A bomb was thrown into an Arabic school in mainly Christian southern Nigeria, wounding at least seven, police said Wednesday, after Christmas attacks sparked fears of sectarian violence in the country.

Deadly clashes between Islamists and security forces last week have displaced an estimated 90,000 people in the northeastern city of Damaturu, an emergency official said Wednesday.

An attempt to bomb the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, by members of the Boko Haram sect has been foiled by police and the neighbourhood watch, in Udenu local government area of Enugu State.

THE reported crude oil spill at the Bonga oil field has been described as a national calamity which must require all hands to be on deck in order to curtail the spillage and prevent spilled crude oil from getting to the shores of the coastal states.

Victims of Christmas Day bomb blast at St. Theresar’s Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger State, taken to the National Hospital, Abuja, are responding to treatment.

Former Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has blamed overseas agents working with the United States’ prediction that Nigeria will disintegrate in 2015, for the Christmas day’s bombings for which Boko Haram sect claimed responsibility.

Igbo Youths Movement, IYM, yesterday lamented what it described as attempts by Boko Haram Islamic to cause disintegration in the country with the “Christmas (day) massacre’’ of Christians, saying the incident has put question to the survival of Nigeria as a country.

Christmas celebrations in Benue State were, yesterday, marred by bloody clashes by rival cult groups that left no fewer than four persons dead in Makurdi, Benue State capital.

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, South East zone, yesterday condemned the recent bomb blast in Yobe, Niger, Plateau states and other parts of the country, allegedly masterminded by Boko Haram.

TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has described the Christmas Day bombings in Madalla, near Abuja, which claimed several lives as an affront to God or Allah that the perpetrators claim to represent and called for the sack of the nation’s security chiefs as they have failed the nation.

National Union of Textile Garments and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, has condemned Christmas day bombings of churches in Madala, Jos and Damaturu in Niger, Plateau and Yobe states, respectively, saying those who should ultimately account for the death of innocent Nigerians, “are the elected and appointed public officers paid to protect us.”