The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in Zamfara state have traded words over the dimensions of nationwide protest in the state. The opposition APC in the state has alleged that the PDP supporters have attempted to burn the personal residence of state Minister of Defence Bello Mattawalle during the ...
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF), in collaboration with other security agencies, have imposed a 24-hour curfew in Borno State following a recent tragic incident. The announcement comes in response to the detonation of an improvised explosive device (IED) in Kawori, which resulted in the deaths of 16 people and left several others critically inju...
Crisis has again erupted in the Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress as the federal lawmaker representing Kaura-named-Birnin Magaji Federal Constituency, Hon Sani Jaji and his supporters created another faction within the party. Addressing a press conference in Gusau on Wednesday, the chairman of the Sani Jaji-led APC faction...
•Zamfara State House of Assembly The eight suspended members of the Zamfara State House of Assembly have instituted a suit at the Federal High Court in Gusau, challenging the breach of their constitutional rights to liberty, dignity of human person, fair hearing, and taking of property without following due process. The suit was against seven ...
The eight lawmakers suspended by the Zamfara State House of Assembly, yesterday, said they had been hounded out of the state by political thugs for exposing the increasing wave of insecurity in the state. They also said the House had written to them to return their official vehicles to the Clerk, reports The PUNCH. Zamfara […]
•Troops burning terrorists camp The military Joint Task Force North-West Operation Hadarin Daji said yesterday, that it neutralised scores of bandits and rescued eight kidnapped victims in Zamfara State. The Information Officer of Operation Hadarin Daji, Lt. Col. Suleiman Omale, stated this in a statement yesterday in Gusau. Omale said, “On th...
•Bandits Bandit attacks on rural communities in Zamfara State have taken another dimension as the hoodlums now concentrate in raping married women and girls in their family homes. This came on a day suspected bandits arrested by the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps NSCDC and personnel of [...
•Gunmen Bandits have killed two policemen, and two other residents and abducted about forty persons in an attack on Kasuwa-Daji Town under the Kaura-Namoda Local Government Area in Zamfara State. Residents said the bandits invaded the town early hours of today and started shooting indiscriminately to scare residents, reports Channels TV. A res...
•Protection Guards personnel The Zamfara State Government stepped up its war on insecurity in the area as Governor Dauda Lawal yesterday formally unveiled the Community Protection Guards (CPG), designed to complement the efforts of the regular security forces. The ceremony at the Trade Fair complex in Gusau, the state capital, attracted the si...
•Governors Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi and Dauda Lawal of Zamfara states The Supreme Court, today, affirmed the election victory of Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State. In the same vein, the Supreme Court also upheld the election of Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State. For Ebonyi, the court, in its lead judgment that was delivered [&helli...

