Tag: Yobe State
Yobe approves N777m for hospital, school equipment
Yobe Government on Wednesday approved over N679 million for supply and installation of equipment at newly rehabilitated Potiskum, Gashua and…
Cholera: State launches campaign on preventive measures
The Yobe Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASSA) says it has launched a campaign on preventive measures to check…
Sallah: State offers support to less privileged
Yobe Government on Monday, distributed consumable items to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and vulnerable persons in the 17 local…
FADAMA III: 5,320 households in Yobe to benefit from programme
The World Bank-assisted FADAMA III Additional Financing (AF) programme has pledged to support 5,320 households in Yobe under the North…
Resettlement: State donates cash, land to 307 IDPs
The Yobe Government on Wednesday distributed plots of land, building materials and N9.2 million to 307 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)…
State resuscitates preaching control committees
Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe said on Wednesday that the Islamic and Christian Preaching Control Committees had been revived, to…
State Govt. begins rehabilitation of GGSS Nguru
Yobe Government has started rehabilitating 42-year-old Government Girls Secondary School Nguru in an effort to create a conducive learning environment…
85% of IDPs return home in State – official
Yobe State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), says about 85 per cent of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), who fled their communities…
State distributes sets of animal traction equipment to IDPs
Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe on Friday distributed 130 sets of animal traction equipment to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in…
Yobe IDPs receive sanitation equipment from UNHCR
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday donated sanitation equipment to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in…
Birds, locusts swarm threaten harvests in Yobe
Increasing population of Queala birds in Nguru, Ngeji and Ngalda wetlands is threatening bumper harvests in five local government areas…
Wanted Boko Haram suspects arrested in Yobe
Muhammed Bulama, the Boko Haram suspect on the wanted list number 105, was arrested recently by military troops in Yobe…
Flood destroys 300 houses in Yobe
Alhaji Musa Jidawa, Executive Secretary, Yobe State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), on Wednesday, said that over 300 houses, farmlands and…
2 corpses recovered from river Nguru
Dr Muhammad Fari, State Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Yobe, said fishermen recovered corpses of two boys…
NSCDC checks violence against women, children in Yobe
Dr Muhammad Fari, Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Yobe, said the command had adopted special measures to check…
FG approves establishment of School of Nursing in Yobe
The Federal Government has approved the establishment of a School of Nursing and Midwifery in Nguru Local Government Area of…
N30 billion, 128 students lost to Boko Haram-Gov
The Yobe State Government has disclosed that over N30 billion was lost to Boko Haram insurgency in the state in…
No part of Yobe State is under Boko Haram – Gov Gaidam
The Yobe Government says there is no part of the state currently under the occupation of the Boko Haram insurgents.…
Military to shut markets aiding Boko Haram operations in Borno, Yobe
The Nigerian Army has announced plans to close designated markets in Yobe and Borno where traders have been found to…
Boko Haram: Lagos donates N150m to Adamawa, Borno, Yobe
The Lagos State Government on Wednesday made donation of N50 million each to Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States, worst hit…
Nigerian army reinforces after Boko Haram attack on troops
The Nigerian Army on Thursday confirmed an attack on Sector 1 of 27 Task Force Brigade located at Gaidam, Yobe…
Breaking News: Gaidam in Yobe under Boko Haram attack
Nigerian soldiers are now battling the Boko Haram militants in Gaidam local council area of Yobe state, after an invasion…
Nigerian Army lifts restriction of movement in Borno, Yobe
The Nigerian army today announced the lifting of restrictions imposed on the states of Borno and Yobe during the Eid-el-Kabir…
Army arrest Boko Haram suppliers found no Qu’ran only cannabis, condoms
Nigerian Army said on Tuesday that its directives to troops in the North East to conduct a painstaking search on…
Call for increase in electricity tariff unjustifiable – NLC chairman
Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress in Yobe, Alhaji Lawan Ibrahim, has described as “unjustifiable” the call for increase in…
Yobe Govt. drafts document against open defecation
The Yobe State Government, on Saturday said it had developed a document to be submitted to the state assembly to…
Boko Haram did not kill 150 in Yobe – DHQ
Nigeria Defence Headquarters has denied media reports which claim that over 150 people from Kukuwa-Gari village were shot dead by…
150 drowned, shot dead while fleeing Boko Haram in Yobe
Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) – Up to 150 people drowned in a river or were shot dead fleeing Boko Haram gunmen…
Boko Haram Attacks Buni Yadi
Boko Haram militants attacked the northern Nigerian town of Buni Yadi in Yobe state late on Thursday and it was…
Buhari condemns attack on RCCG, says he’ll defend right to worship
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned an attack on the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in Potiskum, Yobe state on…