Members of the Boko Haram on Monday set fire to Maiduguri Experimental School, a private school in Ruwan Zafi area of the metropolis.

The incident brings to four the number of schools set ablaze by the terror group within a week.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the group had earlier burnt down public primary schools in Budum, Abba Ganaram and Kulo Gomna, all in the Borno capital.

The group, who’s driving principle was to stop western education, has already denied hundreds of school children access to their classes for lessons.

Residents told newsmen in Maiduguri, that the Experimental School was set ablaze in the early hours of the day by unidentified persons.

“We heard an explosion around 3am around the school but everybody was afraid. Later in the morning we noticed heavy smoke coming out of the school.

“By the time we checked about two classes were on fire, so we mobilised and stopped the fire from spreading,” a resident said.

He expressed shock at the development since the school was owned by a private citizen and not the government.

“We were surprised at the fire because this is the first time a private school has been attacked since the terror attack began a few days back,” he said.

Mr Samuel Tizhe, the Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO), confirmed the incident, saying the police had opened investigation to uncover the perpetrators, but added that no arrest had been made.

“It is true that two more schools have been destroyed by fire. Just like the previous ones, we are making efforts to track the perpetrators.”

Meanwhile, pandemonium broke out on Monday at the Seme Border, in Badagry, Lagos State, after an item suspected to be a bomb was discovered in a motor park near the checkpoint of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS).

Briefing the press in Lagos, the Lagos State Police Command spokesman, SP Jaiyeoba Joseph, said that following an alarm raised on the discovery at about 4 a.m., a police officer immediately alerted officials of the Police Bomb Disposal Unit at the border.

Joseph said that a preliminary examination of the bag revealed that it contained a wall clock, two batteries and wires, as well as a well-wrapped iron suspected to be a fuel pump.

He said that officials of the Police Bomb Disposal Unit explained that the contents of the bag could not explode like a bomb, and should ordinarily not cause any alarm.

The spokesman said that officials of the Police Anti-Bomb Disposal Unit planned to meet soon with all the security agencies operating at the border on the issue.

Joseph advised Lagos residents to remain vigilant and to report any suspicious items in their neighbourhoods to the police.

www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2012/02/28/boko-haram-burns-4-schools/

Are there no common thieves and miscreants anymore? Boko-dis, Boko-dat, It's getting boring

Let them continue. The more school they set on fire, the more illiterate  they become. I am fine as long they stay away from the south.

@ OvieE:
True talk. They should even cause earthquake their in north if they like hehehehe.

@BH

Please up your game its getting boring or stop altogether - A concerned citizen

North abi no wahala they should bomb the whole north.

:oeveryone that has put a comment up should remember that there are innocent families that live in the north, so it is wrong to say they should keep doing what they are doing ,that you dont care.

Also i was wondering how far the south is away from seme border, that mean this boko people are closing up on the southerners,
alll we need to do is continue praying for the people in the north and pray this boko whatever they are should have a change of heart.

fenomenonx:

:oeveryone that has put a comment up should remember that there are innocent families that live in the north, so it is wrong to say they should keep doing what they are doing ,that you dont care.

Also i was wondering how far the south is away from seme border, that mean this boko people are closing up on the southerners,
alll we need to do is continue praying for the people in the north and pray this boko whatever they are should have a change of heart.

the moment they bring their bombing to the highlighted,then this cursed entity called Nigeria will disappear into oblivion

Pray for them to have change of heart? God forbid. They should keep bombing. When there is no more North, we shall occupy our own part of the country and lay Northern Nigeria desolate. We will live happily ever after. Shikenah

if they like, let them bomb all d public schools in  Maiduguri. they should not just d children and private schools.

Now they are talking. Please bomb on, Until all northerners become mai guard and shoe shiners in the south. Ndi iberibe.

I believe their end is in sight. The kidnappers then in Aba, dug their graves the day they hijacked a school bus filled with school pupils. These BH guys have gone to the schools again, i'm awaiting their burials.

first therefore said Boko Haram, then it said 'unidentified persons'. I think the press just credits BH with everything for the sake of sensationalism.

they have lost their strategy and very soon they wil be kidnapping, end of boko haram

Now they are living up to what their name stand for.,.,'Boko Haram'. Good Job!!! They should go ahead and bomb all d primary & secondary schools in d north. They really have to be relegated to d stone age b4 2015, so dat wen Nigeria eventually split, they will then have to sweat to obtain a visa /work permit in d south.

Good point there, pls keep it up and extend your good hand of destruction to other schools too, you have enough ground to cover,

make una keep bombing una place just dont come near our village,wh cares about northern nigeria anyway?the MAJOR PROBLEM of this country is NORTHERN NIGERIA. Aawon mola gambari olosi buruku,ka da fun gbogbo yin lai