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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 […]
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Headlines, Plateau, Raw Politics, State News
Thursday, August 15th, 2013
Plateau State Governor, Mr. Jonah Jang, has dragged his predecessor, Senator Joshua Dariye, before the court. The governor is demanding a N10bn compensation for libel and defamation of character. Joined in the suit is Beacon Newspapers, published in Jos, the state capital. In a suit filed at Jos High Court, Jang, through his counsel, Sunday […]
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Governors, Headlines, Plateau, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, August 13th, 2013
THERE are indications that the two factional chairmen of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Rivers State’s Rotimi Amaechi and Plateau’s Jonah Jang, may be asked to step down for a neutral governor as part of moves to resolve the lingering NGF crisis. The PUNCH learnt on Tuesday that this was one of the decisions reached at […]
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Governors, Plateau, State News
Monday, August 12th, 2013
THERE are indications that the faction of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum led by Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang is already in search of peace in the Forum. “We need to settle down and settle our differences. It is not portraying us in good light before Nigerians and the international community. We need to put a […]
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Governors, Plateau, Rivers, State News
Sunday, August 11th, 2013
By SONI DANIEL Factional Chairman of Nigeria’s Governors Forum (NGF), Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State, and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, leading a group of 19 governors, appeared back in the trenches, yesterday. Jang and Amaechi renewed the NGF crisis after the former scheduled a meeting of governors for Abuja today. The Rivers […]
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Governors, Latest Politics, Plateau, Rivers, State News
Saturday, July 6th, 2013
Some fundamental issues are critical to the resolution of the ongoing crisis in the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF). The most fundamental of the issues is the process of emergence of the leadership, the chairman. What is the rule for his emergence? Is it by consensus or by election? What is the precedent concerning the emergence? […]
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Headlines, Plateau, State News
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013
By Taye ObateruJos — The death toll from last week’s attack on communities in Langtang South Local Government of Plateau State has risen to 70, while no fewer than 7,000 have been displaced.Member representing Langtang North/South Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Beni Lar, who confirmed this during a visit to the affected parts, […]
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General Politics, Governors, Plateau, Rivers
Friday, June 28th, 2013

A drama played out at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Thursday as the two governors laying claim to the chairmanship of the factionalised Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and Jonah Jang of Plateau State, sat side by side at the National Economic Council meeting, presided over by Vice […]