Gov. Buni didn’t Abandon Yobe for APC – Bego

Hon. Abudullahi Bego and NUJ Chairman Yobe State, Comrade Rajab Mohammed at the briefing yesterday

 By JOE Hemba

 Yobe State Commissioner for Home Affairs, Information and Culture, Hon. Abdullahi Bego has dissonance claims by some people in the state that Gov. Mai Mala Buni has abandoned his job as governor of the state at the altar of his adhoc job as the acting National Chairman of the APC. 

 The commissioner who was fielding questions from journalists at the opening of the Ministerial press briefing organized by the NUJ, Yobe State in Damaturu said, Gov. Buni’s commitment to the development of Yobe State has not changed. 

 According to him, Yobe should be proud that their governor among many other governors in the county is saddled with the responsibility of repositioning such a large party with a huge followership across the country.

“I must say that the involvement of Gov. Buni with the APC assignment at the National level should be a thing of pride to the people of Yobe and should attract the kind of criticism that people are insinuating.

“For the records, His Excellency’s choice for the job is as a result of his master-class quality of a peace makers and he was chosen among his colleagues to reposition our party that has a very huge followership. That’s a thing of pride.

 “I must also tell you that His Excellency Gov. Mai Mala Buni has never forgotten to attend to Yobe issues whether he is in Damaturu or in Abuja or any other part of the world. Everyone can testify that the governor has been making strategic visits to people that matter in Abuja. Recently, you saw him visit the Chief of Defense Staff, Chief of Army Staff, the Commandant NSCDC and a host of other very important personalities to discuss the security of the state and I am confident that we will start seeing the results on ground. 

 “The job that governor Buni is doing now is a critical, but a time limited National assignment and he needs our prayers to succeed because the job is for the benefit of all Nigerians including Yobe State,” Hon. Bego said. 

 ImpactOnlineNigeria  investigation gathered that there is growing apprehension among the people of the state over Gov. Buni’s continuous stay in Abuja attending to the APC national politics instead of staying with the people that elected him. 

 Further findings has also revealed that the popularity of the governor on the streets of Damaturu has also dwindled as he now longer receives the thunders cheers from residents any time he drives in or out of the town.

 Unlike in the past, our correspondent gathered that Gov. Buni was booed at the central roundabout in Damaturu when he drove into the city last week to mark the Sallah celebration in the State capital. It was also gathered that a section of crowd were not happy with governor Buni as he was driving for the Central Mosque in Damaturu for the Eid prayers.

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NAWOJ Gathers Women IDPs, Orphans to Pray Against Insecurity in Nigeria

Yobe NAWOJ Chairperson Fatima Mohammed during the prayers session in Damaturu

 By  JOE Hemba 

 Women journalists across Nigeria under the aegis of Nigeria Association of Women Journalists today came out in large numbers to pray against the rising insecurity in the country. 

 Declaring the prayer session open at the NUJ Press Centre in Yobe State, the NAWOJ chairperson in the state, Hajiya Fatima Mohammed regretted the killing of innocent people across the country through banditry, kidnapping, Boko Haram etc. 

 She stated that the bloodshed in the country has reached a stage that silence is no longer a viable and that prayers has become the most potent weapon that will soften the minds of the bad people in the country.

Students she noted are being kidnapped for huge ransom and killed in private and public schools with no part of the country safe any longer.

 “In the aftermath, no geopolitical zone of d country can be said to be very safe and crisis free.public and private schools are no longer safe for our children as students are being abducted here and there.

 “We can agree that all is no longer well with our country Nigeria there is bloodsheds every where and these spell doom and insecure future for the nation. 

 “We as women, mothers and agents of change cannot afford to be silent in the midst of glooming darkness over our dear country Nigeria. 

A cross section of women journalists during the prayers in Damaturu

 “The call for a collective prayers is one of the most noble steps needed for God's intervention. 

 “Our coming together to pray and fast together is to bring repentance before God on behalf of the people and ask for his mercy and healing of our land,” the chairperson said.

 The Yobe first woman journalist commended Gov. Mai Mala Buni for his tireless efforts in supporting security operatives in the state which has brought relative peace to the state. 

 She explained the use of red color for the event as a sign of bloodshed in the country. 

 “We choose red to be the colour of the day signifying bloodsheds in the country and Yobe,we decided to involved Idps,orphans, widows,and vulnerables beside our sister women organizations to participate in the prayer and for us to distribute little gifts ahead of the sallah celebration to them,” Hajiya Fatima said. 

 Our correspondent who attended the event observed that the prayer session was attended by women organization in the state and faith based organization both from the Christian and the Muslim.

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Strange Fire razes down Redeem Primary School in Damaturu

A section of the school that was burnt 

By  JOE Hemba, Damaturu 

 The Shalom Nursery and Primary School, Damaturu, owned by the Redeemed Christian Church was yesterday razed down by a strange fire.

IMPACTOnlineNigeria  gathered that the fire started from the primary block of the school wreaking havoc on the books, the desks in the class and the entire block burnt down to ashes. 

 The fire incident according to the Head Teacher of the School Mrs. Kemi Bature said the staff and management of the school are confused and still cannot determined the cause of the fire. 

 She informed that the school uses a prepaid electrical billing system and always put off the entire electrical system in the school anytime there pupils are not in school. 

Children's books and furniture burnt in one of the classes

 She explained that the fire has caused a serious damage to the entire class block, the children’s books and other school records adding that it will amount to millions of naira. 

 Mrs. Bature also informed that the fire was detected by some of the neighbors who alerted a teacher before they contacted the state firefighting department. 

 Our correspondent gathered that police explosive detectives have visited the should to comb the area for any possible explosive or a strange inflammable item that might have ignited the fire.

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