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.

The Niger State Government has announced its decision to take over the cost of treatment of all the injured victims of Saturday’s Fuel Tanker explosion in the state as a humanitarian gesture. Arewa PU

ABIDJAN: 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. Seyni Amadou, editor-in-chief of private broadcaster Canal 3 TV, was arrested on Saturday, in the latest crackdown on the press since the military took power in a 2023 coup.

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 President Bola Tinubu's directive for the prompt transfer of victims of the Dikko Junction fuel tanker explosion to tertiary medical

An Austrian woman has been kidnapped by gunmen in Niger’s Agadez city, local residents and the Austrian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, the first time a European citizen is known to have been kidnapped in the conflict-hit West African nation since a military junta took power in 2023.

Three trucks, one carrying a spare driver, disappeared as they drove without an escort from Dori in Burkina Faso to Tera in Niger, an area known for jihadi threats, a diplomatic source says

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.

Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Health, Secondary, and Tertiary, Senator Ipalibo Harry Banigo, has urged motorists to exercise caution and avoid

The death toll in last Saturday's tanker explosion at Dikko Junction in Gurara local government area of Niger state has increased to 86 people as some of the injured victims died while receiving treatment.

The death toll from a gasoline tanker explosion in north-central Nigeria has risen to 98, the country’s emergency response agency said.