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A group operating under the aegis of the PDP Consolidation Youth Forum in Mangu Local Government Council of Plateau State has disclosed that as a progressive minded youth group, they would not partake in the communion of anti Berom campaigns against Senator Gyang Pwajok, the PDP governorship candidate in the state. The PDP youth forum […]

Reports from Premium times suggest that at least 44 soldiers of the Nigerian army are currently being held and are languishing in an underground cell in Jos. An army source told this newspaper that the soldiers were part of those stationed in Mubi, Adamawa State, when the town was over run and captured by Boko […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission has called on politicians nationwide to respect the outcome of the 2015 elections because all electoral laws and procedures would be put in place to ensure credible polls. Speaking on behalf of INEC, the Plateau state’s resident electoral commissioner, Godwin Kwanga cautions politicians against heating the polity. Akwanga who made […]

Sunday Longbap has been re-elected as Chairman of the Plateau State Football Association. At elections conducted in Jos, the capital of Plateau State on Thursday morning, and monitored by NFF Executive Committee member Sharif Rabiu Inuwa and Tunde Aderibigbe, secretary of the NFF State Elections Monitoring Committee, Longbap polled 18 out of the 19 votes […]

The People’s Democratic Party campaign organisation has reacted to the results being released on social media allegedly in favour of the opposition All Progressive Congress . Speaking during a media briefing in Abuja on Sunday, the Director of Media and Publicity of the PDP campaign organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode said that the results released […]

The police in Lagos have said that investigation is still on-going at the site of the explosion that rocked the Festac link road in Lagos. The blast which was alleged to emanate from a car under the bridge at Amuwo Odofin exploded at noon and killed one person while injuring another. People around later identified […]

News reaching Viewpointnigeria indicates that Nigerian islamist group Boko Haram was paid approximately $3m to secure the release of a French family previously captured in Cameroon and held hostage in Northern Nigeria. In a confidential report, seen by Reuters news agency, the Nigerian Goverment confirmed the development but failed to state who paid the money. […]

Rising from a two days peace building conference in the heart of Jos city, the participants of the conference have lamented the segregation of markets within the Jos and Bukuru metropolis as unhealthy for genuine peace and reconciliation. The gave the examples where the Rukuba road satelite market was used and patronised exclusively by Christians, […]

Plateau State Police Command has recovered a consignment of Improvised Explosive Devices materials and dragged the landlord in whose house it was found as well as one other person before the Federal High Court for criminal conspiracy and act to wit terrorism. According to count one of the charges against the two suspects, Alhaji […]

Elders in Langtang, Plateau, have implored owners of weapons to surrender them to the security agencies. The call comes after a meeting of key political office holders in the area. In a communiqué, the elders said they have noticed influx of aliens into many settlements in the Senatorial District. They urged the security agents ”to […]