The Federal Government says it has concluded plans to train some newly recruited personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory as the School Safety Protection Squad to halt cases of abduction of schoolchildren from their schools.Abodunrin said the government had also resolved to employ more…
Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State says 137 schoolchildren, and not 287 schoolchildren, were abducted on March 7, 2024, from Kuriga in the Chikun Local Government Area of the state. The governor said all the schoolchildren abducted by the bandits have been rescued by the military in collaboration with local authorities from neighbouring Zamfara State,…
Seven out of the twenty-four members of the Zamfara State House of Assembly at a sitting on Monday suspended sixteen members who threatened to impeach the Speaker of the House Bilyaminu Moriki last Thursday. They accused the members of breaking into the offices of the clerk of the house and sergeant at arms and destroying…
Zamfara State Universal Basic Education Board, ZSUBEB, has said it will partner with the National Home Grown School Feeding Program, NHGSFP, to promote basic education in the State. This was contained in a statement issued by the spokesman of the Board, Ibrahim Musa Maizare, saying that the ZSUBEB Executive Chairman, Prof. Nasir Garba Anka, has…
Zamfara State Government has arrested a woman, Aisha Mustapha at the Unguwar Gwaza High Shari’a court, for alleged assault on her 12-year-old stepdaughter. The Sharia High Court judge, Malam Surajo Usman said the court’s documents showed that the accused person had allegedly subjected her stepdaughter to atrocities that made her life miserable. Aisha, a resident…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has nullified the March 18 governorship election won by Dauda Lawal and the People’s Democratic Party. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Lawal winner of the election. Lawal, of the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), was declared the winner of the March 18 governorship election….
Zamfara State Government has described the legacy left by former Governor Bello Matawalle as buying vehicles for bandits. The state commissioner for budget and planning, Abdulmalik Gajam, in an interview also noted that Matawalle failed to make any investment in mass transit while gifting vehicles to terrorists. Matawalle is the current Minister of State for…
