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Bandits Attack Niger Communities, Kill Eight

December 23, 2019 9:39 am
No fewer than eight villagers have been killed when bandits raided Kaure and Kwaki communities in the Shiroro Local Government of Niger State.
THISDAY gathered that the bandits carried out the massacre in the raid which took place Sunday morning
The invaders were said to have shot sporadically into the air making several of the villagers to run for safety.
It was in the bid to get to safety that some of those killed were hit by stray bullets, while others lost their lives in point blank shots.
The bandits stormed the community on motorcycles with three persons on each
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Niger Insurance Repositions With New Transformation Plan

December 12, 2019 4:16 am
Niger Insurance Plc has unveiled a five-year growth and transformation plan to revamp its operations for excellent service delivery and competitiveness in a rapidly changing business environment.

This was even as the company said it paid over N1.4 billion claims to customers in the past nine months while promising that other unsettled claims will be paid soonest.

Speaking at a recent press conference in Lagos, the Managing Director, Niger Insurance, Mr Edwin Igbiti, said the transformation blueprint over the next five years (2020 to 2024), focuses on operational and technological advancements in delivering bespoke insurance solutions to businesses, institutions and

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Niger: 2020 Budget Based On Payment Of 30,000 Minimum Wage

December 11, 2019 11:30 am

The Niger State government has said that its 2020 budget is based on the payment of the ₦30,000 minimum wage.

This is just as the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has thumbed down the fiscal estimates describing it as “budget of nothingness and profound sleaziness”.

The state Commissioners for Planning, Alhaji Mamman Musa and that of Finance, Alhaji Zakari Abubakar, while giving the breakdown of the budget in Minna on Wednesday, said like other aspects of the budget, the implementation will commence once the fiscal estimates are passed by the House of Assembly and assented to by …

Gunmen Kidnap 3 Construction Workers In Niger

December 10, 2019 1:10 pm

Police in Niger say gunmen have kidnapped two expatriates and a Nigerian staff of Triacta Construction Company in Galadima Kogo village of Shiroro Local Government Area of the state.

The Commissioner of Police, Mr Adamu Usman, who disclosed this to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna on Tuesday, said the gunmen who wore military uniform came to the village on over 20 motorcycles and attacked workers of the construction firm.

Usman said the incident occurred on Monday at about 12:45 hours along Shiroro-Galadima road.

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“The victims were seized by …

We Don’t Owe Ex-Govs Pension – Niger

December 4, 2019 6:36 am

Following the controversy surrounding the payment of pension to former governors and their deputies, Niger government has said it did not owe pension to its former governors.

The government said it paid what it called severance allowance to the departing political heads.

According to a statement by the Director General of the state pension board, Alhaji Ahmed Tinau Mohammed, beneficiaries of severance allowance are political heads at state and local government levels, which also include former governors and their deputies, local government chairmen, deputies and state legislators and councillors

“The severance allowance is not a recurring perpetual payouts but a

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Nigeria, Niger Meet Over Border Closure

December 2, 2019 12:55 pm

The Federal government delegation is presently in a closed-door meeting with Customs officers on the Nigeria- Niger Republic border post at Magama Jinia, Katsina State.

The delegation left for the border after arriving Katsina on Monday morning.

It was led by Miinister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammad. Others on the team were the Minister for Industries, Trade and Investments, Hajia Myriam Katagum, and Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Clement Agba.

They were received by the Sector 4 Coordinator, National Border Drill Operation, Assistant Comptroller General, Bashir Abubakar.

Village Chiefs and members of the Magama Jibia …

Border Closure: Benin, Niger Haven’t Met Our Conditions –FG

November 26, 2019 3:17 pm

The Federal Government on Monday said seizures made by security agents at the country’s land borders indicated that the republics of Benin and Niger were not addressing issues that led to the border closure.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, stated this when he led a government delegation to the Seme border on Monday.

He explained that from the magnitude seizures made and the number of illegal immigrants apprehended in the last two weeks, it was obvious that “nothing is being done yet by both countries – Benin and Niger – to address the challenges.”

Nigeria had in …

Ex-Niger Gov Aliyu Debunks Leaving Empty Treasury

November 13, 2019 11:13 am
A former Niger State governor, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has said that he did not leave an empty treasury for his successor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, contrary to claims by the new administration.
Aliyu also said he was not owing civil servants salaries as at the time he left office on May 29, 2015.
The former governor made the clarifications in Minna on Tuesday as he marked his 64th birthday with friends and well wishers at his private residence.
Aliyu challenged the government to make public the “handover notes” he left for the new administration to prove he was not
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Fire Fighters Prevent Fire Outbreak In Niger Gov House

November 12, 2019 12:26 pm

Men of the Niger State Fire Service this afternoon prevented a fire outbreak at the office of the Permanent Secretary, Niger State Government House, Minna.

The fire outbreak, which started at about 12:35 pm was put out by a combined team of fire fighters at about 1:03 pm.

Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Niger State, Mrs Mary Noel-Berje, who made this known in a statement on Wednesday, hailed men of the state fire service who mobilised three fire-fighting vans to the scene within 15 minutes of the fire outbreak.

The permanent secretary’s office, which was under renovation …

Wike: Niger Delta Govs Behind NDDC Audit

Wike: Niger Delta Govs Behind NDDC Audit

November 7, 2019 4:08 am

The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, wednesday said that the Niger Delta governors were behind the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to audit the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

Wike explained that the governors had told the President during their visit to about the rot in the commission and the need for a forensic audit of the interventionist agency.

Wike, who made these revelations when members of the commission’s interim board visited the Government House in Port Harcourt, added that apart from the demand for the audit of the commission, the Niger Delta governors also urged the President to …

Niger Delta Agitators Fault Dokubo, Want Him Replaced

Niger Delta Agitators Fault Dokubo, Want Him Replaced

November 2, 2019 5:35 am

Contrary to claims by the Presidential Amnesty office that their parley with first phase camp leader of the scheme and other stakeholders in Calabar, Cross River State was successful and addressed issues, the meeting was inconclusive and never addressed any of their concerns for which they want him removed from office.

According to the national leader of the First Phase camp leader, Chief Selky Torughedi, aka Young Shall Grow, they had anticipated the meeting for a long time and were hopeful that they were going to address all knotty issues militating against the proper working of the scheme; only …

Army Begins Operation Crocodile Smile 4 In Niger Delta

Army Begins Operation Crocodile Smile 4 In Niger Delta

October 26, 2019 4:17 am

The Nigerian Army yesterday commenced Operation Crocodile Smile 4, in the Niger Delta, through reaching out to residents of communities where the exercise is scheduled to take place with medical assistance and other humanitarian gestures.

The operation, an annual army level exercise carried out in the South-south region began October 8 and would last till 23 December 2019.

The army said it was aimed at consolidating on the gains of the previous exercises, noting that the purpose was essentially targeted at security challenges associated with militancy, oil theft, pipeline vandalism, kidnapping for ransom and politically induced violence amongst others on …

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