Governor Simon Lalong has ordered security agencies to fish out perpetrators of Sunday attacks on villages in the Mangu and Bokkos local government areas.
The 19-member committee on census publicity can mobilise citizens for the all-important national project.
A magistrates’ court in Jos has sentenced a 43-year-old labourer, Dachung Adamu, to three months’ imprisonment for impersonating a police officer.
On Wednesday, an area court in Jos sentenced Japhet Shualka, 27, a security guard and two others to 10 years’ imprisonment each.
A Jos court Tuesday sentenced a bus conductor, Suleiman Mohammed, 22, to six months’ imprisonment for unlawful possession of two knives.
“When I told him of my abduction some years back, he said, ‘Don’t be worried. God is always there to guide his own’.”
He wished the Christian faithful a fruitful celebration.
The victims were residents who had fled their villages to state-run shelters following previous attacks that gripped the vast agrarian region in central Nigeria.
Jos Electricity Distribution says it has dismissed 20 employees for corrupt practices.
Security operatives have sealed off the Plateau State House of Assembly complex’s entrance as the speakership’s tussle deepens.
