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A founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Second Republic Speaker of Plateau State House of Assembly, Prof. Dakum Shown, has revealed that the Middle Belt is currently shopping for a Presidential candidate in the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari. Shown said Buhari was the easiest […]

A former minister and convener of the BringBackOurGirls group, Oby Ezekwesili, has been arrested and is being detained by the police in Abuja. Her arrest is believed to be connected to the activities of the group. In a series of posts on her Twitter handle, @obyezeks, the former Minister of Education, said she was arrested […]

People of the Middle-Belt, spearheaded by the Benue People’s Congress today 22nd January 2017 staged a protest in London, condemning the carnage by Fulani herdsmen and the attendant silence of the Federal Government of Nigeria. Starting at the Nigerian High Commission at 9 Northumberland Avenue, Westminster London, the group camped outside the High Commission to […]

The Plateau House of Assembly Committee on Labour and Security has urged the state’s Peace Building Agency to develop empowerment programmes for Internally Displaced Persons in the state.Chairman of the committee, Mr Daniel Dem, made the call on Monday in Jos when the management of the agency appeared before it to defend its 2018 budget […]

Jos – As Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission continues to maintain silence over whether it would conduct the local government poll on February 18th or not as scheduled, the Peoples Democratic Party has urged the commission not to shift the election. Hon Aminu Zang, the Jos North PDP candidate in the forth coming election challenged […]

The pogrom in Plateau continued on Saturday with the killing of a hunter identified as Daniel Wallam in Maijankhai village, Barkin Ladi Local Government Area. The deceased was said to have been gunned down by suspected Fulani herdsmen who were allegedly destroying some farmlands with their cattle. Several calls to the spokesperson for the Plateau […]

Following the spate of killings in Benue, Plateau, Southern Kaduna, Taraba, Ogun, Abia, Ekiti, Rivers, Delta, Enugu etc and the attendant silence of the Nigerian Government and Security Services to the plight of local farmers, Nigerians who are resident in the UK are encouraged to attend a protest at the Nigerian High Commission Tomorrow at […]

By Golok Nanmwa, Jos  The Executive Director DUNCAN Group of Companies Mr. Bawa Larry Peters at the weekend said that the Jos inland container deport on completion would provide employment for about 5 000 persons. Peter’s made this known , in Jos in an interview after conducting Journalists round the Jos Inland dry Port. He […]