Rhetoric soars in inaugural speeches. (newsday.com)
The threat of a trade war loomed over Jerome H. Powell's inaugural speech as Federal Reserve chairman on Friday in Chicago, even as he tried to focus attention on the fundamental strength of the American economy. (nytimes.com)
RAMON OLADIMEJI writes that last Friday's inaugural speech by the new President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN), suggesting that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission should be stripped of its prosecutorial power has further fuelled the undercurrent of suspicion or mistrust that exists between the EFCC and Nigerian senior lawyers (punchng.com)