A suspected male suicide bomber yesterday afternoon attacked the Garkida Cattle Market in Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa State, killing no fewer than nine persons and wounding several others.

Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, senatorial candidate for Abia South zone in the just concluded National Assembly election, Dr. Chukwuemeka Okwuonu, has defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kaduna State has petitioned the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over alleged attempt by the out-going government of Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, to ‘’’misappropriate about N2.744 billion Local Government Sure- P fund.’’

A middle aged man, Chavwuko Gbemre, of Iwhrekan community, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, has petitioned the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Alkali Baba Usman, to disregard media reports that he (Chavwuko Gbemre) was threatening the life of the oldest man in his community, Chief Johnson Gbemre and his son Mr. Vincent Gbemre.

Intels Logistics Limited, an oil and gas logistics provider, have said they do not have any link with the directive from the management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) asking competitors to discharge or handle all their oil and gas cargoes at Intels’ facilities at Onne, Warri and Calabar ports.

THE Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, which is pending in the National Assembly will die a natural death at the expiration of the 7th National Assembly, as sectional politics and lack of interest from the executive has frustrated efforts for its passage.

House of Representatives member-elect representing Ayamelum/Oyi federal Constituency in Anambra State, Mr. Gabriel Onyeweife, yesterday, declared that both old and new members had the legal right to contest for the post of speaker of the lower chamber.

The Monetary Policy Committee, MPC, yesterday harmonised the Cash Reserve Requirement, CRR, of both public and private sectors to 31 per cent to improve monetary policy in the country.

Barely eight days to the African Development Bank election, one of the contestants and Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesinia, has been honoured by his Alma Mater, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, in the United States, with an honorary Doctor of Agriculture Degree.

A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain in Delta State, Mr. Mejiri Ogbe, has condemned the All Progressives Congress, APC, for insisting on invalidating the recently held governorship and other elections in the state.

The Glo Premier League will proceed on a break after the conclusion of match day 10 matches today.

In Vanguard Newspaper publication of Friday May 15, 2015, we published a news story captioned “Controversy trails Aregbesola’s son’s alleged arrest,” where we reported, among other things, that a source insisted that the Governor’s son, Kabiru, was actually arrested.

The National Institute for Sports, Lagos yesterday held its 2015 matriculation ceremony in which one hundred and eleven students took part in. The brief but impressive ceremony which was presided over by the Acting Director of the Institute, Dr (Mrs Gloria Obajimi was witnessed by heads of departments, students, relatives and members of the press.

The indefinite industrial action called by three major unions in the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, FMC, which entered the ninth day today, took a dramatic twist, yesterday, as members of Association of Resident Doctors, ARD, commenced seven days warning strike.

Bauchi State Governor-elect, Mohammed Abubakar has appealed to civil servants in the state to call of their strike which had paralysed economic and government activities, lamenting that it had also negatively impacted on the work of the transition committee.