News reaching ViewPointNigeria confirms that security officials in Jos have averted what would have been another bloody Sunday in the state. Reports affirm that well over 100 gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen stormed Rantya Lowcost community of Jos metropolis and shot sporadically at worshippers who were attending services in the churches in the area. count […]

Data from the Plateau State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, made available to ViewPointNigeria, indicates that no fewer than 157 people have died in road accidents in the three months period starting from July to September 2013 in the state. This figure is a significant increase over the same period in 2012, […]

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 […]