Yobe state has been confirmed by the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), on Monday to have recorded the death of 117 children since the outbreak of diphtheria the state since 2022. The Agency, however, said that 1,600 children had…
Yobe State Police Command has banned the use of tinted glasses and covered number plates by motorists in the state. The ban was contained in a statement issued to newsmen on Friday by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Dungus…
Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni said drought, flooding, soil degradation, desertification and desert encroachment are some natural disasters threatening the agrarian state. Buni stated this when he received participants of Senior Executive Course 45, 2023, of the National Institute…
The former Speaker of the Yobe State House of Assembly, Ahmed Lawan Mirwa has described the 7th Assembly as the most peaceful in the history of the state. Mirwa made the assertion at a valedictory session of the 7th Assembly,…
A former Aviation Minister and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, has described Nigeria’s new President, Bola Tinubu, as courageous, committed and focused. Speaking with journalists in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital on Tuesday, Fani-Kayode said,…
Airstrikes carried out by the Nigerian Air Force, (NAF), fighter jets have reportedly killed an unconfirmed number of ISWAP terrorists in Turo and Ambia villages, Gujba local government area of Yobe State. The terrorists were said to have been eliminated…
A coalition of accreditation observers groups for the 2023 general elections in Yobe State has tasked the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, to, as a matter of urgency, retrain its ad-hoc staff on the effective use of Bimodal Verification Accreditation System,…
Troops of 27 Task Force Brigade, Operation Hadin Kai, have reportedly neutralized scores of ISWAP terrorists in a failed attack staged along the Buni Yadi axis in Yobe State, last Monday. A Security Source told Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert…
The Yobe State All Progressives Congress (APC) Campaign Council, on Sunday, denied news reports of an attack on Governor Mai Mala Buni in the Gashua Local Government Area of the State. Reports had emerged that Buni was stoned by some…
The Yobe State Microfinance Bank Managing Director, Sheriff Almuhajir, has raised the alarm alleging that the sum of N4.3 billion approved by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for banks in the state has been diverted somewhere else. Speaking mostly…
