President Muhammadu Buhari has met behind closed doors with Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau in the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday in Abuja. Speaking to State House correspondents at the end of the meeting, the governor said he updated the president on the security developments in Plateau. He said President Buhari pledged that support would ...

The Presidency has condemned the Saturday attacks on travellers from a religious event in Bauchi, passing through Rukuba, near Jos, Plateau. A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on Saturday in Abuja, regretted the reported deaths of at least 22 persons with several others injured as ...

Twenty-five travelers have been confirmed killed and 14 others injured along Rukuba road in Jos North local government area of Plateau state on Saturday morning. The victims, who were reportedly travelling from Bauchi en-route Jos to Ikare in Ondo state on Saturday morning, ran into a crowd of sympathisers that were in procession for the ...

Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau has urged the 2020 Christian pilgrims to Jordan to pray for the nation to overcome its security challenges while in the Holy Land. Lalong also urged the pilgrims to pray for the improvement of the nation’s economy. He made the call while officially flagging off the 2020 Christian Pilgrimage on Saturday ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday called for concerted efforts to end insecurity currently bedeviling the country. The president made the call in a message which he sent to a Thanksgiving Mass held in honour of the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, in Jos to commemorate her first anniversary in office. In ...

The Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, has donated M50 million as assistance to Sokoto state government and victims of the Sokoto Central Market inferno that occurred last week. Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti, announced the donation when he visited the scene of the fire disaster in Sokoto on Tuesday. Accompanied by the Chairman of the Northern ...

The Northern Governors Forum has explained to President Muhammadu Buhari, why the region have kicked against the ban of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS. The Chairman of the Forum and Plateau state governor, Simon Lalong told Buhari on Thursday in Abuja, that SARS operatives had helped the northern region to tackle insecurity in some states. ...