THE Presidential Committee on Security Challenges in the North-East Zone, which was set up following the bomb attacks by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, yesterday submitted its final report, asking President Goodluck Jonathan to consider the grant of amnesty to members of the sect wishing to surrender their arms to the Federal government.

In anapparent response to criticisms that he is weak and too tolerant, President Goodluck Jonathan vowed yesterday to bring down those he described as “the Goliaths of Nigeria”, declaring that he did not have to rule with autocratic powers like the Biblical Pharaoh to change Nigeria.

Barring any last-minute maneuvering, Sunday Vanguard can report that the case by the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, against the former governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is a source of disquiet between federal commissioners of the bureau and its chairman, Mr. Sam Saba.

The federal govern ment is likely to sack some security chiefs over their collusion with Boko Haram, Saturday Vanguard has learnt.

Following threats by Islamic sect, Boko Haram to attack Lagos, Delta, Anambra and other cities in the southern part of the country, a nation wide security alert was put in place yesterday especially in Lagos, Asaba and Jos.

Newly confirmed Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Dahiru Musdapher, yesterday accused the state governors of violating section 121 (3) of the 1999 Constitution by their interference in the statutory allocations to states judiciary.

Leader of opposition Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will today, mount the dock at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Abuja to defend allegations of operating foreign accounts while he was serving as governor, contrary to the provisions of the law.

New intelligence reports available to the Armed Forces, yesterday, showed that following a round-the-clock alert in all military formations across the country to prepare for possible Boko Haram bombings, the group has perfected plans to use Federal Government, states, or Services Registration (Plate) numbers as a decoy to gain access to federal and military establishments for selected suicide attacks.

TO get to the bottom of the August 26, 2011 Boko Haram suicide attack on the United Nations, UN, House in Abuja, which claimed 23 lives and maimed 150 others in Abuja, the State Security Service, SSS, has announced a N25 million reward for anyone with information that could lead to the arrest of the mastermind, Mamman Nur.

Babakura Fugu , the representative of Mohammed Yusuf’s family that received former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on Thursday, has been killed.

An aide to the slain leader of the Boko Haram sect, Yusuf Mohammed, and eighteen other alleged terrorists accused of complicity in the United Nations House bombing on August 26, was yesterday, arraigned before a Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Abuja.

Tears flowed freely yesterday in Abuja as sympathisers and relations of victims of the UN house bomb blast of August 26 relived painful memories of their loved ones during the memorial service organised for those who died in the incident.

THE National Assembly yesterday restated its determination to once again tinker with the 1999 Constitution by raising committees to review the grundnorm.

Following President Goodluck Jonathan’s directive to the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petirin to take over the security of Jos and stop the sectarian killings, Vanguard gathered yesterday that the Nigerian Airforce has already put on standby, a C-130 aircraft for the airlifting of troops from two Army Brigades, one from the South West and another from the North Central to complement soldiers on ground for the operation.

DISSATISFIED with its unchallenged bombing activities in the North, Boko Haram has threatened to extend the reign of terror to southern parts of the country.