By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau – Police tactical team have killed two bandits and repelled attack on a community in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The state police spokesman, CSP Muhammad Shehu, confirmed the incident in a statement issued to newsmen on Monday in Gusau. CSP Shehu assured residents...
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Armed bandits have kidnapped no fewer than 80 children in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The children, aged between 12 and 17, were abducted on Friday at about 8am, the BBC Hausa Service has reported. According to the report, the children were abducted while fetching firewood in...
By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau – The Zamfara State Police Command has arrested additional 17 suspects in connection with post elections violence that erupted, following the announcement of Governorship election result in the state. The command spokesman, SP Muhammad Shehu, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Gusau, said...
The former Zamfara Governor, Alhaji Abdul’aziz Yari, has donated 240 trucks of food items to members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Orphans and other categories of the less privileged groups in their state as Ramadan Welfare Package. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports...
INEC declares PDP’s Dauda Lawal winner of Zamfara governorship election
By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau – The police operatives in Zamfara State have dislodged a bandits’ camp and rescue 14 kidnapped victims, who had spent 68 days in captivity. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Muhammad Shehu, disclosed this in a statement issued on Saturday in Gusau....
By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau – The police authority in Zamfara State has confirmed the killing of SP Kazeem Raheem, the Maru Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Maru LGA of the state. The bandits also killed a Police Inspector, Rabi’u Umar, who was attached to the division. The police spokesman,...
The Amalgamated Union of Northern Traders, on Saturday in Sokoto lauded the directives given by Gov. Bello Mutawalle of Zamfara state, for security men to arrest anybody who rejects the old naira notes during transaction. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Gov. Mutawalle was among the Governors...
The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on Saturday in Gusau, Zamfara, dismissed insinuations making the rounds that there was friction in his relationship with President Muhammadu Buhari. Tinubu, in a statement issued by Abdul’aziz Abdulaziz of Tinubu Media in Gusau, Zamfara, said his...
No fewer than one million members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will be mobilised to welcome party’s Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to Zamfara on Saturday, Jan. 28. This is contained in a statement issued in Gusau on Tuesday by the State APC Publicity Secretary, Mr Yusuf Idris....
Eight former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) State House of Assembly aspirants have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). A statement issued in Gusau on Tuesday by the state APC Publicity Secretary, Yusuf Idris said the former aspirants announced their defection at a meeting with Gov. Bello Matawalle on...
Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara said that the decade-old security challenges had crippled socio-economic activities in the state. The Governor disclosed this at the Armed Forces Remembrance Day ceremony which held in Gusau on Sunday, adding that, farming and other agribusinesses had suffered setbacks. Matawalle said: ”Education also remains...
The Zamfara chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of fueling political violence in the state. State APC Publicity Secretary, Malam Yusuf Idris made the allegations at a media briefing in Gusau on Wednesday. Idris described the recent campaign tactics of PDP...
By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau – Zamfara State Police Command has arrested two suspects conveying 325 live ammunition along Gusau-Wanke-Dansadau road in the state. The Command spokesman, Mohammed Shehu, said in a statement that the suspects were arrested on Jan. 8, at about 23:00 hrs by a police tactical team....
APC governorship campaign council in Zamfara says reinstating PDP governorship candidate, Dr Dauda Lawal-Dare will not in any way challenge the party’s predicted victory in the March 11 governorship election in the state. The Director, Directorate of Publicity of the council, Alhaji Ibrahim Danmalikin-Gidangoga stated this while speaking with...
Police in Zamfara has killed two gunrunners on the Anka-Gummi Highway on Sunday while attempting to convey arms to terrorists camps. Police spokesman in the state, SP Muhammad Shehu, stated on Sunday that the gunrunners were conveying the sophisticated arms and ammunition from Taraba. He added that a Toyota...
By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau – Police operatives from Zamfara State Command have rescued no fewer than 15 persons abducted by bandits along Gusau-Funtua road. The police spokesman, Muhammad Shehu, who disclosed this on Thursday, said the victims were abducted on Tuesday and taken away into the bush. Mr. Shehu...
A wanted terrorist kingpin, Gwoska Dankarami, on New Year eve, escaped death by the whiskers when air strikes of the Nigerian military targeted his hideout, along Kaura Namoda Road in Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. PRNigeria however gathered that several of his footsoldiers were not so lucky,...
By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau – The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) in Zamfara State has condoled with the victims of the military airstrike incident in some communities of Maru Local Government Area of the state. This is contained in a statement issued in Gusau by the...
At least 20 people from the Randa Community in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State were killed after terrorists loyal to notorious terror kingpin, Lawalli Damina, kidnapped the entire male residents of the community over missing rifles, PREMIUM TIMES has exclusively reported. Locals and a traditional leader told...