Yobe State
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The incumbent governor, Mai Mala Buni, has emerged as the winner of the Yobe State gubernatorial election. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced on Sunday that Governor Buni won his re-election after winning in all 17 Local Government Areas (LGA) in the state Buni, a candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), polled a…
13 Feb
Over 400 political thugs disrupted the Yobe North senatorial campaign rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Gashua, the council headquarters of Bade, Yobe State.
6 Feb
The Supreme Court has affirmed Senate president Ahmad Lawan as the All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial candidate for Yobe north. In a majority judgment delivered on Monday, the apex court allowed the appeal filed by the APC against Bashir Machina’s candidature. Justice Centus Nweze in the lead judgement faulted the approach of Bashir Machina in…
6 Feb
Yobe State has ordered its Microfinance Bank (MfB) to open branches in all the 17 local councils. Governor Mai Mala Buni said the new branches would take banking services to the hinterlands.
19 Jan
Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe state has approved a 35 per cent subsidy on the rent of over 2, 500 shops by traders at the five completed markets in the state.
10 Jan
President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that nobody can blackmail him on inexplicable wealth and illicit enrichment while in office, saying "I do not have one square-inch outside Nigeria." Speaking at a State banquet, Monday night, organised in his honour in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, the President restated his commitment to serve God and Nigeria…
9 Jan
Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe has declared Monday and Tuesday as public holidays to welcome President Muhammadu Buhari to the state. This is contained in a statement by the state Head of Service, Alhaji Garba Bilal, in Damaturu on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Buhari will be visiting the state…
4 Jan
Gov. Mai Mala Buni of Yobe on Tuesday pledged to deliver 99.9 per cent of the state votes for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the February Presidential Poll. Buni said this in Damaturu when he received members of the Tinubu/Shetima Independent Campaign Council (ICC)on a solidarity visit. He said that the APC enjoyed enormous support in…
1 Jan
Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, has signed the state’s 2023 N163b budget into law.
27 Aug 2022
The President of the Senate, Dr.Ahmad Lawan, has felicitated the government and people of Yobe on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of the creation of the state.
22 Aug 2022
The Nigerian Army has pledged to unmask the identity of two suspected soldiers arrested by the operatives of Yobe State Police Command for the alleged murder of an Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Goni Gashua in Yobe State. The Assistant Director of Army Public Relations, Headquarters Section 2 Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), Colonel Kennedy Anyanwu has vowed…
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Tells PDP Candidates to submit required documents for legal battle within 72 hours The National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, has kicked against the results of the just-concluded Imo state House of Assembly elections which took place on Saturday. Speaking to Journalists in Abuja on Monday, Anyanwu rejected the results in…