The African Development Bank (AfDB), has signed a 362,000 Euros grant agreement with Hadejia Jama’are Komadugu Yobe Basin-Trust Fund. The bank in a statement said the grant would prepare additional studies under the second-phase of developing a strategic plan for managing water resources in the Komadugu-Yobe Basin in northern...
Yobe State
The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general election, Atiku Abubakar has promised to address security and economic challenges, if elected. Abubakar stated this at the PDP Presidential campaign rally on Wednesday in Damaturu. Amazed with the crowd, Atiku called on the people of...
Scores of NNPP members in Yobe have abandoned the party for PDP, further complicating the party’s presidential ambition in the February poll. Dr Babayo Liman, the NNPP North-East Zonal Secretary, announced the defection while addressing newsmen on Tuesday in Damaturu. “We are here to inform the general public and...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari says nobody can blackmail him on inexplicable wealth and illicit enrichment while in office, saying ‘‘I do not have one square-inch outside Nigeria.’’ Speaking at a State banquet, Monday night, organised in his honour in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, the...
By HARUNA AHMED, Damaturu – Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni has declared Monday and Tuesday as public holidays to welcome President Muhammadu Buhari to the state. President Buhari will be visiting the state to inaugurate projects, including Cargo Airport, Ultra-Modern Market and Maternal and Child Health Care Complex....
Security has been beefed up in Damaturu ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Yobe on Monday. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports on Sunday that there has been heavy presence of police personnel and those of other security agencies at strategic locations in the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Damaturu – The management of the Northeast Youth Initiative For Development has commended the efforts and plans of His Excellency, Hon Mai Mala Buni to establish 17 Girls Day Senior Secondary school across the state. The governor who broke the news to the general public at...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A Non Governmental Organization (NGO), Search For Common Ground has organized a two day training workshop for Borno and Yobe State journalists and social media influencers on sensitive conflict information and communication strategies and programing at the grassroots level. The capacity building training workshop...
The Yobe Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has pledged to provide support for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) towards a hitch-free 2023 general election. The State NSCDC Commandant, Mr Sa’idu Aliyu, stated this when he hosted the state INEC officials on a courtesy...
By AUSTINE TSENZUGHU, Yobe – Nigeria alongside other nations that have borders with Sahara Desert have been charged to utilize their funds and modern technology to halt desert encroachment and reclaim land taken by the desert A consultant environmentalist, Malam Shehuri Bukar Bulama gave this charge when he spoke...
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed military authorities to flush out all those elements in the army with criminal tendencies. The president gave the directive in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja by his media aide, Malam Garba Shehu while reacting to the cold-blooded murder of a Yobe State-based Islamic...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – UNICEF, World Food Programme (WFP) in collaboration with the Borno State Ministry of Finance, Budget and Economic Planning have organized a one day workshop on Resilience and Social Cohesion in North-East Nigeria with Shani LGA of Borno State and Bade LGA of Yobe State...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The APC National Leader and presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu has assured the people of Borno that if he is elected as the next President of Nigeria come 2023, he will exploit all the state’s natural endowment especially oil exploration and resuscitation of the Lake...
One person has been killed while seven others were injured after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded in Yobe state. The incident happened on Sunday night at a local drinking joint at Abasha ward in Gashua, the headquarters of Bade Local Government Council of the state. The Chairman of...
No fewer than nine persons have been killed by suspected Boko Haram insurgents on Wednesday night during an attack in Geidam community in Yobe state, The locals told newsmen that the suspected insurgents came by foot at around 9pm and moved straight to a drinking joint located at Kwari...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Damaturu – Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni has launched twenty brand new 18 seater Toyota Hiace buses for Yobe Transport Corporation and the State Road Traffic Management Agency (YOROTA). Speaking on Tuesday during the launching at the Government House Damaturu, Buni said “the occasion reiterated...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – UNICEF has donated essential medicines worth US$438,972 to the governments of Yobe and Borno States, as part of efforts to improve maternal, neonatal and child survival and health outcomes in conflict-affected communities in north-east Nigeria. UNICEF also said it would support the implementation of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Damaturu – Yobe State Government has approved the immediate recruitment of 196 graduates of College of Health Science and Technology Nguru to boost healthcare delivery services in the state. Governor Mai Mala Buni disclosed this in a statement issued by the Director of Press and Media...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Damaturu – Yobe State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency (YSCHMA) on Saturday flagged off one month mass social mobilisation campaign with Keke Napep Riders Association using strategic and targeted messaging for wider public. Flagging off the campaign in Damaturu, the Executive Secretary of YSCHMA, Dr Babagana Tijjani,...
BY SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Damaturu – A humanitarian group, known as The Victims Support Fund (VSF) on Friday launched the distribution of food items to victims of boko Haram insurgency in Yobe State. The Chairman of VSF, General Theophilus Y Danjuma (retired), who was represented by the Executive Director of...