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Jos Again?

Published December 2, 2008, 4:43 pm, This Day

If it is quiet in Jos today, it is probably because of the reported timely intervention by President Umaru Yar’Adua stopping plans by Governor David Jang of Plateau State to inaugurate the local government executives who allegedly won the last week bloody election.

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