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Chief Dr Amos Gizo has payed a condolence visit to the Dachomo family on Saturday 26th June 2021 to commisurate with them after the demise of their mother Ngo Deborah Dachomo who passed on at 88. In his condolence message to the family, Gizo said  In this generation for us to live as long as Ngo did we have to depend on the grace of God Gizo stated that "One testimony  i had given about her, it comfortably gives me the encourage  to say we know she is  with The Lord, because we trained you people in the way of the Lord and we can see it from the family" "God did bring us together and we shall continue to remain as one family, anything that happens to your family I feel it as if it happens to my family because of the long relationship we have shared, not just because of the Church" Gizo said. Continuing he added that Mama has done her own part and has gone to rest, my prayer is when our life is done here on earth we will go and mee...

Following complains from some irregularities that trailed the just concluded Local Government primary elections in Plateau State, the All Progressive Congress (APC) has appealed for calm. According to a press released signed and made available to The Grassroots Watch by Mallam Bashir Musa Sati, State Secretary, Caretaker Committee reads in part; "Following the successful conduct of the APC primary elections, our attention has been drawn to an unauthorized circulation of fake list of purported  winners of the elections on social media" Members of the party are therefore called upon to disregard the message and avoid making statements that will promote the agenda of mischief makers. Sati disclosed that this clarification has become necessary in order to ensure that no member of the party is misled. He further stated that the APC management will use the appropriate channels of communication to announce the results of the party primaries in due...

Dr. Makut Simon Macham  By Director of Press & Public Affairs to the Governor, Plateau State 24th June 2021 Governor Simon Bako Lalong and his Nasarawa State Counterpart Abdullahi Sule were among thousands of guests that joined the Catholic faithful for the ordination of Most Revd. David Ajang as Bishop of Lafia Diocese.  Governor Lalong who was accompanied by his wife Regina and a high powered delegation from Plateau State comprising of the Speaker of the House of Assembly Abok Nuhu Ayuba, some members of the State Executive Council, Traditional Rulers led by the Gbom Gwom Jos Da Jacob Gyang Buba, and prominent elders said Plateau State was highly delighted by the appointment of Most Revd. David Ajang as a Bishop.  Lalong said "Having worked closely with him as the Chaplain of the Government House Chapel in Jos for the past six years, I can testify about his deep passion for the salvation of the souls of men. Indeed, he has endeared himself to...

The APC on the Plateau has successfully released sensitive and non sensitive materials in readidiness to conduct Local Government primary elections in the State. Though the materials were released late evening today but the party is hopeful that primary elections would still hold today. Commissioners who are the returning officers were swapped from their local government of origin. Addressing the media after the distribution of sensitive election materials on the instruction of the Plateau State Acting Chairman, Barr Musa Sati,the State Secretary of the APC pointed out that the important exercise of the distribution of the election materials is successfully made tothe17 LGAs, thus, the party primaries will be done without hitches.  Sati continued that though the election is by direct and not indirect system of voting, that is option A4, there is room for consensus that must be followed by confirmation of the the consensus via affirmation. The Pla...

Each time a loved one dies the family, loved ones and well wishers are thrown into mourning, but for Pa Andrawus Taple Banle his passing into glory was greeted with celebrations for what can be described as a life well lived having lived for 106 fruitful years on earth. The demise of Pa Taple came at a time life expectancy has dropped to about 40 due to so many factors ranging from poor health, insecurity, poverty and so on. When Pa Taple was laid to rest on FFriday June 18th at his country home in Pankshin after a funeral service at COCIN Vel, Pankshin, the family celebrated his life and times having lived up to 106 years, a longevity hardly seen around. The late Pa Taple was a missionary, a builder, a civil servant and a community leader who has touched so many lives in positive ways. He had raised what an average Nigerian would called a successfully happy family that is united and each prospering in divers fields of endeavo...

A former governor of Zamfara State and a Presidential aspirant, Senator Yerima Amed Bakura has identified poverty, under policing, undue emphasis on paper qualification as part of the bane of Nigeria's woes. Bakura stated this in Jos,Wednesday while on a private friendly visit to Chief Dr Amos Gizo, a gubernatorial aspirant in Jos plateau State. Bakura opined that when elected as the President of Nigeria come 2023 he will adopt a strategy that will bring the country out of the woods. "For example, the insecurity that we have, we need a robust Police, policing, once we can have Police that are well equipped, the number of Police we have in Nigeria are so inadequate. Look at Ethiopia with a population of about fifty million people they have over one million Police but in Nigeria I was told we have about three hundred and seventy two thousand Police, this is grossly inadequate. So first thing that we need to do is to employ more youths, able bo...