By Golok Nanmwa, Jos Plateau state government on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding with a company, Hospital Assist Nigeria Ltd to improve the health services of the Plateau specialist Hospital and also to rescue the health sector of the state. Speaking while signing the agreement, the commissioner of health in Plateau Dr . […]

Plateau opens bid for redevelopment of Jos main market  By Golok Nanmwa, Jos Plateau state government on Thursday opened   bid for the redevelopment  and enhancing of the Jos main market . Speaking at the occasion the commissioner of commerce in Plateau Eziekel Daju who was represented by the Permanent secretary of the ministry Mr […]

The Northern Elders Forum has appointed Sani Daura as its interim National Chairman after its former leader, Paul Unongo, resigned. The forum said it made the appointment after reviewing critical national developments, particularly tension around national security punctuated by killings in many communities in Benue, Taraba, Adamawa, Kaduna, Zamfara and other parts of the country. […]

Ibadan – The Yoruba Council of Elders on Thursday in Ibadan rejected the proposed cattle colonies by the President Muhammadu Buhari led All Progressives Congress Federal Government. Speaking with newsmen in Ibadan on Thursday at the end of the 26th national executive council meeting of the group, the Yoruba elders expressed surprise that […]

Search for Common Ground, a leading conflict transformation and peacebuilding INGO, today opened what is bound to be a site of diverse interventions in the herders-farmers conflict raging in Nigeria with a Media Roundtable at which peace practitioners rejected break-up of Nigeria for whatever reasons even as they confronted startling statistical details of the crisis. […]

Today Friday 19th January 2017 saw the Northern Governors Forum pay a condolence visit to Benue state to condole governor Samuel Ortom and the people of the state for the recent spate of attacks that killed over 73 people. In the delegation was Governor Simon Lalong, the Chairman of the Northern Governor’s Forum (Governor Kashim […]

Dr Velle Lohdip, the Acting Chief Medical Director, Plateau State Hospitals Management Board, said on Friday that the board generated N144 million revenue in 2017. Lohdip gave the figure at the defence of the board’s 2018 budget, before the state House of Assembly Standing Committee on Health in Jos. According to him, the amount was […]

The Federal Government says work will commence next week on cattle colonies in states that has indicated interest to establish them. Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, disclosed this on Friday during a visit to the Agriculture and Veterinary Complex of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Ogbeh said that the National […]

A former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has warned that Nigeria should not turn its back on the clamour for restructuring. Mr. Obasanjo spoke on Friday at a Convocation Lecture organised by the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN. He said the university has set the pace for the discussion on restructuring. The former president is among […]

The controversies and unease between the Association of Resident Doctors of Jos University Teaching Hospital and its management came up again when the former staged a protest at the premises of the institution demanding the immediate removal of the Chief Medical Director , Edmund Banwat, as his four-year tenure has elapsed. The association […]