Bauchi Zaki Council Chairman dies in fatal road crash

On November 2, 2026, Mallam Mas’ud Umar, the Executive Chairman of Zaki Local Government Area in Bauchi State, died in a road accident along the Bauchi-Maiduguri Federal Road. The incident occurred shortly after he attended a strategic stakeholders’ meeting of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) led by the Governor of Bauchi State, Sen Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed.

Reported by Daily Post, Nigerian Tribune.