The claims about the alleged establishment of a so-called Lakurawa terrorist headquarters in Sokoto State, purportedly orchestrated by Nigeria in collaboration with France, are baseless,” Nigeria's Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, According to the statement, the claims exist solely in the realm of imagination of the Nigerien President. He said Nigeria had never engaged in any overt or covert alliance with France or any other country to sponsor terrorist attacks or destabilise Niger following undemocratic change in leadership of that country.