The embattled Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State emerged yesterday from a crucial session with President Goodluck Jonathan, with a declaration that while he agreed with the President to ensure peace in the state, he is not God to end the Jos crises.

Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, and School of Media and Communication of Pan-African University, PAU, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, for the establishment of a Centre for Leadership in Journalism, CLEJ, aimed at improving and developing the practice of journalism and the competence of editors, media managers and journalists in general.

Following President Goodluck Jonathan’s directive to the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petirin to take over the security of Jos and stop the sectarian killings, Vanguard gathered yesterday that the Nigerian Airforce has already put on standby, a C-130 aircraft for the airlifting of troops from two Army Brigades, one from the South West and another from the North Central to complement soldiers on ground for the operation.

ON Thursday, September 8, 2011, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Abdulwahid Omar and his counterpart, President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Comrade Peter Esele, were scheduled to lead other national labour leaders to join the Enugu State chapter to a grand rally at the Workers Square of the State Secretariat, Enugu.

In a related development, the House of Representatives yesterday resolved to summon heads of the country’s various security agencies for briefing as part of efforts to put an end to the rising incidences of terrorism the country.

Federal Government, yesterday, charged eight suspected Boko Haram members for felony before an Abuja Magistrate’s Court.

BENIN—A 10-year-old primary four pupil of Okhoro Primary School, Okhoro, Benin, Edo State (names withheld) has instituted a N500 million suit against her teacher, Mrs. Mercy Iyobosa, before a Federal High Court, Benin, for allegedly beating her with a broom, which caused blindness in her left eye, over failure of a Mathematics test.

Asaba- Delta State Police Commissioner, Mr. Mamman Tsafe, said, yesterday, that the four policemen who allegedly got drunk and killed three people at a burial in Akoko village, Kwale, weekend, were on illegal duty.

Jos- The Civil Society Coalition in Plateau State yesterday asked government to go beyond rhetorics in addressing the Jos crisis which it said has been worsening, warning that it could create instability in the country.

Bauchi- Obviously tired of living in fear, traders in Jos, Plateau State capital, Tuesday, urged the Bauchi State governor to come to their aid by building a model market at Narabi, the border town with Plateau State to enable them carry on with their businesses without hindrance.

WARRI- As the fortunes of Delta Steel Company, DSC, continues to dwindle, the Chairman Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on Bureau for Public Enterprise, BPE, Senator Ahmed Lawan, has said that the Senate will take a final position on the sale of the near-comatose company.

At the All Africa Games in Maputo, Mozambique it is only Nigeria that is parading all their elite athletes.

Four witnesses of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, including an expert in Information Technology (IT), yesterday, testified before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal.

IT is baffling, indeed worrisome how people often and unconstructively criticize government policies without providing alternatives or superior arguments, rather relying on emotions and sentiments to project their views.

Meantime, an industrialist, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has donated the sum of N50 million and another N10m worth of relief materials to the Oyo State Government for onward transmission to the victims of the flood disaster that ravaged the state on 26 August, 2011.