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  • Water Scarcity in Plateau State?
    October 26, 2011, No comments

    BY V. AL-PEA Nearly seventy-five percent of the earth is composed of water. In the human system, that number rises to eighty percent. This figures demonstrate what an essential role water plays in the natural world and within our own physic ...

  • Lecturers Resume Strike As Students Protest
    October 11, 2011, No comments

    BY V. AL-PEA Students of the Plateau state government owned tertiary institutions converged at the main entrances of their schools as they peacefully protest the resumption of strike by their lecturers. At the Plateau State Polytechnic Jos ...

  • Youth & Idleness; Who Is To Blame?
    October 11, 2011, No comments

    BY V. AL-PEA Like a cankerworm, the skyrocketing rate of unemployment in Nigeria has eaten deeply into the fabric of our society. Year in, year out, successive governments often make promises about creating job opportunities for the teeming ...

  • Government Workers Resume Strike
    October 6, 2011, No comments

    Thursday 29th September, 2011. By V. AL-PEA The Plateau State Government workers have this morning resumed their suspended strike. The workers who are demanding the implementation of the 18,000 naira minimum wage have declared that this tim ...

  • Special Committee on Peace Building Convenes
    September 28, 2011, No comments

    On Monday 26th September, the Special Committee on Peace Building invited various communities within the Jos metropolis for a parley on how to end the incessant killings on the Plateau. The seven-man committee was recently inaugurated on th ...

  • Ties Between Security Forces and Boko Haram?
    September 28, 2011, No comments

    By V. AL-PEA The Federal Government is now investigating several security chiefs under suspicion of having alliances with Boko Haram. The suspicion arose after Ali Tishau, who was under police custody for allegations of terrorism, and a fol ...

  • SHARIA BANKING!
    September 14, 2011, No comments

    Editorial Along with coining the wrong name for Islamic banking, there are some critical issues that have been left out of the debate to introduce this financial system to Nigeria. Instead of calling it Islamic banking, it should be called ...

  • Zamfara State Court Issues Cruel Shariah Sentence
    September 13, 2011, No comments

    By Public Information Project Management (PIPROM) on 9/10/2011 The wrists of Auwalu Abubaka(23) and Lawalli Musa(22) would be amputated in public, a court in Zamfara State in Northern Nigeria have ruled. The sentence would be carried out ac ...

  • JOS BOMB EXPLOSIONS
    September 12, 2011, No comments

    As violence continues in Northern Nigeria and the Middle Belt, two bombs exploded in Jos on Sunday September the 11th. The bombs, which were placed about 35 meters apart at a popular social spot in West of Mines, went off alternately. The f ...

  • 54 PEOPLE ARRESTED!
    September 12, 2011, No comments

    54 PEOPLE PEOPLE ARRESTED! By V. AL-PEA About 54 persons have been arrested in connection with the unabated grisly killings in Jos. The Commissioner for Information and immediate former General Manager of the state owned radio and televisio ...