A former Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly Hon. Istifanus Mwansat, and his other colleagues today at the Jos high court premises allegedly the Jos bureau chief of New Nigerian Newspapers, also a Liberty TV reporter, Buhari Bukar Bello Speaking to African Drum, the Journalist said he was at the State high court 6, with other colleagues to cover a suit filed by the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) against the former Speaker and his colleagues; Hon. John Clark, Hon. Joyce Ramnap, Hon. Joe Dawan, Hon. Dio Lamul, Hon. Jibrin Michael and Hon. Dalyop Mancha, over an alleged…
Author: Ebuka Oka
Plateau State Polytechnic Students yesterday staged a peaceful protest to demand what they termed failure of the school authority to provide students with their Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) pin number. An eye witness account who spoke on condition of anonymity said the students had to stage the peaceful demonstration in order to register their displeasure over what the students said was the inability of students to generate Retrieval Remittance Reference (RRR) even after the payment of the sum of N1,500 per student at the point of registration. Some of the students who spoke to our correspondents lamented that…
The Governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed reiterated that the 16 local government councils in the State are financially autonomous. The governor, who said this while fielding questions from journalists during an interactive radio programme, tagged ‘The Governor Explains’, noted that the LGs receive and control their federal allocation directly without interference from the state government. He explained that contrary to public perception that the state shares account with the local governments, the allocation from the federal government goes directly into the joint account of the 16 local governments who then appropriate the monies autonomously. Continuing, he emphasized that…
Plateau State Police Command has promoted a total of 144 officers of the command from one level to another while dismissing a police officer for killing a civilian. Even as the commissioner of police declared that 304 suspects were arrested within the month of July and August, with 235 criminal cases. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Peter Ogunyanwo who disclosed this at a parley with newsmen in Jos said the command cannot fold it’s arms and allow some reckless police officers tarnish the image of the force. “Police under my watch must be human in dealing with the public, that was…
Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has approved the construction of sixteen major roads across rural communities in the state at the cost of over thirty seven billion naira. State Commissioner for Works and Transport Pam Dongs disclosed this yesterday after the state executive council meeting presided over by Governor Simon Lalong at the Government House in Little Rayfield . He said the state government is determined to provide dividend of democracy to the people of Plateau . “Our governor is determined to give the best to citizens of the state at all times .” “The Lalong led administration would…
Plateau State Government has disclosed that it has received $1.5 million for its Save One Million Lives programme for Results (SOML) funded by the Federal Government and World Bank. The state Programme Manager of the Save One Million Lives for Results, Mr Philimeon Dagwa, disclosed this on Monday in Jos at the opening of the Integrated Supportive Supervision training workshop it organised for 82 health workers in the state. Dagwa explained that the grant was received through the state Ministry of Health for implementation of the programme. Accroding to him, SOML provides incentives based on achievement of results (health outcomes)…
Work has commenced at two Dams that are located at Heipang, Barkin Ladi Local Government Area and Gindiri, Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State. Activities resumed at the sites after a decade of work stoppage by the Federal Government. For over a decade, work was suspended by the Federal Government at the Dams. The resumption of work is as a result of lobby efforts undertaken by the Plateau State Government under the leadership of Governor Simon Bako Lalong and consequently the projects were eventually captured among other 30 projects embarked by the Federal Ministry of Water Resources for priority funding from…
The Middle-Belt Youth Council has express their dissatisfaction with the level of hate filled speeches dish out by some misguided groups of people in the country. In a press release read by the President of the council, Emma Zopmal, at the plateau state chapter of the Nigeria Union Of Journalist (NUJ) secretariat in Jos, the council raised a number of national issues. Read full text below PRESS RELEASE BY NATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF MIDDLE BELT YOUTH COUNCIL ON 25th AUGUST, 2017 AT THE SECRETARIAT OF THE NIGERIAN UNION OF JOURNALIST, JOS. Our fellow citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, gentle…
Plateau State Governor, Barrister Simon Bako Lalong on August 22, 2017 led a delegation from Plateau state to visit Dangote Group of Companies at Marble House, Ikoyi Lagos. They were received at the Corporate Headquarters of the company by Alhaji Aliko Dangote, GCON. Governor Lalong said the visit was intended to invite Dangote to come and invest in the state in the area of Agriculture with emphasis on wheat, rice, tomato and Irish potatoes on large scale Production, Solid Mineral Exploration and processing, the Establishment of Agro based industries and capital injection on a public private partnership into the revitalization…
Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has visited the demonstration farm of the Yuan’s Seed Company in Changsha, Hunan Province in China to explore the prospects of increased farm yield arising from improved seedlings that would boost agriculture production in Benue State and Nigeria as a whole When the Vice General Manager of the company, Mr. Yao Zhenqiu, explained that with the hybrid rice they harvest as much as 15 tons or 150 bags per hectare in China and 13 tons or 130 bags in other countries including Nigeria, Governor Ortom could not hide his excitement. He requested a detailed proposal from…