The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has donated a 720,000-litre-per-day capacity Oxygen Plant to the Yobe State Government to help reduce neonatal mortality rates. UNICEF’s Country Representative in Nigeria, Cristian Mundate, handed over the facility to a representative of the state government on Monday in Damaturu. She emphasised the importance...
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The Kulen Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria ( KACRAN) has described the proposed state police as too expensive and risky to implement. KACRAN National President, Alhaji Khalil Bello, said this in a statement in Damaturu on Friday. He said the cost of establishing state police, depending on a...
Yobe State Government has reopened Government Senior Day Secondary School, Bara, in Gulani Local Government, 12 years after the school was closed due to activities of insurgents. The school alongside government secondary schools Goniri and Babbangida operated from a temporary site at Government Secondary School, Damaturu, since 2012. The...
The Yobe State has recorded four new cases of polio in three Local Government Areas (LGAs), three years after the state was declared polio-free. The Executive Secretary of the State Primary Healthcare Board, Dr Babagana Kundi-Machina, disclosed this while launching a campaign against the disease in Machina, a border...
The Yobe Government said a total of 132 cases of cholera were recorded in the state as at September 25, out of which nine died. Dr Mohammed Gana, Commissioner for Health and Human Services, stated this in a statement in Damaturu on Friday. He said the cases were reported...
Yobe Government has confirmed four persons dead from acute diarrhoea in Gujba Local Government Area. The Commissioner for Health, Dr Lawan Gana, disclosed this to newsmen in Damaturu on Monday. Gana said the disease was detected in Jangalawaji and Tadandara settlements in Gujba Ward. The commissioner stated that both...
Bh SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Damaturu – A suspected vandal has been electrocuted while tampering with an exposed live wire in order to steal it from a transformer substation at Commissioners’ Quarters in Damaturu, the Yobe capital. The Communications Officer, Yola Electricity Distribution Company (YEDC), Blessing Tunoh, made this known in...
The North East Development Commission (NEDC) has distributed relief materials to communities that were affected by flooding and insurgency in Yobe recently. The State Coordinator of the Commission, Mr Ali Abbas, made this known during the handover of the items to benefiting communities in Damaturu on Saturday. He said...
The National Security Adviser (NSA), Mr Nuhu Ribado, has reassured Nigerians that insecurity will soon come to an end in the country. Ribado stated this on Friday in Damaturu while commiserating with the people of Yobe on the recent insurgency attack in a community in the state. He praised...
The Yobe Government has issued a fresh flood alert to nine Local Government Areas of the state due to impending release of water from Dadinkowa and Lagdo dams. The LGAs are Nguru, Bade, Karasuwa, Jakusko, Yusufari, Geidam, Tarmuwa, Bursari, Machina, Gujba and Fune. Dr Mohammed Goje, Executive Secretary, State...
Twenty persons have died as a result of devastating floods that ravaged Bade Local Government Area of Yobe since early August, its Chairman, Alhaji Babagana Ibrahim, has said. Ibrahim told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Friday in Gashua that most of the deceased were people trapped under...
Flood caused by days of rains has displaced no fewer than 49,000 persons in Yobe. Executive Secretary, Yobe State Emergency Management Agency, Dr Mohammed Goje, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Damaturu on Friday. He said that 18,000 households were affected by devastating flood across...
Gunmen suspected to be Boko haram insurgents looted and set ablaze shops and houses in Mafa village in Tarmuwa Local Government Area of Yobe State. DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, the Yobe police Command Spokesman, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Damaturu on Monday. ”We are...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The publisher of Neptune Prime newspapers, Dr Hassan Gimba, anipr, has announced plans to commission three major projects in his home state, Yobe State. In an invitation letter sent to newsmen on Wednesday, the publisher disclosed that the event, which is scheduled to take...
The Federal Ministry of Works has directed the contractor handling rehabilitation of 150-kilometer Potiskum – Gashua Federal Road in Yobe to return to site immediately. The Acting Controller of Works in the State, Mr Abdurahaman Bukar, gave the directive when contacted by journalists on Wednesday in Damaturu. He said...
This week, Yobe State will become 33. On August 27, 1991, President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida sliced Yobe State out of the old Borno State, which was itself carved out of the North Eastern State that was hewed from the Northern Region. The IBB regime thought it better to situate its capital in...
Security will dominate key sessions at the forthcoming fifth Lake Chad Basin Governors’ Forum hosted by Yobe. Mr Hyacinth Banseka, the Technical Director of the Lake Chad Basin Commission in N’Djamena, Chad said this at the opening of the state Local Organising Committee meeting with officials of the commission...
Troops of Sector II Joint Task Force in the North-East Operation “Hadin Kai” on Friday, defused an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted at the Buni Yadi Cattle Market in Yobe. Spokesperson of the sector, Capt. Mohammed Shehu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Damaturu that the...
An explosion suspected to be a planted Improvised Explosive Device has exploded at the popular Buni Yadi market in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State. Sources said the incident happened at around 12.30 pm on Friday afternoon, injuring a girl. Details soon…
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...