Plateau Govt  Urge  Parents to be Conscious of Human Traffickers  By Golok Nanmwa Plateau State Commissioner of Woman Affairs and Social Development, Hon. Mrs. Rufina Gurumyen, has urged parents in the state to be conscious of human traffickers who export women abroad for prostitution. Hon. Gurumyen stated this on Tuesday in Jos while receiving Gloria Elisha […]

BENUE, TARABA DEEPEN PARTNERSHIP ON SECURITY By Terna Injua Benue and Taraba States Government have resolved to forge a common front against the reported plot by Fulani pastoralists to takeover lands belonging to indigenous people of the two states. Governors Samuel Ortom of Benue and Architect Darius Ishaku of Taraba gave the assurance today in […]

Report reaching Viewpoint Nigeria has it that persons were killed on Monday 22nd January, 2018 by armed militias suspected to herdsmen in Rikwe Chongu village, Miango district of Bassa LGA, Plateau state. The 3 persons according to a survivor, Sunday Samson were returning from a mining site when they were attacked, Mr. Sunday Samson who […]

Chairman of Plateau State Internal Revenue Service , Mr. Dashe Alart, said the PSIRS generated N10 billion out of the target of N12 billion allocated to them in the 2017 budget. Alart disclosed this, on Wednesday, during a press briefing at the headquarters of Plateau State Internal Revenue Service Jos. According to him, “Out of […]

Reports reaching ViewPointNigeria indicates that three separate attacks were recorded in Plateau state today – Wednesday 24th January 2018. Herdsmen were said to have launched guerilla attacks on farming settlements in Riyom LGA, Bokkos and Bassa . The Jebu-Miango attack was most unfortunate, because it happened only 3 hours after a high […]

About six persons were feared dead and houses razed during two separate attacks by suspected Fulani herdsmen on two communities in Plateau State. But the Plateau State Commissioner of Police, Aide Undie, on Wednesday summoned an emergency meeting of stakeholders in Bassa Riyom and Barkin Ladi Local Government Areas over the incessant cases of killings […]

Strawberry Farming Flourishes in Jos By Vincent A. Yusuf Jos — Increased strawberry farming on the plateau has dispelled previously held belief that it could not be grown in Nigeria. Nigeria has huge potential for strawberry cultivation, thanks to favourable agro-ecological weather conditions. Since the cultivation started few years ago, strawberry has now found love […]

The Gbong Gwom Jos, Dr. Jacob Gyang Buba yesterday paid a condolence visit on Tor Tiv, Prof. James Ortese Iorzua Ayatse of Benue State following gruesome murder of over 72 people by suspected Fulani herdsmen on New Year day. The monarch, who is the Chairman of the Plateau State Council of Chiefs, whose condolence message […]

Information trickling in suggests that communities which were severally attacked by herdsmen in the Northern parts of Plateau may have launched a push back, killing two herdsmen and their cattle. The very unfortunate incident happened on 23rd January 2017 at dusk. Pictures obtained by ViewPointNigeria shows severely mutilated bodies of herdsmen, along with their cattle […]