News reaching ViewPointNigeria suggests that the Plateau State Government has given out approximately 300 Hyundai caravan vehicles to selected youths in the state, as part of the ‘Poverty Alleviation and Empowerment Scheme’. At the presentation of car keys held in Jos this week, the commissioner of works, Mr Chris Hassan confirmed that the state Government […]

As the zoning furore in Plateau state continues to hot-up, the coalition of Youths of all the tribes in the Plateau South senatorial zone have on Tuesday demanded that the Governorship slot be zoned to the area in the forth coming 2015 elections. […]

Plateau state Executive Council has approved N368 million for the completion of office accommodation for special advisers to Governor Jonah Jang. The meeting chaired by Governor Jang gave the approval during the first executive council meeting for the year that took place in Jos the Plateau state capital on Thursday. Mrs Olivia Dazyam who is […]

Gunmen killed more than 100 people in an attack on three villages in central Nigeria, an area where longstanding disputes over land, religion and ethnicity often erupt into violence, two local government officials said on Sunday. The police confirmed the raids by Fulani herdsman late on Friday on the villages of Ugwar Sankwai, Ungwan Gata and […]

The crisis rocking Plateau State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party has deepened as four members of the State Working Committee of the party have dragged the leadership of the party and the State Working Committee to Plateau State High Court over the move to forcefully ask them to vacate their respective offices for expressing […]

News reaching ViewPointNigeria indicates that the Plateau State House of Assembly has abandoned its earlier probe of the Plateau State Government over allegations of financial impropriety, as initiated by a petition filed by a group termed the Plateau Patriotic Front on May 15th 2014. It would be recalled that the group had filed […]

A Ward Chairman in Riyom Local Government of Plateau State, Mr. Gyang Fwa has been arrested by the Police in Kum village of the LGA in connection with the stealing of Railway equipment meant for the construction of rail lines that passed through the village linking Kuru in Jos South Local Government of the […]