Information available to ViewPointNigeria indicates that two residents of Wereng-Berom were reportedly ambushed and killed last night at Kum-Wereng village of Barkin Ladi LGA. The two were declared missing yesterday evening, having not returned from a short trip on their motorcycle – until a search party discovered their corpses within nearby bushes. Cuts on their […]

For the second time in two weeks, staff of Jos University Teaching Hospital , have protested the alleged refusal of the Chief Medical Director, Professor Edmund Banwat, to address the contending issues militating against the smooth operation of the hospital. The latest protest by the Nurses and Midwives is coming after resident doctors at the […]

A former governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang, has called on his successor and incumbent governor, Simon Lalong, to suspend his foreign trips and work to tackle the growing insecurity in the state. Jang, representing Plateau North in the Senate, was reacting to the Tuesday’s shooting of nine persons at Rim Diyan community junction in […]

Berom Educational and Cultural Organization has petitioned the United Nations, and African Commission of Human and People’s Rights to intervene over the killing of the Berom kinsmen and other indigenous Plateau people, who have become constant objects of attack by suspected Fulani herdsmen. In a petition signed by the groups General Secretary, Mr. Davou […]

A 28-year-old businessman, Abdullahi Mohammed, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for sexual abuse of three boys. Mohammed was sentenced on Friday following his arraignment at a Jos Upper Area Court. According to the Prosecutor, Sgt Ibrahim Gukwat, the incident took place on Oct. 22. Gukwat said that the accused had been in police […]

The Jos Metropolitan Development Board says it will commence demolition of 400 illegal structures built under high tension electricity lines in the state. The General Manager of the board, Mr Matthias Hata, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Jos on Thursday that the houses had already been marked for the exercise which […]

The House of Representatives Member for Barkin Ladi/Riyom Federal Constituency, Barr. I. D. Gyang has condemned in strong terms the unabated attacks in his constituency following the attack in which nine persons were gruesomely murdered and three fatally injured by armed militias. He termed the attackers “blood thirsty killers” and “terror militias” Here is the […]