The Department of State Service, DSS, yesterday paraded two alleged accomplices who worked in concert with one Mamman Nur, who has been declared wanted by the Service to carry out last Friday’s suicide bomb attack on the United Nation’s House in Abuja which claimed 23 lives.

Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III yesterday condemned last Friday’s bomb explosion at the UN Secretariat in Abuja describing it as an abominable act in Islam, especially in the blessed month of Ramadan.

Jos, the Plateau State capital which had enjoyed relative peace for several weeks erupted in another orgy of violence yesterday, leaving at least 20 dead and over 50 others injured. This happened just as the rampaging Islamic sect, Boko Haram struck again in Maiduguri, Borno State capital killing three people, including a local government chairman.

As condemnations continue to trail last Friday’s bomb blast at UN House in Abuja, the death toll from the incident yesterday rose from 18 to 23 with 73 others hospitalised, just as the security agencies alerted of an intelligence report indicating that Boko Haram sect has planned to carry out more of such attacks targeting churches, mosques and national institutions.

Yusifiyya Movement, also known as Boko Haram, yesterday, said it attacked the United Nations (UN) building in Abuja because United States (US) and the UN are supporting the Federal Government to persecute Muslims in Nigeria.

The United NationsBuilding in Abuja came under a massive bomb attack when a suicide bomber rammed the building with his car, yesterday morning, killing at least 25 people and injuring over 40.

The Presidency yesterday took a swipe at critics of President Goodluck Jonathan over his role in the removal of the former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, and dismissed such critics as self serving.

THE Federal Government plans to remove subsidy in petroleum products, cut recurrent spending; the overhead cost of running government in Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), to reduce the budget deficit to a manageable level of three per cent of output while boosting infrastructure investment to create jobs.

The suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, yesterday, dragged President Goodluck Jonathan before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, praying the court to declare the appointment of an acting President of the Court of Appeal, by the President as illegal and unconstitutional.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, yesterday came hard on President Goodluck Jonathan saying he has failed to follow due process and observe the rule of law over his endorsement of the recommendation of the National Judicial Council, NJC, suspending the President of Appeal Court, Justice Ayo Salami from office over his feud with the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu.