Troy Davis, ( 42) was executed on September 21,2011, in the United States of America and some would say he merited his execution. Because he was found guilty of the death of an off- duty policeman, Mark MacPhail.

Two Sundays ago was the anniversary of the devastation that the world would rather forget. It was 10 years ago and the world has not allowed itself to forget.

Ten years ago, a single cataclysmic event altered the way we viewed the world. On September 11, 2001, the world watched in horror as planes struck the World Trade Centre twin towers in New York . It seems so unreal that anyone in their right mind could not have thought it could happen, least of all, not in America . But it did and it unleashed even more tragedy in the number of lives lost that day in the weeks, months and years that followed . Its resonance felt the world over.

They call what happened in Ibadan a force majeure.It is a happening that no one has any power over. My cousin in Ibadan told me when I called him, that there had never seen anything like it and he has lived over six decades. It was not an everyday disaster happening.

On July 22, 2011, the world watched in horror as a heinous crime was committed by one person to many others in Norway. While the horror was unfolding with the immediacy of the media, there were many voices who lent their views to a culprit or culprits who could be the Asian youths in Norway or the usual suspect being the Al Qaeda. After all, it was a bomb in the centre of town and there were fatalities. This person or persons then travelled to carry out more massacres on Utøya Island. Utøya Island is situated in a lake about 26 miles north-west of Oslo where the Labour Party was hosting its youth camp

The billionaire of the recently- rested News of the World, Rupert Murdoch, has been known for years, but not as much as he is now known. In recent time, his fame or notoriety has gone round the world. Murdoch’s overweening political influence has long been recognised, from well before when the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, flew to Australia in 1995 to pay homage at his corporate court. It is said that those who knew him have the fear that those who crossed him would be given the full tabloid treatment over their personal misdemeanors, real or imagined.

Several parties are sharpening their knives with the unfurling of the hacking scandal of the News of the World and News International. There are even suggestions that the rot may have spread to other newspapers but the smear has not hit the other papers… yet.

The News of the World’s, NoW, then royal editor, Clive Goodman and private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, were jailed for hacking into the mobile phones of royal aides.

Since then, a series of police inquiries and legal cases have explored just how widespread the practice was, with implications for the police, celebrities, politicians and even victims of crime and their families.

Politicians can die anytime. And that was the case of 56-year -old Christopher Shale. He was as big as they come. He is a “big”, what they call,fish in the conservative party! Christopher was chairman of the West Oxfordshire Conservative Party Association. And that covers David Cameron ‘s constituency.

Most people are making some money on the side. And, it is all over the world. Some journalists are making it by doing something in public relations.