A report submitted by five agencies stated that about 135 persons were killed and over 12,050 others displaced as a result of attacks and communal crisis in Plateau state. The National Emergency Agency , Plateau State Emergency Management Agency , Nigeria Red Cross Society, Nigeria Police Force and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps […]

As I sit to ponder the above theme, I couldn’t contain the pain ravaging me. At a time when the good people of plateau are beginning to heave a sigh of relief following the wave of peace blowing across the state, Wednesday the 26th of June 2013, saw another release of “hells fury” on the […]

BORNO—Unconfirmed reports reaching us suggests that sheikh Abubakar Shekau, leader of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has reportedly been shot and deposed by members of his own sect, Boko Haram.A new leader, Abu Zamira Mohammed, who is the sect’s leader negotiating with the federal government has been appointed new leader by the group’s Shura […]

The Nigerian State Security Service have confirmed the arrest of five suspected Boko Haram members including their spiritual leader. The arrested men, who all hail from Kogi state and attended Islamic schools are Muhammad Nazeef, Umar Musa, Mustapha Yusuf, Ismaila Abdulazez, and Ibrahim Isah, were paraded publicly before the press after their arrest. Muhammad […]

Bamanga Tukur says the vacuum created by the death of Mr. Lar will be difficult to fill because Mr. Lar “was an emancipator of the less privileged and a democrat of repute”. Gov. Jonah Jang of Plateau on Friday in Abuja, renamed the Plateau State University after Solomon Lar, the late first executive Governor of the […]

The Plateau Government says it will spend two billion naira to restock the 30-years-old Jos Wild Life Park. A state commissioner for one of the key portfolios, Abraham Yiljap, made the disclosure in an interview in Jos on Sunday. Yiljap said the step would address the park’s declining fortunes and patronage following years of neglect […]

Gov. Jonah Jang of Plateau State on Tuesday announced the appointment of Mr Simon Jok as his Special Adviser on Rural Transformation. A statement signed by Mr James Mannok, Director of Press Affairs, also announced the appointment of Mr Moses Tangsan as the Special Adviser on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs to the governor. It […]

As permutations and political pacts/alliances continue to be made ahead of the 2015 gubernatorial polls. Fresh facts emerging from Jos suggests that the Former Director General of the Industrial Training Fund , Prof. Lognmas Sambo Wapmuk may be at advanced stages of oiling his campaign machineries. The Shendam born former ITF boss is now showing […]

Relations between Plateau state government and the state’s legislators are reportedly not at their smoothest at the moment. The source of this disagreement is a petition written by a group known as the Plateau Patriotic Front, which accused the state government of financial impropriety in the utilization of SURE-P funds. Activities at the state house of […]