Gunmen attack Zamfara community

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 […]

Saudi Deports 137 Zamfara Female Pilgrims

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 […]

Police arrest 200 suspected thugs in Zamfara

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. […]

Zamfara: Sharia court sentences 4 to 6 months imprisonment for fornication

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 […]

Tribune now northerners’ delight —Zamfara SSG

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 […]

Zamfara police arrest suspected killer of 4 policemen

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 […]

Zamfara: Police arrest man, 30, for forging governor’s signature

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 […]

One-month old baby receives salary in Zamfara

KANO  (AFP) – A one-month old baby, said to hold a diploma, was on the Nigerian government payroll, officials have discovered, exposing the levels to which corruption runs country. The name of the infant was recently found on the payment voucher of a local government council in northern Nigeria during an exercise to fish out […]

4 killed as mining pit collapses in Zamfara

No fewer than four people were said to have died following the collapse of a mining pit at the controversial mining site in Dareta Village, Anka Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Close source who was at the scene of the incident, told Daily Sun that the urgly situation occured on Thursday around midnight when […]

Police arrest 7 over killings in Zamfara

Police in Zamfara State said they have arrested seven people suspected of involvement in the weekend raid on a village that left 19 people dead, the state governor said yesterday. Dozens of attackers suspected of belonging to a gang of robbers armed with guns and machetes on Saturday raided Lingyado, a remote farming and herding […]

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