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The former Governor of Plateau State and a member of the just concluded National Conference, Amb. Fidelis Tapgun, has officially declared his intension to contest the 2015 governorship election of the State. Tapgun who was the Director General of former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s re-election in 2003 said, “Both the Central and Northern zones have had […]

The airlift of the 1,300 Muslim pilgrims from Plateau to Saudi Arabia is to begin on Thursday, September 18, an official said in Jos. The Executive Secretary of the Plateau Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, Alhaji Salisu Musa, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Jos that the pilgrims would be lifted in segments. Musa said […]

The Plateau High Court has fixed October 20th to hear a suit filed by Governor Jonah Jang against a lawmaker, claiming N1 billion for defamation. Jang in a writ of summons dated September 10, told the court that the lawmaker, Ibrahim Baba-Hassan in the state House of Assembly, defamed him in a publication […]

Military authorities have arraigned 25 officers and 92 soldiers in Jos, Plateau State, over offences committed during counter-insurgency operations in the Northeastern part of the country. The soldiers brought from 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, Maiduguri Borno State, are being court-martialed on the authority of General Officer Commanding the 1 Division Nigerian Army Kaduna. […]

Men of the Plateau State Police Command on Tuesday foiled a reprisal attack on Rukuba community in Bassa Local Government Area of the state by their Irigwe neigbours, over alleged killing of an elderly Rukuba woman and 10 others by suspected gunmen from Irigwe.The incident was said to have exacerbated the communal rift between the […]

A group under the aegis of Conference of Autochthonous Ethnic Nationalities Community Development Associations has appealled to the Federal Government to establish National Commission for the Protection of the Rights of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples. CONAECDA said the commission shall have the power to enforce the individual and collective rights of ethnic, religious and […]

News reaching ViewPOintNigeria indicates that a current schedule of primary elections for the Plateau State Chapter of the PDP for the 8th December may be experiencing rife uncertainty. As a Federal High Court sitting in Jos, has restrained the party and the independent National Electoral Commission from screening and presenting candidates for the governorship elections […]

Further information about how the Plateau PDP primaries transpired at the Rwang Pam stadium has emerged. Discussions with key stakeholders suggest that the intrigues into what actually happen were a lot deeper than initially reported. ViewPointNigeria therefore feels obliged to bring these clarifications to your attention, having already reported on earlier happenings.Firstly, even though a […]

Information reaching our news desk indicates that the Plateau State commissioner for information and communication, Hon Mohammed Abubakar Badu has faulted media reports credited to him, which suggests that Governor Jonah Jang has appointed his son, Yakubu as commissioner of Lands, Survey and Town Planning. Mohammed Badu in a press statement signed and issued in […]