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  • BREAKING: Zamfara Gov. Bello Matawalle Appoints Sanusi Muhammad As New Emir Of Kaura-Namoda

     Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara has presented letter of appointment to the newly appointed Emir of Kaura-Namoda, Alhaji Sanusi Muhammad. This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Jamilu Iliyasu, Press Secretary to the governor in Gusau on Tuesday. He stated that the appointment letter was presented at a brief ceremony attended by other Emirs i ...

  • "We Demand An Apology From NCDC For Recording 10 COVID-19 Cases Instead Of 2" - Zamfara State Govt Says

     Zamfara government says there is an error in the number of new COVID-19 cases announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) for the state on Monday.The NCDC in its release on new cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria, stated that Zamfara had 10 new cases.However, in an interview with NAN, Alhaji Yahaya Kanoma, the state Commissioner of Health ...

  • 2 Permanent Secretaries Die Of Suspected Covid-19 Relate Complications In Zamfara

     Two permanent secretaries in Zamfara state civil service have died following a brief illness.This is coming less than two weeks after Mohammed Ahmad Asha, emir of Kaura-Namoda in the state, died of suspected COVID-19-related complications.report has it that the late permanent secretaries are Yawale Dango of the Office of the Head of Service and Ah ...

  • A Serving Nigerian Army Major, Sanusi Mohammad Named New Emir Of Kaura Namoda In Zamfara State

     Governor  of Zamfara State, Bello Mohammed, has approved the appointment of a 40-year-old serving officer of the Nigerian Army, Sanusi Mohammad, as the new Emir of Kaura-Namoda.Sanusi succeeds his late father, Alhaji Mohammed Ahmed Asha, who died last Sunday after a brief illness.A statement by Zailani Bappa, media aide to the governor, said ...

  • Security Personnel Intercept 40 Men From Zamfara Who Hide Inside A Truckload Of Cows In Lagos

     A trailer loaded with cows and about forty men coming from Zamfara State was intercepted at the Berger end of Lagos-Ibadan expressway this afternoon, Monday May 4, by the Lagos state security personnel.Upon the interception, the driver and his passengers were ordered to return to the state where they were coming from.Interstate travels are current ...

  • We Will Embark On Deportation Of Illegal Miners Who Sneaked In From Zamfara - Osun Govt Declares

     The Osun Government says it will start the deportation of illegal miners who sneaked into the state from Zamfara during the lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus.Mrs Funke Egbemode, the State Commissioner for Information, in a statement on Friday in Osogbo, said the planned deportation of miners was a precautionary measure to contain commu ...

  • Zamfara Female Doctors Request Lockdown Over The Rise Of COVID-19 In The State

     Female doctors tells Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle to lock down the state as a way to minimize the virusThis was contained in a press statement signed by the President of MWAN, Zamfara State chapter, Dr Fatimah Abdulqadir, and made available to newsmen in Gusau, the state capital. The statement said that the curfew would assist in preventing t ...

  • Photos Of Two Notorious Sisters Who Charge Zamfara Bandits N6000 For Sex Per Night

     Two sisters have confessed to their nefarious activities after being caught with a motorcyclist suspected of supplying food items and women to bandits in Zamfara State. The sisters said they charge each member of the group N6,000 for intercouse per night. According to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Zamfara State command, Sha ...

  • PHOTOS: Two Chinese Men, Wang & Chu Arrested in Zamfara For Illegal Minning

     Two Chinese nationals identified as Wang and Chu, have been arrested by men of the Zamfara state police command for their alleged involvement in illegal mining of Gold at Nasarawa Burkullu village in Kwali, Bukkuyum Local Government Area (LGA). .They have been accused of going against the directive of the Federal government, that all mining activi ...

  • 2 Suspected Sisters Serving As Informant To Bandit In Zamfara Arrested By Police

     2 Nigerien sisters serving as informants to bandits in Anka local government area of Zamfara State, have been arrested alongside one other, by operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps. The suspects were arrested along Bagega road in Anka council area by NSCDC operatives on surveillance patrol who acted on intelligence. The male s ...

