Five soldiers on Saturday assaulted some policemen in Jos shortly after a security meeting convened by the Plateau State Commissioner of Police on the renewed violent clashes in the state. The policemen were allegedly trying to prevent the soldiers from harassing a community leader who attended the meeting and was about leaving the venue. An exchange […]

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 […]

In a new turn of events, the Plateau Peoples Democratic Party says it will “severely deal with” any members identified to have engaged in anti-party activities during the just concluded Feb. 25 local government elections. In the development, the PDP directed its chairmanship and councillorship candidates to write reports on how and why they won […]

With the currently Boko Haram melee, which has taken over the Nigerian public sphere, the Plateau State governor, Mr Jonah Jang, has cautioned Nigerians against division along ethnic or religious lines, in the battle to check the excesses of the insurgent group. He advised that Nigerians remain united and forthright in their quest for victory […]

Factional chair­man of the Ni­geria Gover­nors’ Forum and Plateau State Governor,  Jo­nah Jang, has flayed the recent call for military intervention in Nigeria. Former managing director of Nigerian Breweries, who had a short stint as chair­man of the  National Population Commis­sion , Mr. Fes­tus Odimegwu, was reported to have advo­cated military rule in an interview […]