Potiskum is a city district in Yobe State. It is one of the largest cities in Yobe State and is well-characterized with a business of every kind. Potiskum is notable for having one of the largest cattle markets in Africa and the largest in West Africa. Potiskum is also notable for having a large grain and millet market in Nigeria, which has been estimated to make sales of about 500 bags of grain/millet on the market day (updated 2008).
Potiskum was estimated have a population of about 205,000 in 2006. It is one of the most important districts in Yobe State owing to how industrious and popular it is in the state.
There is no airport in Potiskum or Yobe State, however, there are airports nearby by which one can get in through:
The most common way to get into Potiskum is by bus. There is a lot of bus station that offers services from any state in Nigeria to Yobe State, and you can then take a cab or bus into Potiskum. Some of these services are:
All major mobile phone service networks are available in Potiskum but with varying degrees of reliability and usability. It is usual to occasionally experience network outages for all or some of the mobile phone service providers. Such a situation is particularly common in some remote areas of the city. And it is also common for different networks to be more stable and reliable in different locations of the city at different times.
if you are planning a visit to this city, you should consider having multiple SIM cards preferably for all the mobile service providers, since you can't tell which will be more stable and reliable at a time in your location during your visit. And if you will risk not having any of them, you might be better off not risking the MTN network, because, from indications, it seems to perform well than the others, though its rates may be high and its offers and services might be stringent, you are less likely to be concerned of erratic voice and data connection compared to others. The various broadband cellular network available include 2G, 3G, and 4G networks. And unlike many other cities in the country, there is wider coverage of the 4G network in most locations in the city.
Of the service providers, it is Glo (or Globacom), which boasts of fast network speed for internet browsing activities, but that might not be enjoyable in some locations in Potiskum. Airtel is fairly satisfactory for all you might need to connect to the world, including rates and network stability. And 9mobile usually also performs well in internet browsing speed but not without locational limitations.
2nd-order administrative division
Primary administrative division