Friday Bako

About 400 people on Saturday January 1, 2022 benefited from the social intervention 2022 package put in place by Peter Bawa and Anna Foundation in Kwande. The intervention, which comprised of rice, maggi and salt, were given to the aged, widows and other less privileged in the society. Providing the items, a Director of the […]

Justice Silas Bakur of the High Court sitting in Langtang North, Plateau State on Friday dismissed a suit brought before it by First Lowland Micro Finance Bank leveling allegations of financial irregularities against the Plateau State Commissioner for sSpecial Duties, Hon. Hitler Dadi. The Management of the the bank had claimed that Dadi, while serving […]

Nigerian states have no powers to reject requests filed under the Freedom of Information Act , the Court of Appeal has ruled. In a March 27 decision at the Akure Division, the Court of Appeal ruled that the requests for information, especially around public expenditure, under the FoI, are made in public interest and should […]

Unanticipated gunshots in Central Plateau’s Daffo village, West of Bokkos town on Tuesday have forced journalists on official assignment to flee along with terrified traders. The incident followed a media tour of burnt down villages in the Daffo area following recent attacks. Some two people were said to have been killed in Ganda village where […]

FRIVOLOUS CANCELLATION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS AND THE PERPETUATION OF UNELECTED AND UNDEMOCRATIC LOCAL COUNCILS IN PLATEAU STATE The unfortunate indefinite postponement of the much anticipated Local Government election by the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission is a sad reminder of the steady decline and erosion of democratic values, principles and practices in present […]