The Equity and Justice forum spearheaded by Prof. Dakum Shown –which is the umbrella body for aggrieved politicians who are against the choice of Governor Jang’s benefactor appears to be in a state of quandary. The confusion/disagreement appears to be stemming from the efforts of the group to pick a consensus candidate from the Southern […]

Former chairman of National Population Commission , Samu’ila Danko Makama, has argued that the insistence that Plateau South Senatorial district must be allowed to produce the next governor in the state is not influenced by any personal consideration but for public good. Makama, who is a founding member of the Equity and Justice Forum which […]

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 […]

Dissatisfied with the conduct of the recent Permanent Voters Card registration in his council area, Chairman of Qua’an Pan Local Government area of Plateau State, Hon. Theophilus Dakas-Chan, at the weekend led the people of the local government including members of the executive council, the legislative council as well as the traditional council to INEC […]

Since the return of democratic structures in 1999, Adamawa State have remained a theatre of sort, where a number of bizarre and extreme political measures have been experimented; churning outcome in unusual proportion which has continued to threaten and shake it. Adamawa is at the moment bedeviled by security challenges especially in the Northern Senatorial […]

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 […]

As relative peace is said to have returned to communities, which have hitherto been bedeviled by attacks by unkonwn persons, in Barkin Ladi LGA, of Plateau State, residents of the Council have raised alarm over renewed plans to launch major attacks on their locality by a group of insurgents. The residents alleged that they had […]

As the contest for the governorship of Plateau State continues to gathered momentum, the Deputy Governor and governorship aspirant, Mr. Ignatius Longjan has promised to run an all inclusive administration if given the mandate in the 2015 polls. Longjan made the promise while speaking with journalists on Sunday at his campaign office in Jos, on […]

As the polity continues to heat up ahead of the November, 29th, 2014, gubernatorial primaries, preparatory to the 2015 polls, Plateau StateGovernor, Jonah Jang has taken a swipe at the State’s gubernatorial aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP sayingthey should prove their worth if they want to govern the State. Jang […]

As the battle for the gubernatorial seat in Plateau State continues to take shape ahead of the scheduled 29th, November, 2014, date, a group under the aegis of Plateau PDP Youth of Conscience has appealed to the party’s National Secretariat to dissolve the Ward Congresses held last Saturday in the State, conduct a fresh exercise […]