Tag: Plateau State
2 killed in Plateau attacks
The Plateau Police command on Wednesday confirmed the killing of two persons in two separate attacks by gunmen on some…
2 brothers, 2 villagers killed by gunmen
In two separate attacks, unidentified gunmen killed two brothers in Michika, Adamawa state and two villagers in Plateau state. In…
Governor Jang’s ex-aide eyes vacant senate seat
Mr Gyang Pwajok, the Plateau Government’s Chief of Staff, who resigned last week, is to contest the Plateau North senatorial…
Church massacre: Nigerian governor’s aide arrested
Nigerian police said they had arrested a governor’s aide over a church massacre and an attack on a military patrol…
Expand Plateau peace talks, Jonathan advised
The Taroh nation in Nigeria’s volatile Plateau state has suggested that on-going meetings by the Presidency toward peace should not…
Nigeria’s Plateau state splits as bridge collapses
The Shendam bridge in Jos on Tuesday collapsed, cutting off most parts of Plateau South from the rest of the…
28 die, many missing as flood ravages Plateau state
Flooding caused by heavy rains in Plateau state, central Nigeria, has killed at least 28 people, with many others still…
Jonathan explores peace options for Plateau crisis
The elders of Berom, an ethnic group in Plateau, have called on the Federal Government to implement all the recommendations…
Death toll reaches 35 in Jos flooding
More people have died in the flood that followed a heavy rainfall in central Nigerian city of Jos. The heavy…
Boy dies in latest Jos attack
An assailant on Tuesday fired a heavy weapon at an Islamic school in the central Nigerian city of Jos, killing…
Jos rattled by Gunfire, explosion
An explosion rocked central Nigeria’s city of Jos on Tuesday, with an official saying a bomb detonated outside a government…
Nigerians flee villages marked for army raid
Hundreds of villagers have quit their homes in central Nigeria ahead of a planned army raid on suspected militant hideouts,…
Death Toll over 100 in Nigerian crisis state
Weekend raids by gunmen in Nigeria’s central Plateau state left more than 100 people dead, including Senator Gyang Dantong and…
Nigerian government slams curfew after killings
The Plateau Government has imposed a curfew on four local government areas of the state “with immediate effect’’. The local…
Nigerian senator killed at mass burial
Gunmen killed a federal senator and a state lawmaker in Nigeria’s troubled Plateau state on Sunday at a mass burial…
Armed Nigerian herdsmen attack Village
Suspected Fulani herdsmen have attacked a village, populated by Christians in the central Nigeria’s Plateau State early Saturday, killing yet-to-be…
Big bomb evacuated in Nigerian city
Nigerian police said Saturday they have detonated a mega bomb in Jos, a central flashpoint city wracked by ethnic unrest…
Nigeria’s ruling party recruits youths
Nigeria’s Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Plateau has commenced a programme of encouraging youths who have attained 18 years to…
Dasuki: I’ve Boko Haram phone numbers
The new National Security Adviser, NSA retired Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) continued his tour of crisis ridden parts of Northern…
Terrorists damage bridge in Plateau state
An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on Saturday exploded under a bridge on Makera-Rim road, near Golhoss village in Rim District,…
No salary for striking Plateau workers, says official
The Plateau state government has threatened to invoke the “no work, no pay” principle, against striking local council workers, saying…
Riot in Jos over Okada ban
Fear-stricken residents ran for safety in most parts of Jos Jos-North on Wednesday morning as youths made bonfires to protest…
Bomb rocks Jos church, scores feared dead
The Nigerian police in Plateau state have confirmed a bomb explosion at a church in the capital city of Jos.…
Nigerian student jailed for knife attack
An Upper Area Court in the Nigerian central state of Plateau Friday sentenced an 18-year-old student, Yahaya Mohammed to three…
Nigeria: security forces stumble on bomb factory
Security forces found weapons and bomb-making stocks during a house raid Saturday in the violence-plagued central Nigerian city of Jos,…
Plateau government begs journalists
Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau on Thursday apologised to journalists for government’s failure to address their grievances before their boycott of government…
Plateau State: Journalists black out government
Journalists in a restive state in central Nigeria said Monday they would halt coverage of government activities in protest at…
Plateau State: Herdsmen slaughter family of 7
Suspected Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria have hacked and shot to death seven sleeping family members at a Christian village in…
Herdsmen Hack 7 Family Members To Death
Suspected Muslim herdsmen have hacked and shot to death seven sleeping family members at a Christian village in the volatile…
Haruna John Was A Dedicated Officer –Atiku
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has expressed deep sorrow over the death of Haruna John, the Deputy Inspector General (DIG)…