Reports reaching ViewPointNigeria indicates that nine polio health workers were on Friday shot death in two separate attacks by gunmen on tricycles as they were administering the polio vaccine within the State Capital. No one has claimed responsibility but it is suspected that the militant group Boko Haram may be behind it although there have […]

Reports reaching the ViewPointNigeria news desk suggests that the Plateau State Government has awarded a N749 million contract to 10 different contractors for the revival of it’s moribund newspaper, the “Nigerian Standard” which was established by the Late J D Gomwalk in 1972 and has been out of circulation for over a decade. Speaking at the contract […]

Federal pensioners in Plateau are to embark on a three-day peaceful protest over the “rot in pension administration in the country”, an official has disclosed. Mr Lucky Oyinbo, Secretary, National Union of Pensioners , told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Jos that the action would begin on Monday, Feb. 25. “The action […]

Plateau State Government through its Universal Basic Education Board on Tuesday sacked 2,000 Grade II teachers from its workforce. Mrs Lyop Mang who is the Chairperson of the board told newsmen in Jos that the affected teachers failed to upgrade their certificates to National Certificate of Education . “They had to go because they […]

Reports reaching VPN suggest that unknown gunmen attacked and killed a man and his son at Tanchol on Tuesday night, a local settlement of Gyel District in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State. Another child, who sustained injuries, reportedly died in the hospital on Wednesday.   Reports suggests the attackers injured the wife […]