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.

ABUJA—EMBATTLED former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmunin Jibrin, yesterday said he was proud to have stopped the deputy speakership ambition of Leo Ogor, the minority leader.

Abuja—Ministers of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu and his junior counterpart, Prof. Anthony Anwukah, yesterday denied rumours of any ongoing rift between them since they assumed office.

ABUJA—Residents of Shetiku and others close to Kuje Prisons were yesterday thrown into pandemonium, following an attempted jailbreak in the facility. The incident which began around 10am, saw soldiers, prison personnel and other security operatives shooting sporadically into the air to ward off external attacks, while they were said to have tear-gased the prison cells.

ABUJA—Six labourers yesterday in Abuja escaped death by the whiskers at a section of the hotel they were working on suddenly collapsed at about 1am.

ASABA—Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Crusaders and Gate-to-Gate political pressure group in Delta State, have joined Nigerians to congratulate Deltans and the state governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, as the state celebrates 25 years of statehood.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State has berated the governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state in the 2015 election, Mr. Dakuku Peterside; Senator Magnus Abe, APC candidate for Rivers South East senatorial district; Mr. Barry Mpigi, APC candidate for Tai/Eleme/Oyigbo federal constituency and other members of the APC over theire alleged attack on Justice Ibrahim Liman of a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta, Brigadier-General Paul Boroh (retd), has said that the Niger Delta region can champion Nigeria’s oneness.

Traditional rulers from Esan land have lambasted their colleague, the Onojie of Opoji, HRH Ehidiamen Aidenojie over his denial of their endorsement of Pastor Ize-Iyamu, saying his action and the attack on Chief Tony Anenih were not befitting of a traditional ruler.

Lagos—Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge-of zone 2, Onikan, Mr Abdulmajid Ali, yesterday, clarified that the recent arrest of Joe Chinakwe, the man who named his dog Buhari, by the Ogun state Police command, had nothing to do with President Muhammadu Buhari.