Tag: Plateau State
Police recover 42 cows in Plateau
The police in Plateau on Thursday said it recovered 42 of the 500 cows rustled in Kadunung village in Mangu…
Plateau imposes curfew in Riyom, Bakin Ladi LG
The Plateau Government has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in Riyom and Barkin Ladi Local Government Areas following a resurgence of…
Jonah Jang left Plateau State in N222.3bn debt
The Transition Committee set up by Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau says the immediate past administration of former governor Jonah…
Gunmen injure six in Plateau
A member of the Special Task Force (STF), and five other persons, were attacked by gunmen in Barkin Ladi Local…
Flood kills 2, washes away farm lands, crops in Plateau
Two persons on Wednesday died while one was missing following floods caused by a heavy downpour in three communities in…
Bomb blast rocks ECWA Church in Jos
The Boko Haram bombers have hit Jos in Plateau state, again. Right in the middle of service, a bomb blast…
N600k worth of pornographic movies confiscated in Plateau
Mr Ailewon Danlami, the Zonal Coordinator, North Central, National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), said the organisation confiscated 4,182…
Bomb Blasts: Restore checkpoints in Plateau, Lalong tells FG
Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau has appealed to the Federal Government to restore checkpoints in the state to check the…
Plateau dissolves local councils, woman gets SSG job
Governor Simon Lalong of the central Nigerian Plateau state, on Monday dissolved the 17 Local Government Councils in the state.…
UPDATE: Over 40 killed in twin blast in Jos
JOS, (AP) — Two bombs blamed on the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram exploded at a crowded mosque and an…
Bomb blast rocks muslim gathering in Jos
A bomb has exploded in Jos, Plateau state, central Nigeria, in the midst of a gathering of muslims listening to…
Senatorial Seat: Court finds evidence against Jonah Jang
The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Jos, on Friday, admitted evidence against the election of ex-governor Jonah Jang…
Gov. Lalong urges Church not to compromise
Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau, on Saturday urged the Church not to compromise its position as an agent of change.…
63,000 IDPs taking refuge in Plateau – SEMA
More than 63, 000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are taking refuge in various camps in Plateau, Alhaji Alhassan Barde, Executive…
Lalong appoints SSG, Chief of Staff
Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau on Monday made his first set of appointments with Mr Rufus Bature, former Minority Leader,…
Suspend strike, Gov. Lalong begs Plateau workers
New Plateau Governor, Simon Lalong, has appealed to striking workers in the state to suspend the action. The governor made…
Jang leaving only N18bn debt – commissioner
Plateau State Government on Friday said its current debt profile was N18 billion and not N200 billion as being speculated.…
Plateau workers begin strike, seal up schools over salary arrears
Schools and local government secretariats in Plateau were sealed up by labour leaders on Tuesday following the commencement of strike…
APC’s Lalong wins Plateau guber election
Rt Hon Simon Lalong of All Progressives Congress (APC) has emerged as the winner of the gubernatorial election in Plateau,…
APC form coalition with LP, MPPP to defeat PDP in Plateau
The Labour Party (LP), Mega Progressives Peoples Party (MPPP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) in Plateau have joined forces to…
PDP winning polls in Plateau
Simon Ateba/Plateau President Goodluck Jonathan’s Peoples Democratic Party is coasting to victory in Plateau state following results released by the…
Election in 20 polling units in Plateau State
By Simon Ateba/Jos Voting is ongoing on Sunday in 20 polling units scattered across nine local government areas of the…
No Election in 14 polling units in Plateau, says REC
Simon Ateba/Jos The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Plateau state, Dr. Godwin Kwanga, said on Saturday that there will be…
Plateau State Ready For Election
Simon Ateba/Jos Thousands of people in Jos, the capital of the central Nigerian state of Plateau, stormed banks on Friday…
2015: Ex-deputy Gov, 6 commissioners, others defect to APC
Mrs Pauline Tallen, former Plateau Deputy Governor, and six former Commissioners and Special Advisers (SAs), on Wednesday announced their decision…
PDP is only political party with no landlord and tenant, says Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday described his political party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the “only truly democratic party…
Plateau Deputy Governor says he’s still in PDP
Deputy Governor Ignatius Longjan of Plateau on Friday denied defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives…
Angry youths burn Jonathan’s campaign bus in Jos
Some angry youths on Saturday attacked and burnt a campaign bus branded with President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign posters at Zololo…
Boko Haram behind Jos bombings, says Plateau govt
A double bomb attack that killed 31 people in a crowded market in the central Nigerian city of Jos was…
31 dead in double bombing in Jos
At least 31 people were killed in a double bombing in the Nigerian city of Jos on Thursday, while a…