Six months into President Mohammed Buhari’s administration, Nigerians are yet to feel the impact of the new government going by the All Progressive Congress (APC) campaign promise to put smiles on the faces of Nigerians”.

A survey by United States (US) based Guttmacher Institute and Ipas Nigeria, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that focuses on female reproductive rights, showed that, in spite of Nigeria’s highly restrictive abortion law, the estimated abortion rate was 33abortions per 1, 000 women aged 15-49 in 2012 and it has increased in 2015.The report said not less than 1. 2 million induced abortions take place in various parts of Nigeria annually. The report, presented in Abuja, showed that the South-South region is in the lead, while the South West is at the bottom of the ladder. North East is in the second position.

Dele Momodu writes a memo to President Muhammadu Buhari asking him to as a matter of urgency fix Nigeria saying that Nigerians are lamenting that the change he promised is fast becoming a mirage and that Buhari’s style and methodology appear too slow.

You said the Niger Delta wants self-determination and yet you said you want compensation. Can you be fighting for freedom and asking for compensation at the same time?

I don’t see the difficulty in what we asking for. Nigeria is being governed according to the 1999 Constitution and whatever we are doing, within the law, is based on that Constitution. What we are demanding for, which the same Constitution guarantees, is our right to demand for those things. In terms of the compensation for the destruction of our livelihood, the Nigerian government, in partnership with oil companies, is responsible.

As the end of the year approaches, there may be a number of things that we have prayed for but which we are yet to get answers to. Does it mean God has forgotten us?

Bothered by the spate of killings in the country, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has urged the Federal Government to take decisive steps to end the bloodshed in some parts of the country.

AS a result of his late registration for the U23 AFCON, U17 World Cup hotshot Victor Osimhen will wear the Number 9 shirt the player he has replaced would have worn.

Wife of the Senate President, Mrs. Toyin Saraki, has bemoaned the continued ordeal of over 200 Chibok school girls kidnapped by the Boko Haram in Borno State, over 590 days ago.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has said the State Government has attained the universal health coverage and provision of quality and accessible health care services across the state.

The scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known as petrol, which started last month in same parts of the country has worsened as the product, at the weekend, was being sold for between N150 and N200 per litre, instead of the official pump price of N87, depending on the area. The scarcity affected transport fares in Lagos which went up.