Niger Republic coup leader, General Abdourahmane Tchiani has agreed to dialogue with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) after his meeting with Nigerian Islamic Scholars led by the national leader of Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatus Sunnah (JIBWIS), Sheikh Read more…
The Anambra state government has banned the state’s advertisement of all forms of herbal. Before the ban, the state was caricatured as a place where first visitors would be greeted with open advertisements of herbal medicine in motor parks and Read more…
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has paid a visit to the country’s military outposts in the Arctic, inspecting Northern Fleet garrisons that guard a key shipping route in the region. In a post on its Telegram channel on Saturday, Russia’s Read more…
Resident Doctors under the umbrella of Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has called the nationwide strike. NARD President, Dr. Innocent Orji, who confirmed the development, added that the doctors were directed to resume work on Saturday morning by 8am. Read more…
More organisations, including Islamic leaders and Christian leaders, have voiced their support for a peaceful approach to resolving the crisis in Niger Republic following the military coup d’état that ousted President Muhammed Bazoum. Yesterday, both the Nigerian Supreme Council for Read more…
The European Union is preparing to impose sanctions on the new military government in Niger, European sources told Reuters on Wednesday. An EU diplomat and an official involved in formulating the sanctions confirmed the bloc was devising criteria for punishment, Read more…
It was another day of more revelations on Tuesday before the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee investigating alleged Job racketeering and abuse of Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) by Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as another two witnesses Read more…
Nigeria’s president and head of the West African bloc ECOWAS has not ruled out military intervention in Niger, but believes diplomacy is the “best way forward” to resolve the crisis, his spokesman said Tuesday. Bola Tinubu weighed in for the Read more…
The Nigerian naira on Tuesday underwent a substantial decline, plummeting to an unprecedented low of N900/$1 on the parallel market. This drop occurred due to an overwhelming demand for foreign currency that exceeded the available supply .Forex traders, in conversations Read more…
The drivers who were expressing deep anger when they brought the corpse of the deceased to Akwudo mortuary, Nnewi were shouting “no more agboros (touts) in Onitsha and Nnewi”. A mass transit owner and the managing director of Oha-na-eze Mass Read more…
Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, have adduced reasons why President Bola Tinubu cannot unilaterally deploy troops to Niger Republic to restore democratic rule in the troubled country. In separate interviews with Vanguard, the learned silks maintained that for the armed Read more…
On July 26, 2023, the presidential guard of the Republic of Niger detained President Mohamed Bazoum. The army did not take the insurgents’ side at first, taking a guarded position instead at the strategically important facilities in Niamey, Niger’s capital Read more…