Nigerian sprints superstar, Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor, came close to winning the women’s 100 metres final in the London Diamond League Anniversary Games on Saturday but she ended up in second place.

Residents erupted in joyful noise, last Tuesday, as Governor Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna State emerged from his vehicle in Birnin Gwari -the beleaguered headquarters of Birnin Gwari Local Government Area, LGA, of the state, about 120km west of Kaduna metropolis.

The Foundation stone laid by Lionel Messi in Gabon for the construction of the stadium has been reportedly stolen by an unidentified man.

Budding Afropop singer, Ofor Stephanie Adaeze, a.k.a Adasounds, who is known for her song Kejo, has come out to talk about the greatest price she has paid for her music and her alleged relationship with Oritsefemi. In a chat with Potpourri the light skinned songstress says she has had to spend three days in the studio without a change of clothing or toiletries.

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), South Africa, is intensifying efforts to concretize the recent partnership arrangement with the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) to create a robust cross-border listing of and trade in equities of Nigerian companies. The investable funds’ pool in JSE is put at about US$800 billion (N160 trillion).

Veteran Nollywood actress, Sola Sobowale, fondly known as ‘Toyin Tomato’, recently showed her milk of kindness through the donation of gift items to Jazz 38 Club Members of Reagan Memorial Baptist School, Yaba.

At the end of their meeting last Wednesday in Abuja, state governors resolved to hold discussions with President Muhammadu Buhari to seek lasting solutions to the worsening macroeconomic challenges confronting the nation.

Mrs. Elizabeth Idigbe is a partner at Punuka Attorneys and Solicitors. A proud alumnus of the University of Benin, she is reputed for her expertise in security documentation, debt factoring and restructuring, company secretarial services and general corporate practise spanning across 25 years. She reminisced on her days at UNIBEN in this interview. Excerpts.

Continuous optimism is the phrase that best describes the attitude of foreign policy analysts and diplomats who watched President Muhammadu Buhari’s four-day visit to Washington where he met with his United States (US) counter part, Mr. Barack Obama. It was the first step aimed at normalizing the frosty relations between Nigeria and the US under the presidency of the first black man to occupy the White House.

The proposed Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) Bill before the Delta State House of Assembly has come under attack by the Amalgamated Youth Organization of Delta State ,AYODES, which described the clause in the Bill as not only injurious to the youths, but would also make them unproductive.