BORNO, Adamawa and Yobe governments have embarked on measures to ameliorate the current hardship on citizens caused by the removal of petrol subsidy. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that citizens of the three states worst affected by insurgency in North East have been experiencing hardship which many said …
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Over one thousand members of four political parties have defected to the All Progressives Congress in Yobe State. The affected parties are the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP); Labour Party, (LP); New Nigeria Peoples Party, (NNPP); and African Democratic Congress, (ADC). Receiving the new entrants into the fold of APC in …
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Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni has mourned the death of three persons and six others who suffered multiple injuries in a road traffic accident that occurred along Potiskum-Bauchi road. Governor Buni in a statement issued on Sunday by his spokesperson, Mamman Mohammed described the accident as shocking. “The deaths …
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Fire has gutted some sections of a popular Potiskum market in Yobe State. The inferno was said to have started on Sunday at about 8 pm. Although no life was lost, the fire destroyed property worth millions of Naira at the sections of second-hand clothing, yam and bicycle as well …
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Yobe State Government has declared monday 9th and Tuesday 10th January, 2023, public holiday as President Buhari visits the State. This is contained in a circular dated 8th January, 2023, signed by the State Head of Service, Alhaji Garba Bilal. He said, “This is to enable all civil servants and …
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The Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Yobe State Council, Mohammed Rajab, has rejected his appointment as a member of the Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress ( APC) for Yobe State. In a letter dated 13 December 2022 signed by the Director of Media of …
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The Army has arrested four fleeing Boko Haram terrorists, including a father and son at Kurnari village and Nayinawa in Yobe. According to a statement issued by Army Spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, on Tuesday, the arrested terrorists are: Bukar Waziri, 25, Mammade Lawan, 20, and father and son, Muhammadu Damina, …
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Police Public Relations Officer in Yobe State, ASP Toyin Gbadegesin,has confirmed that a police constable suspected to have gone insane on Friday killed two senior policemen. He told the News Agency of Nigeria in Nangere, Yobe State, that the suspect thereafter shot himself. IG,Solomon Arase “A constable in Nangere went …
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