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The Executive Secretary of TETFund, Prof. Suleiman Elias Bogoro has commissioned four major projects at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University , Bauchi worth about N5 billion. The four projects fully funded by TETFund include the Central Laboratory Block and College of Medicine both in Gubi Campus. Others are the Clinical Complex, College of Medicine, ATBU Teaching Hospital and Centre for Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship Development in Tafawa-Balewa Local Government Area of Bauchi State. Speaking during the commissioning, Prof. Bogoro extolled the commitment of ATBU Management for ensuring speedy completion of the projects, urging them to effectively utilise them to enhance teaching and learning, which is the hallmark of […]

Rep. Dr. Simon Mwadkwon has called on the Berom and other Nationalities in Plateau State to be united, promoters of peace and harmonious living in the State. He said with peace and unity, progress and development are inevitable. He said genuine progress, growth and development can only be achieved in an atmosphere of peace and when the people are united. Dr. Mwadkwon also charged the people to be security conscious, vigilant and alert as well as assist with useful intelligence information to appropriate authorities in order to stem the rising insecurity that has become a national threat. While calling on Traditional, religious and political leaders to focus on serving the […]

The Nigerian Army troops of ‘Operation Lafiya Dole’ have prevented efforts by the Boko Haram insurgents to attack some soft targets in Borno State. The Nigerian Army Operations Media Coordinator, Col. Aminu Iliyasu, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, said the troops also continued to decimate the insurgent from different encounters across the North East. Iliyasu disclosed that the troops of 3 Battalion deployed in Gamborou-Ngala Local Government Area of Borno had on Jan. 18 repelled a Boko Haram attack on the Ngala Community. According to him, the insurgents sneaked into the peaceful community in five gun trucks, motorcycles and a number of foot soldiers through the rear […]

Lalong appeals for tolerance, peaceful co-existence, Says he would never allow anybody to target its citizens By Golok Nanmwa,Jos Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State yesterday appeal for tolerance, forgiveness and peaceful coexistence among the people of the state saying Plateau has emerged from the ashes of violence that engulfed the state some years back. He however said as a government, he will never allow anybody to target its citizens or threaten them simply because they are Christians or adherents of other faiths. Even if they have no religion, they have the God-given right to existence and should not be threatened by anybody. In his words “Being a citizen of […]

The official Investitures Ceremony of the 32 recipients of the Papal Knights of St. Gregory the Great Knights of St. Sylvester , Medal Benemerenti and Pro ecclesia et Pontifice medals holds tomorrow Saturday January 25, 2020. The ceremony will be performed by the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja Archdiocese and the Apostolic Administrator of the Catholic Archdiocese of Jos,Most Rev. Dr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama at the Divine Mercy Cathedral, Laminga, Jos by 10am It would be recalled that in November 2019 His Holiness, Pope Francis recognized the contributions of the 32 citizens of Plateau State to the development and enhancement of the Catholic faith with the awards. Among the recipients are […]

The executive secretary of the Plateau State Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board, Rev. Fr. George Gorap, has called on the Federal Ministry of Aviation to upgrade the Yakubu Gowon Airport, Jos, to international status so that the state could airlift intending Christian pilgrims straight from the airport to Israel. Gorap made this call recently in Abuja during an interview with newsmen. He added that apart from airlifting Christian pilgrims from the airport, it would also boost the tourism and agricultural potential of Plateau State. He thanked Governor Simon Lalong for his efforts and commitment in actualising the airport project, adding that the state has become the leading light as far as […]

The Family of Late Ropvil Daciya Dapel, a 200 Biology Student of University of Maiduguri, Borno State who was abducted while resuming school after the festivity on 9th January, 2020 and thereafter slain by the dreaded Boko Haram Terrorists has called on the Government and security agencies to put in place more measure towards bringing a permanent end to the rising insecurity bedeviling the Nation. They said government must do all within its powers to ensure that Nigeria is peaceful, safe and secured. Speaking on behalf of the family, Da David Daciya said though they are pained with the killing of their Son, Mr. Ropvil Daciya who was gruesomely murdered […]

PRESS RELEASE Thursday 23rd January, 2020 Once again we are in grievous mourning over the macabre execution of a bright and agile son of Plateau State Mr Daciya Ropvil Dalyep a native of Jing Pankshin Local Government Area, by Boko Haram in a vile video which surfaced on the internet on Wednesday 22nd January, 2020. The student of Biology Education Department of University of Maiduguri who was abducted on 9th January, 2020 on his way to Maiduguri where he schools, was one of us, and his death affects us all. While we feel the pain from the horror of the kind of death Ropvil suffered, we are now convinced beyond […]