By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor & Taye Obateru LAGOS — Governors Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and Jonah Jang of Plateau State were, yesterday, locked in a war of words over their claims to the chairmanship of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF. Amaechi, told his Plateau State colleague to stop impersonating him as chairman of [...]
The Police and Special Task Force in Plateau have put their operatives in Jos, the state capital, on high alert following reports that members of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, fleeing from military onslaught in Borno State have been sighted in Bauchi and other neighbouring states. There was high presence of riot policemen as [...]
Seriki Adinoyi The Plateau State Police Command Tuesday said it recovered a cache of arms and Improvised Explosives Devices (IEDs) set to be detonated in the suburbs of Jos, the state capital. The state commissioner of Police, Mr. Chris Olakpe, who disclosed this in his office while briefing journalists, said the force made the discovery [...]
Bodies found floating on river FRESH crises in different parts of Plateau State have resulted in the death of 11 persons and the burning of houses. After a resumed attack on Wase Tofa village, four bodies of the victims were found Monday floating on River Wase. According to an eyewitness, Dauda John, “four people were [...]
Jos – Ritual killers on Monday struck in Jos, killing and removing the eyes and tongue of a young lady in Twanchit Village at Tudun Wada in the Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau. The police in Jos confirmed the incident but said they had no details yet. Residents who woke up to the [...]
By Dr. John E. Oshodi / NNP / April 8, 2013 – Mr. President, order for real community policing within the killing areas of Central Nigeria Mr. President, not again, as several citizens with many of them sleeping when they were reportedly killed during the dawn of the night, as in what occurred a few [...]
Jos – The Special Task Force (STF) maintaining security in Plateau said there was an attempt by some miscreants to bomb a mosque in Jos on Friday night. This is contained in a statement signed by the STF Media Officer, Capt. Salisu Mustapha, on Saturday in Jos. It stated that the attempted attack on the [...]
Ten persons, including a two-month-old baby, were killed on Friday morning when gunmen attacked Kogwom village in the Vwang district of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau, a spokesman for the Special Task Force said. Two other persons, who sustained serious injuries, have been admitted at the Christian Hospital, Vom. Lt. Kingsley Egbo, Assistant [...]
Death toll increases to 27 in Fulani, Taroh clash in Plateau From Mariam Aleshinloye Agboola, Jos Death toll in the recent clash between Fulani herdsmen and Taroh natives in Dompar and Kurmin Dashe villages in Wase Local Government Area of Plateau State has risen to 27, as four more corpses were recovered in the area. [...]
A group of notorious gunmen in Barakin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State on Monday night waylaid Fulani herdsmen at Bisichi village and opened fire on them, killing 12 cows while 12 of them were also hit by the assailants’ bullets. According to a statement issued by the Special Task Force (STF) in charge [...]
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