•Armed Fulani herdsmen Scores of persons, mainly women have been killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Tilengpat village of Pushit District, Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State. Sources emanating from the community indicated that fourteen females and one male were brutally murdered during the attack last night, with houses and proper...
•Troops The Coalition of Bokkos Ethnic Youth Nationalities in Plateau State has accused the military of compounding their woes during last Friday’s attack on them by suspected Fulani herdsmen shooting at residents. No fewer than 10 people were killed when the gunmen carried out simultaneous attacks in two communities of Kopnanle in Mangu and M...
The Plateau chapter of All Progressive Congress (APC) has rejected what it described as the forceful inauguration of nine out of the 16 elected members of the Assemby. Plateau APC chairman Hon Rufus Bature dismissed inauguration of nine out of the 16 lawmakers as democratic abnormality that cannot stand the test of time, reports The […]
•Speaker Dewan Plateau Speaker Gabriel Dewan has sworn-in nine out of the 16 All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers. It was gathered the swearing in took place in the early hours of today in Jos, reports The Nation. It was gathered the member from Jos East was appointed Deputy Speaker of the Assembly. Dewan was said […]
Police in Plateau State, yesterday, cordoned off the road leading to the state House of Assembly within the Jos metropolis. This came as supporters of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party and their rivals from the All Progressives Congress kept vigil in front of the Assembly complex yesterday, reports The PUNCH. The Spokesman for the police [&h...
•Women protest A group of women under the auspices of the “Voice of Women in Nigerian Leadership Initiative” trooped out in large numbers on Saturday to protest the economic hardship in the state and Nigeria as a whole. The women who converged at the Old Airport roundabout carried placards with various inscriptions to express their […]...
•Arrested suspects The Special Military Taskforce in charge of maintaining peace in Plateau state on Wednesday said its troops raided some mountains in the Mangu Local Government Area of the state and uncovered a weapon factory in the area. The spokesman for the Military Taskforce, Captain Oya James, who disclosed this in a statement today [&h...
The two abducted Claretian missionaries at the Parish Rectory of Saint Vincent De Paul Parish in Fier, Catholic Diocese of Pankshin, have regained freedom from their abductors. According to the chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Plateau State Chapter, Reverend Father Polycarp Lubo, the priests were released in the early ho...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has excluded the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from participating in the Saturday re-run election for Plateau North Senatorial District and Jos North/Bassa federal constituency. This is just as the State Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) warned INEC not to plunge Plateau State into crisis...
•Tinubu As suspected Fulani herdsmen militias continue to attack villages in Plateau and Benue states, killing over 100 people and destroying houses and other property, the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has reiterated that it believes the government and the security agencies are complicit in the wave of vicious attacks and killings going on in the [...