Comfort Benjamin, a teenager living with her family in Jos, Plateau State, went out on May 22, a day to her 16th birthday, and never returned. Two days later, her corpse was found dumped on the street.
UPDATED: Ex-Chief of Defence Staff, Joshua Dogonyaro, laid to rest
Joshua Dogonyaro, a retired lieutenant general and former military administrator of Plateau, died at the age of 80 last month. 2 min read
The remains of a former Chief of Defence Staff, Joshua Dogonyaro, were laid to rest in Langtang, Plateau State, on Friday.
Mr Dogonyaro, a retired lieutenant general and former military administrator of Plateau State, died at the age of 80 last month.
According to his first son, Joseph Dogonyaro, he died after battling stroke at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (
At the wake service held on Friday, the Minister of Defence, Bashir Magashi; Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong; Former Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, amongst other dignitaries paid tribute to the deceased.
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Published 26 May 2021
THE Peoples Democratic Party zonal tour for Plateau Central was on Tuesday put on hold following an auto accident which claimed the life of the state Financial Secretary, Mrs Mary Adar Gar.
The PUNCH learnt that the tragic accident occurred on Monday evening in Mangu when a Vectra car rammed into the vehicle conveying the PDP leaders, who were returning to Jos from Shendam, where they had attended the party’s zonal tour for Plateau South.
The tour was in preparation for the forthcoming local government election in the state slated for October.
An eyewitness, Timothy Pam, said, “The impact of the accident threw the financial secretary, who was sitting at the back, out of the vehicle. Unfortunately, she was confirmed dead at the Jos University Teaching Hospital. The driver of the Vectra car was still unconscious when I left the hospital.”
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Tue May 25 2021
A mental health expert at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), Dr Aishatu Yusha’u Armaya’u, has revealed that only two per cent of people with psychiatric problems use orthodox mental health services in Nigeria.
Dr Armaya’u spoke at a zoom roundtable organised by Charis Healthcare and Community Support Initiative (Jos) funded by Rosa Luxemberg Stiftung. It had 57 participants from Nigeria and other countries, including Ghana, South Africa, Malasia and Dubai.
By Joseph Erunke
ABUJA–MEDICAL laboratory scientists in the country have alleged a subtle and systematic phasing out of members in tertiary hospitals through deliberate refusal of hospitals’ chief medical directors to employ professionals commensurate with needs analysis.
The laboratory scientists through their umbrella organisation,Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria,AMLSN,regretted that “while other professional cadres in hospitals are enjoying consistent employment and replacement of members, medical laboratory scientists have been denied employment in various tertiary health institutions.”
“In Jos University Teaching Hospital, for example, the last employment of medical laboratory scientists was way back in 2007”, the association alleged in a communiqué issued at the end of its 15th National Annual Public Health Lecture Series held in Abuja.