Officials from the police department has praised the work of Plateau State police comand in reducing the amount of bloodshed in Riyom, Plateau State. Police Superintendent, Babayemi Akomolede revealed that the police did not ignore the warnings by communities in Riyom Local Government Area of suspected terrorist activities in the region. “The police did not […]

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 Gov. Jonah Jang has advised residents in the state to come out en mass to collect their Permanent Voters Cards whenever INEC started issuing the cards. Jang made the call in Jos on Thursday at a stakeholders’ forum organised by INEC to herald the distribution of the PVCs . The governor urged those […]

Barely six weeks to the governorship primaries in Plateau State, the battle to replace Governor Jonah Jang has continued to heat up, as Dr. Haruna Dabin, who is the immediate past PDP Chairman of the State officially declares his intension to run for the governorship seat of the State, come 2015. Dabin said, “The 7th, […]

Ex-Plateau State Governor, Joshua Dariye, and former Deputy Governor of the state, Mrs Pauline Tallen, have taken nomination forms to run for senatorial elections in Plateau central and Southern senatorial zones of the state. They want to contest on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party . The duo, chieftains of Labour Party in […]

New reaching ViewPointNigeria suggests that a 34-year-old man from Rim, who was sent to dig a grave for the burial of someone who had died earlier, was ambushed and killed whilst digging the grave, in the early hours of Tuesday in Rim, Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau, a lawmaker in the area said. The […]

News reaching ViewPointNigeria from our source in Barkin Ladi confirms that women have taken over the main Mangu-Barkin Ladi road, protesting the killing of an Operation Rainbow personnel by the local STF personnels stationed in the area.  At the time of filing this report it remained unclear why the Operation Rainbow personnel was killed or […]

Tick tick tick tick tick……….. is the sound of the clock counting down to the much coveted PDP primaries tomorrow – Monday 8th December 2014! Candidates are making their final passionate appeals to delegates. Delegates are consulting the people to decide how to lean, and entire people of Plateau are waiting […]