KANO (AFP) – An armed gang has raided a northern Nigerian village and killed 48 people in an apparent reprisal attack targeting a local vigilante group, a state official said Wednesday. The attack saw gunmen move house to house as well as take positions atop a hill and open fire, the official said. Houses were [...]
Emir of Anka in Zamfara State, Alhaji Attahiru Ahmad, has asked President Goodluck Jonathan not to grant amnesty to members of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram. Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar lll, had at a meeting of the Jama’atu Nasril Islam in Kaduna, last week, urged the President to grant members of the sect amnesty. [...]
Gusau – A police corporal, Jeremiah Yusuf, lost four children in a fire incident at Tudun-wada Quarters of Gusau, Zamfara, on Wednesday. Yusuf said a neighbour’s house where he was receiving sympathisers, that “I watched all my children burn helplessly before me and I could not do anything to save them.” Yusuf explained that he [...]
TRAGEDY struck in the early hours of Tuesday when gunmen, numbering about 50, stormed the village of Kaboro in Dansadau district of Maru emirate council of Zamfara State. An eyewitness told the Nigerian Tribune that the hoodlums came on horses and motorcycles, carrying dangerous weapons and AK47 rifles around 2.00 a.m. to attack the small [...]
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has deported 137 intending female pilgrims from Zamfara State, the Amirul Hajj, Malam Ibrahim Wakkala, said on Friday at a news briefing in Gusau. Wakkala, who is also the state deputy governor, said the deportees, who arrived in the state in good health, were received by top government officials. He [...]
Gusau -The Police Command in Zamfara said on Friday that it had arrested 200 suspected thugs, known as “sara suka”. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Usman Hassan, said, that the thugs were arrested in Gusau and its environs. He said the police acted on information it received from the public to raid criminal hideouts. [...]
The High Sharia Court sitting in Kaura in Kaura Namoda Local Government Area of Zamfara State has sentenced four adults to six months imprisonment for fornication and are to be given 30 strokes of the cane each. Those convicted were Badamasi Ibrahim, Mudi BB, Zainab Abubakar, and Maryam Nasiru. The prosecutor told the court that [...]
THE Zamfara State Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Alhaji Hassan Ato, has said the Nigerian Tribune has won the hearts of northerners in recent times, with the way and manner it is reporting events in the country without bias. The SSG made the disclosure during the recently concluded local government election in Bungudu, his [...]
The Zamfara State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Tambari, has disclosed that a suspect had been arrested in connection with the recent murder of four policemen in the state. Spaeking with newsmen in Gusau, the police boss said the suspect was helping the police in their investigations. On the recent media report in a national [...]
Police have arrested a 30-year-old Umar Faruk who forged Zamfara Governor’s signature and fake Permanent Secretary, state Ministry of Finance Aliyu Mohammed Maizinari after awarding N2.25billion contract with alleged forged signature. The suspects were also said to have awarded another contract with their forged governor’s signature for the supply of, Toyota Camry cars worth N500 [...]
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