The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), the country’s premier Film Trade Association Body, has announced good news for cinema lovers on the occasion of the International Cinema Day. Opeyemi Ajayi, the chairman of the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), said in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos that cinema lovers would enjoy discounted […]
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a political and economic union of fifteen countries located in West Africa, searched diplomatic ways on Sunday to overturn last month’s coup in Niger, a landlocked country in West Africa. On Saturday, West Africa’s regional bloc said that it wanted to send a parliamentary committee to meet […]
Two Western sources who spoke with The Associated Press claim that the Nigerian junta informed a senior US diplomat that it would assassinate ousted President Mohamed Bazoum if neighboring nations attempted a military intervention to restore his authority. They spoke with the Associated Press not long before the West African bloc ECOWAS said that it […]
Thousands of supporters of the military coup in Niger gathered in a stadium in the city of Niamey on Sunday as the regional organization ECOWAS set a deadline for restoring the deposed President Mohamed Bazoum to office in Niger. Cheers and applause greeted the arrival of a delegation of members of the National Council for […]
This was the postcolonial scene in Niamey, the capital of Niger, this week, as hundreds of French nationals joined other EU citizens in scurrying away from the west African nation. Sections of the military had staged a coup against Mohamed Bazoum, Niger’s democratically elected president, just before 3 August, the country’s National Day, when it marked 63 years since gaining nominal independence from […]
A week after the toppling of elected President Mohamed Bazoum, European citizens have been evacuating from Niger, which has had a key role in French and Western strategies to combat a jihadist insurgency that has plagued the Sahel since 2012. Niger is the fourth member of the group to undergo a putsch since 2020. Senegal said Thursday it […]
Nigeria has cut off its energy supply to Niger, according to information that AFP obtained on Wednesday from a source close to the management of the Nigerien Energy Company (Nigelec). This action is in accordance with the sanctions decided upon by the West African neighbours of Niger after it was destabilised by a coup. According […]
Mohamed Bazoum has won Niger’s presidential election, according to the country’s electoral commission. Niger’s electoral commission has declared the ruling party’s candidate, Mohamed Bazoum, is the winner of the country’s second round of presidential elections with 55.75 percent of the vote on February 21st. President-elect MrBazoum, 61, was the ruling party’s candidate in Sunday’s run-off […]
Mohamed Bazoum of the ruling party is projected to win the presidential election in the Niger, according to the result released so far Bazoum is leading with a large margin. Bazoum has garnered 1.4 million votes, while his closest opponent has only 675,000 votes. Previous leaders Seini Oumarou and Albade Abouba were on course for […]
Niger’s Presidential candidate, Mohamed Bazoum has solicited for support towards a peaceful election in the country, many political experts has tipped Bazoum to win the forthcoming presidential election due to his political experience. Bazoum who is the previous inside Minister and the right-hand man of active President Mahamadou Issoufou has been crusading enthusiastically to clich […]