The All Progressives Congress (APC) chairman in Dan-Isa Ward, Kauran Namoda, Malam Yakubu Sani, and three of his executive members, Jamilu Usman, Dantahiya Kasa, and Dangandi Marnona, have been kidnapped by bandits. On Saturday, March 1, while they were traveling to Talatan Mafara, the incident took place. As they tried to fix their car after it broke down on Mayanchi Road, the bandits attacked, a resident said. After fruitless attempts to reach state APC chairman...
Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Gusau town, the Zamfara State capital, on Monday, as the #EndToBadGovernanceInNigeria protest entered its fifth day across many states of the country. The protesters, who were mostly youths, blocked the major highways leading to Gusau town, thereby making the movement of goods and services to a standstill. The protesters later moved to the town and began to break up the shops and carted away properties worth billions...
A notorious terrorist Mohammed Bello Turji Kachalla, popularly known as Turji, has reiterated his accusation that the current Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, supports terrorism in Nigeria’s Northwest region. In a recent video, Turji alleged that Matawalle, the immediate former governor of Zamfara State, has ties to bandits. In August 2023, President Bola Tinubu announced the appointment of Matawalle, the former Zamfara state governor, as the Minister of State for Defence. ...
The deceased was said to have been shot dead by the terrorists in front of his residence in Tsafe on Monday. Gunmen suspected to be terrorists have killed the secretary of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State, Alhaji Musa Ille. The deceased was said to have been shot dead by the terrorists in front of his residence in Tsafe on Monday. “The late Musa...
Some of the parents, who spoke on condition of anonymity, had earlier disclosed that several attempts they made to secure the release of their children failed. A group of terrorists who abducted several students of the Federal University, Gusau in Zamfara State, who were abducted on September 22, 2023, finally released those remaining in captivity on Sunday. A cousin of one of the female students confirmed this to SaharaReporters on Monday morning, adding that...
The terrorists, who seem to be unperturbed, gathered at the Eid ground in Munhaye town in Zamfara on Wednesday to perform the two raka’at prayers to mark the end of Ramadan fast. Some bandits in large numbers observed this year’s Eid-El-Fitr prayers and other festivities in the open in Zamfara State, Northwest Nigeria. The terrorists, who seem to be unperturbed, gathered at the Eid ground in Munhaye town in Zamfara on Wednesday to perform the...
The deadly clash occurred on Sunday, April 7, 2024 at Dumburum village in the Zurmi Local Government Area of the state, according to Zagazola Makama, a security analyst and counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad basin. At least 40 bandits were reported killed, among them two leaders, Sani Dangote and Lamo Saude in a fierce clash in Zamfara State. The deadly clash occurred on Sunday, April 7, 2024 at Dumburum village...
It was gathered that the terrorists stormed the town in the early hours of Tuesday and abducted a yet-to-be-confirmed number of Muslim worshippers who were observing midnight prayers in a mosque. Terrorists on Tuesday morning attacked Gusau town in the Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State and kidnapped several Muslim worshippers. It was gathered that the terrorists stormed the town in the early hours of Tuesday and abducted a yet-to-be-confirmed number of Muslim...
The Nigerian Defence Headquarters has said that schoolchildren abducted in Kaduna on March 7, 2024, were rescued in Zamfara State. It however gave the number of those rescued as 137 and not 287 reportedly kidnapped when terrorists invaded LEA School in Kuriga. The schoolchildren, aged five to 18 were abducted on Thursday, March 7 from the Kuriga primary and secondary schools in the state and the kidnappers demanded a ransom of N1 billion...
The terrorists, numbering about 250 reportedly stormed Gidan Zuma village in the Bungudu Local Government Area of the state, killed 11 persons, and abducted 20 women and an unspecified number of children. At least 11 persons were reportedly killed Sunday night while 20 women and children were kidnapped by bandits in Zamfara State, Northwest Nigeria. The terrorists, numbering about 250 reportedly stormed Gidan Zuma village in the Bungudu Local Government Area of the state,...
