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VSF donates N30m to Plateau victims of insurgency

C Mac October 14, 2015

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The federal government-supported Victims Support Fund yesterday donated N30 million to two health facilities handling victims of crises, especially insurgency in Plateau State. VSF donated N20million to the Jos University Teaching Hospital and N10million to the Plateau Specialist Hospital during a visit of the group led by its Executive Director, Professor Sunday Ochoche. […]

WAEC/SSCE: Plateau reduces examination centres to curtail examination malpractice

C Mac November 16, 2013

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News reaching us suggests that the Plateau state Government on Friday has said it would reduce the number of external examination centres in private secondary schools as part of effort to check examination malpractices. Making this known, the Commissioner for Education, Mr. Nanle Dashen, while receiving officials of the West African Examination Council , said […]

War against terror: Nigeria tells USA to stop training its military

C Mac December 1, 2014

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The Nigeria Government has halted the training of its military by the United State military. This is coming at the backdrop of a strained relationship between both countries when the United States refused to sell modern warfare weapons to Nigeria. The US embassy in Nigeria released a statement said “we regret the termination of this […]

War on terror: US court finds Abu Hamza guilty of terror charges

C Mac May 19, 2014

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Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza has been found guilty by a New York court of supporting terrorism. He was accused of conspiring to aid organisations like al-Qaeda. The court heard the 56-year-old aided the kidnappers of 16 tourists in Yemen in 1998 and attempted to build a terror training camp in Oregon in the US. […]

Warning Graphic Photos: 7 final year students of the University of Jos among those killed in Jos Bomb Blast

C Mac May 22, 2014

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PEOPLE of Jos, the capital of Plateau State, on Wednesday, continued to lament losses to the twin bomb blasts of Tuesday, as they besieged various health institutions in the state capital to look for their loved ones. It was gathered that seven students of Medical Laboratory Science of the University of Jos were caught up […]

Warning of more floods to come in Jos – Nigerian Meteorological Agency

C Mac September 12, 2013

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Nigeria Meteorological Agency has issued a warning to residents of Jos and other states including Bauchi, Gombe and Kaduna states to prepare for additional incidents of flooding in the coming weeks as heavy rain continue into the month of September. Addressing a news conference in Abuja, the Director General of the Nigeria Meteorological Agency, […]

Warning of terrorist attacks in Africa issued

C Mac December 18, 2013

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World leaders have been called to pay more attention to the sub-Saharan threat from al-Qaeda, a former head of the British armed forces has warned. General Sir David Richards who was the chief of defence staff from 2010 to July 2013 said Britain needed to learn from what it had done “and failed to do”. […]

Warring Mwaghavul and Fulani Communities reconcile, bury their differences

C Mac February 9, 2015

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In a step widely applauded as exemplary, the warring Fulani and Mwaghavul communities in Mangu, Plateau, have reconciled their differences and contributed food items for victims of the recent violence in the state. The violence broke out between the two communities in January, leading to loss of lives as well as destruction of properties. Those […]

Was President Buhari’s appointments based on competency or ethnicity?

C Mac September 6, 2015

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There is no doubt that the appointments made so far by President Muhammadu Buhari has continued to generate controversy. Antagonists of the President’s appointments have accused the president of considering people from the northern part of the country at the expense of the southern part. Prominent ethnic, socio and political groups including; Ohanaeze, Afenifere, Odu’a […]

Wase violence escalates -two killed and several others injured

C Mac January 29, 2013

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The communual clashes which erupted last week in Watada district of Wase Local Government Council in the Southern senatorial district of Plateau State has further spilled into Lamba Wakat district of the Local Government. A source from the community confirmed that two persons were killed, while dozens of others were injured and displaced from their […]

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