WHILE writing on the UK riots last August, I had, here, traced some of the impulses that gave rise to the riots to certain economic and social inequities within the British society. I did not stop at that. I had extended my reading of the developments in the British society with regard to the riots to what I saw as related developments in other parts of Europe and America.

THE last few years have been transformative for Nigerian banks. Beginning from the period under Charles Soludo to the last three years when Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has practically gripped the banking sector by the neck and shaken it out of slumber, Nigerian banks have not remained the same.

THE 21st day of September is celebrated around the world as World’s Peace Day, a day dedicated to the promotion of all that is peaceful in human culture. The world sure needs peace, lots of it in these times that try the souls of even the most complacent.

While Nigeria’s crotch bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, continues to hallucinate in faraway USA that Osama bin Ladin is still alive, the rest of Nigeria remains trapped by the not-too-different disease, caused by fear, that seeks to place Boko Haram, the murderous fringe group that engages in the deadly but cowardly game of bomb throwing- we do, by our act of spreading foolish urban myths, become captive worshippers in the temple of lies built by Boko Haram. And this boko nonsense just needs to stop!

It’s been ten years since the AlQaeda terrorist attack on the United States of America. The attack which was executed with an eye for maximum devastation took place on September 11, 2001, hence the reference to 9/11, the shorthand formula by which it is now generally known.