Lagos command dismisses nine policemen The Lagos State Police Command on Tuesday said it had dismissed nine policemen found culpable of various offences. Twenty five other cops were reportedly demoted for offences bordering on gross insubordination, incivility and drunkenness, among others. According to a statement by the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chike Oti, […]

The Wase Fulani Consultative Forum on Western Education in the troubled Plateau State, has scheduled its maiden Cultural Day, known as Nyalde Pulaku, for Saturday, January 6, aimed, among others, at strengthening mutual coexistence with other ethnic groups in the area. A statement by the President of Wase Fulani Consultative Forum on Western Education, Comrade […]

Motivational speaker and leadership coach, Fela Durotoye, has shared his perspective about the leadership structure of Nigeria and the 2019 general elections. Durotoye who is also a presidential aspirant, stated on Tuesday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, that “Money will fail in 2019”. This according to him, is because “people are now […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]