The killing spree across Middle belt states has escalated another notch, with another gruesome attack in Benue and Nasarawa states. In Benue, gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, yesterday invaded Agena in Gwer Local Government Area of the state, killing about 20 persons.This attack is happening approx. 3 days after another bloody attack by Fulani […]

The event, which flagged off at Tahir Guest Palace on Day one and continued at Afficent Centre, along Sultan road, on Day two, featured mostly a select group of northern elders and leaders, particularly those with history of discontent against the present federal administration. Indeed, as the participants began to surface at the hotel lobby […]

In a new political development, indigenes of Southern Plateau state have renewed their quest for the creation of a new state from the present Plateau state -to be called Lowland state. This new development was made known to newsmen on Friday 28th March 2014 by the National Chairman of the body leading the agitation -i.e., Movement […]

Jonah Jang Governor Jonah Jang is serving his second and final term as governor of Plateau State on the platform of the PDP. It is clear that he is heading for the Senate in 2015. By then, he will be over 71 years old. When Senator Gyang Dantong was killed in a stampede during a […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]