Following last Friday’s Supreme Court ruling that reinstated the Taraba’s State’s Deputy Governor, Sani Danladi, after winning the case against his impeachment about two years ago, the State’s House ofAssembly on Monday mandated him to serve as Acting Governor of the State, and has elected Hon. Mark Useni as its new Speaker. Hon. Danladi’s mandate […]

The University of Jos has been closed down after a protest by students over hike in fees turned bloody, with security officials called in to restore order shooting at least eight students. A statement, Tuesday, by the University Registrar Jully Dandam, after a hurriedly convened management meeting, said the institution would remain shut “till further […]

As reactions continue to trail the removal of security of the embattled Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. AminuTambuwal, a member of the House of Representatives, representing Jos South/Jos East Constituency, Hon. Bitrus Kaze said the question ofwhether it was constitutional to withdraw the security of the Speaker does not even arise, but, the […]

The conclusion of the third phase of the distribution of the voter cards and fresh voter registration by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has generated much controversy in Plateau State. Residents of the state claim that the two exercises especially, the voter’s registration was poorly conducted as many potential voters were not able to […]

Jos –In contrast to media reports earlier this week –where the Plateau State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party , was said to received former governor Joshua Dariye and Deputy governor Pauline Tallen into its fold, the state party chairman Raymond Dabo yesterday debunked these insinuations, saying that no such reception took […]

The Plateau state chapter of the National Union of Teachers have rejected the calls for Local Government autonomy saying that their conditions will worsened if it gets approved. State Chairman of NUT, Mr Gunshin Yarling was speaking in Jos on Thursday during a press briefing at the Nigeria Union of Journalists Plateau State […]

As the battle for the governorship of Plateau State continues to gathered momentum ahead of the 2015 polls, a group under the aegis of Equity and Justice Forum, has called on the National Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party to dissolve the State Exco of the party, for what it describe as “grave ineptitude and […]

The chairman of the People’s Democratic Party elders in Plateau State, a group tagged Equity and Justice Forum, Prof. Dakum Shown, has said citizens of the state are yet to feel President Goodluck Jonathan’s impact despite their one million votes for him in 2011. The group threatened to mobilize the Plateau electorate against Mr. […]

News reaching ViewPOintNigeria indicates that a current schedule of primary elections for the Plateau State Chapter of the PDP for the 8th December may be experiencing rife uncertainty. As a Federal High Court sitting in Jos, has restrained the party and the independent National Electoral Commission from screening and presenting candidates for the governorship elections […]