The Plateau state government has set up a central planning committee for handing over and swearing-in of incoming government on May 29. The committee is to be inaugurated on Monday by Governor Simon Lalong at New Govermiment House, Rayfield, Jos. This was contained in a statement from the office of the secretary to the state…
Acknowledging the successes recorded in increasing immunization coverage and reducing infant deaths from vaccine preventable diseases in state, Governor Badaru Abubakar, has pledged to support an iNGO, New Initiatives – All Babies Are Equal Initiative (NI-ABAE) in its Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme. NI-ABAE is providing cash to mothers as incentives to encourage them to…
Plateau state governor, Caleb Mutfwang says no stone would be left unturned in the efforts towards addressing the security challenges facing the state. The governor said this in a broadcast to mark the country’s 63rd independence anniversary. The governor also granted pardoned to one prisoner while three others had had their sentences reduced. Mutfwang said…
Kaduna state governor, Mallam Nasiru El-Rufai has advocated for a collaboration with the Plateau state government, the military and stakeholders to tackle the security challenges facing the two states. Speaking when he paid a condolence visit to Governor Simon Lalong over the recent killings in Plateau state on Sunday in Jos, El-Rufai said the two…
Former deputy senate president, Ibrahim Mantu is dead. He was said to have died in the early hours of Tuesday in a private hospital in Abuja following an undisclosed ailment. He was aged 74. Mantu, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was elected as the senator representing Plateau central senatorial district in 1999….
The Nigeria Police on Thursday, said it has arrest the alleged mastermind of the March 28, 2022 attack on the Abuja-Kaduna passengers train. Many passengers were killed in the attack, several others were injured while 61 persons were abducted. All the abducted passengers were released at various intervals, with the latest batch freed after seven…
