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Independent Newspapers Limited
April 27, 2018
DAMATURU – A fire on Thursday burnt the residence of the Yobe State Commissioner of Finance, Mohammed Samaila Nguru, where he and his family live. According to an eye witness' account the family escaped unhurt while their documents, clothes and food were gutted by the fire. Despair has takenÃâà...
P.M. News
April 27, 2018
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) on Friday, endorsed the medical reform programmes of the Yobe Government, aimed at effective healthcare delivery. Prof. ... “We are optimistic that with the reform programmes in the health sector, Yobe will be a centre of medical tourism in Nigeria,” he said.
Human Rights Watch
April 27, 2018
The extremist group, however, continued its violent campaign in the northeast, particularly in Borno and some parts of Yobe and Adamawa states. ... On January 17 the Nigerian air force carried out an airstrike on a settlement for displaced people in Rann, Borno State, killing approximately 234 peopleÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 26, 2018
When contacted, the Director, Search and Rescue, Yobe SEMA, Alhaji Garba Bilal, explained that the camp initially had 4,011 Persons. He said, but with the reduction of insurgency, a large number of IDPs had returned, leaving 1,296 persons. Bilal said that the camp was fully funded by the stateÃâà...
Reliefweb
April 26, 2018
As of 31st March, 133 cases of Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) with 12 deaths (a case fatality rate of 9%) were reported in Bade and Yusufari LGAs of Yobe State. Laboratory tests confirmed the presence of cholera. WASH and health partners - including UNICEF, WHO, VCM, MSF Spain, State Ministry ofÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 25, 2018
He added: "Senator Bukar and Honourable Karasuwa participated in the distribution in Yobe State and other lawmakers in other states too. The problems might be communication gap", he added. Earlier, representatives of State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) from Yobe, Bauchi, Taraba andÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 22, 2018
The federal government immediately deployed the Nigerian Airforce and other security agencies to search for the schoolgirls and ensure their return, even though the governor of Yobe State, Ibrahim Gaidam, had blamed the Nigerian soldiers for having removed a military checkpoint from the town.
AllAfrica.com
April 22, 2018
The UNICEF Chief Field Officer said the 940,000 acutely malnourished children should not be let down in the conflict affected states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, stating that the malnourished children are dependent on good judgement, sound policies and quick action for them to survive and thrive.
ReliefWeb
April 20, 2018
The Yobe State Commissioner for Health declared a cholera outbreak in Nigeria's Bade Local Government Area (LGA) in early April. Health ... cash-based or in-kind emergency food assistance to an estimated 1.2 million people in northeastern Nigeria's Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states during the month.
Premium Times
April 20, 2018
The Governor of Yobe State, Ibrahim Geidam, has said his state did not receive any relief material from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) for over a year despite being affected by insurgency. The governor revealed this in a letter delivered to the House of Representatives committee onÃâà...
Guardian (blog)
April 19, 2018
“This furniture loans is revolving one and only those who have not benefitted, are to be granted to furnish one's house in any part of the state”, Abubakar said. He further disclosed that the loan is in categories, with the Chief Executive Officers of parastatals and boards to get N1 million each, while workers onÃâà...
Reliefweb
April 19, 2018
Total number of suspected cholera cases reported in Yobe state since the inception of the outbreak is 343, with a total of 15 associated deaths (CFR 4.4%). 327 cases have been reported in Bade (with 6 affected wards), ten cases in Karasuwa (3 affected ward), three cases in Yusufari (2 affected wards), twoÃâà...
Information Nigeria
April 19, 2018
Nigerian Young man arrested recently for keeping an Afro hair In Yobe State, Fined N600 (Photos). According to trending report, a young man was arrested recently for keeping an Afro hair. This is the question being asked by Nigerian internet users following the recent clampdown by security operatives onÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 13, 2018
Nigeria Health Sector Dashboard Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States (Jan - Mar 2018). Infographic. from World Health Organization, Health Cluster. Published on 31 Mar 2018 — View Original Ãâ÷ preview Ãâ÷ Download PDF (136.76 KB)Ãâà...
Guardian (blog)
April 6, 2018
Thirteen people have died of cholera in the northeast Nigerian state of Yobe in the past week, the state health commissioner said Friday, blaming the outbreak on contaminated water. Yobe is among the three states worst-hit by the Boko Haram insurgency, with many people living in camps where they lackÃâà...
Guardian (blog)
April 4, 2018
Yobe State is a typical dry savannah region like most Northeastern states, except in the southern part of the state which has a milder climate. ... but it has many similarities with towns of northern Nigeria- people are mostly farmers using their vast land and living simple lives with strong community bond. YobeÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
March 29, 2018
The National Union of Yobe State Students (NUYOSS) has called on the federal government to stop the attacks on educational institutions in the state. The President of the Union, Comrade Hassan Musa El-badawi, told a press conference yesterday in Damaturu, that attacks on Yobe schools since theÃâà...
Daily Trust
March 24, 2018
Irrigation farmers in Yobe State say the state can provide at least 40 per cent of Nigeria's food needs, if the partnership between the Yobe government and MardiCorp, a Malaysian firm ... They also indicated their interest to partner the state government in the project, especially in its special irrigation scheme.
Independent Newspapers Limited
March 16, 2018
... negotiate the release of 110 girls abducted by the Boko Haram insurgents from Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State is hardly surprising, considering that the option is perhaps the safest for the students, three weeks after their abduction. Still, it does not reduce the despair of NigeriansÃâà...
CHANNELS TELEVISION
March 14, 2018
President Muhammadu Buhari is expected in Yobe State on Wednesday, as part of his visit to states affected by Boko Haram attacks and ... Amid calls from Nigerians and international bodies, including the United Nations and the United States for the rescue of the missing girls, President Buhari explainedÃâà...
