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The Plateau State Command of the Nigerian Police Force says that no fewer than 86 persons have been killed with 221 houses completely burnt down during the Christmas Eve attacks by gunmen in Plateau State. A statement by the Command's spokesperson, Alfred Alabo, the attacks were carried out by the assailants in 15 communities of Bokkos and Barkin Ladi Local Government Areas of the state. Alabo, in the statement issued on Tuesday on behalf of the State Commissioner of Police, Okoro Alawari, ...

President Bola Tinubu has directed security agencies to find and apprehend all the assailants involved in the attacks on Bokkos and Barkin-Ladi local government areas of Plateau State on Christmas Eve.   Tinubu strongly condemned the “heinous and brutal attacks” that have claimed over 90 lives and seen the burning of several houses.   

  A human rights group, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has expressed dismay over the ‘renewed killing of Christians across the country by Fulani jihadists while security agencies watch without action’.   It described the massacre of residents of Plateau communities including children and women as unacceptable and warned security agencies that the continued massacre of defenceless citizens and Christian communities will continue to deepen hate a...

The leadership of the Nigerian Baptist Convention (NBC) has postponed its proposed Christmas celebration scheduled to hold on December 27 over the fresh deadly attacks in Plateau State.   SaharaReporters earlier reported that the Plateau State Command of the Nigeria Police Force confirmed that no fewer than 86 persons were killed with 221 houses completely burnt down during the Christmas Eve attacks by gunmen.  

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The Plateau State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, says it has deployed 2,500 personnel ahead of the Christmas and New Year

The Plateau State Command of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has said that there are 129 inmates on death row in the custodial centres in the state. Godfrey Longdiem, the command’s spokesman, who disclosed this on Sunday, said the figure consisted of 128 males and one female. He further said, “We also have 700 inmates…

The Command's Public Relations Officer, Godfrey Longdiem, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.

The Plateau State Police Commissioner, Okoro Julius, on Tuesday, said he has arrested officers who extorted N100,000 from complainants in Jos, the state capital. Daily Trust reports that the arrested officers are attached to the anti-kidnaping unit of the state's police command. The arrest of the police operatives followed an allegation of N500,000 extortion from…

A young man in his early thirties, Mr. Fwinbe Thomas, was mobbed to death in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State by some mob suspected to be