Senator Gyang Pwajok, yesterday, in Jos called for trauma management centres to assist victims of the protracted violence in Plateau North. Pwajok, who represents Plateau North, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the war-weary victims needed more attention and should not just be abandoned to their fates. “It is a huge regret that the victims […]

REGARDING the race for 2015, Plateau State seems very quiet. In fact, Governor Jonah David Jang, who bestrides the state like a colossus seems to have conquered and pocketed the state. Remnants of scattered groups in opposition parties are not offering alternatives clues. There are still some in the opposition, who are not too sure, […]

Data from the Plateau State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, made available to ViewPointNigeria, indicates that no fewer than 157 people have died in road accidents in the three months period starting from July to September 2013 in the state. This figure is a significant increase over the same period in 2012, […]

Traditional and tribal leaders in Plateau have been given an ultimatum to produce the culprits of recent killings in the state. They were also told that they risk arrest if their domains continued to record attacks by unknown gunmen. Plateau state commissioner of Police, Mr Chris Olakpe stated said this at a joint stakeholder’s meeting […]

The Deputy Chairman of the Nigerian Legion, Plateau State council, Captain Jemda Ayuba, has bemoaned the waning welfare of pensioners in the country. He was speaking at the launch of the 2014 Armed Forces Remembrance and Emblem Appeal week that took place at the conference hall of Government house in Jos. The legionnaire said that […]

Abuja – In a unanimous show of cooperation, senators across the political divide yesterday called on the Federal Government to allow the establishment of state police just as the Senate directed four standing committees to probe killings in seven states. Senate mandated its Committees on Security and Intelligence, Defence and Army, Interior and Police Affairs to […]

Soldiers from the One Division of the Nigerian Army in Kaduna have arrested about 18 suspected Fulani herdsmen and recovered several arms including AK47 rifles from them. The suspects were arrested in Laduga village, a Fulani settlement in Kachia Local Government Area in the southern part of Kaduna State. The army stormed the village in the early […]

A startling revelation has been made by concerned citizens of Borno and Yobe, two of the troubled states in North-Eastern Nigeria.Elders in both states are said to have disclosed that Boko Haram militants get supplies delivered to them by helicopter. They also wondered how convoys of vehicles used by the militants could move freely within the […]

Plateau State Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Stephen Barko, has said that the state government would establish 100 hectares of seeds multiplication farms. Barko, who disclosed this in Jos when he presided over a meeting with some officials of the ministry, Plateau Agricultural Development Programme , Fadama III and Cassava Growers Association, Plateau […]