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Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau has won the Business Day Newspaper peace award for his efforts that resulted in the prevailing peace in the state. The Business Day States’ Competitiveness and Good Governance Award ceremony was held in Abuja on Thursday night. Lalong, in an interview with newsmen after the ceremony, said he was dedicating […]

it’s been an agonizing moment for a 27-year-old mother of two, five weeks after she was allegedly raped by two teenage Fulani herders at a farm not far away from her home. The woman, Kangyang James, had gone to the farm located a few kilometres away from Diyan village in Rim district of Riyom Local Government […]

The immediate past Transition Committee Secretary of Jos North Local Government of Plateau State, Hon. Shehu Usman, on Saturday denied reports making the rounds in media circle that the Simon Lalong-led APC administration is owing the recently sacked appointed Management Committee officials of the 17 Local Governments six months salaries and allowances. Usman denied the […]

Mr Noel Ailewon, Controller, Plateau Command of the Nigerian Prisons Service, has dismissed allegations that food meant for prison inmates was being diverted by officers and men of the command. “The allegations are malicious; they are an attempt to drag the good name of the command to the mud,” Ailewon told the News Agency of Nigeria […]

A video showing 10 distraught women, believed to be the ones kidnapped in a raid by the militant group on a military/police convoy in Borno State some weeks ago, has been received by SaharaReporters. Following the incident, which took place a few kilometres outside Maiduguri, on Damboa Road, the Nigeria police refuted claims by Boko […]

Two weeks of incessant rains have cut off Jos East Local Government Area from the rest of Plateau State, officials said. The rains have also disrupted schools, farming, commerce and other activities, a traditional ruler in the area said on Tuesday. The Agwon Izere, Isaac Wakili, on Tuesday told journalists in Jos that due to […]