  • CORONAVIRUS: Zamfara Police Confirm Arrest Of 61 Lagos Returnees For Quarantine

    Zamfara Police Commissioner, Usman Nagogo, who disclosed this while briefing journalists in Daki Takwas, on Monday, said all the passengers have been quarantined.Nagogo said the passengers were returning from Lagos when they were apprehended by his men at the Daki Takwas boundary and handed over to health workers.He explained that the passengers w ...

  • Tragedy As 10 Passenger Died, 45 Injured In An Auto Crash In Zamfara

     10 passengers have died in a road traffic accident along Kasuwar Daji-Gusau road in Zamfara State.This was confimed in a statement by the Zamfara State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Muhammad Shehu,Shehu stated that 45 other passengers sustained various degrees of injuries in the accident that occurred on Saturday night.He said, ...

  • Top Politicians’ Names Found In Shrine In Zamfara State (Photos)

     The names of top politicians among other fetish items were recovered at a house suspected to be cultists’ shrine in Zamfara state, earlier today.According to a statement released by the SSA New Media to the governor, Ibrahim Bello Zauma, the cultists in the den were busted after residents in the area suspected their notorious activities in the a ...

  • Zamfara State Government Burst Illegal Rehabilitation Centre, Rescue 57 Inmates Tied In Chains (Photos)

     The Zamfara State Government on Monday, busted a rehabilitation centre in Gusau, the state capital and rescued 57 inmates tied in chains.It was gathered that Governor Matawalle earlier got a wind of a secret existence of this center and immediately ordered his Commissioner for Special Duties Alhaji Mohammed Saddiq Maiturare to lead a team of Secur ...

  • Many LG Council Offices Reportedly Gutted By Fire in Zamfara

     Gusau Local Government Secretariat of Zamfara State was in the early hours of Tuesday gutted by fire.According to the council’s secretary, Alhaji Nura Musa Gusau, the fire outbreak started around 12 noon when workers were busy in their various departments of the council. “The inferno was technical as it was caused by electrical fault following ...

  • BREAKING: Suspected Gunman Attack Market Kill Twin Brother, Others In Zamfara

     Gunmen suspected to be unrepentant bandits Monday, stormed a weekly market in Birnin Tsaba village of Birnin Magaji Local Government Area of Zamfara State, killing four persons.According to one of the survivors of the terror attack who pleaded anonymity due to security reasons, the weekly market was in full session on Monday, pointing out that hun ...

  • Zamfara Governor, Matawallen Forces Teachers To Eat Poor Quality Meal Provided For Students

     The governor of Zamfara State has expressed disappointment that in spite of the millions being spent, students in the state are being served poor quality meal. Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle of Zamfara state has ordered all school principals and feeding officers in the state to henceforth eat the food they serve students or face dismissal. Gove ...

  • Troops Intercepts 350 Cartons Of Fake Drugs, Kills 13 Bandits In Zamfara, Kebbi

     As troops burst drug counterfeiting ring, intercept 350 cartons of fake drugs, amongst others.Troops of Operation Hadarin Daji OPHD has killed 13 bandits, intercept large ammunitions cache of 4,630 rounds of 7.62mm special ammunition in Moriki town of Shinkafi, local government area of Zamfara and Katsina and Kebbi states.Several other bandits wer ...

  • Over 4,600 Rounds of Bullets Packaged As Bags of Rice, Intercepted in Zamfara (Photos)

     At about 10a.m on Wednesday, troops deployed at Moriki, ZamfaraState, received a tip-off on the movement of ammunition and mounted an emergency stop and search checkpoint.Not long after, a motor bike arrived with a bag looking like a bag of rice. The bike man, however, refused to stop for routine checks and the troop had to give a hot chase. They ...

