No fewer than 1,801 persons have been confirmed killed and 50,212 others displaced in recent attacks in Plateau state. The Committee on Resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, set up by the Plateau Government, made the confirmation on Monday. AVM Bala Danbaba (retired), Chairman of the committee, presented his report to Gov. Simon Lalong on […]
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The Plateau State government has confirmed two cases of Lassa fever with three unconfirmed cases being investigated at the Lassa Fever Treatment centre, Irrua Edo State. Plateau State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Kunden Deyin at a press briefing in Jos said seven samples were earlier taken to Irrua in which two returned positive. Deyin said […]
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For about three hours on tuesday, a witness in the trial of former Plateau State Governor Joshua Dariye gave details of how he allegedly shared to political associates, the N1.162 billion he obtained from the Ecological Fund in the name of the state. Reeling out names and figures from documents submitted to the court, including […]
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CHIEF Judge Pius Damulak of Plateau said in Jos on Monday that judges sit on stools while litigants sit on bare floor in many rural courts in the State. Damulak made the remark when the state’s Commissioner for Justice, Mr Jonathan Mawiyau, visited him. “The judiciary is the most sensitive among the three arms of […]
Read More ABOUT nine years after he was charged before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, former Plateau State Governor Joshua Dariye’s trial for alleged money laundering opened yesterday. The prosecution called its first witness, who told the court how Dariye allegedly diverted the state’s N1.126billion ecological funds. Dariye is being tried before […]
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