Troops of Sector 2 Joint Task force, North-East Operation Hadin Kai, have foiled an attempt by Boko Haram insurgents to vandalise power towers in Kasesa near Damaturu. The troops achieved the feat in collaboration with hunters groups in the state. Capt. Naziru Shehu, acting Assistant Director, Army Public...
Yobe State
The Police Command in Yobe State on Sunday said it arrested three vigilante members for allegedly stealing building materials in Damaturu. The Command’s Spokesman, DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, confirmed the arrest in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Damaturu. He said the suspects – Ibrahim...
Yobe State Police Command has captured Haruna Mohammed, 40, who is believed to be a leader of a “notorious terrorist gang”. The command’s spokesperson, Mr Dungus Abdulkarim, told newsmen in Damaturu that the suspect was apprehended by the State Intelligent Department (SID). “He has been involved in terrorising...
Yobe State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has dissociated itself from the ongoing nationwide strike embarked by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC). The association’s Chairman, Dr Abubakar Mala, told newsmen in Damaturu on Monday that the state’s NMA is not part of the strike and will...
Police in Yobe State have arrested one Saminu Garba, 23, for allegedly vandalising transformer cable at State Low-Cost in Damaturu. Spokesman of the command, DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, said this in a statement in Damaturu on Saturday. He said personnel of the command arrested Garba in possession of the cable...
The Emir of Tikau in Yobe, Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Ibn-Grema, is dead. The emir’s younger brother, Alhaji Abubakar Talba, confirmed the death in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Damaturu on Saturday. Talba, a prince of the Tikau Emirate Council, said that Ibn-Grema died...
Prices of some foodstuffs have recorded a drop in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states. A survey of the prices conducted by NAN in some markets in Yola, Maiduguri and Damaturu towns indicated that the prices of some foodstuffs were lower in April when compared to the months of...
No fewer than 3 persons have been killed while an unspecified others were injured after a Nigerian Army patrol vehicle hit a Keke Napep rider, causing injuries on the driver and his passengers. An eyewitness, Adamu Hassan, told Channels Television, that the incident happened on Sunday afternoon...
Yobe State Police Command on Saturday said suspected Boko Haram terrorists have destroyed two 330 KVA power transmission towers in the state, plunging residents of Borno and Yobe into darkness. DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, the spokesperson for the command, said this when he spoke with the News Agency of...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) impounded a truck carrying about 450 vandalised railway sleepers on Tuesday in Damaturu and arrested three suspects. Its Commandant in Yobe, Mr Adamu Zakari, paraded the truck and the suspects before newsmen on Wednesday in Damaturu. “The truck was loaded...
Properties estimated to be worth N150 million, on Tuesday, were destroyed by fire at the GSM market, popularly called “Kasuwar Jagwal,” in Damaturu, Yobe. Confirming the incident to journalists in Damaturu, the Public Relations Officer of the Yobe State Fire Service, said that no fewer than 30 shops...
Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have killed Pastor Luka Levong of the Church of Christ In Nations (COCIN) in Kwari, Geidam Local Government Area of Yobe state. The attackers also killed five others. Some residents who evacuated the corpses to the Specialist Hospital Geidam told newsmen that the...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has said one of its towers T372 around Katsaita Village in Yobe was vandalized by some hoodlums on Thursday. The company said the vandals brought down the 330 Kilo Volt (KV) transmission tower which pulled down another...
The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), on Monday, confirmed that 117 children died following Diphtheria outbreak in Yobe since 2022. The Agency, however, said that 1,600 children had recovered from the disease within the period under review. Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Executive-Director of the Agency, stated this...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Yobe has confirmed the arrest of a 65-year old man, Mohammed Baburam, who allegedly chained and starved his wife for one year in Potiskum. The Command’s Spokesman, DSC Bala Garba, made this known in an interview with the News...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says about 58 per cent of children in Borno State and 75 per cent of children in Yobe State lack exclusive breastfeeding. UNICEF Chief of Field Office, Northeast Nigeria , Phuong T. Nguyen, stated this on Monday...
Operatives of the Yobe Police Command have arrested a couple, Abdullahi Ibrahim and Khadija Ali for allegedly stealing a motorcycle belonging by a Muslim cleric in Fika Local Government Area of Yobe. This is contained in a statement by DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, the command Spokesman, in Damaturu. He said Ibrahim,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Damaturu – Yobe State Governor, Hon. Mai Mala Buni, has visited the Secretary to the Federal Government, Sen. George Akume to discuss areas of cooperation and intervention by the federal government. A statement issued and signed by Mamman Mohammed, the Director General, Press and Media to...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) North East Zone has trained no fewer than 60 journalists from Borno and Yobe states and other public health stakeholders on the dangers of bleaching creams, use of chemicals in body sprays, lotions...
This is not what I had intended to discuss this week, but circumstances have given it priority. Yobe is a state that is blessed. Here, I am not talking about how blessed it is with peaceful and peace-loving people. No. Nor am I talking about the natural resources the...