How over 100 bandits attended turbaning of their leader in Zamfara
More than 100 bandits, on Saturday, attended the turbaning ceremony of Ado Aleru, a bandit kingpin, as the Sarkin Fulani ...
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Matawalle approves death penalty for bandits – as gunmen sack 30 Zamfara villages
Bello Matawalle, governor of Zamfara State, on Tuesday signed the anti-banditry and other related offences bill into law, approving the ...
Gen Irabor to Malami: Tell Nigerians if Zamfara gov has powers to tell citizens to bear arms
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor, has said the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami has ...
Zamfara NDLEA seizes 4,520 kg of substances, convicts 28
The Zamfara State command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has impounded 4,520 kilograms of psychotropic ...
2023: Dauda Lawal emerges Zamfara PDP governorship candidate
Alhaji Dauda Lawal, a former banker, has been declared winner of Zamfara State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary election and ...
Angry Zamfara residents block major road over banditry
Aggrieved residents, largely from rural communities in Tsafe local government area of Zamfara State, on Wednesday, blocked Gusau-Funtua highway to ...
Our captors fed us with grass – Victim narrates ordeal in kidnappers’ den
Some of the victims who were kidnapped in different parts of Zamfara State resorted to eating grasses to survive when ...
Professor reveals shocking details on banditry in Nigeria
Dr. Murtala Ahmed Rufa’i, a lecturer at the Department of History, Usman Danfodiyo University (UDUS), Sokoto, has revealed shocking details ...
Bandits free 75 kidnapped Zamfara school pupils
Bandits have released the 75 pupils of Government Day Secondary School, Kaya, in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State ...
Insecurity: Zamfara shuts schools, imposes dusk-to-dawn curfew
The Zamfara State government on Wednesday announced a dusk-to-dawn curfew on 13 local government areas of the state. Commissioner of ...