On Friday, January 12, the Supreme pronounced Caleb Mutfwang as the duly elected governor of Plateau state after a fierce legal battle. Mutfwang returned to Jos, the Plateau capital amid tumultuous welcome by supporters and well-wishers. The celebration started from the Yakubu Gowon Airport, Heipang, to the city of Jos.
By Andrew Agbese Let me begin by paraphrasing the words of Prof. PLO Lumumba, the former director of the Kenyan Anti-Corruption Commission by saying, if you ask the average Plateau man or woman, what ethnic group its most respected political leader, Joseph Gomwalk, the late police commissioner, belonged to, they’ll most definitely tell you they…
Several people have been reportedly killed while over 30 others were said to have been abducted by bandits in Suka Kahuta village, along Jere -Abuja road. The incident was said to have occurred on Friday night when the bandits raided the community located near the SCC banana farm on Jere-Abuja road. It was learnt that…
Nentawe Yilwatda, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the March 2023, governorship election in Plateau state has congratulated Caleb Mutfwang, for his affirmation as governor of the state by the Supreme Court. Yilwatda’s legal battle against the election Mutfwang started at the election petition tribunal. The petition was dismissed at the tribunal,…
President Bola Tinubu has suspended all administered Social Investment Programmes by the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA). The Director Information, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Segun Imohiosen, announced this in a statement on Friday . The statement said the President’s decision was in view of the “ongoing investigations of alleged malfeasance in…
Former vice-president, Aitku Abubakar, has commended the supreme court judgments affirming the election of governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The apex court, on Friday, affirmed the election of governors Bala Mohammed (Bauchi), Dauda Lawal (Zamfara), and Caleb Mutfwang (Plateau) who were elected on the platform of the PDP. The court had earlier on…
