The Government of Plateau State has proposed an estimated budget of N228, 742,602,356.00 for the year 2014 to the State House of Assembly. Governor Jonah Jang who made the presentation described it as “Budget of Continuity and Inclusive Growth IV”. Jang said that “the budget will focus on the completion of on-going projects/programmes and the […]

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 […]

Media reports reaching us indicates that the Plateau state Governor, Da. Jonah Jang may have waded into the current impasse between the President and the CBN Governor Mal. Lamido Sanusi. Speaking on Sunday, the the Governor criticised the CBN Governor over his face-off with the president. Jang –the current factional chairman of the Nigerian Governor’s […]

GENERAL Officers Commanding in Benue, Plateau, Nasarawa, Kaduna and Niger states have started direct supervision of operations in their areas of responsibility states, as troops comb forests in their mission to apprehend members of armed gangs and destroy their enclaves. According to a press release signed by the Director, Defence Information, Major General Chris […]

A group known as the Forum of the Switzerland-based Centre for Human Development has called on Plateau residents to be on alert following the recent Nyanya bomb blast in which scores of people were killed and many others injured. The group stated that there could be a spill over effect in Plateau and warned to […]

News reaching ViewPointNigeria indicates that Mr. Pamson Dagyat, the Statistician General of Plateau state and a native of Kuru, Jos South LGA has built and donated a library to his community. The project was said to have been undertaken in 3 phases –with phase 1 of the development being the building of the library structure […]

As the members of the Nigeria Medical Association enter the second day of their strike, doctors in public hospitals in Plateau State have joined in full compliance to the directives to embark on the indefinite strike. Chairman of the body in Plateau State, Dr Christopher Yilgwan, during a press briefing in Jos, declared that 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 […]

Following rejection of some PDP returnees in Plateau State, the State’s Chapter of the All Progressives Congress said it is prepared to receive the rejected members into their fold. The call was made by the Interim Chairman of the party in the State, Sen. John Shagaya stated this in a chat with journalists in […]