The Zamfara State Police Command has paraded the two students arrested for allegedly threatening to kidnap a principal and students in two separate secondary schools in the state. One of the suspects, Donatus Ejeh, an SS3 student threatened to kidnap his Principal, Rev. Sister Chinyere and some colleagues. The second one called his own school principal on phone threatening to kill and abduct students of the school unless he paid N3 million. Read previous LIB report LIB .
Tag: Zamfara
A member of the Zamfara State House of Assembly, Hon. Mohammed Ahmed has been shot dead. Daily Trust reported that Ahmed was killed by bandits along Sheme- Funtua Road, a border twon between Zamfara and Katsina. Saidu Anka, Clerk of the Zamfara House House of Assembly has reportedly confirmed the incident. The lawmaker was killed after key politicians in the state defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Former Governor of Zamfara state, Ahmad Sani Yerima has been summoned to appear before an Independent Investigative Panel (IIP) set up by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to probe alleged police impunity. The order was given after Yerima was accused of using some police officers to arrest, torture and detain a Katsina State-based businessman, Alhaji Musa Wapa, over a claim of N23 million. Yerima’s name was reportedly mentioned many times in Wapa’s complaint before the Justice Suleiman Galadima …
A soldier identified as Lance Corporal Babangida Ibrahim, has been sentenced to 55 years in prison after being found guilty of robbing and killing one Bello Abdullahi Aliyu in Gidan Darib, Anka Local Government Area of Zamfara State on August 11, 2014. He reportedly broke into Mr Bello’s house where he stole a Gionee E3 and a Nokia handset. Ibrahim also dishonestly took the Honda Accord car belonging Mr Bello with registration number TRK 414 AA, containing one Laptop computer and the sum …
The police in Zamfara state have arrested a 25-year-old man, Aminu Bala, who allegedly raped and murdered his elder brother’s wife, Hauwau Iliyasu. The state police command spokesperson, SP Mohammed Shehu, who confirmed his arrest to newsmen, said the suspect who is a native of Maradun Local Government Area in the state, confessed to raping the woman and then killed her. “On June 15, 2020, a report was received by the police that a housewife, Hauwau Iliyasu, 25, a resident of the …
The Zamfara State Police Command has launched an investigation into the gruesome murder of a medical doctor identified as Enoch Okpara. Okpara who was a consultant Obstetrics/Gynaecologist working at the Federal Medical Centre in Gusau, was found dead at his residence in Mareri area of the state capital on Saturday June 13. The remains of the deceased was found burnt beyond recognition after the church he worshipped in raised an alarm of him missing after not showing up for a programme on …