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NAPTIP gets land, funding for new Niger command
Punch
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January 28, 2025
The Governor of Niger State, Mohammed Bago, on Tuesday, announced support for the kickoff of the Niger State Command of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons. He also called on state governors to support NAPTIP’s drive...
The Niger, Enugu tanker fires
Tribune Online
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January 28, 2025
FOLLOWING the Saturday, December 18 tanker explosion that rocked Niger State, there was a harvest of deaths and grievous injuries. The incident occurred when a speeding fuel tanker crashed into the concrete pavement dividing the expressway at the...
Immigration Service intercepts 21 minors being trafficked to Niger Republic
Nigerian Eye
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January 31, 2025
Suspected victims of human trafficking, including 21 minors, have been intercepted by the Nigeria Immigration Service at a checkpoint in Yobe State. The victims, aged 7 to 15, were discovered in a Toyota Hiace bus (registration number 10B-87GM),...
ECOWAS Heads of States To Determine Modalities for Engagement As Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger Officially Exit ECOWAS
Daily Independent
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January 31, 2025
The President of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS Commission, Dr. Omar Touray has said that the Authority of the Head of State and Government of ECOWAS will determine the modalities of engagement with Burkina Faso, Mali and...
NIS intercepts 21 minors at Nigeria-Niger border
Eagle Online
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January 31, 2025
The Nigerian Immigration Service has intercepted 21 minors suspected to be victims of trafficking on Thursday at the Geidam border post in Yobe State. The Yobe State Comptroller of the NIS, Sani Sule-Jega, disclosed this while handing over the...
NIS rescues 21 minors from traffickers en route Niger Republic
Punch
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January 31, 2025
The Nigeria Immigration Service in Yobe State has intercepted 21 minors, suspected victims of human trafficking, at a checkpoint in the state. The children, aged 7 to 15, were discovered in a Toyota Hiace bus (registration number 10B-87GM) at the...
Trafficker intercepted on way to Niger Republic, 21 minors rescued
Daily Post
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January 31, 2025
The Yobe State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has intercepted a Toyota Hiace bus carrying 21 minors suspected to be victims of human trafficking. The bus, with registration number 10B-87GM (Gombe State), was stopped near the...
Trafficking: Immigration intercepts 21 minors at Nigeria-Niger border
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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January 30, 2025
The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has intercepted 21 minors, suspected to be victims of trafficking on Thursday at the Geidam border post in Yobe. The Yobe State Comptroller of the NIS, Mr. Sani Sule-Jega disclosed this while handing over the...
21 trafficked minors intercepted at Nigeria-Niger border
Daily Post
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January 30, 2025
The Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, on Thursday intercepted 21 minors, suspected to be victims of trafficking, at the Geidam border post in Yobe. The Yobe State Comptroller of NIS, Sani Sule-Jega, disclosed this while handing over the children...
Residents defy tragedy in Niger, scoop oil from fallen tanker despite recent explosion
Idoma Voice
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January 22, 2025
Niger State residents appear not to have learned from a recent tragic tanker explosion as crowds gathered on Monday in Bida to scoop oil from another fallen truck. IDOMA VOICE reports that the incident comes just two days after a devastating...
Niger Assembly Speaker says bandits holding 20 kidnapped persons in military training ground
Premium Times
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November 1, 2024
The Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly has doubled down on a claim made on the floor of the Assembly that bandits had taken over a training ground of the military in the state. Reacting to a statement by the military denying the claim,...
Niger: Bandits abduct 20 passengers on Maiga-Kontagora road
Idoma Voice
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November 1, 2024
About 20 passengers traveling in five vehicles were abducted by bandits on Thursday along the Maiga-Kontagora road in Niger State. The incident was confirmed by the Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly, Barrister Abdulmalik Sarkin-Daji,...
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger Launch New Joint Passport as Part of Sahel Alliance
News Ghana
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January 25, 2025
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have announced plans to introduce a new common passport for their citizens starting January 29, 2025, marking a key milestone in their break from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). This move comes...
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger Introduce Common Passport
News Central TV
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January 25, 2025
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, now allied under military-led administrations, have announced the introduction of a common passport for their Confederation of Sahel States (AES). This new document will come into effect on January 29, marking one...
Niger Govt issues 48-hr ultimatum to joint taskforce to clear major road
Daily Post
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October 30, 2024
The Niger State Government has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the joint task force committee, assigned the duty of clearing the Lambata-Maje-Diko Road, which has been plagued by persistent gridlocks, disrupting commuters’ travel. The committee...
Pearl Thusi shares throwback video from vacation in Nigeria: "I miss Nigeria so much"
Briefly
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January 24, 2025
South African media personality Pearl Thusi went on a vacation in Nigeria recently for business and pleasure While there, Pearl met up with Swanky Jerry and Bibyonce, and they were seemingly in a photoshoot-type setting Pearl gave fans a treat as...
Niger’s Ex-Prime Minister Hama Amadou Dies Aged 74
Channels TV
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October 24, 2024
Niger’s former prime minister Hama Amadou, known as “the Phoenix” for his talent for political comebacks, has died in Niamey aged 74, his family announced on Thursday. Newspaper L’Enqueteur said the “giant of Nigerien politics” had died overnight...
Junta-led Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger to unveil common passport
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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January 24, 2025
• As they exit ECOWAS January 29 Military governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, yesterday, announced that their common travel passport would come into effect from January 29, the date of their planned departure from the regional bloc,...
The 11 countries British tourists should avoid due to safety concerns according to the Foreign Office
Wales Online
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January 22, 2025
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has issued a new warning regarding travel to some countries in Africa, including Chad, Niger, and Somalia, due to significant safety concerns. However, areas in a further 43 countries should also be...
Largest piece of Mars on earth fetches millions
The Warnambool Standard
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July 17, 2025
The 25kg rock named NWA 16788 was discovered in the Sahara Desert in Niger by a meteorite hunter in November 2023, after having been blown off the surface of Mars by a massive asteroid strike and travelling 225 million kilometres to earth,...