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The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 3 Division, Major General Folusho Oyinlola, has pledged a fair and just approach to Plateau State’s security challenges. He made this commitment during a courtesy visit to Governor Caleb Mutfwang at…

Former Plateau State Governor Joshua Dariye is down with kidney failure, The Nation learnt yesterday. Dariye is hospitalised at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada. Dariye was sent to a 14-year jail term (later…

A Member of British House of Lords, the Honourable Baroness Caroline Cox recently concluded a humanitarian fact-finding mission to Nigeria where thousands of Christians have reportedly been killed in escalating attacks led by Fulani…

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has reduced the 14 years’ imprisonment sentence passed on former Governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, to 10 years. More details will follow…

The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Kpotum Idris has ordered the removal of the Commissioner for Police in Plateau State, Mr. Undie Adie. The spokesperson for the Plateau State Police Command, DSP Matthias Tyopev announced  the…

Eleven people were reportedly killed and twelve others injured after an attack on Lo Pamyet Dewi community in Du District of Jos South Local Government Area. The deadly attack was carried out by gun-wielding suspected Fulani herdsmen on…

Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, on Wednesday, killed at least eight persons and burnt 95 houses in fresh attack in Plateau State, according to the Police State Command. The incident took place in Abonong and Zayit villages of…

Plateau State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) says a total of 38, 051 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are taking refuge in 31 camps in the state following recent violence. She said that the IDPs were victims of the June 23 and 24…

The Nigerian Union of Journalists has berated President Muhammadu Buhari over the “recent mass killings of innocent and defenseless citizens in Riyom, Barkin Ladi and Jos South Local Government areas of the state”. NUJ made the…

The Nigerian Roundtables Series, a socio-cultural organisation of Southern Nigerians in Diaspora and Nigeria, has condemned the recent attacks in Jos, Plateau State of Nigeria. Hundreds of innocent lives, including children, were…