The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has confirmed that concrete walls erected by some tank farms has permanently blocked the natural waterways at Liverpool Community in Ijegun-Egba in Oriade Local Council Development Area, Satellite Town, resulting in flooding and other environmental degradation.

LOKOJA—The family of the All Progressive Congress, APC governorship candidate in the November 21, 2015 governorship election in Kogi State, Prince Abubakar Audu, has declared support for Governor Yahaya Bello.

THE Central Bank of Nigeria has disclosed that total foreign exchange inflow into the economy in the second quarter of 2016 was $15.33billion. This it said represented an increase of 3.7 per cent above the level at the end of the first quarter but, showed a decline of 35.3 per cent relative to the level at the end of the corresponding period of 2015.

UMUAHIA—ABIA State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, weekend, expressed optimism that the political crisis rocking the state would make it stronger.

Several clubs are keen to take Chelsea defender Kenneth Omeruo on loan as his switch to Turkish champions Besiktas has stalled, but his weekly wage of 15,000 pounds has scared them.

Dutse—Jigawa State government has released N75.9 million as loans to the state Council of Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, and Council of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, for the purchase of tricycles for its members.

A pastor, Mr Timothy Ngwu, yesterday, was docked at an Enugu North Magistrates’ Court for allegedly marrying another man’s wife and daughter.

ENUGU—Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, yesterday, settled the medical bills of some patients who were unable to make such payments after their discharge from the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, Park Lane, Enugu.

Awka—FORMER Vice President, Dr Alex Ekwueme, Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano and the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe were among those who yesterday commended the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris on his new community policing initiative aimed at reducing the crime rate in the country.

ENUGU—The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, said security agencies yesterday attempted to kill its leader, Nnamdi Kanu by firing canisters of teargas into his cell at Kuje Prisons, with the intention to suffocate him to death. Media and Publicity Secretary of IPOB, Comrade Emma Powerful made this known in a statement in Enugu yesterday.