Tag: Yobe State
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…
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…