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Headlines, State News, Zamfara
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
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 […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, State News, Zamfara
Friday, September 28th, 2012
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 […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News, Zamfara
Saturday, September 8th, 2012
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. […]
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Headlines, State News, Zamfara
Thursday, July 5th, 2012
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 […]
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State News, Zamfara
Monday, June 25th, 2012
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 […]
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State News, Zamfara
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
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 […]
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Governors, Headlines, State News, Zamfara
Sunday, December 18th, 2011
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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Headlines, State News, Zamfara
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
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 […]
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State News, Zamfara
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
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 […]
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State News, Zamfara
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
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 […]