A Lagos high court has sentenced an Iranian Azim Aghajani who was accused of importing sophisticated arms and ammunition into Nigeria. Aghajani was arrested when the discovery was made in concealed containers at a Lagos port by the Nigerian Customs Service in October 2010. Rockets and explosives were said to be hidden in 13 containers […]

The people of Plateau North senatorial district have rejected the 6 year single term proposal of the Senate for the President and Governors. Also rejected was the financial autonomy to the State Houses of Assembly. The resolution was taken on Tuesday in Jos at the end of a one day deliberation organised by the Senator […]

THE Plateau State House of Assembly has launched a probe on the whereabouts of over N5 billion suspected to be missing from the government’s account. The said N5 billion was the state’s share of the subsidy reinvestment programme known as SURE-P fund received by the Governor Jonah Jang-led administration between January 2012 till date. The […]

Reports reaching ViewPointNigeria news desk indicates that three persons have been killed at Kuka village in Shendam Local Government Area of Plateau. It was reliably gathered that the three were killed while working on their farms. The assailants launched an attack on the unsuspecting persons who were cultivating yams behind the Kuka market. count | […]

Former members of the Plateau state house of assembly have made an appeal to the Plateau state Governor Da Jonah Jang to pay them their outstanding salaries totalling N22 million. Six former members and three current members of the assembly who were affected stated that their salaries were stopped when they decamped to Labour Party […]

Former Plateau State Governor, Fidelis Tapgun, has said that he declined to contest the 1999 governorship election under the PDP in the state for the sake of unity. He then faulted insinuation making rounds that he once governed the state, saying it was during the illegal military democracy. In a chat with Royal Times, he […]

As part of ViewPointNigeria’s efforts to profile prominent politicians ahead of 2015, we caught up with Senator GNS Pwajok to discuss the state of affairs in the Plateau political scene, allegations of financial impropriety levelled against the Jang administration and a sundry of other issues. Below are excerpts of the discussion. VPN: Unlike other states […]

News reaching ViewPointNigeria indicates that an umbrella group under the auspices of the All Progressives Congress, tagged the APC Integrity Group, consisting of youths and women in Plateau State has unananimously supported the National Secretariat of the APC over the annulment of the election of Latep Dabang as APC Chairman of Plateau State. It would […]