Tag: Plateau State

Tension in Jos community as angry youths loot fertiliser, farm inputs

Aminu Imam

The Plateau Agricultural Development Programme (PADP) in Dogon-Dagi has been invaded by angry youths in Jos. This is coming barely hours after the state government imposed 24-hour curfew on two Plateau councils on Saturday. It was learnt that the angry youths including women are carting away bags of fertiliser and other farm inputs. According to report, hundreds of people mostly youths and women were seen carrying and loading the agricultural inputs out of the premises for keep and possibly selling to prospective buyers. Recall that thousands of people had earlier…

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Prison Attack: Fleeing inmate rearrested in Plateau village

Ishaku Yohanna

One out of the six inmates who escaped after an attack by gunmen on the premises of the High Court in Plateau State has been rearrested. Troops of Operation Safe Haven deployed at Rarin-Shou village on Friday rearrested the inmate who is from the Jos Correctional Centre. The Commander of Operation Safe Haven, Major General Chujwuemeka Okonkwo said the manhunt launched by troops of the task force to search for the escapees turned out positive with the arrest of Ibrahim Mohammed while the search for others is still ongoing. The…

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