News reaching Viewpointnigeria indicates that Nigerian islamist group Boko Haram was paid approximately $3m to secure the release of a French family previously captured in Cameroon and held hostage in Northern Nigeria. In a confidential report, seen by Reuters news agency, the Nigerian Goverment confirmed the development but failed to state who paid the money. […]

As the political atmosphere in Plateau continues to gathered momentum, Arc. John Alkali has come out with guns blazing, challenging anyone who has proof of him not being a full-fledged PDP member to present such. According to him, the National Secretariat of the Party recently appointed him as part of the PDP […]

The Catholic Archbishop of Jos, Most Reverend Ignatius Kaigama, on Friday, donated relief items worth N1 million to the inmates of Jos Prison in Plateau State. The archbishop, represented at the occasion by Reverend Father Stephen Aster, the Assistant Coordinator, Justice, Development and Peace Commission in the diocese, said the donation, comprising two cows, […]

News reaching ViewPointNigeria suggests that the residence of one of Governor Jang’s aides Hon. Pam Ayuba Dangwong may have been the subject of an assassination plot by yet to be identified gunmen. The alleged assassins were said to have stormed his residence at Dandyes-Chugwi in Vwang district of Jos South LGA with sophisticated weapons and […]

The Plateau state police command on Tuesday said it has discovered arms and improvised Explosive Devices in an undisclosed suburban location of the state capital Jos. State Police Commissioner, Mr Chris Olakpe while briefing newsmen in his office stated that concerned members of the public hinted the police who swung into action and stormed […]

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 […]