The Plateau Coordinator, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Mr Sam Godongs, says the impact of mining activities in Plateau is allegedly threatening the achievement of the MDGs. Godongs, who said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos added that mining activities had done “irreparable damage” to the ecology of the state.

RIVERS state Police Command has confirmed the brutal murder of a former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) and repentant militant leader, Soboma George. According to the Commissioner of Police, Mr Suleiman Abba, one of the heads of the late Soboma’s family, Chief Ibiere George was in his office yesterday to say that the family feared the late militant leader was assassinated on Tuesday evening along Nembe Street.

WEST African Examination Council, WAEC, last Thursday, released results of the May/June 2010 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASCE, with only 337,071 candidates, representing 24.94 per cent, obtaining credits in English Language, Mathematics and at least three other subjects which are the requirements for admission into tertiary institutions.

I WOULD like to applaud some fellow Nigerians who belong to my school of thought. In particular I refer to a write up by Mr. Joel Nwokeoma in the Punch of August 9, 2010 titled: “Can bloody revolution take place in Nigeria?”

THE House of Representatives Committee on Governmental Affairs said, yesterday, it would hold a public hearing soon on a Bill that seeks to compel the President to submit names of ministerial nominees to the Senate with the
ministries he intends to deploy them attached