Finally, the Senate took up the gauntlet last week and threatened to call a vote of no confidence on the president for what they have generally perceived as his lack of serious engagement with the national security situation. Specifically, the senators were up in arms with the administration’s handling of the Boko Haram terrorist killings, and the heightened general insecurity of life in Nigeria.

“I want to see a situation where bank depositors can go to sleep with their two eyes closed”. Professor Chukwumah Soludo, Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, August 2004. And for Soludo, security could only be guaranteed by creating banks which were “too big to fail. Like the author of the great ship, called Titanic whose builder boasted that “even God cannot sink it,” Soludo, as we had noted earlier, got his wish.

Helen, I’m away from Lagos and at my daughter’s place in Epe. I don’t know when I’ll be back to my house.” When I received this text some days ago from a former classmate who’s a federal government retiree, I was a bit agitated.

Serving under President Olusegun Obasanjo was for me an eventful experience. To start with, I got called by him on the phone many times as late or better put as early as 2am and the first question was usually about my whereabouts- where else could I have been at that time? Immediately following my reply, ‘in bed sir’ would be why? What could I say?

The recent trial and eventual conviction of Michael Jackson’s physician Dr Conrad Murray has recently brought the American judicial system under a microscope before the whole world. The world saw a slew of evidence and very convincing arguments that led most of us to be fairly sure of the guilt of the not so good doctor.