Tag: Yobe State

Yobe North: Again Lawan Loses as Appeal court affirms Machina APC senatorial candidate

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Court of Appeal, on Monday affirmed Bashir Machina as the authentic All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial candidate for Yobe North. The appellate court, in a judgment delivered by a three-member panel led by President of the Court, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensen, dismissed Senate President Ahmed Lawan’s appeal as lacking in merit. Lawan, filed an appeal challenging the decision of Justice Fadimatu Aminu of the Federal High Court Damaturu. Aminu had on Sept. 28, 2022, declared Machina as winner of the primary election organised by the APC in May 2022, while Lawan…

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Yobe: Boko Haram invades hotel, kill guests, burns school

Aminu Imam

Boko Haram fighters have sneaked into Gaidam, a town in Yobe State, and killed 10 hotel guests. According to reports, the terrorists also burnt down Government Science and Technical School in the town and killed a person in the living quarters of the school. The report further said the insurgents entered through the eastern part of the town, after parking their motorbikes in a neighbouring community and stormed ‘Kwari’, a popular brothel in the town, where they slaughtered 10 people, both men and women. An eyewitness said, “They took us…

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Fire guts shops, goods in popular Yobe market

Aminu Imam

Several shops and goods worth millions of naira have been destroyed by fire at Nguru’s popular central market in Yobe State. The Chairman of the Nguru local government council, Madu Kachalla, who confirmed the incident to newsmen, said no life was lost but many businessmen who have shops were severely affected by the disaster. The cause of the fire incident is yet to be known, but eyewitnesses said it might have been caused by illegal electrical connections. Nguru is one of the populous local governments in which Governor Mai Mala…

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Yobe: ‘Army’s claim on rescue of 20 police personnel from terrorists false’ – State govt.

Aminu Imam

The Yobe State Police Command has said the claim by the Nigerian Army that it rescued 20 of its personnel abducted from its station in Buni-Yadi town, Gujba local government area of the State from Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists was false. Recall that the Acting Director of Defence Operations, Brig-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko had, while giving an update of military operations across the country on Thursday claimed that troops rescued the 20 kidnapped police personnel, who were abducted when the terrorists attacked the Police Division at Buni-Yadi. However, the Yobe Police Command…

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Fire guts farmlands, destroys crops in Yobe

Aminu Imam

Many farmlands, including crops, are feared destroyed by a wildfire in the Gulani local government area of Yobe State. The incident, which occurred late Tuesday evening, along Gulani-Teteba eastern flank of the town, has caused panic, apprehension as well as anxiety among people within the farming community. The cause of the fire, which is yet to be ascertained, gutted farmlands with a total distance of about 7 kilometers. One of the victims, who gave his name as Mohammed Isa, said, “When we first sighted a strange smoke around our farmlands,…

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Under-aged boys, 12, 14, kidnap 3-yr old in Yobe

Aminu Imam

Operatives of the Nigerian Police Command in Yobe State have arrested two under-aged suspects are aged 12 and 14 principal suspects in the kidnap of a three-year-old boy in Potiskum. The State’s Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Dungus Abdukarim, disclosed this to newsmen in Damaturu on Tuesday. Abdulkarim said to a bewildered audience that the “The victim, aged three, was kidnapped and later released by his assailants after they collected N50,000 ransom. The police apprehended two principal suspects. The first one is 14-years-old while the second suspect is aged…

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Yobe: Many graves collapse again as flood submerges cemetery

Aminu Imam

Flood has submerged a cemetery in Potiskum town, Yobe State, which resulted in the collapse of many graves. The popular NEPA graveyard was said to have been flooded last Monday, following a heavy rainfall which also killed five children as well as destroyed many houses. The ugly development has compelled the committee in charge of maintaining the graveyard to appeal to the Yobe State government, philanthropists and other well meaning individuals to assist by providing herbicides, mats, sand, gravel, cement blocks, wheelbarrows, spade, diggers, firewoods among other things, to enable…

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Yobe whizkid, Usman Dagona, invents wireless spying car

Aminu Imam

A Chemistry student at the Federal University, Gashua, Yobe, Usman Dagona, has invented a mini-wireless spying car. The car is currently ranked third with 274 points on the ‘2021 Create the Future Design Contest voting scoreboard’, sponsored by COMSOL and Mouser Electronics. “My robot spying car is a rechargeable normal wireless device with five to six microcontrollers. Besides recording audio and video, it also has internal memory for saving data. The car doesn’t operate using only hand controllers,” said Dagona, in an interview with newsmen in Damaturu on Thursday, adding:…

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Recruitment drive: Boko Haram allegedly shares N20K to over 50 households in Yobe

Aminu Imam

Militants from the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jam?’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jih?d have begun inducing residents of Gaidam, Yobe State, with cash gifts. According to reports, the group had shared N20,000 to well over 50 households as of Tuesday evening, with the hope to get some of them to join its ranks as militants. Recall that the Boko Haram had invaded the local government area on the evening of Friday, and have since then held sway over the…

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Boko Haram: Thousands displaced, scores killed as insurgents sack Gaidam in Yobe

Aminu Imam

No fewer than two thousand people have been displaced and scores killed in recent days, as Boko Haram insurgents reportedly invaded and took over Gaidam, Yobe State. It was learnt that the insurgents, who allegedly belong to the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), a faction of Boko Haram, have occupied the town since Friday. According to reports, upon entry into the town on Friday, the insurgents asked residents to join the sect. They shared pamphlets containing their rules and ideology. The development caused residents to flee to Yunusari…

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