Tag: Yobe State
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Gov Buni appoints new Head of Service for Yobe
Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State has appointed Alhaji Tonga Betara as the new Head of Service (HoS) for the State.
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Yobe State University gets acting Vice Chancellor
The Governing Council of Yobe State University, Damaturu, has approved the appointment of Prof. Bukar Jamri as the acting Vice Chancellor (VC) of the institution.
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Police promote spokesman, 75 others in Yobe
The Police Command in Yobe has promoted its spokesman, Mr Dungus Abdulkarim, and 75 other officers to new ranks.
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Yobe to employ over 400 health workers
Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe, has approved the employment of 424 health professionals to bolster medical facilities across the state.
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Yobe records 4 new polio cases
The Yobe Government says it has recorded four new cases of polio in three Local Government Areas (LGAs), three years after the state was declared polio-free.
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24-year-old Nigerian man kills business partner over N500k loan
A 24-year-old man identified as Yunusa Isa, who killed his business partner, Lawan Adamu, over a N500,000 loan, has been arrested by the Yobe State Police Command.
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Yobe govt issues fresh flood alert to 9 LGAs
The Yobe State Government has issued a fresh flood alert to nine Local Government Areas of the state due to impending release of water from Dadinkowa and Lagdo dams. The LGAs are Nguru, Bade, Karasuwa, Jakusko, Yusufari, Geidam, Tarmuwa, Bursari, Machina, Gujba and Fune.
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Flood: 20 dead, 2,000 displaced in Yobe
Twenty people have died, and over 2,000 displaced, following devastating flood that have swept through Bade Local Government Area of Yobe since early August, according to the council chairman, Alhaji Babagana Ibrahim.
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Flood kills 20, displaces 2,000 in Yobe
Twenty persons have died as a result of devastating floods that ravaged Bade Local Government Area of Yobe since early August, its Chairman, Alhaji Babagana Ibrahim, has said. Ibrahim disclosed on Friday in Gashua that most of the deceased were people trapped under the debris of collapsed mud houses.
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Houses, hectares of farmland destroyed as flood wreaks havoc in Gombe, Yobe
The Gombe State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), has said that 2,517 houses and shops were either completely or partially destroyed by flood which ravaged 33 communities in the State. Mr Ibrahim Nalado, the Deputy Director, Relief and Rehabilitation of the agency, disclosed this in an interview on Saturday in Gombe.