Former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Prof Charles Soludo, yesterday, lamented that poverty is becoming a norm in the country, as the children of the poor have no hope of breaking even, unless governments take urgent step to check the trend.

The former Managing Director of Bank PHB Plc, Mr. Francis Atuche, and his wife, Elizabeth, yesterday, asked an Ikeja High Court, Lagos, to quash the new charge against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. They also want the court to restrain the agency from bringing any new charge against them.

THE above is a question directed at Igbo brothers and sisters involved in partisan politics. I have learnt over the years that when you ask a politician (your friend whose views were in-tandem with yours before he became an Honorable or Distinguished) a question he cannot answer, the response you will get is: “You would not understand”.

The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC, in Abuja, yesterday, shared N392.04 billion among the Federal, states and local governments for May.

Former governor of Lagos State and Action Congress of Nigeria National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has reiterated his respect for the matriarch of Awolowo family, Chief (Mrs) H.I.D. Awolowo and the entire Awolowo family.

As moves by the National Sports Commission to coerce the Nigeria Football Federation into holding an Emergency Congress appear to be failing the Director General of the commission, Patrick Ekeji is now making another move to get all the parties to the dispute reach a peaceful resolution.

Respite came the way of the embattled former minister of works, Dr. Hassan Lawal, yesterday, as he was finally granted bail by a Federal High Court in Abuja, after he had spent 35 days at the Kuje Maximum Prison.

EMBATTLED former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, yesterday, challenged the entire 16-count criminal charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, insisting that they were baseless and dubious.

My husband and I have been living together for about four years and have been married for three years. We have a daughter we both adore.

But when I fell in love with him, I was going out with his younger brother. It was a relaxed relationship and we never discussed marriage until his brother came along. I know we hurt him badly when we got married but he always told me he wanted me back and that he’d always love me. Unfortunately, there have been days when I’ve felt that leaving him was a terrible mistake. He was a wonderful man and treated me like I was special.

Super Eagles’ technical crew and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) are set for a collision course over camp site for the senior national team ahead of the Nations Cup qualifier against Madagascar in September.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, dismissed the suit by former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank, Dr Erastus Akingbola, challenging the planned sale of the bank by Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to Access Bank Plc.

IT is tragic that those who are expected to play a stabilising role in our polity have turned themselves into malignant sores on our political landscape.

The Nigeria Football Federation has submitted to world governing body, FIFA, a list of 21 players who will fly the country’s flag at the 6th FIFA Women’s World Cup finals taking place in Germany this summer.

There are indications that the Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, might consider other options open to it if the $105million bid security expected from the reserved bidder for Nigerian Telecommunications Limited, NITEL, Omen International Consortium, is not credited to the bureau’s account unfailingly today.

Apart from the excitement of discovering new talents in Nigerian sports, Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, of Rivers State , hopes to use the Garden City 2011 National Sports Festival, to redefine tourism in the state and also make a statement in infrastructural development.