  • How Suspected Armed Bandits Storm Community, Murder 11 People In Zamfara

     Armed bandits have killed 11 people in separate attacks in northern Nigeria, a community leader and residents said Tuesday. In the first incident on Monday, six vigilantes were killed when gunmen invaded Kakangi village in the restive Birnin Gwari area of Kaduna state. The vigilantes had intercepted the bandits with a large herd of cattle they sto ...

  • 3000 PDP Members Including Chairman Defects To APC In Zamfara State

     The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic party in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State, Alhaji Bala Roka and about 3000 other members of the party have  defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.This was revealed by the former governorship aspirant of the APC in the state, Hon. Amina Sani Jaji in a statement ...

  • Suspected Gunmen Attack Community Kill 28, Injure Others In Zamfara

     Suspected bandits have killed 28 while several others have sustained different degrees of injuries on Tuesday and Wednesday nights in recent attacks in Babban Rafi village of Gummi Local Government Area of Zamfara State.The killing is coming on the heels of concrete steps taken by the state government towards ensuring peace and reconciliation in m ...

  • Zamfara Government Sets To Build New Government House, Earmarks N7 Billion

     The Zamfara State Government has earmarked N7 billion in the 2020 budget for the construction of a new Government House, according to the Secretary to the State Government, Bala Bello.Mr Bello disclosed this in Gusau on Thursday after defending the 2020 budget proposals of his office at the House of Assembly.He said the state government resolved t ...

  • Zamfara Set To Spend N1 Billion on Mosques And Renovation Of Cemeteries in 2020 Budget

     The government of Zamfara state has set aside a whopping N1 billion naira to construct mosques and renovate cemeteries.The Zamfara State government has earmarked over N1 billion for the construction of Jumu’at Mosques, Ramadan welfare package and renovation of cemeteries and other religious activities in the state for the year 2020. According to ...

  • Policeman Arrested With Three Girls In Hotel Room In Zamfara

     The Zamfara Hisba Commission says it arrested a police officer with three girls at a hotel room in Gusau.Chairman of the commission, Dr Atiku Zawuyya stated this while parading the suspects at the commission’s headquarters on Monday.NAN quoted him as saying the police officer, who is serving with the Central Police Station, Gusau, and others com ...

  • BREAKING: 108 Workers Dragged To Court By Zamfara Govt. For Allegedly Receiving Double Salary

     The state’s Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Rabi’u Garba, disclosed this at a press briefing on Sunday in Gusau.says it will drag a total of 108 civil servants to court for allegedly receiving double salary in different ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) in the state.Garba said that the affected workers were discovered during the ong ...

  • NSCDC Official Arrested For Allegedly Defiling 7-year-old Girl In Zamfara

     An operative of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) identified as Sani Yahaya has been arrested for allegedly defiling a 7-year-old girl in Zamfara State. Yahaya who lured the little girl with fruits into a vacant house at Samaru area, Gusau where he was deployed as a security guard, was arrested by his colleagues after a complain ...

  • Just In: Zamfara Gov., Dr Bello Mohammed Matawalle Revokes N79b Public Utilities Contracts

     Zamfara State governor, Dr Bello Mohammed Matawalle has approved the immediate revocation of rural water and electrification projects worth over N79.6 billion awarded by the previous administration and warned contractors to refund state fund or face prosecution.The contracts revoked are the 168 motorized boreholes rural water scheme phase one and ...

  • Zamfara State Governor Gift 24 Lawmakers With Exotic Cars Worth N420M

     The 24 members of Zamfara state House of Assembly have received official vehicles from the state government. an official has disclosed MalamYusuf Idrid. the Director-General. Press Affairs to the Coy Bello Matawalle disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gusau on Tuesday. NAN reports that each of the lawmakers rece ...

  • How Ex-Zamfara State Governor, Yari Abubakar Paid Himself N360m Pension Before He Left Office

     Details have emerged showing how a former Governor paid himself pension of N360 million shortly before leaving office.Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle of Zamfara state has accused the immediate past governor of the state, Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar, of paying himself N360 million from the state pension funds shortly before he left office, a report b ...

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