Jolted by the widespread killings across the country, the House of Representatives Tuesday summoned the Minister of Defense, Alhaji Aliyu Gusau, and the Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, to explain the killing of over 200 people in Maru and Zurmi Local Government Areas of Zamfara State last weekend by suspected Fulani herdsmen. The […]

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association has accused soldiers of burning 37 Fulani settlements and stealing 137 cows and 60 sheep in Ganawuri district, Riyom local government area of Plateau State. The chairman of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeder Association in Plateau State, Alhaji Haruna Boro Hussaini, said the soldiers were trying to mirror […]

The Plateau Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board has begun collection of 2014 Hajj fares from intending pilgrims in the state. The Executive Secretary of the board, Alhaji Salisu Musa told the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Jos that each intending pilgrim would make a deposit of N600,000. So far, he said, the board had […]

It is important to say the truth in all circumstances. I don’t care what I’m made to pass through provided it will save lives from being cut short by deadly arsonists, bring comfort to the downtrodden and strengthen the weak. There is no disputing the fact that Plateau state has indeed become the crucible of […]

GENERAL Officers Commanding in Benue, Plateau, Nasarawa, Kaduna and Niger states have started direct supervision of operations in their areas of responsibility states, as troops comb forests in their mission to apprehend members of armed gangs and destroy their enclaves. According to a press release signed by the Director, Defence Information, Major General Chris […]

The internal wrangling within the APC in Plateau appear to be reaching feverish heights, with the interim management committee of the APC in Plateau, asking the party’s national secretariat to disregard calls for the dissolution of the state exco and the allegations made by a group called “APC for All in Plateau” that the state […]

A startling revelation has been made by concerned citizens of Borno and Yobe, two of the troubled states in North-Eastern Nigeria.Elders in both states are said to have disclosed that Boko Haram militants get supplies delivered to them by helicopter. They also wondered how convoys of vehicles used by the militants could move freely within the […]

Soldiers from the One Division of the Nigerian Army in Kaduna have arrested about 18 suspected Fulani herdsmen and recovered several arms including AK47 rifles from them. The suspects were arrested in Laduga village, a Fulani settlement in Kachia Local Government Area in the southern part of Kaduna State. The army stormed the village in the early […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday gave an order of perpetual injunction restraining the lawmakers who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC, from effecting any leadership change in the House of Representatives. Delivering judgment, Justice Adeniyi Ademola lambasted the decampee lawmakers. He said they no longer […]