Yobe State

This was disclosed in a statement issued by Abdullahi Bego, the Director-General, Media Affairs to the governor.

The Nigerian Army said the situation at Katarko in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe had been brought under control after troops foiled terrorists attempted attack on the military location in the town.

On the 19th of February this year more than a hundred girls were kidnapped from the Government Girls Science and Technology College, Dapchi in Yobe state by a faction of the dreaded Boko Haram.

The Yobe State Government said it had concluded arrangements to vaccinate no fewer than one million livestock following reported cases of animal diseases in some parts of the state.

Grace Samuel, nephew to Leah, made the commendation in Dapchi, during distribution of food items and livelihood packages to 40 families of the abducted schoolgirls by Yobe Government.

The Nigeria Labour Congress, Yobe council, has directed all workers in the state to prepare for an indefinite strike slated to commence from November 6 to push for a new minimum wage.

The Senator, who is the husband of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Khadijat, said it should not be assumed that like 2015, the North East will vote for the President and APC.

Ibrahim, a three-time governor and senator, spoke at the launch of his book, “Poorlitics”, to mark his 70th birthday in Abuja.

Residents of Dapchi in Yobe say their confidence in government’s ability to secure the release of Leah Sharibu, the lone school girl still in Boko Haram captivity, has been further renewed by the expected visit of a high-powered Federal…

Senator Mohammed Hassan has attributed his victory during the Peoples Democratic Party Senatorial Primaries in Yobe to the people’s confidence in his representation.

Alhaji Umar Kareto, the returning officer of the election, said a total of 1,865 delegates were accredited out of which the senate leader polled 1,702 votes and 12 invalid.

The Yobe Governor Ibrahim Gaidam on Tuesday in Damaturu picked the Yobe East Senatorial ticket under the platform of All Progressives Congress for the 2019 general elections.

The All Progressives Congress in Yobe says it is investigating allegation of vote-buying by a governorship aspirant ahead of the party’s primaries.

NAN checks revealed that a bag of millet, which used to sell between N11,000 and N12,000, is now sold between N6,500 and N7,000.

The Governor of Yobe State, Ibrahim Geidam, has publicly chosen his successor, who has been endorsed by President Muhammadu Buhari. Mai Mala Buni, the current Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, is the man the Governor handpicked to…

Ndume said in the interview that it had become certain that the Boko Haram sect that abducted Sharibu and over 100 other girls from their school was waging a psychological war to get more money from the government.

Gaidam while signing the law in Damaturu, said that government took a proactive action in view of the rampant cases of rape, kidnapping and unnatural offences being reported across the country.

Chieftains of the All Progressives Congress in Yobe have urged governorship aspirants in the state to accept the endorsement of Alhaji Maimala Buni, by Governor Ibrahim Gaidam as the preferred successor.

The Inter Party Advisory Council in Yobe has described the state branch of the All Progressives Congress as a leading model in party supremacy and discipline in Nigeria’s democracy.

Yobe Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Gaidam, on Friday endorsed Alhaji Maimala Buni, the National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress as the governorship candidate for 2019 election in the state.