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CONTROVERSIAL Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has revealed that his elder brother has been kidnapped by bandits in Zamfara State who are now demanding a hefty ransom fee for his release.
Highly divisive and seen as one of the subtle backers behind Fulani herdsmen who have unleashed a reign of terror on Nigeria, Sheikh...
ZAMFARA State has suffered an accelerated increase in the number of attacks over the last week with at least 10 villages across Zurmi Local Government Area being ransacked by heavily-armed gunmen.
Like many other parts of northern Nigeria, Zamfara State has recently been ravaged by armed hoodlums who have taken it upon...
TWO former Zamfara State governors and several traditional rulers have been indicted for collusion and complicity in the crime wave currently sweeping across the state as a report has found them culpable through their actions and inactions.
According to the recently-released report, armed bandits currently operate 105 camps...
SEVEN serving soldiers with the Nigerian Army are among a group of criminals recently arrested by the Zamfara State Police Command for being deeply involved in banditry activities.
Of late, Zamfara State has become the epicentre of banditry in Nigeria as the total lack of opportunities or any form of commercial presence has...
ALL Progressives Congress (APC) leaders in Zamfara State have been accused of offering N56m ($146,000) to the bandits who recently kidnapped 279 pupils from Government Girls’ Secondary School (GGSS) Jangebe to forestall their release.
In late February, the girls were kidnapped from their boarding school in Talata Mafara...
GOVERNOR Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State has dropped another bombshell in the ongoing Nigerian insecurity soap opera by revealing that the kidnappers were offered money by unnamed persons not to release the 279 schoolgirls the recently abducted.
Yesterday, 279 pupils from Government Girls’ Secondary School (GGSS) Jangebe...
GOVERNOR Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State has received the 279 pupils from Government Girls’ Secondary School (GGSS) Jangebe at the Government House in Gusau this morning after they were released by their captives who kidnapped them last week.
In what is now becoming a growing trend across Nigeria, armed criminal gangs now...
IGBO secessionist group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) has lashed out Nigeria's information Alhaji Lai Mohammed for supporting the practise of state governments offering amnesties to armed bandits who have carried out murderous attacks on villages.
Over recent years, heavily-armed bandits have been terrorising the...
SEVERAL bandit leaders in Zamfara State have agreed to lay down their weapons and embrace a peace deal presented by Governor Bello Matawalle following the recent visit of Islamic cleric Sheikh Abubakar Gumi.
Last week, in a bit to resolve what appears to be an endless crisis, Sheikh Gumi, travelled from his base in Kaduna to...
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