No fewer than five people were feared killed, scores severely injured and many houses destroyed in a fierce confrontation between the Fulani herdsmen and Eggon farmers. The incident happened in Ambaka area of Wamba local government area, Nasarawa State, Saturday. Trouble was said to have started when three Fulani herdsmen attacked with machetes and killed […]

Political happenings and permutations on the Plateau strongly suggests that Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State will run for the Senate in the forthcoming elections. Analysts working with ViewPointNigeria believe this to be true, because the body language of the Governor and that of the incumbent senator that the senator […]

Three times House of Assembly member and one-time Deputy Speaker of the House, Ibrahim Baba Hassan and 23 others have been returned in their various constituencies to contest the state House of Assembly elections under the All Progressives Congress banner. The House of Assembly primaries were conducted in three out of the 17 local […]

RE: OUR DEMAND FOR A CREDIBLE GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY ELECTION Some aspirants in the just concluded PDP guber primary election in Plateau State held a press conference in Jos today, calling for the outright cancellation of exercise which held in a transparent manner. The said aspirants who claimed to have signed for and on behalf of […]

Buhari set to win APC nomination as Rabiu Kwankwaso, Rochas Okorocha and Sam Nda-Isaiah step down for him. At a meeting said to be hosted at Fashola’s residence in Marina, Lagos -these personalities agreed to step down for him and therefore pave way for his emergence. This would be the fourth time Buhari would be […]

Further information about how the Plateau PDP primaries transpired at the Rwang Pam stadium has emerged. Discussions with key stakeholders suggest that the intrigues into what actually happen were a lot deeper than initially reported. ViewPointNigeria therefore feels obliged to bring these clarifications to your attention, having already reported on earlier happenings.Firstly, even though a […]

Wase local government area in Plateau State, stood still for several hours on Friday, to receive the people democratic party, PDP, gubernatorial aspirant, senator Gyang Nyam Pwajok, in continuation of his local governments campaign tour which commenced on Thursday in Quan pan LGA. The event in wase was momentous and historic, it was well attended […]

Following the organisation of the very successful Plateau Gubernatorial debates with its other partners on the 24th of January 2014, MOPPLAH the Plateau social networking and online pressure group has continued with its community focused efforts by further organising a charity collection for the internally displaced people in Jos. In this instance, MOPPLAH commissioned a […]

Rep. Suleiman Kwande, member representing Jos North/Bassa federal constituency in the House of Representatives has described the action as a slap on the country democracy. Speaking with journalists in Jos yesterday, he pointed out that ” before this drama, the federal government blamed INEC over non availability of PVCs but now they hand twisted it […]

Sunday Longbap has been re-elected as Chairman of the Plateau State Football Association. At elections conducted in Jos, the capital of Plateau State on Thursday morning, and monitored by NFF Executive Committee member Sharif Rabiu Inuwa and Tunde Aderibigbe, secretary of the NFF State Elections Monitoring Committee, Longbap polled 18 out of the 19 votes […]