SUNDAY, August 15, 2010 will be the 65th commemoration of the day the terrible Second World War ended. But no country wants to mark this; in fact, it is difficult to find any member of the human race marking the day.

THE Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC) finally woke from its deep slumber to sack Professor Ndidi Okereke-Onyuike, the Director General of the Nigeria Stock Exchange(NSE). Also falling under the axe is the NSE Council and its president, Alhaji Aliko Dangote. Onyuike had sailed from the New York Exchange to the NSE in 1983 as a consultant and metamorphosed into the Exchange’s boss.

THE veil, the Arab cultural wear of burqas and niqabs that has become identified with Islam is being hoisted to be guillotined not just by the French who are historical professionals in the guillotine business, but also by a rare mixture of European, Arab and Islamic countries.

Both men claim to be the Visitor to the university, and in that capacity, appointed two different Vice Chancellors for the same institution. While Akala sacked the incumbent VC, Professor Benjamin Adeleke five months before the expiration of his tenure and imposed his own VC, Oyinlola sacked the Governing Board And imposed the Deputy VC, Professor J O Ojediran , in practical terms, as sole administrator.

BASIL RISBRIDGE Davidson is not the saint- like hero that Ernesto Che Guevera conjures. He was not a Tarzan swinging through the African jungles, neither was he a missionary of some foreign religion who evangelised the continent at the cost of its land, culture, blood and wealth.