FORMER Governor of Oyo State and national leader of the Accord Party, Senator Rashidi Ladoja will contest the 2015 governorship election in the state.

THIS week I had the chance to re-connect with a “super connector” – my friend Judy Robinett, who I interviewed late last year. Since then, Judy’s book How To Be A Power Connector has emerged from McGraw-Hill this month and is racing it’s way to the top of the Amazon charts. There is no doubt that connections matter in business, and according to Judy, they perhaps matter most of all in finding funding for business.

Recently, the Chairperasson of National Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ, Kaduna State Chapter, Mrs. Juliet Oyoyo, condemned in strong terms any form of discrimination against women.

Early this week, Nigerian newspapers carried on their covers the picture of local vigilantes in Borno State allegedly preparing to enter the dreaded Sambisa forest. They were ostensibly ready not only to rescue the Chibok girls, but to also confront Boko Haram insurgents.

ABUJA— SPEAKER of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, yesterday, mandated the Public Accounts Committee to commence an investigative hearing on the alleged N10 billion air charter services scam involving the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke.

KADUNA — Authorities of the Nigerian Army, yesterday, raised alarm over the negative impact of inadequate funding for military operations currently going on in the North-East and other parts of the country, noting that the development needed to be addressed urgently.

THE race for the next vice chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, has taken a new dimension with three aspirants for the exalted position protesting the modalities adopted by the governing council in scoring them.

A RECENT collection of essays on entrepreneurial innovation in developing economies, titled ‘Lessons from the Poor’, mentions an aspect of Nigerian clothing design.

Goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama is brimming with confidence ahead of this summer’s World Cup and believes Stephen Keshi’s men have what it takes to reach the semi-finals.

LAGOS State government yesterday said the Federal Government had stopped the one percent monthly revenue deduction from state governments from the Federation Account.

HAPPY Children’s Day! The balloons dance in the air as the Chibok Girls cry in despair.

ABUJA — The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, dismissed claims that names of some prominent politicians were missing from the voters register in Enugu State.

Basically, “Lex non deficere protest in justitia exhibenda”, is a Latin legal maxim which implies that the law cannot fail in dispensing justice.

YOLA — There was a major political development in Adamawa State, yesterday, when all the 25 members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the House of Assembly defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on the floor of the House, making it a one-party house.

AN Ikeja Chief Magistrate Court yesterday remanded five men, who allegedly murdered Sesan Ogunro, the marketing communications guru and Group Managing Director, Eminent Communications, last December, after robbing him of property valued at over N4.5 million.