Human Rights Watch has blamed the Nigerian authorities for largely ignoring sectarian clashes in the nation middle belt region that have killed over 3,000 people since 2010. The Nigerian police rejected the findings of the international watchdog that perpetrators have gone unpunished because of police inefficiency. The African Director at Human Rights Watch, Danie Bekele […]

The Tiv community residing in Jos, Plateau state are seeking divine intervention to end the ongoing attacks in their villages in Benue state. The community met on Sunday at the NKST church Jos to pray for the end of the incessant killings and destruction of properties and livelihoods. Reverend Solomon Igyor who led the prayer […]

The crisis rocking the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party in Plateau State is deepining with everyday that passes, this time the battled State Chairman of the party, Dr. Haruna Dabin said he has unearth plans by the party’s Secretary to create disunity among members of the Party in the State. count | 20

The former Governor of Plateau State and a member of the just concluded National Conference, Amb. Fidelis Tapgun, has officially declared his intension to contest the 2015 governorship election of the State. Tapgun who was the Director General of former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s re-election in 2003 said, “Both the Central and Northern zones have had […]

The airlift of the 1,300 Muslim pilgrims from Plateau to Saudi Arabia is to begin on Thursday, September 18, an official said in Jos. The Executive Secretary of the Plateau Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, Alhaji Salisu Musa, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Jos that the pilgrims would be lifted in segments. Musa said […]

The Plateau High Court has fixed October 20th to hear a suit filed by Governor Jonah Jang against a lawmaker, claiming N1 billion for defamation. Jang in a writ of summons dated September 10, told the court that the lawmaker, Ibrahim Baba-Hassan in the state House of Assembly, defamed him in a publication […]

Military authorities have arraigned 25 officers and 92 soldiers in Jos, Plateau State, over offences committed during counter-insurgency operations in the Northeastern part of the country. The soldiers brought from 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, Maiduguri Borno State, are being court-martialed on the authority of General Officer Commanding the 1 Division Nigerian Army Kaduna. […]

Men of the Plateau State Police Command on Tuesday foiled a reprisal attack on Rukuba community in Bassa Local Government Area of the state by their Irigwe neigbours, over alleged killing of an elderly Rukuba woman and 10 others by suspected gunmen from Irigwe.The incident was said to have exacerbated the communal rift between the […]