Thousands of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) supporters on Monday besieged Sokoto and its environs in colourful attires and motorcades for the launching of the North-West zonal campaign of the Presidential Candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Abubakar was earlier scheduled to arrive Sokoto for the rally at…

Zamfara State High Court sitting in Gusau has sentenced a serving member of the House of Assembly, Lawali Dogonkade (representing Kauran-Namoda Council), four years over N31 million fraud. Dogonkade, who was arraigned yesterday by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on a four-count charge of conferring corrupt advantage on himself, admitted…

Unless there are fresh developments such as judicial interventions, the All Progressives Congress (APC) will not field gubernatorial candidates in Imo and Zamfara states next year...

A commercial vehicle driver (name withheld), yesterday received N2 million cash as a reward from the Zamfara State government for killing two armed bandits last week. Handing over the money on behalf of the state government in his office, the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Alhaji Bello Dankande, said the gesture was in…

The Organised Labour in Zamfara, on Wednesday declared its total support for the planned nationwide strike by workers over the new minimum wage slated for Nov. 6. The state Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Mr Bashir Mafara, made this known while briefing newsmen in Gusau. “Our stand remains the same with that of…

The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole has rejected insinuations that his office would eventually run the party aground...

Sir: Following the political quagmire Zamfara State finds itself as a result of the just concluded controversial APC primaries in the state that has brought along with it killings and despair is gone but the outcome is yet unknown. As a result of the non-release of the result, the state is increasingly becoming polarised and…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday submitted the list of presidential and senatorial candidates to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in a bid to beat the October 18 deadline...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday admonished the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, to protect the judiciary from the “unconstitutional and repressive fascist policies being foisted on the system by the President Muhammadu Buhari presidency.”

Zamfara State Governor and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), Abdulaziz Yari, yesterday, revealed that he was under pressure to dump the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of next year’s general election. Yari, while briefing State House Correspondents after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said his supporters were bitter over…

A faction of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) has returned to the fold after leaving the party, following the fallout of its presidential primary that produced Fela Durotoye as the flag-bearer for next year’s general elections. The faction, consisting of state chairmen from Gombe, Zamfara, Jigawa, Taraba, Kaduna, Yobe and others, reached an accord…

As controversy continues to trail management of primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the party’s Deputy National Chairman, North, Senator Lawal Shuaibu has refuted claim by the National Working Committee (NWC) that the Zamfara State Executive of the party has been dissolved. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena was reported to have said…