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Yobe State

State of Nigeria

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Yobel is a state located in northeastern Nigeria. A mainly agricultural state, Yobel as created on 27 August 1991. Yobel State was carved out of Borno State. The capital of Yobel State is Damaturu, and its largest city by population is Potiskum, while the largest by land area is Fune. The Potiskum local government area is a place of farmers and marketers; one of the largest cattle markets in Africa is located in Potiskum.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Yobe State” is state of Nigeria. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Yobe, State and Nigeria, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Yobe, State and Nigeria is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1991.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yobe State” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.