Report from the United Nation says more than 1,200 people have been killed in Islamist-related violence in north-east Nigeria since a state of emergency was declared in May. The UN said the figure related to killings of civilians and the military by the Islamist group Boko Haram sect in the states of Adamawa, Borno […]

The president of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Jonathan has called on politicians to maintain peace and unity irrespective of their political umbrella while maintaining that political parties were only platforms to contest elections. He was speaking on Friday in Jos at the funeral service of Late Chief Solomon Lar. Jonathan said “Politicians should always consider the […]

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 Tim community in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau has donated a N10 million police outpost to the state Police Command. The district head of Mangun, Da Job Damiyal presented the keys of the post to the Plateau state police commissioner, Mr Chris Olakpe who was represented by an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr […]

The Plateau State government has rehabilitated over 200 kilometres of federal roads in the state in preparation for the burial rites of the pioneer national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Solomon Lar. Mr. Lar’s funeral service will take place on Saturday, December 14.The Commissioner for Information, Yiljap Abraham, speaking on Sunday at the Nigeria […]

Bamanga Tukur says the vacuum created by the death of Mr. Lar will be difficult to fill because Mr. Lar “was an emancipator of the less privileged and a democrat of repute”. Gov. Jonah Jang of Plateau on Friday in Abuja, renamed the Plateau State University after Solomon Lar, the late first executive Governor of the […]

Plateau state Chairman of the state Independent Commission , Mr Peter Dalyop stated on Wednesday that the commission has inaugurated a committee to ensure a free and fair Local Government election in the state. The chairman was speaking in Jos when members of a civil society group “Conflict Management Regional Council” paid him a visit […]

Investigations by journalists in Jos, indicate that candidates allegedly backed by the Governor of Plateau State, Da. Jonah Jang have virtually won all seats in contention in the just concluded Peoples Democratic Party chairmanship primaries in the 15 local government areas where elections were held i.e., excluding Jos North and Wase Local Government Areas […]