Damaturu—No fewer than 15 persons were killed yesterday morning in Yobe State as a female suicide bomber detonated an Improvised Explosive Device, IED, at Damaturu market, while 47 others were severely injured.

Jos—Despite their “illegal” dissolution, embattled local government councils’ chairmen in Plateau State have said they had no evil intentions against the state governor, Simon Lalong.

Jos—The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has confirmed that 112 injured persons were still on admission in four hospitals, following last Saturday’s explosion of Chlorine cylinder used for water treatment at Lamingo plant of Plateau State Water Board.

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.