Nature’s riches can play a major role in poverty eradication, but only if governments and businesses recognise the true economic value of the goods and services our environment provides us.

A JOHANNESBURG court in South Africa was told, yesterday, that former militant leader, Henry Okah, who is facing trial for allegedly masterminding the October 1 twin bomb blasts in Abuja had vowed two weeks before the incident that it was going to be a “fight to the finish”.

Two traditional rulers and one serving Local Government Transitional Committee Chairman have been indicted by security reports on kidnapping and other crimes in Abia State.

FOR residents of Isheri, Warewa, Mile 12 and other communities on the beds of the Ogun River in Ogun and Lagos states, these are certainly not the best of times. Some have lost their homes, some their shops and means of livelihood they have laboured for all their lives.

Lagos lawyer, Mr. Bamidele Aturu, yesterday, faulted plans by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to compile a new voters’ register, saying the law in place provides for an up-date of the register.