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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Headlines, Party Politics, Plateau, State News
Monday, February 16th, 2015
Gunmen on Sunday night killed the ward chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Kurra Falls of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State, Rev. Samuel Doro. Doro was said to have been killed late on Sunday night by some gunmen, who invaded his compound. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Emmanuel Abuh, […]
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Bauchi, Headlines, Plateau, State News
Wednesday, January 7th, 2015
Bauchi State Police Command has confirmed the death of 13 people in a road crash at Sabon Garin Nabordo along the Bauchi-Jos highway. The command, in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday by the spokesman of the command, DSP Haruna Mohammed, said the accident happened when a motorcyclist collided […]
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Headlines, Plateau, State News
Tuesday, September 30th, 2014
by Olaleye Aluko Ad by Websteroids Aboy A man, suspected to have attempted stealing diesel from a compound, died on Monday morning after he was electrocuted by an electric barbed fence. PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspect, Mr. John Aboy, was killed on Dagin Farouk Road, Jos, Plateau State. The incident was […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines, Plateau, State News
Sunday, May 25th, 2014
Three dead as Champions League fans targeted in another Jos blast on May 25, 2014 / in News 8:42 am / Comments At least three people were killed on Saturday in the central Nigerian city of Jos in an explosion targeting football fans watching the European Champions League final, the authorities […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines, Plateau, State News
Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
POLICE sources said on Monday that men of the Plateau State police command arrested a suspected spy for the terrorist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, while spying on policemen on parade at the Mobile Police Barracks, Sector 8, in Jos, Plateau State. The arrest of the unnamed middle-aged suspect followed recent complaints by members of the […]
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Headlines, Plateau
Friday, January 31st, 2014
A HUNTER of armed robbers, who gave his name as Shehu Musa Aljan, has arrested 16 suspected armed robbers, including Fulani and Berom bandits who specialize in cattle rustling in the crisis-ridden areas of Riyom and Barkin Ladi Local Government Areas of Plateau State. Riyom and Barkin Ladi councils of Plateau have been crisis-ridden for […]
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Headlines, Plateau, State News
Saturday, January 18th, 2014
Jos – A former governor of Plateau, Mr Michael Botmang,76, is dead. His son, Mr Dadung Botmang, said his father died at his Zawan country home in Jos South Local Government of Plateau at about 2 a.m. on Saturday after a long struggle with kidney disease. He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the […]
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General Politics, Headlines, Plateau, State News
Saturday, October 12th, 2013
Arthur Eze promised to buy the house for Mr. Lar’s family. The members of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, led by Bamanga Tukur, paid a condolence visit to the Abuja home of the pioneer chairman of the ruling party, Solomon Lar, only to be shocked that the late politician […]
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General Politics, Headlines, Plateau, State News, Top Stories
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Chief Solomon Lar | credits: File copy First civilian governor of Plateau State, Chief Solomon Lar, is dead. Lar passed on in a US hospital of what family sources described as old-age related ailment on Wednesday. He was aged 80. Commissioner for Information, Mr. Abraham Yiljap, who confirmed his death, told our correspondent that […]
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Governors, Headlines, Plateau, Rivers, State News
Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
I am of the opinion that the press should stop disturbing the Nigerian public with the inability of the state governors to conduct a mere election of 35 persons. They all have shown that they are not true democrats-both the person that changed the rule to suit him by being the umpire in an election […]