Gunmen, weekend, raided Gobirawan Cali community in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State, kidnapping over 40 peasant farmers. A villager told the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, Hausa Service that the gunmen stormed the communities, shooting sporadically, as inhabitants ran into the bush to avoid being hit by bullets. According to the villager, “they came
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The Defence Headquarters says the military has killed several Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists and bandits and also arrested their collaborators in the Northwest and Northeast zones during an operation. This was achieved through separate airstrikes carried out on the heels of intelligence reports indicating that the two locations were being used as staging areas by the
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It was a sad day in Zamfara on Wednesday as no fewer than fourteen politicians who were allegedly rushing to meet up with the state Governor’s convoy died in a fatal road accident. The accident which occurred on Wednesday saw three vehicles colliding with a BUA cement trailer. It was gathered that fourteen of the
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Some unknown gunmen have abducted the two sons of Bello Dankande, a former Zamfara commissioner alongside an officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). The incident which took place at Dankande’s residence in Gamji, Bakura local government area of the state on Tuesday August 18, left one person dead and a woman
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The crisis in APC is playing out in Zamfara State. The ruling party was thrown into a leadership crisis that lead the State High Court in Gusau to dissolve the executive council of the party and ordered new congresses. It was gathered on Friday that Justice Bello Tukur Gummi, who is the presiding Judge, in
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday urged the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to avoid the pitfalls that affected the party in Rivers, Zamfara and Bayelsa states in the 2019 elections. He also urged the party leaders and campaign team to do all that was necessary by following legal and constitutional means to win
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Following the ultimatum by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Inspector General of Police, IGP Mohammed Abubakar to put an end to banditry in Zamfara State the IGP today Thursday July 16 paid a visit to the state to assess things for himself. And as part of effort to end activities of armed bandits and other
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The military has announced that at least 135 bandits have been killed in camps in Katsina and Zamfara states, destroying their buildings. This is according to the Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, who said this in a statement on Saturday revealed that the bandits were killed following airstrikes conducted on Thursday and
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A fatal accident along Kasuwar Daji-Gusau road in Zamfara State has claimed no fewer than ten lives. THE DAILY VENDOR reports that the crash, which happened on Saturday night, left about 45 persons with various degrees of injuries. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mohammed Shehu who confirmed the incidence, said the accident
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Zamfara Commissioner of Security and Home Affairs, Alhaji Abubakar Dauran, on Thursday confirmed the killing of seven persons by bandits at Malele village, Mutunji District of Dansadau emirate in Maru local government area of the state. Dauran told newsmen in Gusau that the incident occurred on Tuesday at Malele village. The commissioner said: “The Emir
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No fewer than 29 people were feared killed by bandits in Babban Rafi village of Gummi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. An eye witness and an indigene of the village, Malam Musa Ibrahim, who escaped being killed, told The Punch reporter on the telephone that the bandits arrived at the village on the early
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The Zamfara state government has earmarked N7 billion in the 2020 budget for the construction of a new Government House, according to the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Bala Bello. The governor disclosed this in Gusau on Thursday after defending the 2020 budget proposals of his office at the House of Assembly. He said
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The Zamfara Government says it has uncovered a 119-year-old man (name withheld) on its payroll while trying to sanitise its wage bill. The state Commissioner for Finance, Rabiu Garba, disclosed at a news conference on Sunday in Gusau that the centenarian had been collecting salary. Rabiu made this revelation while shedding more light on the state
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