The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project urged President Muhammadu Buhari to ban the purchase of new cars for the Presidency and ministers. It made the appeal in an open letter addressed to the President dated May 16 and signed by its deputy director, Kolawole Oluwadare. The group asked President Buhari to use his leadership […]

Madagascar on Sunday reported the first death of a patient suffering from novel coronavirus nearly two months after it was first detected in the country, official statistics showed. The Indian ocean island which has reported 304 cases has hit the headlines over a home-grown herbal concoction that President Andry Rajoelina claims can cure people infected […]

Angered by the statement credited to him, former President Goodluck Jonathan, Saturday disowned the purported report saying he did not make any speech for or against Biafra. Disclosing this in a statement signed by his spokesperson, Ikechukwu Eze, Jonathan opined, “Our attention has been drawn to a fake story with the title, ‘Why Niger Deltans […]

PLATEAU STATE POLICE COMMAND PRESS RELEASE Police operatives arrested a suspected kidnapper, recovered one AK 47 riffle, 29 rounds of live ammunition and rescue of two kidnapped victims. Gentle men of the pen profession, as part of our core mandate to protect lives and properties, the Plateau State Police Command has recorded some milestones of […]

The Federal Government on Thursday announced that it was creating micro-distribution centres where users of cooking gas would access the commodity at affordable rates and rent cylinders. It also disclosed that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and other oil marketers would start installing Compressed Natural Gas pumps at filling stations in order to make Nigerians […]

Nigeria has recorded 288 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 5,445. Announcing the new development on Friday night, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said the country recorded the new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. The NCDC also said that four new […]

The crises rocking the Plateau State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party yesterday took a new dimension with the emegenced of a parallel Caretaker Committee. The factional Caretaker Committee led by former Governorship Aspirant and former member of the Plateau State House of Assembly, Hon. Nandom Penap Exodus has Hon. Engr. Godwin W. Bedir, […]

Plateau State government has refuted a claim by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC that the State has five additional cases of COVID-19 disease as at Thursday, the 14th saying it was only 1 new case that was recorded as the remaining four were repeated cases which were mistaken for fresh ones. The State […]

Reactions have continued to trail the killing of a 20-year-old undergraduate Rinji Bala on Tuesday evening by personnel of the Operation Safe Haven in Jos. Although the Operation Safe Haven through its Media Officer, Major Ibrahim Shittu has tried to explain the inexcusable action, the State Government, Simon Lalong has ordered a probe and punishment […]