Plateau killings: Shun biases, JNI charges security agencies
Jama’at Nasril Islam, JNI, has urged Nigerian security agencies to shun all forms of biases and discriminations in the discharge of their statutory responsibilities.
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Tag: Plateau killings
Plateau killings: Buratai charges troops to be aggressive, decisive against bandits
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai has charged troops of `Operation Safe Haven’ to be aggressive and decisive in dealing with armed bandits and other criminal elements operating on the Plateau.
Read More Plateau killings: IDPs plead with NECO to re-conduct SSCE, BECE
Some candidates of the National Examination Council (NECO), who could not write some papers due to the recent Plateau killings in the state have pleaded with the council to re-conduct the examinations.
Read More Plateau killings: Military task force denies allegation of connivance with assailants
The military task force in Plateau State, Operation Safe Haven, OPSH, has denied allegation that it aided and abated recent attacks in some villages in Plateau State, which claimed many lives.
Read MorePlateau killings: Overhaul security architecture, Makinde tells Buhari
IMMEDIATE past Prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence Sunday Ola Makinde, Thursday, restated his call for the total overhaul of the nation’s security architecture, arguing that it has become obvious that the nation may not be able to cope with any external aggression with the current state of security.
Read More Plateau killings: Arrested suspects’ll be tried in Jos, says Lalong
Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State, yesterday said suspects arrested in connection with the killings in some communities in the state would be prosecuted in Jos, the state capital, as against the practice of transferring suspects to Abuja for trial.
Read More PFN condemns Plateau killings
CHRISTIANS in the South-South have condemned the killings by herdsmen in Plateau State, saying it is painful that the Federal Government had not taken any decisive step to put an end to the reoccurring killings in several Northern states.
Read More Gbong Gwom Jos on peace and conflict resolution
Conflicts that have occurred in Plateau particularly Jos and environs cannot be divorced from the impact of colonial rule and tin mining
Read More Plateau killings: Military task force relocates hqtrs to Barkin Ladi
The internal military task force in Plateau State, Operation Safe Haven, OPSH, has relocated its operational command base to Barkin Ladi Local Government Area.
Read More PLATEAU CARNAGE: My father, mother, wife, our four children were shot, killed and burnt – Ezekiel Del, survivor
Before they set the house on fire, they ransacked and packed what they could carry; my cameras and laptops were taken. They were looking for me but I was not in the house
Read More Plateau Killings: Buhari must accept responsibility, PDP tells BMO
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described as diversionary the allegations by the Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) that it sponsored the killings last Sunday in Plateau State. The party said rather than shielding the President, BMO should tell its principal, President Muhammadu Buhari, to live up to the responsibility of his office by stopping the bloodletting and callous murder of innocent citizens in various parts of the country.
Read More Jos justice
If President Buhari wants to keep his job and regain the trust of the many Nigerians who have lost faith in him, he had better make serious moves aimed at stemming the dangerous tides that threaten to engulf his administration
Read More Plateau killings: Stop crocodile tears – Presidency tells PDP
The Presidency has advised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop what it described as “crocodile tears’’ over sad and unfortunate killings in Plateau over the weekend.
Read More The politics of bloodletting
People will not take the law into their hands if law enforcement and the justice system do not give them reason to take laws into their hands
Read More Plateau killings: Obasanjo seeks identification of cause of problems
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has asked the federal and Plateau State governments to identity the root cause(s) of insecurity and deal with them so that people would get reprieve from the incessant violence plaguing the land.
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