Tag: Yobe State
BREAKING: Suicide bomber kills five in Redeemed church in Yobe
A suicide bomber blew himself up on Sunday inside a church in the restive northeastern Nigerian city of Potiskum, killing…
Buhari condemns latest Boko Haram attacks in Borno, Yobe
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned, in the strongest language, the latest terrorist attacks on Borno and Yobe communities by the…
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…
NASS Leadership: Lawan Goes To Court
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Members of Senate Unity Forum, a group of Senators in the ruling All Progressives Congress who were in…
Gov. Gaidam dissolves cabinet, sacks all political appointees
Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe, on Wednesday, dissolved the state executive council after a marathon meeting and relieved all political…
UNICEF, SEMA, to erect tent classes for IDPs children in Yobe
The Yobe State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) in partnership with UNICEF will set up tent classes for children in Internally…
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…
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…
APC’s Gaidam re-elected governor of Yobe
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the…
Gunmen kill two in Yobe village
Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram Islamists have launched a fresh attack on a northeast Nigerian village killing two residents,…
Another Defection! PDP State of Assembly Member joins APC
A People’s Democratic Party (PDP) House of Assembly candidate in Yobe, Alhaji Zanna Danani, on Friday dropped his election bid…
Boko Haram cleared from Yobe completely – DHQ
Eromosele Ebhomele Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters on Monday gleefully announced that the country’s troops had successfully pushed the Boko Haram insurgents…
Boko Haram Member Escapes Arrest At Buni Yadi
A suspected Boko Haram member, who feigned madness, narrowly escaped arrest at Buni Yadi town in Gujba Local Government Area…
7,000 APC chieftain, members defect to PDP in Yobe
Alhaji Ibrahim Gero, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and 7, 000 members of the party in Yobe…
Buhari condemns Kano, Yobe bombings, calls for vigilance
The presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Major General Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday condemned the latest bombings in Yobe…
Boko Haram: 158 kidnapped victims reunite with families in Yobe
A total of 158 Women and children abducted by Boko Haram insurgents from Katarko village in Yobe have been reunited…
Two dead in suicide blast at restaurant in Yobe
Two people were killed in a suicide blast at a restaurant in the northeast Nigerian city of Potiskum on Tuesday,…
Death toll rises to 13 in Damaturu bombing – Police
Thirteen people have now died as a result of a female suicide bomb attack at a bus station in the…
16 killed in road accident in Yobe
Sixteen people were killed and 35 injured when a passenger bus collided with a truck on a road in northern…
Suicide bomber kills seven during PDP meeting in Yobe
A suicide bomb attack targeting a political meeting killed seven people in northeast Nigeria’s Potiskum city on Sunday, just two…
Breaking: Boko Haram frees 192 women
Boko Haram has released nearly 200 hostages, most of them women, who were kidnapped from a village in the northeast…
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…
Breaking: Boko Haram fighting Nigeria’s military for control of Yobe town
Suspected Boko Haram militants have launched an attack on Babban Gida town, the headquarters of Tarmuwa Local Government Area of…
Borno, Yobe restrict vehicular movement through Xmas
Two northeast Nigeria states have put heavy restrictions on vehicle movement beginning on Christmas Eve and lasting through the weekend…
Boko Haram raid: Damaturu death toll rises sharply to 150
More than 150 people, including 38 police, died in a Boko Haram raid on the northeast Nigerian city of Damaturu…
Damaturu under fierce attack by Boko Haram
Damaturu, capital of Yobe state is under fierce attack by suspected Boko Haram fighters who according to eyewitnesses and fleeing…
2015: Atiku storms Gombe, Yobe solicits support from delegates
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President and APC presidential aspirant, has solicited the support of party delegates for his ambition…
Security operatives call for CCTV in Yobe schools
The military, Police and State Security Services in Yobe on Sunday stressed the need to install Close Circuit Television (CCTV)…
Whither Safe Schools Initiative?
The suicide bombing on Wednesday at Federal College of Education, Kontagora, in Niger State, two days after close to 50…
US, UN condemn Yobe school suicide bomb attack
International condemnation trailed Monday’s suicide bomb attack at a government boarding school in Potiskum, Yobe, which reportedly killed several students…