Tag: Yobe State
Pastor, 2 children killed in fresh Boko Haram attack
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on Thursday opened fire on a church in Dorowa in Nigeria’s north eastern state of Yobe,…
Boko Haram in deadly rampage in Yobe town
Nigeria’s Boko Haram insurgents have rampaged through a town in Yobe State, northeastern Nigeria with heavy weapons, setting public buildings…
Yobe Killings Devastated Me As A Father
By Joe Igbokwe I have been trying to imagine the state of minds of the parents and the siblings of…
Schools shut after Boko Haram massacre
Nigeria’s northeastern Yobe state on Sunday ordered the closure of all secondary schools after a massacre that saw suspected Islamist…
EU condemns latest killings by Boko Haram gunmen
The European Union on Sunday condemned the “horrific murder by terrorists” of dozens of people, mostly students, in an attack…
Death toll in Boko Haram school killings hits 42
The death toll of students and teachers killed by Boko Haram gunmen in a Yobe state boarding school has reached…
Boko Haram militants kill 7 students, 2 teachers
Suspected Islamist extremists have attacked a secondary school and military checkpoint in Nigeria’s northeast state of Yobe, leaving 11 people…
Bank robbed, 5 cops killed in ‘Boko Haram’ attack
The Commissioner of Police in the Nigerian north eastern state of Yobe, Alhaji Sanusi Rufai, said that five policemen and…
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…
Yobe Holds Council Polls In June
The Yobe Independent Electoral Commission (YOSIEC) said on Thursday that it has obtained updated voter register from INEC, preparatory to…
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…
Bloody Weekend In Northern Nigeria
It was a bloody weekend in parts of northern Nigeria especially in Yobe State where Boko Haram Islamists attacked churches…
4 militants, one cop killed in troop raid
Nigerian soldiers killed four suspected extremists and lost one policeman in the latest crackdown on the Boko Haram sect in…
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…