Tag: Zamfara state

The students were kidnapped Wednesday afternoon in their school.

The state government banned the selling of petrol in jerrycans as part of the measures to stop supplying fuel to ...

Residents of Gidan Zago paid N800,000 to the bandits while those of Tsakauna are doing forced labour on the bandits' ...

The governor said declaring a state of emergency was the “only available avenue of ending the increasing security challenges at ...

Zamfara governor says his "dialogue and reconciliation policy" had stopped banditry in the state for nine months.

"They gathered those they kidnapped from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. and took them away with them."

Sources said the number of those abducted is more than 70 while 10 were reportedly killed.

Zamfara governor thanks President Buhari for approving the construction of a resettlement village for internally displaced persons in the state.

Zamfara is one of the states most affected by banditry in Northern Nigeria.

"Armed criminals should never be allowed to consistently attack and systematically destroy one of the core sectors (Education) in the ...

Local sources told PREMIUM TIMES that over 30 peasants were also abducted by the bandits in the raid in Maru ...

The angry youth started the protest Monday morning before some of the displaced persons joined.

Bandits kidnapped the Zamfara speaker's father, step mother and five other relatives in their village on August 4 and demanded ...

A source says about 20 bandits stormed the area where the politician lives with his family at about 1a.m.

The protesters are from villages under incessant attacks by bandits.

An official of the ministry said the number of people affected has reached 2,600.

The deputy governor is challenging an alleged plan by the lawmakers to impeach him.

The police say the bandits had abducted travellers but abandoned two of them

An aide of the state governor says soldiers conducted house to house arrests of suspects

Zamfara is one of the states most affected by banditry in Northern Nigeria.

Police say the victims, mostly nursing mothers and children, spent 42 days in captivity

At least 20 officers also died during these tragic incidents, including senior army personnel.

The latest incident makes it at least four air crashes involving Nigerian military planes in the last seven months.

The police say they are conducting a manhunt for the bandits who killed the cops.

A worker at Yarima Bakura Specialist Hospital said the bodies of the mobile police officers had been deposited in the ...