Gunmen on Saturday evening attacked Lamba Gyambar community of Wase Local Government Area of Plateau State killing six people including a two weeks old baby, residents have said. A resident of the community, Nuhu Musa, narrated to journalists in Jos, the state capital, on Sunday how the gunmen invaded the community. “The attackers took us […]

News reaching ViewPointNigeria suggests that the Plateau State Government is set to train approx. 8,000 Primary and Secondary School teachers in both public and private schools on prevention, control and containment of Ebola Virus Disease. This development was made clear to journalists, by the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Fom Dakwak at the weekend, during the […]

PLATEAU State Governor Jonah David Jang has presented four key areas of prayers to churches and mosques in the state ahead of the 2015 general election in the state. Jang presented the prayer points when he received the National President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria , Dr. Felix Omobude, at the Government House Rayfield, […]

Politicians whose relationship with Governor Jang has strained and have therefore formed a coalition to stop him from passing on the mantle of leadership to Senator GNS Pwajok, have again sent warning shots to the PDP national headquarters, arguing that PDP risks losing Plateau, should the Governor succeed with his plans at the coming PDP […]

Ahead of the 2015 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission has redeployed its Resident Electoral Commissioners in the 36 states of the federation and Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. As has been the norm, each REC has been posted to a state other than his state of origin but within his geopolitical […]

Gov Jonah Jang of Plateau on Wednesday called on Nigerians to imbibe the spirit of forgiveness in the New Year. This is contained in New Year message issued by his Director of Publicity, Mr James Mannok, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Jos. According to the statement, there is need […]

Ahead of the 2015 gubernatorial election, a Coalition of Youths from Plateau Southern Senatorial District of Plateau State have declared their support for the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress Barr Simon Lalong in the State. The youths insist they will replace PDP with APC in the state since PDP has decided to […]

On the home front, voter registration and accreditation challenges continue. In Governor Jang’s ward of Ladura-Du, the governor and his wife’s PVCs were said to be unrecognisable by the card reading machine. As a result, the governor was said to have filled out an incident report sheet -pictures attached. At the […]

It goes without saying that the outcome of today’s election would determine the results of many seats of the keenly contested governorship elections which comes up on 11th April 2015. If Buhari wins the election, expect a lot of states to swing towards APC. If Goodluck Jonathan wins, then expect a lot of the states […]

Press statement from the director of Media and publicity, PDP presidential campaign organization, Femi Fani-KayodeWe wish to take this opportunity to make it clear to the Nigerian public that according to the figures made available to us, we are ahead in the presidential elections by at least two to three million votes. We have our […]