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At least forty people drown and 24 more are presumed dead after a wooden boat carrying farmers capsizes near Gummi, Zamfara State, Nigeria.
2024-09-14

Nigeria's Zamfara State begins issuing firearms licenses to citizens so that they can defend themselves from bandit gangs.
2022-06-26

At least 200 people were killed by a bandit group from January 4 to 6 in Zamfara State in northwestern Nigeria.
2022-01-8

All 279 schoolgirls abducted from a boarding school in Zamfara State, Nigeria, are released by their armed kidnappers.
2021-03-2

A group of bandits attack a village in the Shinkafi local government area of Zamfara State, Nigeria, killing at least 34 civilians. The gunmen arrived on motorcycles and opened fire on civilians indiscriminately, later burning down homes.
2019-06-16

Bandits open fire at a village hall, where residents gather at night to watch films, in Zamfara State, Nigeria. Eleven people are killed and many more are injured.
2018-09-13

Gunmen kill at least 30 people in an attack on a gold mine in a remote area of Zamfara State, northwestern Nigeria.
2016-11-8

Armed bandits and robbers riding motorbikes kill 48 people in Nigeria's Zamfara State.
2013-06-19

163 people die from lead poisoning in Zamfara State, Nigeria: confirmed cases being treated number 355.
2010-06-4