Determined to participate in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Anambra State, former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, yesterday, went before an Abuja High Court to challenge his disqualification by All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA.

Tennis players participating in the Chevron Tennis Summer Camp at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, Onikan are battling for a place in the top 15 club, who would enjoy all year-round caching from late October to July next year.

SOME call it Isemo, while others call it Igbele but whatever it is called, the meaning is the same: An age-old Yoruba traditional rite that imposes a restriction of movement on women at a certain period or occasion. Depending on some factors, Isemo is an annual tradition in some Yoruba-based communities observed to appease the gods and to ward off impending danger.

Activities at the Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, were yesterday, brought to a halt when aggrieved residents of the Badia communities, Apapa-Iganmu Local Council Development Area, LCDA, led by a Lagos lawmaker, stormed the State House to protest the abandonment of Lagos Metropolitan Development Governance Project, LMDGP, in the council.

Marlene Menard works with the United States Government. She has worked in several countries of the world in the course of her duty. Now, she works with the Office of Marine Conservation (OMC) in Washington DC. OMC is a part of the State Department’s Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES). Menard was in Nigeria for the first time recently as part of the team that came for re-certification of Nigeria’s fishery and Shrimps industry. In this interview, she shares her travel experience. Excerpt:

A probe panel on the Super Eagles bonus row has fingered coach Stephen Keshi as part of the embarrassment and said he should be warned.

The Force Headquarters, Abuja, yesterday, reacted to the alleged killing of a commercial motorcyclist by a policeman attached to Rapid Response Squad, RRS, in Lagos and the subsequent protest that followed, calling for calm and promised to ensure that justice was done.

Nigeria’s no.1 dance queen, Kaffy is certainly in for another break. At the moment, we scooped the vibrant dancer is expecting her second baby with husband, Joseph Ameh.

Former Abia state governor Dr.Orji Uzor Kalu has threatened to embark on a One -Man protest march to the Presidency unless medals-winning Blessing Okagbare got rewarded as much as African champions Super Eagles.

WARRI—GOVERNOR of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, Thursday, directed the police to apprehend individuals, who parades themselves as traditional rulers without government recognition.

After months of hustling, the contest to replace the two term governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi enters its final lap tomorrow with the governorship primaries of the main opposition party, PDP, while that of the ruling APGA will be on Monday. However, being Anambra State, the home of many political intrigues, tomorrow’s contest is expected to open political oddities that are bound to be exploited by Anambra’s professional politicians.

In Nigeria today, the name Julius Agwu has become a household name. A comedian, singer and author, he shares some of his plans and experiences in this chat. Excerpts:

Aba—Mainstreet Bank Limited has told an Abia State High Court sitting in Aba that some of its customers and shareholders, who had sued it for breach of agreement, were indebted to it to the tune of N697.9 million.

A 42-year-old Cameroonian lady who gave her name as Evelyn Atemkeng was, Wednesday, arrested in Calabar with a three-day-old baby she allegedly bought for N1.2 million.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan declared, yesterday, that the opposition political parties were already confused and scared of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ahead of the 2015 elections.