Every day, money is looking for where to go in the United States and the Western world as a whole but these monies can only go to those that are credit worthy and those who have been doing things in the way of the Western world and direct foreign investment {DFI} will come through them into the country and continent. Today, we have 60,000 US companies operating in China; we don’t have many with the exception with the few US oil and gas companies in Nigeria.

The NFF calls it the Federation Cup, yet I have come across thousands who prefer to remember it as the Challenge Cup, that competition that ignited football in this country and brought out the best in our clubs thanks to its knock out, no second chance format.

IKOT-ABASI—Nigerian Navy, NNS Jubilee in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom, weekend, apprehended and handed over three suspected oil thieves to the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC.

ABUJA — Possible reasons why President Muhammadu Buhari has not yet named his cabinet emerged last night with confirmation that he had been studying the report of the Transition Committee he empanelled to draw up a blueprint for his administration. A top source, who was part of the Transition Committee, told Vanguard in confidence that Buhari had been studying the crucial report critically with a view to taking a final decision on the structure of his administration so as to deliver the promised change to Nigerians.

YENAGOA—A two-year-old girl was, last Saturday night, burnt beyond recognition in Yenagoa as fire broke out at a slum located opposite the Law Faculty of Niger Delta University, NDU, Ovom, a suburb of the city.

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) will “do everything it takes” to guarantee the qualification of the Super Eagles for the 2018 Fifa World Cup in Russia.

Awka—MANY residents in Awka, Anambra State capital, have been counting their losses, following the destruction of their property by flood during a down pour that lasted several hours.

YENAGOA—A two-year-old girl was, last Saturday night, burnt beyond recognition in Yenagoa as fire broke out at a slum located opposite the Law Faculty of Niger Delta University, NDU, Ovom, a suburb of the city.

Speaking on the N50 million Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Development Fund (MSMEDF) intervention fund received by the bank, he noted that the fund has been fully disbursed, saying, “We have fully disbursed the entire N50 million and we disbursed it to the education sector to support micro entrepreneurs in the sector and we will be approaching the Central Bank of Nigeria for the next tranch and so we will continue to add value. The education sector is absolutely critical just as the agric sector and other sector that we play actively in,” he said.

Later in 2014, even when Jonathan and his former Finance Minister were assuring Nigerians that we would not be adversely affected by the falling price of crude oil the point was made in an article titled THE AGE OF OIL IS OVER FOR NIGERIA. Consequently, I declared that by 2015 the Federal Government and States would not only be experiencing difficulties paying salaries, as well as other entitlements, as and when due, Federal and State budgets will be reduced for years to come from what they were in 2013. First, let us read what President Jonathan said, based on advice from Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.