By Agency Report Nigerian Army operatives under the HADIN KAI initiative are presently engaged in a significant firefight with members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), which ensued after an assault on the town of Buni Gari in Yobe State. Naija News reports that the specifics of the confrontation were shared through the […]
… As Ex-NIS boss blames politicians over crisis in the country By Tom Okpe The Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, has said the State remains one of the most peaceful, in Nigeria, saying he has every moral obligation to ensure its peacefulness as the Chief Security officer. The Governor stated this in Abuja on […]
Mr Ibrahim Lawan, Director of Primary Health Care (PHC), in Nangere Local Government of Yobe, currently on suspension for diverting Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food(RUTF), has confessed to committing the crime. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the state’s PHC Board had suspended Lawal for “diverting and misusing” the food supplements. Mr Adamu Abba, the […]
By Tunde Opalana President of the 9th Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, has congratulated the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the concluded Yobe East Senatorial bye-election, Musa Mustapha, on his emergence as Senator-elect. Mustapha was declared winner of the Yobe East Bye-Election, on Sunday, after polling 68,778 votes to defeat Aji Kolomi (Ajiko) […]
By Tunde Opalana President of the Ninth Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan at the weekend said citizens of Yobe State are witnessing rapid development in the state because the state governor, Mai Mala Buni has brought strategic approach to governance. The ex- Senate President lauded the Governor Buni, for his significant strides in education, agriculture, healthcare […]
A 22-year-old housewife, Khadija Yakubu has allegedly killed four stepchildren with poison in Potiskum town, Yobe State. The incident occurred at Makara-Huta area of Potiskum in the early hours of Friday when the deceased took a poisoned tea allegedly prepared by their stepmother. ASP Dungus Abdulkarim, Police Public Relations Officer Yobe State Command confirmed the […]
Yobe Governor Mai Mala Buni on Wednesday married Gumsu Sani Abacha in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The marriage was held at the Abuja residence of the new wife’s brother, Mohammed Abacha. Buni is the All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker National Chairman; Gumsu is a daughter of former Head of State, Sani Abacha. Notable personalities […]
Alhaji Baba Maidala, Executive Chairman, Yobe Teaching Service Board, on Thursday said over 2,800 secondary school teachers in the state were promoted to the next grade levels from January 2020 to February 2021. Maidala told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Damaturu that the promotion would enhance the teachers’ productivity. He said that no […]
Members of the Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation stormed Yola, Adamawa State on Tuesday for the third-day prayer for Alhaji Musa Adamu Duhu, a member who passed on Saturday, 19th September after a brief illness. READ ALSO: Tunisia Friendlies: Musa, Ekong make list (see full list) Chairman of Chairmen of Nigeria football, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa […]
Suspected gunmen have attacked Mashio community in Fune Local Government Council of Yobe State. The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, ASP Dungus Abdulkarim, and Acting Chairman of the affected Local Government, Abubakar Kolere confirmed this on Sunday, August 16. Daily Times gathered that the community’s village head, Isa Mai Buba, and his son […]
The Senate President of Nigeria, Ahmed Lawan, on Saturday in Gashua, Bade Local Government Area, sponsored the wedding of 100 less-privileged spinsters. Daily Times reports that the beneficiaries were drawn from Bade and Jakusko Local Government areas. Lawan, represented by the Speaker, Yobe House of Assembly, Alhaji Ahmed Mirwa, said the gesture was in aid […]
Yobe state has declared a zero case on admission after discharging all of its Coronavirus patients. Dr Mohammed Lawan Gana, the state’s Vice Chairman on COVID-19 and Commissioner for Health made the announcement after the committee’s 14th meeting held on Wednesday July 1, in Damaturu. Gana who disclosed that the three remaining patients in the […]
Nigerian troops fought back Boko Haram insurgents at Gonar Bukar settlement on Gashua Road on the outskirts of Damaturu, the Yobe capital late on Sunday. The spokesman of the army’s Operation Lafiya Dole, Capt. Njoka Irabor, who confirmed the development in an interview in Damaturu, said the jihadists attempted to infiltrate Damaturu metropolis around 5:30 […]
Ukpono Ukpong – Abuja Disturbed by the anomaly where grassroots communities in Nigeria are constantly deprived of access to basic human needs like health care, water, education, Connected Development (CODE), through its homegrown social accountability initiative, ‘Follow The Money’ have tracked an estimate of NGN 1,289,579,737 ($3.6m) budgeted for projects in 69 grassroots communities. This […]
The Joint Health Workers Union (JOHESU) has suspended its nationwide strike. The union has therefore directed all members to resume work on Monday, June 4, 2018. The directive was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the National Executive Council meeting of JOHESU and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations in Abuja. The union […]
In a bid to get Nigeria certified polio free, six states in the Northern Nigeria and prominent royal fathers from the region have renewed their commitment to delivering life-saving vaccines to their children through routine immunization, as part of their partnerships with the Dangote Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other developmental partners […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived Damaturu, the Yobe State capital where he was received by the governor of the state, Premium Times is reporting. The news agency says President Buhari left Maiduguri, the Borno State, at about 12 noon on board a Nigerian Air Force chopper alongside the Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima; and the […]
Minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that the Port-Harcourt to Maiduguri rail line will cut across six states of Imo, Anambra, Ebonyi, Gombe, Adamawa and Yobe. Addressing journalists on Friday, the minister said the rail line will cover a total of 2,000 kilometres. In August, Amaechi said President Muhammadu Buhari approved the rail line […]
At least 12 students have been injured in an open fire by a gunman suspected to be a member of the Boko Haram militants on Friday outside a school in the city of Potiskum, Yobe state. “We have evacuated 12 people with serious gunshot wounds to hospital from the scene of the shooting attack,” said […]
The senator representing Yobe East Senatorial District in the Red Chamber, Senator Ibrahim Abba Bukar, has said it would be unfair if the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) eventually decided to accept a recommendation zoning the seat of the Senate President to North Central and the speakership position of the House of Representatives […]