Brig.-Gen. Benjamin I Ahanotu has assumed office as the acting General Officer Commanding 3 Division of the Nigerian Army in Jos, Plateau state. Brig.-Gen. Ahanotu who was transferred from Armed Forces Simulation Centre, Jaji, Kaduna State took over from Major General Peter J Dauke who was transferred to 81 Division of Nigerian Army in […]

Governor Simon Lalong has accented to an estimate of N139,494,308,256.00 as the 2017 Appropriate law for Plateau State with an assurance to complete the ongoing projects. The Governor shortly after signing the Appropriation bill on Wednesday said the budget was prepared to address critical needs of governance aimed at building confidence in government adding that the emphasis […]

The Duk Community in Pankshin Local Government of Plateau has closed-up the well where four youths drowned on April 19. The community also banned visiting irrigation farmers from the village. According to its leader, Andrew Damulak, banning the visiting farmers will save the community from “more mysterious deaths”. The News Agency of Nigeria , recalls […]

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has scolded the Distribution Companies saying their poor remittance nearly collapsed power generation before the N701.9 billion intervention fund from the Central Bank of Nigeria . Fashola said this on Monday at the 15th monthly meeting of power sector operators at the National Integrated Power […]

The Plateau Government on Monday said it would train 17,000 youths on various skills in the 17 local government areas of the state. The Commissioner for Sports and Youth Development, Danladi Mann, disclosed this in Jos when Mr Henry Yunkwap, the Majority Leader of the State Assembly paid him a courtesy visit in Jos. According […]

A military Special Task Force , the Police and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps yesterday averted a bloody clash in two communities in Plateau State. Trouble started when some indigenes of Afizere of the state removed a signboard mounted by the Anaguta tribe, which showed that the community now has its paramount ruler. […]

Eighty-two-year- old Sunday Fehintola said he graduated from Government Science School , Kuru, Plateau State in 1954 and till date has strong attachment to the school by visiting it often even in his old age. He made the comment shortly after the old boys’ association donated classroom furniture to the school recently. Established in 1941, […]