Top news items in major Nigerian media outlets

The following are highlights of leading Nigerian media outlets on Friday.

-- The attacks on oil and gas facilities in the Niger Delta continued Thursday evening with the bombing of a pipeline belonging to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. (The Punch)

-- President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated 47 people as ambassador designate, all of them career officers.

Senate President Bukola Saraki read the names of the nominees during Thursday's session. (Daily Trust)

-- The Senate, Thursday, vowed to hold accountable, every appointee chosen by President Muhammadu Buhari to help him address the nation's myriad of economic problems.

President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, who made the declaration at the celebration of one year of the 8th Senate, sought the support and cooperation of the President to discharge this oversight task. (Vanguard) Endit