Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has come under fire from critics after admitting part of his recent “Change Begins With Me” speech was copied from US President Barack Obama’s 2008 victory speech.

A FORMER presidential candidate, Prof Pat Utomi, has said the current economic crisis would have been avoided by the Federal Government, if proper policy choices were made, noting that the crash in oil prices was not enough to have resulted in recession.

The Association of Professional Bodies of Nigeria, APBN, has called on the Federal Government for a partnership in order to end the economic crisis confronting the nation.

The development of Nigeria’s housing market is key to growing the economy and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has declared.

As Lagos schools resume today, the Lagos State Area Unit of Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria, MSSN, has warned Tutor-Generals/Permanent Secretaries, principals and teachers, to adhere to the Appeal Court judgement granting the right to wear hijab in public schools in the state.

THE people of Oleh, Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State, have alleged that Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, connived with soldiers to renege on agreements it reached with the community to discontinue its operations in the community impacted by the recent oil spillage pending the resolution of ‘the grey issues.”

“I assure you we are going to get out of our economic problems..we are going to make Nigeria great again…Our size, our resources will not be for nothing”. President Buhari, during campaign at Edo State on behalf of Obaseki, candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

While the politicians trade blames and ‘put forward self-seeking half truths and falsehoods as facts, Nigerians should have access to the unblemished truth and more importantly they need to know the options available to us while the recently declared recession lasts. After all, it is our lives they are toying with.

Ijaw People Development Initiative, IPD, has petitioned the Inspector General of Police over a controversial police report claiming that its spokesperson, Daniel Ezekiel, abducted August 2, by unknown security agents in Delta State, was among the seven suspected Arepo vandals/ militants apprehended by the police in Edo State on September 13.

The Minister of State for Aviation, Capt. Hadi Sirika, has assured unions in the aviation industry that the proposed concessioning of four airports in the country would not lead to job losses.

Distinguished senators would on resumption seek to play down the personal political issues affecting them. They are expected to focus on some issues of national importance while holding in the reserve, their trump card against the executive arm of government using their powers of confirmation of executive appointment and other legislative leverages.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused management of the University of Ibadan of planning to pay academic staff only one year promotion arrears even when promotion announcement of academic staff was delayed by the management and announced almost five or four years after the person was due for the promotion.

THE Momoh Abubakar Solidarity Movement said Edo North Senatorial District which it claimed to have been the stronghold of Governor Oshiomole had become the stronghold of Pastor Ize-Iyamu because of what it claimed as the governor’s alleged policy of making Owan and Akoko Edo subservient to Etsako.

Three former chieftains of the PDP James Ojemeva, Col. David Imuse (rtd.) and Mr. Fidelis Ulinfun who led over 3,000 members of the PDP into the APC, penultimate week, have declared that Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s developmental strides in Edo Central will give victory to APC in the area.

As some Nigerians, especially from the South and Christian leaders pick holes in the recent United States of America Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry’s visit to Nigeria, which they describe as discriminatory, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, 88, First Republic politician and an Awoist, wants them to have a re-think because Mr. Kerry came with a specific message for Northern leaders. Kerry, during the two-day trip, had after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, visited the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, and also met with 10 northern governors.