followed confirmation of cache of arms in the location.

With ECOWAS sanctions lifted, the military authorities must rapidly set the course for Niger to return to civilian rule.

President Tinubu has acknowledged that vast areas of the country are not policed or are under the authority of non-state ...

ECOWAS Heads of State and Government. The Chairman of the ECOWAS Commission, Omar Toure, expressed the hope that eating the ...

ECOWAS urgently needs to reinvent itself, especially having set what can be characterised as a wrong precedent

"West African single identity and regional integration and inclusion project is another programme that the three countries benefit from.”

“The withdrawal of the three-member states could result in the halt or the suspension of all ECOWAS projects and programmes ...

“This is why we must re-examine our current approach to the quest for constitutional order in four of our Member ...

One can therefore imagine the implications for Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, which together belonged to the ten poorest countries ...

Mr Gowon, who was one of the founders of ECOWAS as Nigeria's military head of state in May 1975, expressed ...

“Our excellent diplomats then recommended to the Heads of State the creation of a Confederation bringing together Burkina, Mali and ...