News at ViewPointNigeria News Desk indicates that The Rotary Club of Jos, District 9125, has awarded scholarships to 10 indigent female students of Home Economics Training Institute, Riyom in Plateau. Among the beneficiaries was Miss Selben Kums, an orphan, who was brought to the school by a missionary, who picked her from an abandoned building. […]

Essentially, self-determination is the right of a particular group of people to determine for themselves how and by whom they wish to be governed. Put in another way, it is the right of a people to decide their form of government and their political status. Woodrow Wilson is credited with first using the term, “self-determination” […]

The House of Representatives raised its voice and urged the federal agencies responsible for providing security to intervene and provide succour for victims of violent attacks in Plateau. This was sequel to a motion under matters of national importance by Rep. Edward Pwajok . Moving the motion, Pwajok said that the reoccurring violent clashes in […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said the “madness”in Plateau State which led to recent killings of at least 20 people had gone too far. He has therefore instructed the military and the police to bring the violence to an instant end. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, disclosed […]

Gentlemen of the Press. ​The entire Irigwe Nation in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State wishes to let the world know that since the gruesome attack on Ncha Village on the 7th September, 2017, where more than twenty people were killed, mostly women and children and houses razed, Rigwe land has not known peace. […]

PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY, PLATEAU STATE. 10th October 2017. PRESS RELEASE The Leadership of the People’s Democratic Party has noted with dismay the continued killings in some parts of Bassa Local Government despite the imposition of the dusk to dawn curfew in the area. This is a disdainful challenge to the authority of […]

By Nanmwa Golok Plateau state Governor Simon Lalong, has said that the federal , state government and security operatives are working to ensure that the prepatrators of the Bassa killings are arrested and brought to book. Lalong made this known on Tuesday while speaking on an on the spot visit to Bassa and a visit […]

The former Speaker of Plateau State House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Istifanus Caleb Mwansat has condemned in the strongest possible terms the spate of killings by yet to be identified gun men in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau state. In a message made available to ViewPoint Nigeria through his personal assistant on media Satmak […]

Government is made and by who? If I will give the answer, it’s by those in the past who have made the government what it’s. Government is personified in the leader and who made the leaders. We’ve the generals who the ghosts of terrorism can fear but since they’re in shelves or archives, the assailants […]

Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong on Thursday in Jos appealed to the Nigeria Football Federation to lift the 10-year ban placed on Plateau United Feeder Team for match-fixing. Lalong, who was represented by the Commissioner for Sports, Danladi Mann, made the appeal at the opening ceremony of NFF’s 2017 Annual General Assembly. The NFF in […]