Tag: Yobe State
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…
Boko Haram: JTF seizes 11 rifles
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Yobe, north eastern Nigeria on Sunday recovered 11 rifles in Kandahar Area of Damaturu,…
Boko Haram: 5 Igbo iron welders killed in Yobe
Five Igbo residents of Gaidam in Nigeria’s Yobe state have been killed by gunmen, suspected to be Boko Haram members,…
3 cops killed in assault on police station
Gunmen on Friday killed three policemen and burnt three churches as well as a school in Bonny Yadi, in Nigeria’s…
Soldiers on patrol after bombs, gunfire rock Gashua
Explosions and gunfire rocked the prison town of Gashua in Yobe state early today, with soldiers deployed to maintain the…
Boko Haram bomb police station, school, phone towers
Boko Haram gunmen with explosives have attacked a police station, a primary school and two cellphone towers in Fika, Yobe…
Army raid yields arms in Damaturu
The Joint Task Force (JTF) security outfit in Nigeria’s Yobe state, said on Monday it had recovered assorted arms in…
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…
Gunmen attack Nigerian village, many feared dead
Yet-to-be tracked gunmen opened fire Saturday on a village in the northeastern Nigerian state of Yobe, with some residents feared…
35 Boko Haram militants killed, says JTF
Nigeria’s military said Monday it has killed 35 suspected Boko Haram Islamists in a crackdown on the insurgent group in…
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,…
29 die as 2 speeding buses collide
Two speeding buses on Friday collided head-on and burst into flames killing at least 29 people and injuring 16 others…
Emir of Fika Escapes Suicide Bomber
The Emir of Fika in the Boko Haram state of Yobe escaped a suicide attack on Friday, when the bomber…
Robbers Kill 3 Soldiers, Snatch LG Salary
Gunmen suspected to be robbers have killed three soldiers and an accountant who were conveying salary of workers of Gulani…
How Gunmen raided Damaturu Prison
Bombers, gunmen spared Nigerian churches and their worshippers today. But they seemed to have another target in mind as they…
One dies in another church attack by Boko Haram
Gunmen suspected to be members of the militant Boko Haram has attacked christian worshippers at a church in Biu, Borno…
2 killed as gunmen attack cleric, muslim worshippers
An anti-Boko Haram muslim cleric in Potiskum, Yobe state in Nigeria’s north east has escaped death after gunmen opened fire…
Boko Haram kills Muslim cleric, prison guard
Gunmen killed a Muslim cleric and a retired prison guard on Saturday in northeastern Nigeria, residents and a medic said,…