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By: Valentine Adese (JP), The Town Hall Engagement Campaign organized by Women’s Rights Advancement And Protection Alternative (WRAPA) in Bassa Local Government Council (LGC) of Plateau State, for the prevention, accountability for, Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) and the effective implementation of the Model Laws in Plateau State has been commended by participants. PARTICIPANTS According to the participants: The Police, Traditional Rulers, Civil Society Organizations (CSO), Rights Organizations, Leaders of Culture and Faith and the Media, the Town Hall Engagement is more an eye opener, as it enables participants to have more insight into the issues of domestic violence, the status of existing Laws and the need to create strategies in the prevention of VAWG in the implementation of the Model Laws in Plateau State, Nigeria. According to the Police Boss in the Local Government, the need to create a desk at the Police station to deal with issues relating to VAWG and the Model Laws...

By: Valentine Adese (JP), As the crisis and litigation in the Plateau State All Progressives Congress (APC) lingers, the group made up of APC Governorship Aspirants in the state, who are challenging the emergence of Dr. Nentawe Yilwatda, as the governorship candidate in the forthcoming 2023 election in the state and the legitimacy of the primary election processes of the party across the state, has advised their supporters to remain calm and patient and wait for the Court’s verdicts in all their legal actions. MR. JOHNSON The group’s Spokesperson, Mr. Johnson Podar in an exclusive interview with REALITY’s Editor-in-Chief, Prince Valentine Adese (JP) said, their call to the supporters is for them to realize that, irrespective of the cases they have in Court challenging one issue or process, they remain members of the party and must therefore continue to do things that would promote the party. PLATEAU STATE HIGH COURT Mr. Johnson said, the cases in Court are simply meant to address the i...

By: Valentine Adese (JP), The Judiciary in Plateau State has been commended by the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Aspirants in the state for striking out the Application for Joinder brought by Dr. Nentawe Yilwatda in the suit filed by “Prospective Delegates” of the party in the last Plateau APC primary elections. The Spokesperson of the Aspirants, Mr. Johnson Podar, who doubles as a Board Member of the Federal University of Agriculture Zuru, had disclosed that, all the Aspirants would have sought to be joined too, if the application of Dr. Nentawe was granted. MR. JOHNSON, SPOKESMAN OF THE APC ASPIRANTS You would recall that, the Plateau State High Court sitting in Jos, the state capital, had thrown out the application of the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Dr Nentawe Yilwatda, who was seeking to be joined in the Suit filed by the party’s “Prospective Delegates” who are challenging their disenfranchisement in the delegates’ elections for gros...

By: Valentine Adese (JP), The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) since the emergence of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as its Presidential candidate, seems unabated, as moves by some of the promoters of Atiku’s ambition, under the aegis of “PLATEAU FOR ATIKU MOVEMENT” in the Plateau State chapter has hit a dead end once again. You would recall that, REALITY had reported that, there are strong plans to black mail Sen. Jonah Jang, to abandon the protest-train of the 5G Governors in the party and bow to the call of the movement to support Atiku’s 2023 bid.   In a rejoinder to the press conference held yesterday at the Plateau NUJ Press Center by the “Plateau for Atiku Movement”, Mr. Clinton Garuba, the Media Consultant to Sen. (Dr) Jonah Davig Jang (CON), advised the group not to waste their time trying to black mail or attempt to hoodwink Jang to join their non-partisan posture, as the Constitution of the party still remains  supreme. He also questioned why the g...

By: Valentine Adese (JP), The 50 years celebration and Thanksgiving Service of, Hon. (Dr.) Timothy Golu, a former members of the Lower chambers of the National Assembly, then representing the good people of Pankshin/Kanke/Kanam (PKK) Federal Constituency of Plateau State, was graced by the “who is who” in the political circle in the state and across political parties. During the occasion that held at the Church Of Christ In Nations (COCIN) at Rayfield Jos, Dr. Golu, took the opportunity to call for forgiveness from whoever he may have offending in his journey so far, especially, within the partisan political corridors. Flanked by his wife, children, other immediate family members and Political Associates, Dr. Golu said he has forgiven whoever may have also offended him in the past, before he became 50. While giving an account of his humbly beginning and how his family struggled to get him educated, Dr. Golu said, each stage of his life in the past, drew him closer to God. “The events t...

