{"id":246550,"date":"2026-10-07T13:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-transforming-zamfara-into-a-safe-and-prosperous-state-is-a-herculean-task-but-we-are-succeeding-governor-lawal\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T13:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:30:07","slug":"nigeria-transforming-zamfara-into-a-safe-and-prosperous-state-is-a-herculean-task-but-we-are-succeeding-governor-lawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-transforming-zamfara-into-a-safe-and-prosperous-state-is-a-herculean-task-but-we-are-succeeding-governor-lawal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Transforming Zamfara Into a Safe and Prosperous State Is a Herculean Task, but We Are Succeeding &#8211; Governor Lawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">In this interview with some media executives in Gusau, the state capital, Governor Dauda Lawal spoke on a wide range of issues affecting the state as it marks its 30th anniversary of creation. Excerpts:<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><strong>As governor of the state for the past three years, what would you say has been the greatest hurdle to Zamfara&#8217;s development?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">I would say it is leadership because each leader comes with a different perception and way of doing things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610070337.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this interview with some media executives in Gusau, the state capital, Governor Dauda Lawal spoke on a wide range of issues affecting the state as it marks its 30th anniversary of creation. Excerpts: As governor of the state for the past three years, what would you say has been the greatest hurdle to Zamfara&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":246551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,4269,30808,29475,257,4687,393,16565,6803,254,6017,7267,11780,12606,23070],"class_list":["post-246550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-governor","tag-herculean","tag-lawal","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-prosperous","tag-safe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-succeeding","tag-task","tag-transforming","tag-zamfara"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}