The reported abduction of Islamic clerics who attended a prayer gathering hosted by former Zamfara State Governor and Director-General of the Tinubu 2027 Presidential Campaign, Senator Abdul’aziz Yari, has renewed concerns over the persistent security challenges facing the state. The clerics were reportedly abducted after attending the gathering at Yari’s residence in Talata Mafara on Saturday, September 12, where thousands of Islamic scholars and clerics reportedly gathered to pray for peace, an end to insecurity and the success of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 2027 re-election bid. The reported incident has attracted attention because it occurred shortly after a major gathering centred on prayers for peace and security in a state that has continued to battle banditry and kidnapping. While the circumstances surrounding the alleged abduction remain unclear, reports indicate that the affected clerics were travelling away from the gathering when they were reportedly intercepted by ...

Remembering a Publisher, Media Entrepreneur, Entertainment Executive, Mentor and Father — Chief Executive Officer of Access Weekly Magazine and Nigeria Media Nite-Out Awards. There are some people whose departure leaves more than an empty space. It leaves a silence in places where their voice once carried, in the lives of people they guided, and in the institutions they spent years building. For the Olugbemiro family, the Nigerian media community and the many people whose lives he touched, the passing of Mr. Olusola Oluseyi Olugbemiro, popularly known as Sola Solkem, is one of those losses. At 56, Sola Solkem’s journey came to an end on Sunday, August 23, 2026. He was many things to many people: a publisher, journalist, media entrepreneur, entertainment executive, mentor, colleague, friend and industry leader. But behind all those titles was something even more important to those closest to him. He was a husband. He was a father. He was family. He was a good man. THE MAN BEHIND ACCESS ...

  Following the just concluded Nationwide All progressive congress APC Presidential Primaries which president Bola Ahmed Tinubu emerged victorious with more than 10million votes, so many Zamfara State APC stakeholders question Senator Abdul Aziz Abubakar Yari political loyalists for deliberately refusing to participate in the process across the 14 local government areas of Zamfara State. Zamfaranewsleters gathered that, two days to the presidential primaries so many activities took place in 147 wards of the State by the stakeholders to strategize only to noticed the absence of Distinguished Senator Abdul Aziz Yari representatives which the stakeholders tagged as the Senator preparation for Anti party for the upcoming 2027 general elections. Further investigations confirmed that, Senator Yari was not happy with president Bola Ahmed Tinubu for not allowing his Candidate Mukhtar Idris (Kogunan Gusau) to participate in gubernatorial primaries with His Excellency governor Dauda Lawal wh...

The Zamfara State government has ban with immediate effect airing  All progressive congress APC programs on its State  owned Radio and Television Stations across the State, Zamfanewsletters has learned. Investigations into the new directives from the state government Alledged to affect all the independent Media Stations enjoying N16, 000,000 retainer ship from the  State government to propagate it's activities. The Chairman of one the famous independent  Television Station in Zamfara  who declined to mention his name for the fear of being harass from the State government lamented the State government new directives extended to independent Television and Radio Station owners as a serious crime. Recalled that last week Zamfara State governor  His Excellency Dauda Lawal Alledgedly signed an Executive order prohibiting president Bola Ahmed Tinubu APC billboard and signboards across the 14 local government areas of the State.

Reports coming in from Gusau the Capital City of Zamfara State indicates that, the Northwest Tinubu /Shettima Youths Coordinator Zamfara State Chapter Ambassador Bashir Isa Gusau has been kidnapped by suspected bandits criminals terrorizing Zamfara State and it's neighboring states. An eye witnessed who beg for anonymity said, " more than 30 armed bandits stormed the resident of Ambassador Bashir Isa Gusau and subsequently abducted him in front of his wife leaving the entire neighborhood's in confusion. " After some minutes of the ugly incident, we contacted the relevant security agents such as police Headquarters Gusau, Department of State Security Service DSS Zamfara State Command as well as the State command of Civil defence only to discovered that ambassador Bashir Isa Gusau is nowhere to be found. Ambassador Bashir Isa Gusau is  a  strong APC   supporter holding a sensitive position of the Northwest Tinubu / Shettima Youths Coordinator Zamfara State Chapter  (TS...

