Mohamed Bazoum
4 Apr
The unsavoury experiences of the people of Niger Republic, alongside that of many Nigerians on the borderline, are a clear testimony of the impropriety of the sanctions imposed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Niger
22 Mar
The border between Niger and Nigeria reopened to road traffic on Friday seven months after it was closed following a military coup in Niamey, local people told AFP.
17 Mar
Niger's government announced on Saturday that it was breaking off "with immediate effect" its military cooperation agreement with the United States. The declaration came just a day after a senior US delegation left Niger, following a three-day visit to renew contact with the military junta that ousted the president and moved closer to Russia. The…
17 Mar
The action of Nigeria in reopening her land and air border with Niger Republic is a clear manifestation of the resolve of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to tackle diplomatically the impasse engulfing the regional body.
6 Mar
Coups and earthquakes! Foreign journalists from America and Britain who covered Africa back in the day were never tired of writing headline stories on coups and earthquakes in Africa.
27 Feb
Niger has not reopened its border with Benin two days after the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) lifted coup-linked sanctions on the landlocked nation, local officials confirmed yesterday.
11 Dec
Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met yesterday in Abuja for talks about the region’s deepening crisis, after four countries fell under military rule and with risks growing from Sahel jihadist conflicts.
3 Dec
Nigeria is calling for the release of ousted Niger president Mohamed Bazoum and for the military junta to allow him to leave for a third country, its foreign minister said.
22 Oct 2023
Niger's ousted president Mohamed Bazoum is with his family and is doing well, a relatives told AFP Sunday, after claims by the country's new military rulers this week that he had tried to escape.
20 Oct 2023
Lawyers for Niger's ousted president on Friday rejected claims by the new military rulers that he had tried to escape, as France said its forces would be gone from the West African country by year's end as planned.
11 Oct 2023
United States, yesterday, formally declared the ousting of Niger’s democratically-elected president a coup d’état, more than two months after mutinous soldiers seized power.
2 Oct 2023
Lawyers for Niger's ousted president say they are filing a legal case in the West African country against those behind the coup that deposed the democratically elected leader. The lawyers for Mohamed Bazoum, who was overthrown on July 26 and has since been detained, also said in a statement they were appealing to the UN…
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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has arrested a father for impersonating son during the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
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