SENATORS returning from the Eid-el-Kabir holidays were, yesterday, in angry mood with President Goodluck Jonathan over the security situation in the country lamenting what they described as his inability to protect lives and property.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was yesterday perfecting fresh plans to checkmate the incumbent governor of Bayelsa State, Mr Timipre Sylva from influencing the outcome of the party’s primaries in the state. This came as there were conflicting reports as to whether the ward congress scheduled for yesterday held or not.

Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State was last night pondering his options after the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ruled him out from the contest to fly the party’s ticket in the forthcoming re-scheduled gubernatorial elections.

The spate of hostage taking in Nigeria has shot the country into the number four position in global ranking, according to the American Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI).

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, described the terrorist attacks by the Boko Haram Islamic sect as “a temporary setback” which will soon be a thing of the past. This came on the heels of the nation’s quest for direct foreign investment which is the high point of the 2011 Economic summit.

NINE days to the Bayelsa governorship primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the embattled governor, Timipre Sylva was again not cleared by the party yesterday.

Indications emerged yesterday that heads may roll among the top brass of the Nigeria Police, especially in the North-East, following their inability to prevent weekend’s bloody attacks that claimed over 100 lives and property worth hundreds of millions of naira.

Following the renewed threat by Boko Haram sect to carry out more bomb attacks in Abuja after weekend bloodbath in Damaturu, Yobe State capital which claimed more than 150 lives, the Federal Government yesterday asked members of the public not to panic assuring that security agencies have put in place adequate measures to secure lives and property.

FOLLOWING weekend’s bomb blasts and gun attacks in Damaturu, Yobe State capital by Islamic sect, Boko Haram which claimed more than 100 lives, the United States Embassy in Nigeria has warned its citizens in Nigeria to avoid luxury hotels in Abuja which may be the next targets of the sect even as the death toll has risen to 100.

Victims’ tales of horror yesterday trailed Friday’s bomb and gun attacks including two suicide blasts targeted at police stations, an army base and churches in three northern states.