A High Court sitting in Jos, the Plateau State capital, has granted bail to the former governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang and another accused person. The former governor, Jang, is standing trial for misappropriation of state funds during his tenure in office. The Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, had in 2016 established and constituted […]
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The driver of an 18-seater public transport has died, and 27 others injured in an accident that occurred in Jos. The Federal Road Safety Corps confirmed the incident, which happened on Sunday. Andrew Bala, the Public Education Officer, FRSC in Plateau, said the 18-seater bus belonging to Gombe mass transit, conveying mostly students collided with […]
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The Plateau government has declared Thursday a work-free day to enable residents welcome President Muhammadu Buhari on a one-day working visit to the state. The Head of Service, Izam Azi, announced this on Tuesday in Jos, after an emergency State Executive Council meeting. “The holiday will afford civil servants and other citizens the opportunity to […]
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Two people have been confirmed dead after a petrol tanker exploded in a filling station in Jos. It was revealed that four vehicles and four petrol tankers also caught fire. The inferno started inside the filling station along Ring-Bauchi Road in Jos North local government at weekend around 10pm when the filling station workers were […]
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Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have killed at least six people in Taagbe, a village in Bassa local government area of Plateau state. Sunday Yari, a witness, said among those killed were five adults and a teenager. He said the attackers, who came with sophisticated weapons, moved from one house to another. “They razed down […]
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Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau state, has relaxed the dusk-to-dawn curfew in Jos, the state capital. Lalong had imposed the curfew to avoid attacks on Igbo residents, following the clash between suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and some people of northern extraction in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. In a statement on […]
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The Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong has directed an immediate imposition of curfew from dusk to dawn (6pm – 6am) within the Greater Jos – Bukuru Metropolis, until further notice. Samuel, Emmanuel Nanle, Director, Press & Public Affairs to the governor said in a statement that the directive followed “sudden build up of tension […]
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Fire has gutted the Jos transmission station through which electricity is being distributed to the fours states – Plateau, Bauchi, Benue and Gombe – served by the Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC). NAN reports that the fire, which started around 5pm on Tuesday, razed down the facility, a transformer 150MVA 300/132 KV, located along Zaria […]
Continue ReadingArmed robbers reportedly attacked a convoy of bullion vans belonging to the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, at Hawan Kibo, along Jos – Abuja road on Tuesday, killing two policemen in the process. It was gathered that the bullion vans and their convoy of armed mobile police escorts had left Jos in the early hours […]
Continue ReadingArmed robbers on Thursday invaded the Jos Zonal office of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), broke all the offices and carted away valuable items. The robbers, who scaled the office’s fence around 3.30 a.m., tied the security man on duty before carrying out their operations. Among the items stolen were NAN’s official camera, a […]
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