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Yusuf Tuggar, minister of foreign affairs, says the Nigerian soldiers who were on an aircraft that made a forced landing in ...

According to several Beninese and Nigerien sources, the military authorities in Niamey were allegedly warned in advance of the attempted coup in Benin on 7.

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The 11 Nigerian soldiers have spent their sixth day in detention in Burkina Faso after a Nigerian Air Force aircraft made a ...

Burkina Faso has released the eleven Nigerian military officers who were detained after their Air Force transport aircraft ...

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Security expert, Zagazola Makama, has sharply criticised the seizure of a Nigerian Air Force (NAF) C-130 Hercules aircraft ...

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Mr Tuggar also noted that the Air Force aircraft landing in Burkina Faso had nothing to do with Nigeria’s intervention in the recent military coup in Benin.