On June 5, 2013, the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Mitigation, SETPOM, joined the rest of the world to celebrate the 2013 World Environmental Day, WED, at the University of Lagos with a public lecture. The theme for this year’s WED was “Think, Eat, Save.”

A religious group, Community of Sant’Egidio has described the killing by hanging of four criminals on death row in Benin Prison recently a brutal return to the use of the death penalty in Nigeria which had been put on hold for more than seven years. The group, therefore, called on the Nigerian government to suspend all executions immediately with a view to re-establish the moratorium on executions in the country.

The National President, Miners Association of Nigeria, MAN Alhaji Shehu Sani, has called for increased monitoring and regulation of mining activities within the country to help reduce the negative impact of mining on the environment.

SUCCOUR seems to be on the way for the displaced residents of Oke Ilu-eri in Ijora-Badia East area of the state, as the World Bank, in collaboration with the state government has disclosed plans to resettle them by August ending.

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THOUSANDS of tricycle riders in Lagos State, came under one body at the weekend, setting the stage for an end to years of strife that often left many of their members dead as rival associations repeatedly clashed for supremacy.

The 2013 edition of Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition, the football World Cup equivalent in software design attracted no fewer than 309 students from 71 countries who have gathered in St. Petersburg, Russia to compete in three main categories like World Citizenship, Games and Innovation.

MANY found it hard to believe. They made calls to confirm if those close to the bishop had heard the story.

It was harvest of arrests in Benin City, Edo State capital after men of the Department of State Security (DSS) paraded three members of a gang suspected of kidnapping the wife, daughter and driver of a justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour, in May.

Emmanuel Nuhu Kure is the National Secretary of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, but based in Kafanchan, Kaduna State where he is the pastor of Throneroom Ministry, Recently, he was in Lagos for a programme at the National Stadium, and took time off to speak with Sunday Vanguard. Excerpts of interview…..

The arrival of 30 armed men at the Olokuta Medium Security Prison, Akure, at about 12.05 a.m., last Sunday, in commando style, shouting, ‘We are Boko Haram’, was enough to send jitters down the spines of the prison officials.