Amid the terror unleashed on Borno State and some states in the north and Abuja, the federal capital, allegedly by the Boko Haram sect, a Christian leader, Archbishop Ola Makinde, says the Federal Government was warned ahead of the insurgency.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, ordered a comprehensive audit of the financial transactions of all Federal Government ministries and agencies since 2007 as he formally re-launched a fresh war against corruption. He said the renewed anti-graft war will commence from the federal level.

In what appears to be a move to appease the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, that has unleashed a reign of terror in some northern states, the Federal Government, yesterday in Abuja arraigned seven police officers and charged them with extra-judicial murder of the sect leader, Mallam Mohammed Yusuf, in 2009. Members of the Islamic sect had consistently demanded justice in the murder of their leader in police custody as one of the conditions to lay down their arms.

THE Chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, Lt. Gen. Jeremiah Useni (rtd) yesterday gave an insight into the emergence of the deadly Islamic sect, Boko Haram, saying that the group used to function as a political thuggery cell to a former governor of Borno State.

THE pain inflicted on Lagosians by the torrential downpour last Sunday bit harder, yesterday, when 25 corpses were recovered including those of 11 children.

LAST weekend saw a harvest of deaths in different parts of the country with the highest toll coming from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital where the deadly Boko Haram sect continued its reign of terror. This time a gun fight between members of the sect and Joint Task Force, JTF, left at least 41 people dead.

Sunday’s heavy rainfall, which crippled Lagos State, has forced Governor Babatunde Fashola to declare a public holiday for all public and private schools in the state.

The controversy over the removal of subsidy on petrol, the push for an enhanced revenue sharing formula in favour of the states and the issue of obeying the Minimum Wage Act signed into law this year may be threatening to tear apart the perceived unity in the Governors’ Forum.

MANAGING Director at the World Bank and former Finance and Foreign Affairs Minister under former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said, yesterday, she has been receiving threat calls from corrupt politicians and business elite not to return home for ministerial appointment.

CRIES of agony, desperation and helplessness, yesterday, echoed from the debris of the four-storey building that collapsed at 4, Mogaji Lane in Ebute Ero area of Idumota, Lagos Island as trapped victims tried to reach out to their relations on the other side of the collapsed building.