Not long ago, in the wake of food and economic crisis in Nigeria , a startling announcement came through the Senate chambers of the National Assembly. The Senate President Godswill Akpabio revealed that the Federal Government of Nigeria had disbursed ₦30 billion to each state Governor, which was outside of their regular statutory allocation. The purpose of the disbursement is to tackle the worsening issue of food supply. Despite the Federal Government’s efforts, the Zamfara state markets remain empty, food prices continue to soar, and the people of the state are left asking “Where did the Zamfara  money go”? This revelation is not just a fiscal footnote but a wake-up call to ask Zamfara Governor where is the ₦30 billion per state since it  is not a small amount. With that kind of funding, communities in Zamfara should have seen new food distribution centers, subsidized goods, better storage infrastructure, and direct support to farmers. Instead, many Zamfara people still gra...

The West African Examination council (WAEC) and it's Counterpart National Examination council (NECO ) has jointly denied the received of any outstanding debts from the Zamfara State government for the release of it's Students National Examination council (NECO) from 2024 to 2018 and West African Examination council (WAEC) from 2018 to 2022 as  claimed last week by His Excellency governor Dauda Lawal to mark his two years in office. "The National Examination council NECO where i work did not have any negotiation nor receive a single penny from Zamfara State government for the release of their students withheld results, but if the state government is willing to  assist their students to secure admissions in the universities,our door is always open for negotiation a  Director working with NECO Headquarter who gave his Name as Mr Kunle hinted. In the same development. Authorities from the West African Examination Council (WAEC) have equally denied receiving any money from Zam...

Zamfara PDP House of Reps Member narrowly escaped death following an attempt by angry Youths to set his Vehicle ablaze and to kill him. The angry mobs who were seen in a viral video with dangerous weapons comprising Cutlasses, Axe, and daggers were chanting  in Hausa " Bamayi - Bamayi " Meaning to hell with you we no longer want you Persona none grata. Speaking from Zamfara Newsletters correspondent, " Said Since he was elected two years ago has never visited his  Constituency to offer any kind of assistance to those that elected him. According to them, "Hon, Bello Hassan Shinkafi molested and humiliated many of his constituents who visited him in Abuja, Kaduna and Gusau. It was also learnt that Bello Hassan was reported to have claimed that he paid Money to his people before he was elected. Another PDP stalwart in Shinkafi local government who simply gave his Name as Alhaji Dahiru accused Bello Hassan for diverting  Constituency allowances given to any Reps Member ...

By Dr Nasir Mohammed  Department of Political Science,  Faculty of Social Sciences and Administration  University of Wales,  United Kingdom  On the occasion of taking over power in Zamfara state following his victory in the 2023 Governorship election, Dauda Lawal alledged and accused his predecessor Bello Matawalle of stealing and diverting 70 billion from the state treasury. His allegations rested upon the former EFCC boss Bawa which Matawalle denied and revealed what transpired between the two, being an allegation levelled against the former governor following his refusal to give a gratification of 2 million dollars ( Two Million US Dollars). Following this controversy, Bawa was detained and interrogated by the Nigeria Secret Police leading to the sack of Bawa, the youngest chair of the nation's Anti-Corruption Boder. Despite this, Gov Lawal continues to accuse his predecessor of wrong doing, particularly stealing and diversion of the state funds. Gov Lawal in...

An operative working with the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) Head office Abuja who begged for anonymity confirmed that about 11 attempts were made by the current Zamfara State governor Dauda Lawal through some of his closed Ally's to Change his signed and sealed assets declaration form earlier submitted has been declined. " The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) is a Nigerian federal government executive body established to ensure high standards of ethics and conduct in public Service therefore, no amount of pressures nor- financial inducement will make our office to  temper with any documents willingly submitted by any public office holder to our office, " insider said. " I can tell you for free that His Excellency the Executive governor of Zamfara State Dauda Lawal sometime in 2023 declared Cash Assets Of over $5 Billion and the form is cooling under our custody only waiting for the appropriate time to launch investigation, because I don't think Nigeria Commercial Bank...

  The Zamfara State APC  coalition groups from 182 Wards of the State have today during their Monthly Meeting in Gusau the State Capital of Zamfara State advises Dauda Lawal Dare the Executive governor of the State to be bold enough to remain in the party that Smuggled him in to power and patiently wait for the 2027 general elections to re contest his popularity instead of his desperation to decamp to the party he described as weak, corrupt and incompetent. The meeting received the attendance of some selected APC critical stakeholders from  182 Wards of the State, where they described governor Dauda Lawal decamping rumours as laughable and the fear of evacuating the newly built Zamfara State government House by his predecessor and now the Honourable Minister of State for Defence His Excellency Bello Mohammed Matawalle.  The coalitions pointed out that, Governor Dauda Lawal committed so many unforgivable political sins which the State APC will never forget nor forgive...

