Tag: Zamfara state

Police say the suspects engaged in sharing military intelligence, supplying arms and ammunition, military uniforms and other facilities to bandits

The fresh invitation of Mr Yari came barely two months after EFCC grilled him for several hours in February.

Karaye emirate council says illegal miners are relocating to the emirate

Police say the suspect confessed to selling over 100 motorcycles to bandits from Zamfara.

The fire disasters occured on Sunday and Monday and destroyed valuables estimated at millions of naira

"Our intelligence gathering efforts have confirmed that most of these criminal elements have infiltrated the mining industry."

The government must show serious commitment to children’s security by tackling the rising problem of insecurity ravaging the country.

Atiku Abubakar urges government to declare a state of emergency in the education sector over the incessant mass abduction of ...

There is no coordinated strategy to combat insecurity and the bandits and terrorists are the ones taking initiatives in their ...

The crumbling of the Zamfara model should inspire the Federal Government to be more resolute in combating criminality.

Governor Matawalle says Ruwan Tofa villagers resisted and killed some of the bandits, who returned the following day to abduct ...

Residents say the bandits invaded their community at night, setting houses, silos and other physical structures on fire.

The PDP says the recent declaration of “no-fly zone” in Zamfara by the Buhari administration is a move to take ...

“The actual numbers of confirmed abduction from the school’s register was 279, not 317 as earlier said by the police,” ...

Zamfara State and other parts of the North-west and North-central zones are currently ravaged by banditry and kidnappings.

Some of the 317 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Zamfara State, kidnapped last Friday were freed in the ...

The governor says the abduction of the Jangebe schoolgirls was politically motivated.

The 317 schoolgirls were kidnapped from the Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, in Talata Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara ...

The Zamfara State government denies a newspaper report that the girls had been released

My Soyinka repeated his position that those at the helm of affairs of the nation have failed the populace.

Mr Buhari warns the bandits not to mistake his government's restraint as a weakness or a sign of fear.

The breakdown of security in the country has led to a surge in kidnapping for ransom.

The police say they had begun a joint search with the military for the students and their kidnappers.

Mr Buhari says “the government shall continue to deal with insurgents, bandits, kidnappers and other criminals who constitute a threat ...

The self-confessed bandit says the peace initiative of the governor has encouraged many to renounce banditry in Zamfara or take ...