By: Valentine Adese (JP), Human Rights Organizations (HROs) have risen to an alarm raised recently that, Death Threat Messages are been sent to Media Executives, Practicing Journalists and On-Air-Personalities (OAPs) in Plateau State. They have called on the Security outfits operating in the state and the State Government, to come clean and to the protection of these Journalists and Media Executives, who are merely doing their jobs and upholding their obligations as enshrined in Section 22 of the 1999 Constitution (As Amended). The Human Rights Organizations have also urged in their press statement on the issue made available to REALITY, the DSS and the Police  to boldly investigate the matter as the Inspector General of Police (IGP) would ordinarily do in order to bring the perpetrations to book in order to deter such threats in the future. MR. OSAMA You would recall that, the alarm recently raised concerns the Death Threat Messages sent to Mr. Osama Akpunonu and Mr. Ogidigboigbo  of ...

By: Valentine Adese (JP), Owing to limitation of time and the directive by the President of the Nigerian Federal High Court (FHC) that all pre-election matters must be determined within weeks, a Federal High Court in Jos Division has today, transferred the matter between Engr. Jack Dung Bot, (the running mate to, Amb. Yohana Margif), the Labour Party (LP), Edward Pwajok (SAN), the running mate to, Dr. Patrick Dakum and INEC to his superior, the Presiding Judge (PJ) in Court 1. All the Counsels in the matter, however, gave kudos to the decision of the presiding Judge, Hon. Justice Peter M. Mallone, during an on-the-spot interview at the Court premises. M.B. Abdullahi (Esq), Counsel to the Plaintiff (Engr. Jack Bot), in his reaction said, “Because of the time frame and the directive given by the President of the Federal High Court (FHC) that, all pre-election matters must be dispended with within the next weeks and that, any matter that has not been heard should be transferred to the tas...

OUR PROJECT REMAINS VALID AND CANNOT BE RE-AWARDED: BLENESON SERVICES NIG LTD (CONTRACTOR FOR LALONG LEGACY PROJECT) The State Government said the facts alleged by me are misleading, which of those facts are misleading? Is it that its executive council did not sit in order to attempt to re-award the said contract? Or that there is no pending litigation on the subject matter (the off shoot of which even the subcontractors have instituted a suit because they have been instigated to think that the companyhas been paid, when the government that has refused to pay the company)? or is it that the governor has never confirmed by himself by stating that ‘70%-80% of the job has been completed’? or is it that with the actions of the govt there won’t be more litigation? Or can the State Government show any genuine prove that it has paid money on the project to an account, either personal or thecompany’s for this project? 2.The State Government is being minimal with the truth by withholding valuab...

By: Valentine Adese (JP), The Governorship Primary election crisis rocking the Plateau State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has taken another turn, as a group, under the aegis of PLATEAU APC CONCERNED VANGUARD has raised an alarm of an ongoing plot to suspend Dr. Danyaro Sarpiya from the party. Making this public through a press statement, dated 1 st November, 2022, signed by one, Samson Pam as Chairman and Nicholas J. Fabian as Secretary, the group alleged that, the plot to suspend Dr. Sarpiya is coming because, he expressed his Civic Right by joining other 16 Aspirants in the botched contest, to challenge the outcome of the APC Governorship primary in the state in a Court of competent jurisdiction. “Our attention has been drawn to the purported plan by the Plateau Governor and the state party structure to suspend His Excellency, Dr. Danyaro Sarpiya, one of the APC Governorship Aspirant in Plateau State chapter from the party, for expressing his Constitutional right, ...