Information reaching ViewPointNigeria indicates that operatives of the Department for Security Services have this evening swooped-on and tried to arrest Prophet Isa El-Buba, founder of the Evangelical Bible Outreach Ministries International –head quartered in Jos, Plateau state. It was unclear why men of the DSS have sought to arrest Rev. El-Buba, but many […]

The Nigeria Police has been asked to arrest and investigate the National President of the Fulani Nationality Movement, Badu Salisu Ahmadu and her entire Executive. In a press release by the National Coordinator of United Young Professionals in Abuja on Sunday in Abuja, Adewole Kehinde said the deliberations of the group on the State […]

Ishaku and Ishaya Pam were barely two years old when their father, Lt. Col James Yakubu Pam, was abducted by soldiers in the early hours of January 15, 1966. In this heart-rending interview with  Plateau correspodent  Golok Nanmwa  , Ishaya, a former two-term Chief Medical Director of Jos University Teaching Hospital and Associate Professor of […]

Bitrus Kaze, the highly respected ex-Lawmaker who represented Jos-South/Jos East in the 6th  and 7th Assemblies has hailed Governor for owning up and apologising for his earlier comments about the killings in Benue state. Expressing his thoughts, the ex-lawmaker said “that a Nigerian politician of Governor Lalong’s ranking can muster the courage to own up and publicly […]

Following the release of two press statements by Governor Jang’s media consultant, Mr Clinton Garuba, calling on Governor Lalong to apologise to the people of Benue over his statement about Governor Ortom, Mr Samuel Emmanuel Nanle – the Director or Press and Public Affairs to Governor Lalong has fired a salvo at Mr Garuba – […]

The umbrella body of cattle breeders in the country, the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, has said the anti-open grazing law in Benue State Government, aimed at regulating cow grazing in the state, must be modified for peace to reign in the state. The Secretary-General of the association, Usman Ngelzerma, said this during an interview […]

Northern Intellectuals on Peace, Security and Governance writes president Buhari on Insecurity Pastoralist-Farmers Conflicts and the Search for Peaceful Resolution Memorandum by the Nigerian Working Group on Peace Building and Governance Abuja, 8th January 2018 Executive Summary Pastoralists-farmers’ conflicts in Nigeria have grown, spread and intensified over the past decade and today poses a threat […]

Hon. Istifanus Dung Gyang is the Member Representing Barkin Ladi/Riyom Federal Constituency in the Federal House of Representatives Abuja, he is also the Vice chairman House Committee on Basic Education in this interview with Viewpoint Reporter PAM MOSES in Jos, the Lawmaker expressed dissatisfaction with the exclusion of Plateau State projects in the 2018 Budget […]

The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has described the recent killings in Logo and Guma Local Government Areas of Benue State as a communal crisis. The police helmsman said this in an interview with State House correspondents on Friday after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. Idris noted that he was at the Aso […]