Tag: Potiskum
Tragedy as wife 18 cuts off husband’s manhood in Yobe
Tragedy has struck a matrimonial home in Potiskum, Yobe State as 18-year-old housewife (name withheld) allegedly cut off her husband’s…
Torrential rains ravage Potiskum: Dozens of homes flattened, families left homeless
For years, residents in these communities have lived at the mercy of seasonal floods, their vulnerability worsened by poor or…
Secondary school teacher brutalizes student in Yobe
A disturbing picture of a boy identified as Ibrahim Muhammad Mai luku, an SS1 student of King Abdul'azeez African Institute in…
DSS arrests Boko Haram members that executed Potiskum, Kano, Zaria, Jos bombings
The Department of State Services (DSS) said it has arrested some members of the ruthless Islamist sect, Boko Haram that…
Police confirm bombing of Redeemed Church
The Police in Yobe on Sunday confirmed the killing of six persons in a suicide bomb attack on a Redeemed…
9 dead in twin blast in Potiskum
The Police in Yobe, on Monday confirmed the death of nine persons in twin bomb explosions which rocked Potiskum, the…
Police foil bomb attack in Potiskum
Nigerian Police Force has foiled a bomb attack on a secondary school in Potiskum, Yobe state. The police said that…
Gunman opens fire in Potiskum, injures 6 students
BAUCHI, (Reuters) – A gunman opened fire on students after walking into a high school in Potiskum in northeast Nigeria,…
Bomb blast rocks Shiite mosque in Potiskum, 3 injured
A botched suspected Boko Haram suicide attack targeting a group of Shiite Muslims injured three people in northeast Nigeria on…
Jonathan condemns Kano, Potiskum attacks
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday in Abuja condemned the reversion by the Boko Haram terrorist group to the bombing of…
Blasts hit two Nigeria bus stations, at least 27 dead
Two blasts rocked bus stations in embattled northern Nigeria on Tuesday, killing at least 27 people, as relentless attacks persist…
UPDATE: At least 17 dead in Potiskum bus blast
At least 17 people were killed on Tuesday when a blast ripped through a bus in Potiskum, northeast Nigeria, witnesses…
Blast rips through bus in Potiskum
A blast ripped through a bus in Potiskum, northeast Nigeria, on Tuesday, witnesses said, in the latest explosion to hit…
News alert: Boko Haram’s bomber kills five in Potiskum
A Boko Haram female suicide bomber killed five people and wounded dozens at a security checkpoint outside a GSM phone…
Suicide bomber kills four at Potiskum bus station
A suicide bomber killed four people and wounded dozens Sunday in an attack at a bus station in Potiskum, northeastern…
Two female suicide bombers kill four in Potiskum
Two explosions ripped through a crowded mobile phone market in the northeast Nigerian city of Potiskum on Sunday, residents said,…
Car explosion kills two at Potiskum police station
At least two people were killed when a car exploded at a police station in Potiskum, northeast Nigeria, an officer…
16 men arrested by Nigeria soldiers ‘found dead with bullet wounds’
Sixteen men who were arrested by Nigerian soldiers in the country’s northeast were found dead just hours later with bullet…
Boko Haram fears reason for low key Eid celebration
Muslims in Nigeria’s northeast marked a fearful, low key Eid-El-Kabir festival Saturday, as the military detained alleged Boko Haram Islamist…
57 Boko Haram members arrested
The Nigerian military in Yobe state arrested dozens of suspected Boko Haram militants who had allegedly sneaked into the state…
Two killed, many injured, during UEFA match in Yobe
Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram Islamists stormed a packed viewing centre in Potiskum, Yobe state and shot dead two…
Nigeria: Overloaded bus crashes, killing 20
A speeding and overloaded bus crashed into a truck parked by a road in northern Nigeria on Monday, killing 20…
3 Doctors slain in northern Nigeria are North Koreans
Men armed with knives slit the throats of three North Korean doctors in a pre-dawn attack Sunday in the volatile…
14 die, 4 injured in burning bus
Fourteen Nigerians were killed on Wednesday and four others were seriously injured when their bus crashed into a truck and…
Nigeria: Pastor, 5 worshippers murdered Christmas eve
Pope Benedict XV1 wishes the savage attacks against Nigerian Christians and churches come to an end, but the savagery continues…
DPO, 3 Boko Haram members die in shootout
A policeman and at least three suspected Boko Haram gunmen died Monday following an early morning bombing and shooting raid…
Boko Haram: Panicky Potiskum residents flee
Hundreds of residents of Potiskum, capital of Nigeria’s Yobe state were fleeing Sunday after three days of Islamist attacks that…
Ex-Customs chief, son and family of ASP killed
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen killed seven people in Potiskum, Yobe state Saturday, taking the death toll to at least 30…
Heavy Bombing in Potiskum
Heavy explosions and gunfire rocked Potiskum, the Yobe state capital Wednesday, residents said, after violence this week left at least…
Curfew slammed on Damaturu, Potiskum
Soldiers of the task force in Nigeria’s Yobe state have conducted door-to-door searches in Damaturu, capital of Yobe and Potiskum,…