May it never happen; but it could! Imagine some Boko Haram terrorists threatening President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to meet a particular demand. Then imagine Mr. President trying to call the telephone line, possible to track them and make arrests only for the call to ring from the telephone in the pocket of his orderly. What should he do? How would he feel?

I am from Uromehe community in Urhonigbe North ward, Oriomnwon local government council of Edo State. I was born 55 years ago, attended St Pius Primary School, Uromehe as it then was, now Iyobosa Primary School; it was a Catholic institution. From there I wrote my common entrance examination and passed.I had the choice of attending either ICC, Edo College or Western Boys High School,but, because I am a Catholic, I chose to attend Immaculate Conception College (ICC), Benin. When I finished at the ICC, I proceeded to the United States immediately where I got my first degree in political science and thereafter to the Law School where i got my doctor in jurisprudence degree. I proceeded again to specialize in international and comparative law in Washington. After that, I came back to Nigeria and went to the Law School;i was called to the Bar on October 17, 1986.

In addition to the fact that a number of Black people were beaten up and some killed in the racist reaction to Obama’s victory, recent polls show that hatred of Blacks and Hispanics has gone up since Obama became president in 2009.

In particular, a group on the extreme right of the Republican Party would essentially form a faction that came to call itself the Tea Party.

The irony of the senseless killings in the North East of Nigeria, especially the Borno-Yobe axis came full circle when on November 02, as reports have it, gun men shot dead General Mohammed Shuwa, a 79 year old authentic civil war hero dead, along with his guests in his Gwange, Maiduguri home. It was indeed a tragic end to a man who even in the heat of war protected lives and did everything to avoid needless deaths.