  The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Aso Villa Yakubu Gowon Crescent The Three Arms Zone Asokoro Abuja, FCT Nigeria Attention: His Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu Your Excellency, Re: Expression of appreciation and report on the significant milestones achieved by the Motherland Beckons ipada initiatives I would like to once again express my gratitude for your decision to accept the role of Chief Host, Grand Patron and Global Ambassador for the Motherland Beckons Ipada Initiatives celebrations 2024. This decision underscores your clear understanding of the role of tourism in spurring the economic growth of not only Nigeria but Africa as a whole . Your support of the Ipada Initiatives, which amongst other things, aim to create a framework to encourage and facilitate the process by which persons of African descent reconnect with and become invested in the development of the continent, is not surprising. I clearly recall that while you were Governor of Lagos State, you enthu...

The government of Zamfara State under the leadership of governor Dauda Lawal have started  distributing Multi Million Naira Worth of  Shoe Shining Kits to empower approximately 1.7 Zamfara  youths on Shoes shining business Zamfaranewsletters learnt. It was also reported that, the wife of the Executive governor of Zamfara State Her Excellency Hajiya Huriya Dauda Lawal  along with top government officials kicked Started the distribution of Shoe's Shining Kits to first batch of 800 Youths who were carefully Selected by the State government for the program tagged, ( Operation poverty bye- bye). With smiles all over her face, Mrs Dauda Lawal thanked her husband the Executive governor for graciously fulfilling his campaign promises for providing Jobs to thousands of Zamfara State teaming jobless youths.  "I urge all the beneficiaries of this wonderful program to use thier brand new Shoes shining kits given to them by the State government to put a food on their respect...

The Niger Delta  transparency women group for good  governance have during their emergency meeting in Calabar appeal to Federal government of Nigeria to allow their Sister the former Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison Maduekwe to come back to Nigeria to Confess Billions of Naira she entrusted to the Former First Bank Executive Director and now the Executive governor of Zamfara State His Excellency Dauda Lawal before she left the County for United Kingdom Nine years ago.  The Chairperson of the group Mrs, Helen Manager Made the appeal during a press briefing after the United States of America returned to Nigeria the Sum of $52.88m linked to the former Petroleum Minister.  "As a close associate of the former Petroleum Minister, knew very well the Financials relationship between My friend Diezani  and Mr, Dauda when she was the Petroleum Minister, as such, we are appealing to  President Bola Ahmed to allow her to come back to open up her Financial deals with Za...

An operative of the Sokoto EFCC Northwest Command who begged for anonymity said that, the Chairman and the Chief Executive Officer of the Zamfara on-line Television (Thunder blower) Anas Sani Anka is still being investigated by the commission. " I can assure the general public that he will soon appear in Court to face justice like his boss the former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University Gusau Professor Magaji Garba who is currently serving 35 years jail term for the financial fraud he committed while in office. "We have officially received about four petitions from Professor Magaji Garba Families and friends on how their breadwinner the former Vice Chancellor was hastily tried and jailed leaving his accomplice Anas Sani Anka breathing the air of Freedom" Said EFCC operative. Some of the former Vice Chancellor Family members leaked the petition against Anas Sani Anka to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC reads,"In fact, We the family Members of...

Available reports emerged that, Honourable Abdulmalik Zubairu ( Zannan Bungudu) the Honourable Member representing Bungudu/ Maru Federal  Constituency at the Yellow Chamber have  denied the rumours spreading on various Media platforms about his intention to run for Zamfara State 2027 governorship election Access weekly learnt.  Honourable Abdulmalik Zubairu Confirmed this  to our correspondent in a Telephone chat which lasted for an hour, he further  call on  his Supporters to see's his humanitarian services to his Constituents as what he learned from his two political   Mentors  the Former governor of the State Distinguished Senator Abdul Aziz Abubakar Yari, and the immediate past governor of Zamfara His Excellency Bello Mohammed Matawalle now the Honourable Minister of State for Defence who  remained  my political Jurney success in Zamfara State political arena. " I would like Our supporters across the 14 Local governments areas o...