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Director General of National Institute of Policy and strategic Studies, Kuru in Jos, Plateau State, Professor Habu Shuiabu Galadima is dead. In a statement signed by Brigadier Gen CFJ Udaya (rtd), Secretary/Director of…

Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has tested positive for COVID-19 and gone into self-isolation on Thursday, December 17. It would be recalled that in the wake of the pandemic, Chief of Staff to Dalong, Noel Donjur tested positive…

Governor of Plateau state, Simon Lalong has revealed that public and private properties valued at N75 billion were lost to looters in the aftermath of the recent #EndSARS protest. The Governor made this disclosure during an interactive…

Chief of Staff to the Governor of State, Noel Donjur has tested positive for COVID-19, it emerged on Friday. This comes barely 48 hours Commissioner for Commerce and Industry in the State, Abe Aku, tested positive for the virus.…

The late Senator Ignatius Longjan Senator Ignatius Longjan, the lawmaker representing Plateau South Senatorial District in the upper chamber of the National Assembly is dead. Until his death, the 75-year-old lawmaker was a member of the…

Two gunmen to represent the gunmen in Plateau killing The Plateau State Police Command has said gunmen, suspected to be herdsmen, on Thursday, have killed 12 people during an attack on Kunben village in Kombun District of Mangu Local…

The Joint Union of Plateau State Owned Tertiary Institutions (JUPTI) has embarked on an indefinite strike over non-payment of five months salary arrears. The action followed a letter dated Aug. 23 and signed by JUPTI Chairman and…

There is anxiety in Plateau State over the plot by some fifth columnists to renew the farmers-herders clash. The said plot was designed to disrupt the relative peace being enjoyed in the state. It was learnt that those…

Amadu Atajan, an 18-year-old secondary school-leaver has died after he was allegedly tortured by some soldiers attached to the Special Task Force, Sector 7, Sha District, in the Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State. Atajan,…

The Chief Imam of Bachi in Riyom LGA of Plateau State, Alhaji Abdullahi Abubakar was brutally murdered by unknown gunmen on Wednesday. The deceased was popularly known for mobilising attendance of peace meetings between the Berom and…

President Muhammmadu Buhari is planning to reorganise the security apparatus in lieu of the spate of killings in parts of the country. The speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, quoted Buhari as disclosing this today…

The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Ibrahim Idris, has deployed a Special Intervention Force to Plateau State to restore peace in Barkin-Ladi, Riyom, Jos South local government areas and other flash points in the state. 86 people…

Two days before the Saturday massacre of mainly Christian mourners in Barkin Ladi, Plateau State, four Fulani cattle traders were murdered in the same area. The Saturday killings led to the death of at least 86 people, according to…

The Plateau State Government has imposed a dusk to down curfew in three local government areas of the state, following escalation of the Barkin Ladi violence to Jos South Local Government Area. A statement by the Secretary to the…

Joshua Dariye, former governor of Plateau state, has been found guilty of six counts out of the 23 counts of corruption filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Dariye was accused of diverting over…