Two suspects, 28-year-old Shuaibu Samaila, and Bashiru Mohammed, 26, have been remanded by a Jos Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama, for alleged rape of two sisters. Their charges were criminal conspiracy and rape. Presiding judge, Yahaya Mohammed, turned down their bail application. The police prosecutor, D. Francis, had earlier told the court that […]

A pastor kidnapped in Nigeria has been released after five days, Christian leaders have told Morning Star News. Rev Jen Tivkaa Moses, kidnapped by young Fulani men on 4th August on the highway from Jos to Abuja in Plateau state, was brought back to Jos at about 1 am on Wednesday, according to a statement from […]

The Plateau Government is to pay N1.57 billion as severance allowance to sacked councillors in the 17 Local Government Areas of the state, following a court judgment which faulted their dissolution in 2015. Mr Gyang Zi, lawyer to the councillors, who made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on […]

THE Peoples Democratic Party, Plateau State Chapter, has accuses All Progressive Congress led administration in wasteful spending saying the administration in the past two years had borrowed the sum of N42 billion without anything to show for it. Even as Governor Simon Lalong has described the statement of PDP as a ranting of political party […]

No fewer than 10 people have died, while 7, 342 others were reported displaced by flooding in Plateau between May and July this year. This was disclosed in Jos by the Executive Secretary of the Plateau State Emergency Agency , Hassan Barde, on Friday. According to him, 832 villages were submerged while 1,153 houses were […]

Apprehension has taken over the National Headquarters of Evangelical Church Winning All following the abduction of its Christian Education Director, Rev. Jen Moses, by gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen. Although the details of the incident were still sketchy, ViewPointNigeria learnt that he was kidnapped on Friday evening between Jere and Bwari on the […]