BENIN presidential election favourite Romuald Wadagni swept to victory in the country’s polls, securing 94 percent of votes, according to…
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WITH growing fears that the militant Islamist insurgency that has engulfed large parts of West Africa is spreading, security has…
THE two contiguous states of Niger, Kwara and to some extent Kogi have been at the short end of the…
ONE month after an attempted coup shook Benin, the west African country will hold parliamentary and local elections Sunday, set…
CHABI Yayi, son of former Beninese president and current opposition figure Thomas Boni Yayi, was arrested early Sunday at his…
SOME 200 West African soldiers, mainly from Nigeria and Ivory Coast, are in Benin to support the government following Sunday’s…
BENIN’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Olushegun Bakari, on Thursday revealed how his country sought urgent military assistance from Nigeria to help…
NIGERIA’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, has met with his Beninese counterpart, Olushegun Adjadi Bakar, in Abuja. At the…
THE Senate has approved President Bola Tinubu’s request to deploy Nigerian troops to the Republic of Benin in support of…
TWO senior military officials taken hostage during Sunday’s attempted coup in Benin have been freed, a government source has told…
FORMER presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Publisher, Dele Momodu, says a last-minute disruption to his planned…
NIGERIA deployed both air and ground troops to neighbouring Benin Republic on Sunday after President Patrice Talon’s government urgently requested…
BENIN’s President Patrice Talon says the government and armed forces have thwarted an attempted coup in the West African nation…
A GROUP of military personnel in Benin on Sunday announced that they had ousted President Patrice Talon, who is due…
BOTH Nigeria’s Super Eagles and the Cheetahs of Benin Republic will be without key players when they clash in a…
RESCUERS have recovered 10 more bodies from a Beninese river which a bus plunged into at the weekend, bringing the…
DESPITE ongoing electricity shortages affecting millions of Nigerians, the Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN) says supplying power to neighbouring countries…
BENIN Republic President Patrice Talon on Friday said he would not stand for an unconstitutional third term in office but…
Calls For Immediate Action A DAY etched in the annals of Nigerian-Benin relations, Senator John Owan Enoh, Nigeria’s Minister of…
BENIN forces have suffered heavy losses in an attack near the border with insurgency-hit Niger and Burkina Faso, authorities have…