The Supreme Court on Thursday fixed May 24 to deliver judgment in two election appeals seeking to ascertain the authentic candidates of the All Progressives Congress candidates in Zamfara State in the last general elections.
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The Federal Government did not give Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association money during its recent meeting with the group in Brinin Kebbi, Kebbi State, the Minister of Interior, retired Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Dambazau, said on Monday.
The Zamfara State Council of Chiefs has requested the Federal Government to set up a panel or commission of inquiry to establish those behind banditry in the state and punish them.
Bandits on Sunday attacked and killed six members of the Civilian Joint Task Force in Shinkafi Local Government Area of Zamfara State, Vice Chairman of the council, Alhaji Sani Galadima, has said.
Zamfara State Governor and Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, Abdulaziz Yari, gave a masterclass to incoming governors last week. The governor, who has obviously become wiser on his way out of office, advised his incoming colleagues to start thinking now of what they can do for their people and how they can find the money to do it.
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the immediate transfer of over 6,000 senior policemen and rank and file out of Lagos State.
The Nigerian Air Force says its Air Task Force for “Operation DIRAN MIKIYA” has destroyed the camp of a major kingpin, Alhaji Lawal, neutralising up to 20 of his fighters near Rugu Forest in Zamfara State.
Coalition of Northern Nigerian Youths Associations, under the umbrella of Arewa Youths Federation, on Monday held a peaceful protest over alleged incessant killings by bandits in Zamfara.
The Nigerian Union of Teachers has condemned the incessant killings and abduction of school officials by armed bandits in Zamfara state and other parts of the country.
The Police Command in Zamfara has confirmed the kidnap of five persons at Government Girls Secondary School Moriki in Zurmi Local Government Area of the state.
The Nigeria Labour Congress, Zamfara chapter, has promised to introduce more ways of supporting widows in the state.
The Nigerian Air Force has refuted a report that said it ignored a distress call on bandits’ attack at Makwa village in Bungudu Local Government Area in Zamfara.
Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara said on Wednesday that the state government would be one of the pacesetters among states that would implement the new national minimum wage.
Alhaji Nasiru Abubakar-Milo on Monday prayed the Court of Appeal Sokoto Division to declare him bona fide Chairman of the PDP in Zamfara and also recognise his those on the list he submitted as the authentic candidates for the 2019 elections.
The Zamfara Independent Electoral Commission has declared the candidates of the All Progressives Congress as winners of the Local Government Council election in the state.
This was disclosed by the Force Commander and GOC 8 Division of the Nigerian Army, Sokoto, Major General Hakeem Otiki, at a news conference in Gusau on Saturday.
Zamfara State has been under pressure from bandits for more than 10 years now, the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Abdullahi Shinkafi, has said.
The All Progressives Congress in Zamfara has said it was prepared for the forthcoming local government elections in the state, the state Chairman of the party, Alhaji Lawal Liman has said.
The Federal Government on Wednesday revealed how illegal mining activities aggravated insecurity in Zamfara before its April 7 prohibition order and launch of special operations to stop bandits in the state.
Judging by the spate of insecurity currently pervading the country, Nigeria can be rightly said to have drifted inexorably into a complete failed state. All over the country, especially in the North, from my home state of Adamawa in the North-east, to Benue in the North Central and to Zamfara in the North West,