Yobe state

April 25, (THEWILL) - At least one person has been killed and seven others injured in an explosion in Gashua, Yobe State. The explosion, according to sources, happened on Sunday night at a local drinking joint at Abasha ward in Gashua,...

January 31, (THEWILL) - The Nigerian Army has said its troops conducting Operation Hadin Kai in the North-East, killed five Islamic State West Africa Province ISWAP (ISWAP) terrorists during encounters in Yobe and Borno States. A statement by the Director, Army...

January 26, (THEWILL) - The Police Command in Yobe on Wednesday confirmed the abduction of Babagana Kachalla, an Assistant Headmaster, Central Primary School, Buni Yadi. Kachalla was abducted alongside four other people by gunmen in Madiya Village, Gujba Local Government...

January 08, (THEWILL) - The Yobe State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), has disclosed that more than 90 shops and stalls were affected by a fire outbreak which gutted Nguru market in the state on Saturday morning. The Agency on its official...

January 02, (THEWILL) - Yobe State, located in north-eastern Nigeria, was created on August 27, 1991 from the old Borno State. Its capital is Damaturu and its largest city is Potiskum.  Yobe shares boundaries with the Niger Republic by the...

October 23, (THEWILL) - Suspected Boko Haram terrorists in about ten gun trucks, in the early hours of Saturday, invaded Katarko village, in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State. Security source familiar with the development, said the...

September 18, (THEWILL) - Operatives of the Yobe State Police Command have arrested a 22-year-old woman, Khadija Yakubu, for allegedly killing three of her stepchildren with poison. The incident happened at Makara-Huta area of Potiskum local government area of the...

August 13, (THEWILL) - The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has urged a Federal High Court to sack the Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, and his Deputy Governor, Idi Barde Gubana, and install its Governorship Candidate, Ambassador Umar Iliya. It...

August 12, (THEWILL) - The Federal Government has approved the establishment of an oxygen plant in Yobe to meet the demands for medical oxygen in the country. This is contained in a statement issued on Thursday by Mamman Mohammed, Director-General,...

July 15, (THEWILL) - At least, nine persons have been killed in two separate motor accidents in Yobe State. The Federal Road Safety Corps Public Enlightenment Officer in the state, Usaini Ibrahim, in a statement  on Thursday,  said, "The first accident...