Tag: Yobe State
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…
Atiku angry over bombing, deaths in Yobe school
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has expressed outrage over the bombing of the Government Technical Science College, Potiskum, Yobe, by a…
47 students killed in Yobe suicide bomb attack
Boko Haram were suspected of killing nearly 50 pupils Monday in a suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria, in one of…
Explosion rips through school assembly in Yobe
An explosion ripped through a school in northeast Nigeria on Monday, as students gathered for morning assembly before classes began,…
16 men arrested by Nigeria soldiers ‘found dead with bullet wounds’
Sixteen men who were arrested by Nigerian soldiers in the country’s northeast were found dead just hours later with bullet…
Eid El-Kabir: Borno, Yobe halt travel over holiday threats
Nigeria’s embattled northeast Yobe and Borno states on Friday imposed a travel ban through the Muslim holiday weekend to guard…
2015: Associations offer to buy nomination form for Gov. Gaidam
About 200 trade associations in Yobe on Wednesday said they would buy nomination form for Governor Ibrahim Gaidam to re-contest…
Yobe legislators right to dismiss impeachment rumours – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Yobe on Sunday said that the dismissal of alleged impeachment plot against Governor Ibrahim…
Boko Haram takes over town in Yobe
Boko Haram has seized control of a town in northeastern Nigeria, the latest to fall into Islamist hands in the…
Suicide bombers kill at least six in Yobe mosques
Suicide bombers attacked two mosques in northeast Nigeria’s Yobe state late Tuesday killing at least six people and injuring several…
21 die, 27 wounded in Damaturu bomb attack
Latest reports said no fewer than 21 people have died in the latest bomb attack at a TV viewing centre,…
Bomb blast rips viewing centre in Yobe
An explosion has rocked a popular viewing centre in Damaturu, Yobe State, sources claim. The explosion is believed to have…
24 dead after Boko Haram attacks military, police base
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen attacked the military and police in the northeast Nigerian town of Buni Yadi, where the group…