Sequel to Governor Lalong’s address to pressmen at the Presidential Villa Abuja today, after a parley with President Muhammadu Buhari, the governor has clarified statements he made with regards warning the governor of Benue state not to implement an anti-grazing law. Full text of his press statement, signed by the director of press and public […]

    DIRECTORATE OF PRESS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS PLATEAU STATE GOVERNMENT HOUSE. ============== PRESS RELEASE. BENUE KILLINGS: LET NIGERIANS NOT SPIT ON THE GRAVE OF THE VICTIMS. The Executive Governor of Plateau State Rt Hon Simon Bako Lalong has expressed serious displeasure at the manner in which reports making the rounds on social media and […]

  .. It will be recalled that youths from the 17 LGAs of Plateau State were mobilized by PYC and trained by the government through Plateau Micro Finance Development Agency , into vocational training and skills acquisition, which climaxed with an entrepreneurial and value re-orientation training and graduation ceremony held at Crest Hotel in December […]

Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong says he had advised his Benue counterpart, Sam Ortom, against implementing the anti-grazing law. Lalong said this in an interview with State House correspondents shortly today after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. Recently, herdsmen had reportedly killed scores of people in Benue State. According to Lalong, it is not only […]

President Buhari has fails to his Responsibility, Defenseless Christians will defend themselves, says TEKAN President. By Pam Moses The President of Tarayyar Ekklisiyoyin Kristi a Nijeriya, which has a fellowship of about 30million members from over 15 denominational Churches Rev. Dr. Caleb Ahima has warn that the defenseless Nigerian Christians may be tempted to […]

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari to learn from history and stop treating killer herdsmen with kid gloves. Soyinka also described incessant attacks by killer herdsmen, in many parts of the country, as a declaration of war on Nigeria. The Nobel laureate made this known in a statement yesterday. Soyinka specifically […]

SK Usman, Abuja: Troops of Nigerian Army on internal security operations deployed at Akwanga highway Nasarawa State, today Wednesday 10th January 2018, arrested a suspected gun runner, Mohammed Bello, in an Opel Vectra Saloon Car with the fabricated guns heading to Saminaka to link up with his gang leader Damina Saminaka. During preliminary interrogation the […]

COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF A ONE-DAY ROUNDTABLE ON PEACE AND SECURITY SITUATION IN PLATEAU STATE BY THE PLATEAU STATE PEACE BUILDING AGENCY AND OFFICIALS OF PLATEAU STATE YOUTH COUNCIL Preamble: A one-day roundtable discussion was held with officials of the Plateau Youth Council at the instance of the Plateau Peace […]

It was a beautiful Saturday morning, yes very beautiful. Actually you rarely have a bad morning in the city of Jos. The weather was chill as usual but i would be embarking on a trip to Shendam, a town about 2 hours drive away from Jos. My friend Hyginus had proposed the trip to make […]