Plateau Stakeholders for Democracy and Good Governance has joined Governor Jonah David Jang and others to commend the state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Edward Pwajok, and his team of lawyers for working for the past six years to give the state new laws.The group’s chairman, Timothy Nanle, and secretary, Obed Peters, in Jos, disclosed […]

Plateau Gov. Jonah Jang has advised residents in the state to come out en mass to collect their Permanent Voters Cards whenever INEC started issuing the cards. Jang made the call in Jos on Thursday at a stakeholders’ forum organised by INEC to herald the distribution of the PVCs . The governor urged those […]

News reaching ViewPointNigeria indicates that former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo will be touching down at the Yakubu Gowon Airport this afternoon to proceed on, to visit his injured son, Lt Colonel Adeboye Obasanjo who is currently receiving treatment at an undisclosed location in the city. It would be recalled that earlier this week, the younger […]

With the hullabaloo in Plateau state with regards succession, the Chairman of Mikang LGA, Mr. Daniel Kungmi has come out to deny any plans to succeed Jonah Jang in the 2015 gen­eral elections. Kungmi averred that since he was elected into office last February, there has been rife specu­lations that he (who is considered a […]

News reaching ViewPointNigeria suggests that the Plateau State Government is set to train approx. 8,000 Primary and Secondary School teachers in both public and private schools on prevention, control and containment of Ebola Virus Disease. This development was made clear to journalists, by the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Fom Dakwak at the weekend, during the […]

A 40-YEAR old mother of two, and her three-year and five-year old children were on Sunday night killed by people suspected to be Fulani herdsmen in Bokkos local government area of Plateau State. The suspected attackers were said to have stormed the community and set over 20 houses ablaze and destroyed their farmlands. The state […]

News reaching ViewpointNigeria indicates that the Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang has approved the release of N95 million for the fight against Ebola virus in the state. The development was made known to newsmen by the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Fom Dakwak at a press briefing on the situation report on Ebola Virus. Dakwak state in […]

As groups and individuals continue to drum support for President Goodluck Jonathan to run for the 2015 presidential election, a retired Lt.General in the Nigerian Army and former Minister of the FCT, Jeremiah Useni has urged the president to run for the polls. Jeremiah said, “Some of these developmental strides can be seen in major […]

The Plateau State Police Command has paraded a youngman, Maimako Shephang who sold his wife Agnes for the sum of N800, 000 to a ritualist. Parading the suspect at the Command’s headquarters in Jos on Wednesday, the State’s Commissioner of Police Nasiru Oki, said, “On the 30th, August, 2014, at about 11:00 hours, the policemen […]