Tag: Zamfara State

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has recorded a landslide victory in the just-concluded Zamfara State local government election, winning all fourteen chairmanship seats ...

Nine of the 21 kidnapped students of the Federal University Gusau, Zamfara state, have been released by their abductors. One of the negotiators ...

Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, on Wednesday, inaugurated 2,646 Community Protection Guards (CPGs) to work with the security agencies to fight the terrorists ...

Zamfara State Governor Dauda Lawal has signed an Executive Order prohibiting traditional rulers from issuing consent letters for mining across the state. The ...

The  IPC’s Centre for Safety and Protection of Journalists (I-CSPJ), has condemned in its entirety the alleged gruesome killing of Hamisu Danjibga, a ...

Since last month’s abduction of some members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC and the driver of the vehicle while on their ...

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Yushau Ahmed, says one of the Corps members abducted in Zamfara State ...

Birnin Gwari Emirate Progressives Union (BEPU) has rejected former Zamfara state governor, Sani Yerima’s advice to President Bola Tinubu to negotiate with bandits, ...

Civil Society Organisations under the aegis of Coalition of Civil Society Organisation for Good Governance has called on the international community to beam ...

Governor Bello Muhammad Matawalle of Zamfara State has ordered the arrest of any person who refuses to accept the old currency notes of ...

Governor Bello Matawalle says the Zamfara State Government has identified no fewer than 199 ghost doctors who were in the state payroll that ...

Nigerian troops attached to ‘Operation Hadarin Daji’, have neutralized scores of terrorists at Yar Tashar village in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara ...

Zamfara Government’s Anti-Thuggery Standing Committee has arrested three suspects for allegedly supplying SIM cards, drugs, illegal substances and sexual enhancers to bandits. The ...

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) and the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) have faulted the Zamfara State government’s shutting down of broadcast houses. ...

Governor Bello Muhammad Matawalle of Zamfara State has shutdown all federal and private media Houses in the state for covering PDP’s political rally. ...

At least 15 persons were reportedly killed when terrorists opened fire at worshipers on Friday, during Jummat prayers in the North West of ...

The federal government says it will sanction the BBC and Trust Tv for airing documentaries that allegedly glorify and fuel terrorism and banditry in Nigeria. ...

The Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Mohammed Matawalle, has barred Wmirs in the state from awarding chieftaincy titles without the state government’s approval. ...

THE Zamfara State Police Command, has declared bandit kingpin, Ado Aleru who was conferred with the title of Sarkin Fulani by the Emir ...

Zamfara State Government has dissociated itself from the turbaning of a notorious bandit, Ada Aleru, by the Emir of Birnin Yandoto in Tsafe ...

THE Emir of Yandoto in Zamfara State, Alhaji Garba Marafa, has conferred the traditional title of Sarki Fulani to one of the most ...

Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara has begun training for a newly-established security outfit, Community Protection Guard (CPG) to tackle banditry and kidnaping in ...

Zamfara Government has dethroned the Emir of Zurmi, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and that of Dansadau, Alhaji Hussaini Umar, on Wednesday for their alleged ...

Nasanda, a terrorists king pin in Zamfara State has issued a 14 day ultimatum to the State Government to pay him N30 million ...

Political equation in Zamfara State changed on Tuesday when Governor Bello Matawalle, national and state lawmakers as well as members of the State ...

Against the backdrop of the official defection of the Zamfara state governor, Bello Matawalle from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All ...

Zamfara State police command has arrested seven security personnel involved in aiding and abetting banditry activities in the state. This was made known ...

By Admin Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, says his dialogue with bandits has significantly reduced killings in the state. Governor Matawalle who ...