Nigerians, yesterday, stormed the South Wark Crown Court in London where former governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori was expected to be sentenced after pleading guilty to money laundering charges. Supporters of the former governor who came from Nigeria joined their compatriots living in UK to witness the sentencing proceedings and give him moral support.

AGAINST the backdrop of speculations on his political ambition, President Goodluck Jonathan has declared before an Abuja High Court that he was yet to indicate or announce anywhere that he would contest for presidency in 2015.

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday signed the 2012 federal government budget of N4.697 trillion and threatened to sack heads of Ministries, Departments and Parastatals that lobbied the National Assembly and got their budgets increased.

The threat by the violent Islamic group, Boko Haram to bring down the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan in three months has drawn the flak of stakeholders in the Niger Delta region warning of grave consequences should any harm befall him.

Islamist sect, Boko Haram, has threatened to bring down the Federal Government led by President Goodluck Jonathan within three months. Purported leader of the sect said this in his second video posted on the Internet yesterday.

Fresh trouble is brewing between governors of the 36 states and the Federal Government over heavy deductions from the Federation Account in the name of fuel subsidy.

Following several bomb blasts that killed scores of people and marred the Easter celebrations in some parts of the North, Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Azubuike Ihejirika, yesterday, told soldiers to consider themselves at war with the Boko Haram Islamic sect.

Six persons including a Police Inspector and a former council chairman were killed yesterday in a clash between gunmen and members of the Joint Task Force, JTF, in Dikwa council area of Borno State. This came as commercial motorcycle riders claimed to have lost over 100 of their members in Sunday’s bomb blast in Kaduna as more of the bomb victims recounted their experiences.

The ceaseless bloodletting that has been the lot of some Northern parts of the country coloured the Easter celebrations, yesterday, throwing several families in Kaduna and Makurdi into mourning. 58 persons died when a suicide bomber killed 36 persons in Kaduna even as 22 others lost their lives in Makurdi as a church building collapsed on worshippers during Easter vigil mass.

Security agencies in Northern Nigeria have stepped up security following alerts by the United States and United Kingdom embassies that the country may witness terrorist attacks this Easter.

What could have led to one of the bloodiest Easter celebrations in recent times in Gombe State was averted, yesterday, as operatives of the State Security Service(SSS) discovered 60 Improvised Explosive Devices planted in different locations at the British Cotton Ginnery Area (BCGA) of the metropolis.

THE Officer-in-Charge, OC, Anti-Kidnapping Task Force in Delta State, a Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, (names withheld) and six members of the squad, have been disarmed, arrested and flown to Abuja on the orders of the Acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, for allegedly aiding and abetting kidnappers in the state.

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday resigned his position as chairman of the Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, saying the move would enable him fulfill his duties as a statesman locally and internationally.

Emotion ran high yesterday at the Ajao Estate Lagos, abode of one of the female victims of last Saturday’s robbery attack on a Luxury bus belonging to Ekene Dilli Chukwu Nigeria Limited and reported rape, along Ijebu/Ode/Ore expressway, Ogun state, following the 16-year-old’s account of how she escaped from being gang- raped.

A luxuRY bus belonging to Ekenedilichukwu transport company with 42 female students of a secondary school (name withheld) on board was weekend attacked by a 12-man robbery gang at Oke-Odo, along Ore-Shagamu Expressway, Ogun State. Some of the female students were reportedly raped by the hoodlums.