I’ve often argued in this column that with better communication not only would people’s perception of government action improve, so would its strategies and overall ability to meet its objectives. Carrying Nigerians along has always been a problem for successive administrations, with public officials in Nigeria seemingly (and bewilderingly) believing their electorates’ feelings and opinions matter little.

ABUJA—The Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG, movement has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to seize the initiative in rescuing the 218 abducted Chibok schoolgirls rather than granting powers to the abductors by asking them to determine the rescue options.

Akure—THE State Working Committee, SWC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo State, yesterday, fingered four of its members as being behind the lingering crisis within the party.

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has accused the APC of subterfuge in printing identical cock logos for it and the Citizen Peoples Party, CPP as a way of diluting its votes.

ABUJA—The Police at Force headquarters said, yesterday, that they have arrested four crime kingpins terrorising Benue State and environs.

The Cross River State Government has taken delivery of equipment for the building of a 20 Megawatts power plant with a view to ensuring 24-hour power supply in Calabar.

IJAW communities in riverine Edo state have lamented the abject neglect they have suffered under the outgoing APC administration and requested the creation of Local Government Development Areas to care for their interests.

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Lanre Tejuosho, has said the malnutrition cases at the internally-displaced persons, IDPs, camps in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states were a blessing in disguise, as it will propel the country to make adequate provision for malnourished children in the country.

THE 2016 Olympic 5 Aside Football competition kicks off November 2, 2016 in Lagos.

LOKOJA—Kogi State government has said its policy of appointing young people into political offices was not meant to relegate and forcefully retire the old, but to inject new blood that could drive the much-needed change in the state.

THE Clan head of the Osula Royal Family in the Benin Kingdom, Chief Iyeke Osula, yesterday declared that the governorship candidate of the PDP, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu does not have the required contact and influence that will attract investors who will help in sustaining the developmental strides of the Governor Adams Oshiomhole led administration.

But for the untold hardship their foolhardiness has caused the nation, the lost of militants or rather miscreants in the Niger Delta borders is comical and ridiculous.

Jos—Elected chairmen, councillors and other senior officials of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Area Councils have been urged to be proactive, shun corruption and be judicious in using resources.

Former Sports Minister, Bolaji Abdullahi has advocated that the present leadership of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria needs to make way, if the country were to see better days in track and field.

APC candidate Godwin Obaseki has defended his absence at last Sunday’s governorship debate saying he was focused on participating on only well-recognised debates.