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.

Unwilling (truly not unable) to fight dirty, Barack Obama would come out looking weak before an American public whose love of the sport of gladiators underpins the popularity of boxing and the visceral fascination with the violent body knocks of their most favourite sports, American football.

Four years ago in 2008 the entire world was engrossed in, and enraptured by a global political phenomenon about to happen: The United States of America was about to elect a Black man as its President and Commander-in-Chief. It had been a long tough run-up to the elections. A young first time member of the U.S. Senate whose first introduction to the political world was when he gave the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic Party Convention in Boston at which Senator John Kerry was nominated to run for president against Republican candidate and incumbent President George W. Bush, had simply done what for most was only conceivable in a dream.

If the bomb ferrying man’s mission was to kill, an unsuspecting commercial motorcyclist popularly called okada helped seal the fate of those present at the St. Rita Catholic Church, Badarwa, Kaduna last Sunday, a Sabbath day.

That was the day a man of fiendish disposition, determined to end his life and those of other innocent people in a macabre manner, loaded explosives into a Mercedes Benz SUV, black in colour, and headed for the Church.

Dogon Dawa is a sleepy village of about 20,000 residents of mostly Hausa traders and sedentary Fulani herdsmen, sitting by the roadside, 90kms east of Zaria city and about 120kms further east of Birnin Gwari town, the Emirate it falls under. Sunday Vanguard has been able to gather and reconstruct the gruesome murder which took place last Sunday.

I can’t remember the number of killings we have done since we came into this business. It is always like we were at war when in operation. I am not rich but I am comfortable. Those who are rich and are really making money from the business are the sponsors, they are the beneficiaries and they are highly placed.’’

IT was a tearful home coming for Mrs Justina Ekwu Nwakwe (nee Madu), a mother of triplets in AMAC Estate, Lugbe, off Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja, last Sunday, when she returned after six days in kidnappers’ den.

A friend brought some Zimbabwean dollars home the other day. You know, the way people bring home loose change from trips abroad. Only these notes were denominated in millions.

There is an irony in the situation of Andoni and Opobo/Nkoro local government areas of Rivers State. They are endowed with oil which should translate into petrodollars. Yet there is little or no development there. In fact, the LGAs are not connected to the national grid, forcing them to power their communities with generators.

I don’t think it is a good idea because I believe governors will use it as a tool or weapon to fight their political opponents. Speaking of stability, introducing state police will bring about more instability in the country.

The Federal Ministry of Works, in collaboration with the Office of the Surveyor General of the Federation, has opened a new vista transformation parameter in works sector.