Bandits have killed five worshippers and kidnapped 18 in an attack on a mosque during prayers in Zamfara state, police said Sunday. Around 100 cattle thieves on motorcycles opened fire on a Muslim congregation in remote Dutsen Gari village in Maru district as residents were observing the weekly Friday prayers. […]
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The Police in Zamfara, says it has concluded arrangements for the training of some 3,850 Special Constables in the state. The Special Constabulary was part of security initiative adopted by the command to fight banditry and crimes as well as protect lives and property in the state. Mr […]
Alhaji Sani Shinkafi, a member of Zamfara Security Advisory Committee has dismissed as fake, a recent audio trending on social media that members of the committee had resigned. Shinkafi, who was APGA governorship candidate in the 2019 elections in the state, said the recording was the work of mischief-makers and […]
One Abubakar Namalika has been arrested for probable connection with the death of a medical doctor in the capital of Zamfara, Gusau. The state’s commissioner of police told newsmen on Monday that the suspect had already confessed to killing Dr Enoch Okpara on June 13. He had even given more […]
The Chairman of Tsafe local government area of Zamfara state, Alhaji Aminu Mudi has on Monday announced his defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. Alhaji Aminu Mudi was elected as chairman of Tsafe local government area about a year […]
The Zamfara government said it disbursed more than N56 million to 5,600 beneficiaries its Social Intervention Programme (Z-SIP) across the state in January. The coordinator of the programme, Alhaji Abdulhameed Mamanu, said this at a conference in Gusau. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Z-SIP is one of the […]
Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle has directed the Zamfara State Road Traffic Agency (ZAROTA) to take charge of the security affairs of all cemeteries in the state. The governor gave the directive when he visited Unguwar Gwaza cemetery in Gusau on Wednesday to assess the damage of fire outbreak recorded […]
Armed bandits have killed 11 people in separate attacks in northern Nigeria, a community leader and residents said Tuesday. In the first incident on Monday, six vigilantes were killed when gunmen invaded Kakangi village in the restive Birnin Gwari area of Kaduna state. The vigilantes had intercepted the gunmen with a […]
The Zamfara state house of assembly in its 078 sittings today has laid to rest the raging controversy of payment of pension and other entitlements for the fmr govs, their deputies, speakers, and their deputies in the state by repealing the law outrightly. Presenting the bill before the house today, […]
Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara has mandated his deputy, Mahdi Ali-Gusau to visit and condole families of the 14 people killed in Sunday’s bandits’ attack at Karaye village in Gumi Local Government Area of the state. This is contained in a press release issued in Gusau on Tuesday by Yusuf […]