News available to ViewPointNigeria indicates that a total of 1,104 intending pilgrims from Plateau will perform the 2017 pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, Alhaji Dayyabu Garga, the state Amirul Hajj, has disclosed. Garga told the newsmen on Friday in Jos that each of the intending pilgrim would pay N1.529 million for their airfare and other logistics. […]
News available to ViewPointNigeria indicates that ten persons have reportedly been killed, while 7342 others displaced in Plateau State by floods, between April and July 2017, Executive Secretary, State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, Al-Hassan Barde has said. Mr. Barde made the disclosure Thursday in his office in Jos in an interview with journalists. The SEMA […]
The Plateau State People’s Democratic Party has appealed to its members who defected during its protracted crisis to return in the interest of the party. Its chairman and former Minister of Sports, Hon Damishi Sango, made the appeal in his office Jos. The party, which ruled Plateau for 16 years before losing to the […]
Speaker of Plateau State House of Assembly, Mr. Peter Azi, has called on the Federal Government to consider the signing of the Peace Corps Bill into law as soon as possible. He also canvassed that budgetary provision be made for the Corps in 2018. Azi, who spoke yesterday in Jos, when officers and men of […]
The Plateau State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party , has dragged governor Simon Lalong to court for the delay of his administration in conducting the local government elections. Speaking to Newsmen on Tuesday in Jos, the State Publicity Secretary of PDP, Mr. John Akans said, “we are in court because we discovered that Gov. […]
Eminent Nigerians, including Governor of Plateau State, Rt. Hon. Simon Bako Lalong and President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria , Pharm. Ahmed Yakasai, have tasked community pharmacists in the country to make more contributions to nation building, noting that all players in the health sector must be committed and dedicated to their professions for […]
Governor Simon Bako Lalong of Plateau State has called on Nigerians to always engage in programmes and activities that unite the country, promote peace and add value to lives. Lalong made this statement in a speech he delivered as the guest of honour at this year’s Zumunta International Convention, specifically organised to address the challenges […]
A Chieftain of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party and a former member of the House of Representatives, RT. Hon. George Daika, said the ruling All Progressives Congress is not on ground in Plateau State. Speaking, he said, “I don’t believe in the existence of APC on the Plateau. I want to assure you […]
When Governor Simon Bako Lalong terminated the tenure of the immediate past Transitional Committee Councils in the state, the news was greeted with relief and anticipation that elected representatives might soon emerge for the local government areas. Prior to the removal of the TCC, there had been speculations that the governor was for the […]
Mr Noel Ailewon, Plateau Controller of Prisons on Monday said no fewer than 300 prisoners were being trained on vocational skills across prison formations in Plateau. Ailewon, who made the disclosure in an interview with the newsmen in Jos, said 200 of them were from Jos prisons alone. “The command takes programmes that will assist […]
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