Monday 25th February 2013 – Report reaching ViewPointNigeria suggests that unknown gunmen have killed the mobile police commander in charge of Area 9 of Kano State, SP Dahiru Musa. It was confirmed that the commander was returning home from duty, when unidentified gunmen who were on his trail, came up at close range and openned fire […]

Staff of F.C.E Pankshin in Plateau State, have since January 9th, 2013, embarked on an indefinite strike action demanding the return of over 200 million Naira of cooperative money which was used to augment their salaries. It was learnt that the monies were illegally cornered by the Provost and Bursar, without the consent of cooperative […]

Friday 8th March 2013 – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency command in Plateau State has announced, that it impounded a truck loaded with several kilogrammes of cannabis – up to 72kg. The commandant of the agency, Dr. Ngozi Madubuike, told newsmen that the truck was loaded with approximately 400 bags of Dangote sugar […]

Experts have provided solutions that will end the on-going violence engulfing the state. This was disclosed at the end of a two-day workshop for Economic and Peace Development for Plateau state that was held in Jos the state capital. Participants from the economic sector, media, religious and community leadership took part in the workshop held […]

Nigerian Minister of Finance who is also the coordinating minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has stated that that nation’s external debt stood at $6.67 billion which is 3 per cent of Gross Domestic Product, GDP. She said that the country spent $8.0429 billion in 2006 to service external debt and […]

News just into the ViewPointNigeria newsdesk suggests that the shares of te Jos International Brewery PLC has continued to gain in the equities market. This would be second consecutive week that the shares have appreciated so may be an attactive option for investors. The stock gained 43.21 per cent to close at N1.16 during the […]

News reaching ViewPointNigeria this week indicates that the Plateau Government has confirmed that it has generated approximately N3.96 billion from internal revenue sources for the first half of 2013 . The news was broken by Samuel Pam on Monday 26th August when he spoke […]

Far from the usual lackadaisical attitude associated with the execution of contracts in Nigeria, the Federal Government sponsored Almajiri Education Programme is witnessing speedy delivery on projects across the 19 northern states with the exemption of Plateau State. The first phase of the project hoped to remodel and integrate Qur’anic learning system which, over […]

News reaching ViewPointNigeria from the Debt Management Office indicates that Plateau is one of the three states in the federation with the lowest external debt . The external debt of the state was estimated to stand at $21.934 million as at December 31 2012 -this very modest […]

The Plateau State Government has expressed dissatisfaction that the mining and exploration activities of the 1950s, 60s and 70s in the state were very extensive, but that no meaningful compensation has been paid to the state coffers in respect of the damage done.  The state commissioner of Minerals Development, Mr Adabok Zandi, stated this […]