62 bodies of victims of the Christmas Eve bomb blasts in six places in Jos, the Plateau State capital, have been given a mass burial at Dong village, close to the Wildlife Park in Jos North Local Government Council. Earlier, the Plateau State government had buried 42 bodies in the same place. LEADERSHIP WEEKEND gathered […]
Following the bomb lasts in Jos, the Plateau State capital, on Christmas eve, tension is high in Nasarawa State as people almost stay awake all night for fear of the least expected. Saturday Sun found that both Christians and Muslims in the state are living in fear as uncertainty has become an order of the […]
MEMBERS of an Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in utter contempt for the authorities defiantly continued their killing spree, yesterday, in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital killing seven persons. They attacked a police vehicle, the latest in a string of attacks by the group and wounded eight people. A military spokesman said the vehicle was “burnt […]
Following the bomb blasts on Christmas eve which claimed many innocent lives in Jos, Plateau State, security has been beefed up with the deployment of additional 5,000 personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), within and around the Jos metropolis and many other volatile areas of the state to forestall possible recurrence. […]
The Special Task force (STF), Operation Save Haven, said the command has uncovered plans by groups in the state to carry out massive attack on worship places, homes and settlements within Jos, the Plateau State capital. Commander of the STF, Brigadier General Hassan Umoru revealed this to journalists in his office yesterday. According the commander, […]
Senate of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called for the immediate resignation of Plateau State governor, Jonah Jang, for his alleged inability to protect the lives and properties of Nigerians in the state. In a statement signed by its Senate President, Nazir Ashiru Galadanchi, after a press briefing yesterday in Abuja, NANS […]
Plateau state governor Jonah Jang said Friday bombers’ objective was to stop the congresses that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state was planning to conduct. The governor stated this yesterday while receiving the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Muhammad Sani Sidi, who was on a tour to the […]
Tension heightened in Jos, Plateau State on Tuesday as youths mobilised to protest the killings of two of their colleagues by soldiers . At Jenta Mangoro area of the city where one of killings took place, the police averted a bloodbath by dispersing the youths. But in Gada Biu, where the second killing allegedly occurred, […]
OUTRAGED by the claim of a terrorist group that claimed responsiblity for the Jos mayhem, the Nigerian Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, headed by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, the Council of Ulama in Jos, the Ja’amatu Nasril Islam, JNI, and other Islamic groups in the country, yesterday, dismissed the group’s […]
THE Sultan of Sokoto and President General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, and President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, have agreed that the persistent crises in Jos, the Plateau State capital, are political, with a heavy dose of religious colouration. The duo, who […]
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