Premium Times
March 14, 2018
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived Damaturu, the Yobe State capital where he was received by the governor of the state. Mr. Buhari left Maiduguri, the Borno State, at about 12 noon on board a Nigerian Air Force chopper alongside the Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima; and the presidentialÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
March 14, 2018
He was received by the Governor of Yobe State, Ibrahim Geidam. Buhari is visiting the state three weeks after gunmen believed to be Boko Haram abducted 110 schoolgirls at Dapchi, a village 101km away from Damaturu. He is expected to fly to Dapchi where he is to hold a town-hall meeting with parentsÃâà...
Reliefweb
March 7, 2018
LGA profiles comprise of summary of needs, gaps and response highlights (2017) per key LGA for each States, in the field of camps, shelter and NFI needs. Information provided is not exhaustive and based on specific time of assessments and information available at a T-time. The profiles provide aÃâà...
The Guardian
March 7, 2018
The sect has presented itself as the solution to the shortcomings of the Nigerian state, both material and moral. In the absence of other economic, social and political opportunities, young men, and some women, are drawn in. Development is desperately needed in the north-east; but that, of course, requiresÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 7, 2018
"The governors of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states, to Nigerians and interested observers, as criminal aloof, and distant from a situation that is ... the territorial integrity of Nigeria, bombing and killing innocent citizens and the recent abduction of over 110 schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe State, which has nowÃâà...
CNN
March 6, 2018
"He will visit Taraba, and subsequently Benue, Yobe, Zamfara and Rivers States, " wrote Femi Adesina, special adviser to Buhari. Meanwhile, a Nigerian lawyer who has worked as mediator between the group and the government claimed Friday that a Boko Haram faction had contacted her about theÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
March 4, 2018
In a chat with newsmen in Lagos on Sunday, Osinbajo said: “Let me say it first that no amount of condolence can compensate for the loss of life, whether in Calabar, Mambilla or Benue or where people were killed in Adamawa or Zamfara, any of these states. ”Benue killing is one set of killing far tooÃâà...
Vanguard
March 4, 2018
The Presidency, through the spokesperson for President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has a message for those it says are jubilating, for political reason, over the abduction of over 100 schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe State: You are enemies of Nigeria. Adesina fielded questionsÃâà...
Vanguard
March 3, 2018
The security system also has poor ingenuity in Nigeria. ... The government, particularly the Yobe state government, I'm very sure collected security votes and security which is the paramount thing that is meant to be provided by any good and right ... This is a big failure on the path of the state government.
SaharaReporters.com
March 2, 2018
A Nigerian lawmaker, Mr Goni Abubakar has said the 110 girls abducted by Boko Haram from their school in Dapchi town on February 19 are still within the territory of Yobe, the state they were kidnapped from. The lawmaker claimed the girls are being kept in Bulabulin, Yunusari Local Government Area ofÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 1, 2018
Adequate market stocks and supplies of some staple food commodities (red beans, peanuts, imported rice and local rice) have contributed to price stability and in some cases a decrease in most of the monitored markets of Borno and Yobe States when compared to the past three months potentiallyÃâà...
africanews
February 28, 2018
The Nigerian security apparatus is doing all it takes to rescue the over 100 schoolgirls abducted by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in the northeastern Yobe ... The presidency reported that the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) chief, Chief of Air Staff Abubakar Sadique had relocated to Yobe State to personallyÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
February 27, 2018
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to show true “leadership by visiting troubled Dapchi, Yobe state.” ... “Nigerians are worried that he has now allowed himself to be holed in the safety and luxury of the presidential villa while citizens are being slaughtered andÃâà...
The Punch
February 26, 2018
The kidnap of 110 students from a school in Yobe State is a “national disgrace”, a CNN anchor and correspondent, Isha Sesay, has said. Last Monday, in a raid similar to the attack that led to the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in Chibok on 14 April 2014, Nigeria's dreaded terrorist group had stormedÃâà...
euronews
February 26, 2018
One hundred and ten girls remain unaccounted for following an attack on a school in the town of Dapchi in the northeastern Nigerian state of Yobe, the ... Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday called the abduction of scores of girls from a school in the northeast by the Islamist militant group BokoÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 22, 2018
Dozens of schoolgirls are still unaccounted for days after suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked their school in northeast Nigeria. The Yobe state government issued a statement on Thursday that retracted an earlier one that some of the missing girls had been rescued by the military. "We have nowÃâà...
BBC News
February 21, 2018
Some of the schoolgirls missing after a militant attack on a boarding school in northern Nigeria have been rescued by the military, officials say. ... In a statement, the Yobe state government said an unspecified number of girls had been rescued from the "terrorists who abducted them" and were now with theÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
February 21, 2018
@yermiefash has technically defeated Boko Haram, in fact the Nigerian army have taken over sambisa forest, yet Boko Haram keeps kidnapping people and the Buhari government keeps paying millions of $ as ransom. Another 94 students are missing after Boko Haram attack in Yobe State. @mrFtWeÃâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
In the aftermath of the abduction of 110 schoolgirls in Dapchi in Yobe State, the Nigerian Government has directed the police and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to immediately deploy personnel to all the schools in Yobe state.The girls were abducted on February 19 in what looksÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
December 31, 1999
But Yobe state commissioner for education Alhaji Mohammed Lamin tells DW Adrian Kriesch that the parents refused to work with state authorities in finding the girls. DW: The attack on the school happened on Monday evening. What can you tell us at this point in time, is there a clear number now as to howÃâà...
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