A 30-year-old woman, Akwudo Onyendi, from Umuorika village, Amavo Ukwu Autonomous community, Osisioma Local Government Area, Abia State, has allegedly been killed by six men, following what police called misunderstanding with her husband.

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said, yesterday, it had invited the entire crew on Arik Air flight W3101 that left the country for London’s Heathrow Airport for questioning.

ABUJA—For the first time since issues of funds misappropriation to the tune of N183.7 billion was raised by the Auditor-General of the Federation, Mr. Samuel Ukura, against Niger Delta Development Commission, NNDC, Managing Director, Mr. Dan Abia, yesterday, met with President Muhammadu Buhari, telling him that the allegation was completely false.

A surveyor in the area, Mr. Dennis Mututu, disclosed that a large portion of land measuring about 15 metres wide and about 40 metres stretch on the coastline, had been washed into the river in a space of two weeks, affecting the base of a landing jetty by the river bank. A resident, Mr. Olotu Preye, whose building is currently at the mercy of rampaging erosion, said the villagers had used sand bags to prevent the scourging erosion, but the measures could not match the intensity of the erosion.

I am sure the state government did nothing about that recommendation, so in the absence of alternative accommodations, where would these people go now? I think we are about to make some of the same mistakes we made as a state in 2012. The state government by now ought to have built camps or hostels on high lands for persons in the riverine areas within their locations to reside in the event of flooding.