TWENTY-THREE persons were reported to have died on Sunday, when suspected gunmen, numbering about 70, stormed the small village of Ligyado in Daraga District in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The attack came barely two months after a similar attack took place in Guru and Tungar villages in Dansadau district in the same […]
IT was just one attack apparently. But at the end of it, a community in Zamfara State lost 23 people to gunmen. The attackers who were about 70 raided Ligyado village in Maru Local Council of the state with offensive weapons like AK47 rifles, daggers, machetes and sticks. The sad development was the second of its […]
Suspected bandits have killed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Youth Leader in Zamfara State, Alhaji Samaila Zakariya. The PDP youth leader met his untimely death in the early hours of yesterday few kilometres to Funtua, Katsina State on his way to Kaduna, when people suspected to be hired assassins opened fire on his vehicle. The […]
Worried by the increasing rate of ghost workers on the pay roll of the 14 local councils of Zamfara State, the state government is to embark on a verification exercise in order to fish them out. This was disclosed by the Deputy Governor of the state, Malam Ibrahim Wakkala, in Gusau on Friday. He said the action […]
AT least 10 persons were reported killed, when suspected armed robbers stormed Tungan Baushe and Guru in Dansadau in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune at the Federal Medical Centre Gusau, a survivor of the attack, Mallam Mande Adamu, said the robbers came in broad daylight. Nigerian Tribune findings […]
Zamfara State government has donated 20 operational vehicles, bought at the cost of N101million to the police in its efforts to help the security outfit to combat crime. Presenting the 20 pickup vans equipped with modern communication gadgets to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Alhaji Hafiz Ringim, at the state police headquarters, Gusau, the […]
ZAMFARA State governor, Alhaji Abdul-Aziz Yari, said he is ready to pay the N18000 minimum wage to his workers. Speaking with newsmen in Gusau, the governor affirmed that the minimum wage was a law which he had to comply with. He was, however, silent on when he would start its payment. Yari said he would […]
Governor Abdul’aziz Yari Abubakar of Zamfara State is at loggerheads with his predecessor, Alhaji Aliyu Shinkafi. Yari lamented that he inherited a whopping N42billion debt without any handover note. Shinkafi, however, insisted few days before he left office that he left substantial amount of money that would finish all ongoing important capital projects in the […]
Zamfara State governor, Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar, has advised prison inmates in the state to be patient and faithful to God, saying their stay in prison was a test of faith even as he disclosed that he once found himself in their situation. “I was once a prisoner. Ironically, what happened was that I was to be […]
The chairman of the gubernatorial election tribunal in Zamfara State, Justice Kashim Kaigama, has promised to grant journalists access to court proceedings and records, in the spirit of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act. He made this known during the inaugural sitting of the tribunal in Gusau, on Monday. The chairman, who was leading two […]
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