Tag: Zamfara state
Dozens of bandits in night attacks kill 16 in Nigeria
No fewer than 150 armed bandits riding on motor-cycles have invaded three villages in the northern state of Zamfara, killing…
Senator, others docked for robbery
The police in Zamfara on Friday have docked Senator Yarima Bakura and 29 others at a Zamfara High Court over…
Gunmen steal 20 camels
The Police Command in the northern Nigerian state of Zamfara on Tuesday confirmed the stealing of 20 camels by suspected…
Tukur dreams PDP winning opposition APC state
The National Chairman of Nigeria’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, on Sunday said the party would take over…
District head arrested for robbery, rape
The Police Command in northwest Nigerian state of Zamfara on Monday arrested the Acting District Head of Keta Village in…
Nigerian village cleared of deadly lead poisoning
Medical charity MSF said Wednesday a Nigerian village in Zamfara State that suffered an unprecedented and deadly lead poisoning outbreak…
Ahmed Sani Yerima: The Profile of Unrepentant Paedophile
By Alaba Abdulrazak Ahmed Sani Yerima, the former Governor of Zamfara State is indeed a man who derives joy in…
150 Gunmen Storm Village, Kill 48
An armed gang has raided a village in Zamfara State, northwest Nigeria, and killed 48 people in an apparent reprisal…
Lead Poisoning Treatment Starts In Zamfara
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Tuesday that it had begun treating children exposed to the worst-ever lead poisoning epidemic, after…
How Far Can APC Go?
Opposition parties in the country fuse into one party, All Progressive Congress, with which they hope to break the dominance…
Bandits massacre 7 Nigerian villagers
Bandits raided three villages in northern Nigeria’s Zamfara state on Saturday, leaving seven people dead and seven in hospital, an…
10 guards shot dead in Zamfara’s bloody day
It was a day of bloodletting in Nigeria’s Zamfara state as some unidentified gunmen riding on motorcycles on Friday shot…
Dangerous and lucrative—The gold rush in Nigeria’s Zamfara
BAGEGA,Zamfara state, Nigeria — Neighboring a hillside laced with gold, parents in this remote village live with an impossible choice:…
Robbers massacre victims in Nigerian village
No fewer than 20 people have been shot dead by armed robbers in Kaboro village, Zamfara state, north western Nigeria.…
Cleric blessed with 5 babies cries for help
An Islamic scholar in a village in Nigeria’s Northwestern state of Zamfara has gotten embarrassed with blessings from his God…