•Gunmen Kidnappers have abducted the three daughters of the Managing Director of the Plateau State Water Board in the early hours of today, Monday, 26 January 2026. They attacked his residence at the Rantya area of Jos, the state capital, reports Daily Independent. According to Zagazola Makama, a security and counterintelligence analyst who wr...
•Late Imam Abdullahi Imam of Nghar village in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau state, Abubakar Abdullahi, who protected 262 Christians in the area, is dead. Saleh Abubakar, a son of the Imam, confirmed his death to our correspondent today, saying his father died last night at Plateau Specialist Hospital, Jos, reports Daily Trust. [...
•DSS operatives The twenty-eight travellers who were abducted on December 21, 2025, in Zak community of Bashar district of Wase local government area of Plateau state have been released by their abductors. The victims including men, women and children were heading for Sabon Layi community of same Bashar district to attend a Maulud event when [...
•Gunmen Gunmen have abducted 28 travellers in Zak community, Bashar district, Wase Local Government Area of Plateau State. A youth leader in Wase, Sapi’i Sambo, confirmed the development, in a telephone interview, saying that the victims included men, women and children, reports Daily Trust. Another resident of Bashar town, Ibrahim Musa, expla...
•Police Plateau State Commissioner of Police, Emmanuel Adesina, has ordered 24-hour surveillance to forestall security threats across the state. The order came hours after the management of Plateau State Universal Basic Education Board (PSUBEB) announced the closure of primary and secondary schools in the state, reports Weekend Trust. Accordin...
•Tinubu Concerns are deepening that Nigeria may be drifting towards a one-party state as the once-dominant Peoples Democratic Party struggles to retain its few remaining strongholds following a wave of defections by its governors to the ruling All Progressives Congress. Four PDP governors in the North are considering switching to the APC ahead...
•Atiku and Tinubu Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, has carpeted President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s visit today to Plateau State. In a statement personally signed by the 2023 presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and made available to The Frontier this evening, he said considering the high level of insecurit...
•Collapsed mining site in Plateau At least four miners were killed after a sandpit collapsed on them at a mining site in Dura community, Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State. According to eyewitness accounts, the incident occurred last night when the ground caved in on the four individuals working in the pit, reports […]
•Attack in Riyom Local Government Area, Plateau State The Plateau State government has received the report of a high-powered fact-finding committee on recent attacks across the state, uncovering disturbing details of violence that has spanned more than two decades. Presenting the report in Jos, Chairman of the committee, Major General Rogers N...
•Youth Corps members Tension has again gripped Jos, the Plateau State capital, following the abduction of a serving member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and a student by suspected kidnappers. The incident occurred in the early hours of Sunday at Babale community in Jos North Local Government Area, when armed men invaded a [&hellip...
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