Plateau State Commissioner for Information and Communication Mr Dan Manjang has announced that the state will resume a total lockdown from midnight Sunday despite the Sallah public holiday. He said the presidential order on curfew between 8 pm to 6 am daily is still in place and said security agencies have been directed to enforce […]

Plateau State Governor and Chairman Northern Governor Forum has rejoice with Muslims as they mark this year Eid-el-Fitr under unusual conditions occasion by the coronavirus pandemic. Lalong who spoke in a statement by his Director of Press and Public Affairs, Dr. Makut Simon Machan, congratulated them for successfully undertaking and concluding the Ramadan fast thereby […]

The factional Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party Plateau State said it will not allowed a group who constituted themselves into factional Caretaker Committee of the party to distract their efforts towards taken over power in 2023. Chairman of the factional State Caretaker Committee, Hon. Yakubu Gwott Chocho disclosed this when the party […]

The Nigerian Military today said it has killed at least 135 armed bandits during air-raids across Katsina and Zamfara states.According to a statement signed by a military spokesman, Major General, John Enenche, the air raids, executed by the air component of Operation Hadarin Daji, took place between May 20 and 22.The military said it also […]

The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has disclosed that the Federal Government is already making plans to reopen schools nationwide but it won’t happen in two weeks as being speculated in some quarters.Speaking during the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Thursday, Nwajiuba said there was no exact date […]

The Plateau state Joint Technical Task Team on Emergency Response to COVID-19 on challenges of movement of food and agricultural inputs has warned transporters against conveying illicit items and passengers.Plateau state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Edward Ebuka, who is the task force chairman, gave the warning at the inauguration of the committee in Jos.Ebuka, who […]

Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, burst into tears on Thursday as he decried the tax burden on low-income earners in the state. “This is not Ben Ayade, this is not my nature,” the Governor said. “I am not wired for this insensitivity to a weaker person. I never knew that five years into office […]

Ahead of Eid-el-Fitr celebration, the Sultan of Sokoto-led Jama’atu Nasril Islam, JNI, has directed Muslims in Nigeria to pray at home with their families on Sallah day, as the eid prayer congregation remained suspended, due to the rampaging and highly contagious coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic.Secretary–General of JNI, Dr. Khalid Aliyu, said, in a statement, yesterday, that […]

Nigeria’s Finance Minister, has said that the country may go into recession due to the slowing down of economic activities as shown in an assessment by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics.She made the prediction while speaking after the National Economic Council meeting on Thursday. She said, “The National Bureau of Statistics has made an assessment. […]

The President, Muhammadu Buhari has approved the termination of the appointment of Prof Charles Uwakwe as the Registrar and Chief Executive of the National Examinations Council.The President also dismissed four members of the management for various offences bordering on financial impropriety.Uwakwe had been suspended since May 2018 by the Federal Government over alleged financial mismanagement […]