Tag: Plateau State
Gana Heads Lar’s Burial Committee
The Plateau State Government on Tuesday constituted a committee for the burial of its first civilian governor, Chief Solomon Lar.…
Lar’s body to stay in US for now
The remains of the Late Chief Solomon Lar, founding Chairman of Nigeria’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, would be brought…
Family of 10 killed by cattle rustlers
Armed gunmen suspected to be cattle rustlers have killed 10 members of one family in Kukek Village, Plateau State, central…
Plateau Assembly Speaker Quits
The Speaker of the House of Assembly in the Nigerian central state of Plateau, Mr John Dabwan, has resigned. He…
Killer driver arrested as Plateau buries the dead
Nigeria’s Plateau State Police Command said it has arrested the driver who killed 14 children at Mazat village in Barkin…
Five villagers, one assailant killed in Plateau
Five villagers and one assailant were killed in an attack on Kumbur village, Wase Local Government Area of Plateau State,…
Kidnapping: Lawmaker’s wife, 8 others rescued
The police in the eastern Nigerian state of Ebonyi have rescued the wife of a member of the state assembly…
Death toll in Fulani herdsmen attack hits 48
Raids by gun toting Fulani herdsmen in the Nigerian central state of Plateau and gun battles between soldiers and the…
Jonah Jang backs emergency rule in Borno, others
Jonah Jang, governor of the central and volatile state of Plateau on Saturday in Jos described President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration…
7 killed, houses burnt in clashes with herdsmen
There appears no end in sight in the bloodletting between Fulani herdsmen and settler-farmers in Nigeria’s Plateau state. With close…
60 people massacred in Plateau’s ethnic strife
Violence involving rival ethnic groups in Nigeria’s central state of Plateau has killed at least 36 people and left dozens…
Nigeria: 10 die in Plateau state gruesome attacks
Ten members of the same family, with half the victims under the age of six, have been killed in Nigeria’s…
Nigeria: 5000 ghost workers uncovered in Plateau
No fewer than 5,000 ghost workers are on the payroll of the government of Nigeria’s Plateau state, Mr Yakubu Jang,…
Houseboy rapes master’s daughter
A Nigerian houseboy, Aminu Musa, 20, on Friday appeared before a Jos Upper Area Court charged with raping the 12-year-old…
Court Extends Order On Striking Plateau Workers
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A Nigerian industrial court has told striking workers in the central state of Plateau, that it…
Unclaimed corpses of bomb victims in mortuary
Eight months after the bomb blasts at COCIN Church Headquarters and St. Finnbar Catholic Church in Jos,capital of Nigeria’s state…
I’m Ready To Play For National Team
Elizabeth Ike is representing Plateau State in the female hockey event at the ongoing 18th National Sports Festival, tagged ‘Eko…
10 killed by gunmen disguised as Nigerian soldiers
Gunmen said to be dressed as Nigerian soldiers opened fire on a pub in Barkin Ladi area of Plateau state,…
VP Sambo shocked by flood damage in Plateau
Vice President Namadi Sambo on Saturday arrived Plateau state Saturday to assess the extent of damage inflicted by Nigeria’s worst…
Pwajok wins senate seat, Kaneng wins husband’s seat
Kaneng, the wife of the late Majority Leader of Plateau House of Assembly, Gyang Fulani, was elected on Saturday to…
Tools That Matter(2)
Weather wear I remember clearly what it was like, training in very cold weather. I attended a Leadership and…
Pam gets ACN nod to run for Plateau senate bye-election
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) on Saturday in Jos confirmed the nomination of Mr Yusuf Pam as its candidate…
Plateau bye-election: 2 battle for LP ticket
As political parties nominate flag bearers for the 6 October Plateau North senatorial bye-election, there is confusion in the Labour…
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…