The seven-member investigative panel constituted by the acting Chief Judge of Adamawa State, Ambrose Mammadi, to investigate allegations of gross misconduct by Governor Murtala Nyako, commenced sitting on Monday. The panel ignored the directive of the state government which had on Sunday declared Monday and Tuesday as public holidays.Mr. Nyako had declared the holiday to […]

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 […]

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 […]

A group under the aegis of Conference of Autochthonous Ethnic Nationalities Community Development Associations has appealled to the Federal Government to establish National Commission for the Protection of the Rights of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples. CONAECDA said the commission shall have the power to enforce the individual and collective rights of ethnic, religious and […]

News reaching ViewPointNigeria indicates that the crisis rocking the Plateau State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has escalated another notch, with key party elder accusing the State leadership of trying to manipulate the delegate list for the soon to be undertaken primaries. It was learnt that several Plateau opinion leaders have been meeting in […]

Information reaching our news desk indicates that the Plateau State commissioner for information and communication, Hon Mohammed Abubakar Badu has faulted media reports credited to him, which suggests that Governor Jonah Jang has appointed his son, Yakubu as commissioner of Lands, Survey and Town Planning. Mohammed Badu in a press statement signed and issued in […]

Barely three weeks after Senator Gyang Pwajok emerged as the PDP gubernatorial flag bearer in Plateau State, more reactions have continued to trail his emergence, as a group under the aegis of Plateau Youth Forum for Leadership and Development, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Leadership of the party to cancel the […]

Even with the challenges which appear insurmountable for President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of the forthcoming general election, the Governor of Plateau State, Da. Jonah Jang, has assured the electorate that the President will defeat the APC candidate to clinch the Presidential ticket, adding that Plateau state would vote massively for the PDP […]