The GrassRoots Watch Magazine

Restiveness that followed the arrest and subsequent bail of a Lebanese man living at Lebanese quarters in Jos-abattoir area alleged to be taking advantage of under age girls has been brought under control by joined security operatives. The Lebanese who was arrested yerterday and detained at the Abattoir Police outpost following a tip-off about his nefarious activities of sexual molestation of underaged girls he camps in his house, attracted youths in the area who got a hint that he has been released on bail. The youths thronged to the police outpost in their hundreds this afternoon demanding the Police to produce the said man. The under aged girls ranging from below 10 years to about 15 years numbering about 10 were brought to the Police post for debriefing, in sighting the innocent girls, the youths baricated the gate of the Police station refusing to allow the girls to be taken to the hospital until the accused Lebanese was brought out. The timely ...

In its quest to open up governance through public procurement, the Plateau State Government has developed and launched an electronic procurement portal (e-procurement portal) for its public procurements. The e-procurement portal which was deployed virtual on Friday through zoom by the Plateau State Bureau of Public Procurement was witnessed by many people across the globe. The general public who intend to do business with Plateau State Government can now log in to plateaustatebpp.com or plateaustatebpp.portal to view advertised contracts, works or services as well as apply. The deployment of the electronic portal  will usher in the e- procurement processes which will enhance good governance, transparency, accountability and value for money are what the electronic procurement will bring to bear on the lean finances of the State, the Director General Bureau for Public Procurement, Dogo said. The portal for e-procurement processes is in line with be...

The member representing Jos North/ Bassa Federal Constituency in the Federal House of Reps Hon Haruna Maitala is not dead as speculated by some reports  Our findings revealed that the legislator was involved in a ghastly motor accident along Abuja- Jos road where he and a driver sustained various degrees of injury but where rushed to an undisclosed hospital for treatment. Our investigation further revealed that Hon Maitala is said to be in a coma battling for his life but not dead  The law maker was reported to be on his way to Jos for his son's wedding scheduled for Friday  Details will come your way as soon as confirmation is ascertained 

RV FATHER AJANG EULOGIES LALONG ON ELEVATION AS BISHOP ON HIS BIRTHDAY The Catholic Rev Father David Ajang, Chaplain of Government House Chapel, jos has confirmed to The Grassroots Watch magazine his elevation to the positition of a Bishop.  When the news of his appointment filtered the air The Grassroots Watch magazine in company of some Publishers of PPA visited him for confirmation the priest said  "yes, the Holy Father, Pope Francis has appointed me as the second Bishop of the  diocese of Lafiya, the first Bishop is the present  Bishop of the arch Diocese of Jos Matthew Ishaya Audu he started the arch diocese about 20 years ago and today the Holy Father named me as his successor. That was officially published  in line with Catholic practices. It was published by the Pope himself 12  o'clock local time there which happens to be 11 o'clock here,  what they do after the Pope has announced it himself the others could go on air and that is w...

President Muhammadu Buhari  has ordered for the immediate dissolution of Local Government caretaker committees nationwide. Igbere TV reports that the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, asked state governors operating caretaker committees at local government level to immediately disband such committees and restore democratically elected representatives. According to Malami, caretaker committees were outrightly illegal and unconstitutional as they amount to a breach of the provisions of Section 7(1) of the 1999 constitution (as amended). This is as he described the practice of some state governors dissolving elected local government councils as unconstitutional, null and void and continued disobedience of the Supreme Court judgment of 9th December, 2016 in the case of Governor of Ekiti State & Ors vs Prince Sanmi Olubunmo & 13 Ors. Apparently identifying Oyo State as one of the concerned states, Malami had placed such request on Governor Seyi Mak...