THE Boko Haram sect, yesterday, reacted to the statement credited to the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Hafiz Ringim, that the days of the sect members were numbered with the donation of 10 armoured personnel carriers and 10 patrol vehicles to the police by Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State on Monday.

WHEN Ignacy Hryniewiecki died from bomb explosion while assassinating Tsar Alexander II of Russia, in 1888, hardly did he know that he was kickstaring a deadly trend that would extend beyond 19th century.

IT used to be a story heard from distant lands like Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Middle-East, United States and Europe, among others. Now, suicide bombing is here with us in Nigeria and panic-stricken citizenry, who are yet to recover from recent waves of bomb explosions, are not happy about it.

The Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has said that the service has beefed up security at the border areas to ensure that the orgy of violence perpetrated by the religious sect, Boko Haram, was not extended to the Southern part of the country.

The history of recent bomb blasts in Nigeria could be traced to 1986, during the Gen. Ibrahim Babangida-led military regime, when Mr. Dele Giwa, the founding Editor-in-Chief of Newswatch magazine, was killed by a mail bomb in his home in Ikeja, Lagos, widely believed to have been state-sponsored.

Football fans world wide expecting to see the rematch of the June 1 clash between the national teams of Nigeria and Argentina should expect the unexpected as the Nigeria Football Federation seem to be back-tracking.

Senators yesterday demanded apology from former President Olusegun Obasanjo over what they described as his ineffectual battle against corruption asserting that his castigation of the present administration’s fight against corruption is misplaced.

THE first bomb blast in Nigeria happened in 1967 and within 36 hours, the culprits where apprehended. But today, the security operatives are so relaxed, thus making it easy for the perpetrators to continue with these gruesome acts without being apprehended. This is not good for the nation.

Shortly after the bombing of the Police headquarters in Abuja yesterday , Dr Charles Umeh, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos, commented on the typical profile of a suicide patient

On November 4, 2010, Mr Hafiz Ringim was confirmed by the National Council of State as the 15th substantive Inspector-General of Police, having served in acting capacity for two months. Same day, he announced the disbanding of multiple crime squads in the states nationwide, arguing that the squads had become inefficient, with his focus majorly on conducting a crime free elections.

A large cache of arms, including four anti-aircraft guns and rocket propelled grenades belonging to 57 suspected militants, has been admitted as exhibit by a Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt.

CHAIRMAN of Nigeria’s Governors’ Forum, and Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, has called for amendment of the 1999 constitution to tackle deficiencies in the nation’s federalism.

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal premises in Abuja, yesterday, commenced pre-trial session on the petition seeking to nullify the election of President Goodluck Jonathan.

The Nigeria Football Federation has stated that the recurrent crisis in Nigerian football could cause havoc to the country’s ambition to win for the first time, the FIFA Women’sWorld Cup and the FIFA U-20 World Cup which the national teams are preparing for.

THE Federal Government has directed the immediate establishment of a Special Joint Military Task Force specifically to tackle the Boko Haram crises in the North with Maiduguri in Borno State as headquarters of the task force.