In its effort to ensure that credible polls are conducted in Plateau State as the 2015 elections get closer, the Independent National Electoral Commission has set up a 23 man committee to assisted the commission in voter education and publicity. Resident Electoral Commissioner in the State, Hon. Habu Zarma said at the inauguration of […]

The bomb blast at Wuse in Abuja has killed about 21 persons while injuring over 50. The blast, near the popular Banex plaza shopping complex in Wuse district, could be heard from miles away and sent plumes of smoke into the air. The area is located in the busy shopping district of Abuja. Coordinator of […]

Following the setting up of a committee by the Plateau State House of Assembly to investigate the misappropriation of funds by the State Government, it appears the Executive has severed its cordial relationship with the House. This latest move by the Government is seen as a move to resist the lawmakers, by scuttling their efforts […]

Coalition of students leaders in Plateau State has praised Governor, Jonah David Jang of the State for his developmental strides by taking the State to a level that no past administration has done it before. The Students further appealed to the People of the State to accept and support whoever the Governor endorses as his […]

The Managing Editor of the New Telegraph Newspaper, Alhaji Suleiman Bisalla, is among the 21 persons confirmed dead in Wednesday’s bomb blast at the EMAB plaza in Abuja. He was 46 years old. Bisalla left the Abuja office of the New Telegraph newspaper at about 3.30pm Wednesday for the EMAB plaza to go and […]

United States of America has donated military equipment to the Nigerian Army to aide in the fight against insurgency. The US embassy in Nigeria said the equipment donated included non-lethal transportation, communication, and force protection equipment. Major General Ibrahim Sani who is the Chief of Army Transformation and Innovation received the equipment on behalf of […]

Officials from the police department has praised the work of Plateau State police comand in reducing the amount of bloodshed in Riyom, Plateau State. Police Superintendent, Babayemi Akomolede revealed that the police did not ignore the warnings by communities in Riyom Local Government Area of suspected terrorist activities in the region. “The police did not […]

The Plateau House of Assembly says it is not probing Governor Jonah Jang over an alleged N50bn scam as being peddled in some quarters. Its Majority Leader, Mr Dem Daniels, PDP-Riyom, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Jos on Friday. He said that the mere receipt of a petition […]

110 victims of Monday and Tuesday’s killings in Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State by Fulani herdsmen were, yesterday, given mass burial according to the Chairman of the local government, Mr. Emmanuel Adamu . Those buried included an unnamed Igbo trader and his wife, women and children. The victims were buried in a parcel […]