The University of Jos SUG elections were held on Thursday 5th May 2015, however the results have just been collated and finalised. Results President – This position was won by Abel Nduu who scored 2223 votes to beat his closest opponent Zangbe Amos, who scored 1710 votes. count | 294

Responding to the agitations by both the Southern and Northern Senatorials zones to produce the next governor, PDP stakeholders of the Central zone are demanding that they produce the next governor.  In a communique issued after a lengthy meeting in Pankshin town, the stakeholders argue that since all three zones have had a shot at […]

Senator Ibrahim Mantu, having taken a long hiatus from active politics, after his very humbling defeat to Senator Joshua Dariye in 2011, appears to be making a daring come back to the politic scene. His recent actions and utterances show a man who is not quite ready to bow out of Plateau politics just yet, […]

Fresh information coming in suggests that small pockets of protests have started in a few areas of Kano due to the selection of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the new Emir of Kano. Currently youths are burning tyres around Government House road, Koffar Nasarawa and the Silver Jubilee roundabout.  People are advised to thread carefully, but […]

As political intrigues in Plateau continue to advance into critical stages, another group of concerned youth have lent their voices to the already terse debate about zoning. The group, The Coalition of Concerned Plateau Northern Youths have vociferously condemned the call by other groups that the governorship seat be retained in Plateau North. In a […]

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum under the leadership of Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State has told Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State that the reconciliation of the governors under one umbrella can only start with the recognition of Governor Jang as Chairman of the NGF. Amaechi had on Friday in Port Harcourt called for […]

Miffed by what they described as insensitivity to their plight by President Goodluck Jonathan, the people of Southern Kaduna in Kaduna State, said on Thursday they would not vote for him in 2015. This, they said, was because the President had not shown enough commitment towards stopping killings in the area.Three villages of Ugwar Sankwai, […]

Shonong, the remote village in Riyom LGA which in recent times has witnessed series of Attacks and the death of over 100 people is back in the new again. This time around, not for the senseless murder of over 30 people as was the case on the 4th of January […]

A civil society group, Civil Society Network Against Corruption, CSNAC, on Tuesday asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to investigate the Plateau State Government, over a N20 billion corruption allegation.CSNAC is a coalition of some civic groups in Nigeria chaired by Olanrewaju Suraju. On June 5, PREMIUM TIMES reported that a group, Plateau […]

Allegations of financial impropriety have been levelled against the person of the Governor –Da Jonah Jang by a yet-to-be identified group called the Plateau Patriotic Front . The allegations have bordered around extra Budgetary Spending, Misappropriation, Inflation of Contracts, Operation of Un-authorised Bank Accounts, obtaining of Illegal loans amongst others. Given the magnitude of the […]