Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has died, his vice-president has announced. Mr Chavez had not appeared in public since he returned to Venezuela last month after cancer treatment in Cuba. An emotional Nicolas Maduro made the announcement on Tuesday evening, flanked by leading Venezuelan political and military leaders. Earlier, he said the 58-year-old Venezuelan leader had […]

The special adviser to the Plateau State Governor on political affairs, Nde Alexander Mwolwus, has explained that it is not the wish of the Jang administration, that caretaker management committees inaugurated a year ago, continue running the seventeen local government councils to this period without elections. In a media briefing with newsmen in Jos, the […]

The Plateau State Government is to re-organize the State Ministry of Finance for greater efficiency and prudent management. Governor Jonah David Jang stated this while on a working visit to the Ministry on Wednesday, 6th February, 2013 at the Joseph Gomwalk Secretariat in Jos. The Governor inspected the server room that provides network connectivity for […]

The police have given the vigilante operating in Plateau power to arrest anyone trying to breach the peace in the State. Plateau State police Commissioner Chris Olakpe empowered the vigilante on Thursday at the inauguration of the Neighbourhood Watch team in Jos. The commissioner said the nod was given to the vigilante so as […]

In an apparent acceptance of defeat in the long standing legal battle between the Plateau State Government and the Sate Chapter of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees , the Governor at the weekend said that the State Government would be willing to settle out of court. It would be remembered that Local Government […]

The senator representing Plateau North, Mr Gyang Pwajok has said that the security system in the country cannot checkmate the insecurity facing the nation. He was speaking at a public lecture to honour Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang who clocked 69. Pwajok while speaking as the Guest lecturer in the event stated that the security […]

There was pandemonium in Kano on Sunday when militants suspected to be Boko Haram shot and killed four people. Sources said the gunmen came in a tricycle and struck at Dakata bus stop shooting before driving away to Dakata Kwaji where two others were shot. The two shot close to a graveyard at Dakata Kwaji […]

News reaching our news desk suggests that seven states in the North declined to sponsor Christian Pilgrims in 2012.The culpable states were listed as Jigawa, Kano, Sokoto, Katsina, Zamfara and Gombe states. This finding was made known when a delegation, led by the CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, submitted its report to President Goodluck Jonathan.The report […]

Plateau state tertiary institution workers currently on strike have criticized the conformation of the committee set up by the State Government to look into areas of disagreements. The workers frowned at the appointment of the committee Chairman; Mr John Daduut whom they claim was part of the problem and so was not expected to be […]

News reaching ViewPointNigeria indicates that the Economic and Financial Crime Commission has arrested and charged six employees of Plateau state civil service. The accused; Simon Dalom alias Iliya Ezekiel, Luka Dapel, Mary Charles Wakkias, Mary Alkali, Esther Gonung and Nanchin Vivian Philibus were in court on Tuesday 19th before Justice Yargata Nimpar of the […]