Following the spate of killings in Benue, Plateau, Southern Kaduna, Taraba, Ogun, Abia, Ekiti, Rivers, Delta, Enugu etc and the attendant silence of the Nigerian Government and Security Services to the plight of local farmers, Nigerians who are resident in the UK are encouraged to attend a protest at the Nigerian High Commission Tomorrow at […]

By Golok Nanmwa, Jos  The Executive Director DUNCAN Group of Companies Mr. Bawa Larry Peters at the weekend said that the Jos inland container deport on completion would provide employment for about 5 000 persons. Peter’s made this known , in Jos in an interview after conducting Journalists round the Jos Inland dry Port. He […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]