Yobe State Government on Wednesday increased security at the state House of Assembly in Damaturu, hours before Governor Ibrahim Gaidam presented the state's 2013 budget.
A News Agency of Nigeria reports that the road to the Assembly complex on Maiduguri road in Damaturu was cordoned off by stern-looking security operatives.
Top government functionaries and reporters were thoroughly screened by the security operatives before they were allowed into the Assembly complex.
Some government officials and politicians, who spoke on the huge security presence, expressed satisfaction with measures taken to ensure safety in the insurgency-hit state.
Security officials refused to talk when they were approached for comments.
Yobe is the hotbed of the Boko Haram insurgency, currently ravaging many states in North.
Meanwhile, the Yoruba Council of Elders has advised members of the sect to publicly present their grievances to the Federal Government.
This was contained in a statement addressed to President Goodluck Jonathan by the council's National Treasurer Dejo Raimi, on Wednesday.
The statement read, "In over three years of open rebellion against the state, Boko Haram has not achieved anything positive, rather, their activities have left behind sorrow, tears and blood in that many promising young men, women and elders had been sent to their untimely graves.
"We would like them to know that nothing shall be achieved by mindless bloodletting. In all of human history, great wars were fought and concluded, not on the battlefield but at the conference room. The YCE calls on the Boko-Haram to jettison violence and allow peace to reign in our country."