August 28, 2011 is a date that will hardly be forgotten by Elder Tes Sorae, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo state. Elder Sorae who also is the chairman of Tomline Engineering Company, went to church in company of his first wife, Bridget, two female house helps, a driver and two police orderlies.

For many years now, there have increasing cases of Nigerians’ illegal migration to Europe via the desert as victims of human trafficking and sex slavery.

As America rekindles the spirit of Americanism and the resurrection of a spirit that was almost killed 10 years ago today, Nigeria’s version of such which is the Jos crisis rekindles nothing but nightmare.

This is a story of the global onslaught against terrorist activities in the last 10 years. It is the story of how the United States of America and Nigeria are contending with the deadly acts of terrorists. Are these two countries succeeding? What lessons can be learnt from the American approach, as today marks the 10th anniversary of the bringing down of the Twin Towers, the World Trade Centre buildings in New York City.

It was a beautiful Tuesday, said Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of New York. It was actually a day for the primaries preparatory to picking a candidate for that office and Guiliani lapped it up. “It was a beautiful day, the sky was blue”, he said in an interview broadcast on National Geographic channel last week. But that was the day the world changed.

Boko Haram has, no doubt, demonstrated its capacity to inflict pain on the people of some northern states.The innocent citizens of Maiduguri, Borno State, have been the worst hit. Here are a few of the group’s recent exploits in the destruction of lives and property, as well as a long list of earlier incidents.

What would have been a fitting and befitting retirement for Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Iyorgyer Katsina-Alu, is unfortunately, becoming pantomime. After 44 years in the legal service, leaving behind a crisis-ridden judiciary at a time when the building blocks of democracy are still being put in place, as the Chief Justice, may not reflect the true essence of Katsina-Alu. However, confronted with contemporary realities, as late as his insistence to swear-in 30 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, 48 hours ago, only presents Katsina-Alu as an individual who is set in his own way.

Having sufficiently dragged the integrity of the judiciary in the mud, the retiring Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, and the now suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Isa Salami, the judicial system is itself reeling from the collateral damage that is trailing the scandal that is still unfolding. This is a story of the yet to-be appreciated damage that the allegations of Justice Salami against Justice Katsina-Alu and NJC’s suspension of Justice Salami may do to the carriage of justice in the country.

The Federal Government may sanction Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) if it heeds the call by the Ogoni people in Rivers State, Niger-Delta, for the revocation of the license granted the Anglo-Dutch oil giant to carry out oil exploration activities in Nigeria, following the revelations by the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, that the company polluted their land and caused life-threatening health hazards.

Customers of the three nationalised banks are disagreeing over the take-over of the banks by the Federal Government.

Two weeks ago, the Federal Government through the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, took over the assets of former Afribank Plc, Bank PHB Plc and Spring Bank Plc following the revocation of their licences by Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.