BAZAMFARA

Part I Ahmed Sani Yariman Bakura was born on 22 July 1960 in Anka town, Zamfara State. After completing a matriculation course at the Sokoto College of Arts and Science in 1978, he was admitted to Bayero University, Kano, and graduated with a B.Sc in Economics in 1982. In 1987 he returned to Bayero University and achieved a master's degree in economics. As part of the National Youth Service, he was posted to Borno State where he worked in the Budget Department of the Governor's office and also taught at the Borno College of Basic Studies, Maiduguri. In 1983 he began his career in the Sokoto state civil service as an economic planning officer in the Ministry of Finance. Between 1988 and 1993 he worked with various Federal Government bodies, including the National Directorate of Employment from 1988 to 1990, and the Central Bank of Nigeria between 1990 and 1993. In 1994 he returned to the Sokoto state civil service as the Director of Budget in the Ministry of F...

By Suleman Umar Ma'aji Dansadau. With due respect and regards to all in your cabinet, I am constrained to write to you this open letter. I decided to make it an open letter because the issue is very weighty and must be greatly worrisome to all concerned Citizen of Zamfara and that means all right-thinking Zamfara indigenes and those resident in Zamfara. Since the issue is of momentous concern to all well-meaning and right-thinking Nigerians, it must be of great concern to you, and collective thinking and dialoguing is the best way of finding an appropriate and adequate solution to the problem. I have never been timid or shy of my total support for the success of your administration to deliver my dear state to the Promised Land.  My confidence had always been based on Your Excellency’s ability, fitness and competence in leading the Zamfara to the next level, where law and order prevail, individual liberty is guaranteed, economic well-being of the citizens is assured. ...

By Zailani Baffah . Federal Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has ruled in favour of Governor Muhammad Matawalle who was dragged before it by one Alhaji Mohammed Takori, Gubernatorial candidate of APDA political Party in Zamfara State. Four of the five man panel ruled in favor of Governor Matawalle that the judgement of the Supreme Court was valid and the case was filed behind time and one Judge dissented on this. Similarly the judges ruled that   the issue of spread challenged by Takori was in favor of Governor Bello Muhammad and that the INEC decision on this issue was valid. On the issue of primary elections, the Court ruled that Takori had no valid argument because the issue of primaries are entirely a party affair. After the judgement, the newly appointed Commissioner of Justice, Nura Zarumi said the ruling against Matawalle that the case was time valid would be challenged in court at the appropriate time Responding to the judgement Governor Matawalle sai...

By Zailani Bappa It has come to the notice of His Excellency, Governor Bello Mohammed (Matawallen Maradun) that some mischievous persons in the state are alluding the arrest of offenders to his person, or his office, or both. Hence, His Excellency wishes to draw the attention of all and sundry that he has no hands in the arrest of any offender within and outside the state. "anyone who finds himself in collusion course with the law should courageously face his travails with the law of the land and desist from blame game on the office of the Governor", Matawalle warned. "The Police and, indeed, all other Security operatives are not my property, nor are they working for my personal interest but for the well being of Zamfara State and Nigeria as a whole ", the Governor further observed. It has been a while now that after the attainment of peace in the state, some  enemies of the state and Nigeria have indulged themselves in making inflamma...

By Sani Abdulrahaman Dansadau . Dear sir.  If our political leaders failed to connect us with you then your political vision is supposed to. We're badly neglected by the past government in almost every aspect of governance. There was never a half km of road construction in Dansadau out of the township roads constructed in all the other 16 emirates. Our road from GUSAU, WANKE, MAGAMI to DANSADAU which also connect BINDIN, DANGULBI and DANKURMI badly needs reconstruction since about 10 years but was neglected by the past government due to a reason known to only God and the government itself. Despitethe security challenges which Alhamdulillah your administration have reduced to the minimal level now, we came out and voted in large numbers to see the end of what was nothing but a disastrous governance that leads to the unrest of our people, mismanaged and looted the state resources. We are begging you by the name of Allah in whose hand our lives are to help include us in ...

No fewer than 2,000 repentant Youths who terrorised Gusau, Zamfara, handed over 190 locally made rifles and shotguns to Gov. Bello Matawalle at the Government House, Gusau. The Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the governor on Media, Mr Zailani Bappa, disclosed this in statement on Thursday. Bappa  said the youth were led to the government house by the Senior Special Assistant to the governor on Security,  Abubakar Dauran . He quoted Dauran as saying that he was convinced that the youths had genuinely repented. According to him, Dauran said in the recent past, major cities of the state, especially Gusau were highly unsafe as banditry, youth restiveness and other crimes were the order of the day. The governor’s aide, however, expressed happiness that the youth were towing the line of the repentant bandits and also repenting from their bad ways. Leader of the repentant youths popularly known as  Sani Shaidan , said that they were encouraged by what the ...