Residents in Bida, Niger State, rushed to collect groundnut oil on Tuesday morning after a tanker overturned near Shafa filling station in Esso area. This is coming just three days after a tragic tanker explosion claimed 98 lives in Suleja Local Government Area.

Niger’s defense minister says the junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force that will soon be deployed in the restive Sahel region to face rising extr

About four people were thrown southward. We could hear them crying and screaming in the air,” Abubakar Jibrin, a witness who narrowly escaped the fire, told PREMIUM TIMES.

Despite a deadly tanker explosion that killed over 90 people days earlier, residents in Bida town, Niger State, gathered around

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu convened a closed-door meeting with key stakeholders from Rivers State, including Governor Siminalayi Fubara, former Governor

A major journalist in Niger was in custody Saturday, an association said, a day after the private TV channel he runs was suspended following a report critical of the military-led regime. Seyni Amadou, editor in chief of Canal 4 TV, has been arrested, said CAP-Medias-Niger, which represents media workers in the country.

Orano has announced it is lodging a second arbitration procedure against the State of Niger following its loss of operational control of SOMAÏR, the operator of the Arlit uranium mine. ;

Orano is lodging a second arbitration procedure vis à vis the State of Niger in order to assert its rights following the loss of operational control of SOMAÏR. The Group has filed its request for arbitration with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

The private channel Canal 3 TV and its editor-in-chief, who has been in police custody since 18 January, were suspended by Niger's communication minister on 17 January after broadcasting the show “Baromètre des membres du gouvernement 2024”,

In response to the tragic petrol tanker fire disaster at Dikko Junction in Niger State, the National Emergency Management Agency has distributed food, non-food items, and medical supplies to support the treatment of injured victims and provide relief to the affected families.

Niger has freed an editor-in-chief arrested after his TV news channel aired a programme critical of the ruling junta, the broadcaster told AFP on Monday.

Such incidents are common in Niger State. On 8 September 2024, more than 50 travellers died in a midnight tanker explosion along the Agaie-Badeggi road. In 2022, another petrol-laden tanker exploded at Badeggi village near Bida. Although there were no casualties from the incident, the fire gutted two other vehicles.