President Jonathan visits bombed police headquarter

President Goodluck Jonathan visited the site of the first suicide bombing in Nigeria on Friday, which killed a policeman and destroyed properties, assuring that security agencies were tackling the "ugly" emergence of terror attacks.

"The security agancies are on top of it," Jonathan told reporters after his inspection at the site.
The president was taken round the site by the lucky Hafiz Ringim,whom was the prime target of the Boko Haram attack.

The radical Islamist Boko Haram sect claimed responsibility thereby scoring a devastating goal at the premises of the National Police Headquarters, in Abuja on Thursday against the Inspector General of police, barely 24 hours after the Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Ringim, boasted that the violent Islamist sect, Boko Haram, would be suppressed in days.

Speaking at the premises of the police headquarter

, President Jonathan said, "Let me use this opportunity to assure Nigerians, it is a period globally, that we experience all these terrorist attacks all over the world. No country is free."
"Nigeria is also having some ugly incidents relating to that.

People working in offices hundreds of metres away from the police headquarters said the force of the explosion rattled their building and forced many of them to abandon work. Even police officers working at the headquarters decided to take the day off. Several offices within the police headquarters itself were damaged in the blast.

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Boko Haram said on Thursday that the group was responsible for the explosion in an interview with VOA. Usman Alzawahiri told the group that "Yes, the blast is our handiwork. We are behind it and we are going to attack the entire north and other parts of the country, including the capital, Abuja." He also said Boko Haram personnel just returned from Somalia five days ago and have been scattered around northern parts of the country. He said his group is advising Nigerians to be careful.

THE fear of Boko Haram is, to state the fact, the beginning of wisdom in some states of the Northern part of Nigeria. The group, which parades religious extremists pushing for the enthronement of Sharia and abadonment of western education in the region, has always sent jitters down the spines of old and young in the North Eastern states of Borno, Bauchi, Yobe, Adamawa, Gombe and Taraba. Wherever the group operates, it often leaves behind sad stories and scary scenes of destruction, maiming and death.