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Major General Benson Akinroluyo on Friday assumed duty as the new General Officer Commanding 3 Division, Nigeria Army, Rukuba, near Jos, Plateau State. NAN reports that Akinroluyo, who took over from Maj. Gen. Benjamin Ahanotu, in a brief speech at the handing over ceremony, promised to promote professionalism which had remained the main focus of […]

Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission said it had cleared 725 candidates to contest for chairmanship and councillorship positions in the local government polls in the state scheduled for February 17. Chairman of the commission, Mr Fabian Ntung, made the disclosure while speaking with newsmen on Tuesday in Jos. According to Ntung, 48 of the candidates […]

Some residents of Jos, Plateau, have criticised the Plateau State House of Assembly’s approval of a N1 billion-loan request by the executive arm of the government for stadium project. The residents told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Jos that the hasty attitude of the assembly in the approval portrayed it as […]

Jeremiah Useni on Wednesday declared his intention to vie for the Plateau governorship seat on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party . Mr Useni, who made the declaration at the party’s state secretariat in Jos, said that his principal focus was to restore peace on the Plateau. “I want to restore peace […]

Tarok youth in the Southern Senatorial district of Plateau state have organised a “leadership and good governance” lecture to mark the 2017 independence day celebration. Lecture, which is organised by Comrade Jesse Nanden Zwalda bears the theme “Tarok youths arise” and seeks to critically analyse and quantify the contribution of Tarok youths to democratic governance […]