At least 25 people have died and 14 others remain missing after a boat carrying 52 passengers capsized midway on a journey from Adiyani town in Jigawa State’s Guri LGA to Garbi town in Yobe State’s Nguru LGA. The Yobe State Emergency Management Agency (YOSEMA) confirmed the tragedy in a statement issued Sunday, noting the […]
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Khadija Ibrahim, minister of state foreign affairs, has defeated Mohammed Ibrahim, her step-son, to clinch the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket for Damaturu/Gulani/Gujba/Tarmuwa, Yobe federal constituency. Abba Gambo, the returning officer of the election which ran into the night announced on Wednesday that Khadijah polled 1,295 votes to defeat Mohammed who scored only 15 votes. According […]
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The Nigerian Army said some courageous civilians on Sunday foiled a suicide bomb attack by a suspected female Boko Haram member on a mosque in Gashua, Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe. Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, the Deputy Director Public Relations, Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole, disclosed this in a statement released in Maiduguri. “What would […]
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A cholera outbreak in Gashua, Yobe State has claimed 13 lives out of 160 cases reported in the last six days. A source at the Gashua General Hospital told newsmen that five deaths were first recorded while eight lives were later lost to the disease. The source said that the victims were brought in from […]
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Reports from Dapchi village of Yobe State indicate that the girls abducted from a secondary school in the town have been returned in the manner they were taken. Some sources in Dapchi indicated that the girls were brought back and dumped in the village by unknown persons in the kind of vans that were used […]
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Amnesty International (AI) has said that the Nigerian military was aware of the presence of Boko Haram insurgents in Dapchi, Yobe state, hours before 110 schoolgirls were abducted. It was alleged that an investigation revealed the security forces “failed to act” on advance warnings that a convoy of Boko Haram fighters was heading towards Dapchi […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday arrived in Taraba as part of his tour of troubled states which included Benue, Yobe, Zamfara and Rivers. Buhari would visit Mambilla, Taraba state where some people were killed in a communal clash last week. The President would also embark on a trip to Ghana, to attend the 61st independence […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari will embark on tours of Taraba, Benue, Yobe, Zamfara and Rivers States, where there had been either terrorist attacks, criminal activities or communal clashes. He will visit Mambilla, Taraba state today, before embarking on the trip to Ghana, to attend the 61st independence anniversary of the country. A statement by Mr Femi […]
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With a strong conviction that the Abu Musab Al-Barnawi-led faction of Boko Haram might be responsible for the abduction of Dapchi School Girls, a respected North-East human rights activist, popularly called Mama Boko Haram, Barrister Aisha Alkali Wakil has appealed to the abductors to release the young female captives. Aisha Wakil, a former member of […]
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Olatokunbo Adesanya, the director of public relations and information at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), on Sunday disclosed that additional air assets have been deployed to the north-east in search of the missing students of Government Girls’ Science Technical College in Dapchi, Borno state. A total of 110 students of the school are reportedly missing […]
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