GIVEN that 2011 was an election year, Nigerians welcomed the year with high expectations. Seven days to the end of the year, 2011 no doubt, would remain indelible in the minds of Nigerians on account of series of events, especially political and security matters that kept the citizenry on their toes.

IT is Christmas again and all the cities across Nigeria are bubbling with activities. Already markets have been recording high patronage since Monday, some people have traveled while some are still making last minute preparations to jet out to their various homelands. This mood underscores the unparallel love Nigerians have for Christmas. While some would celebrate without fear, panic is the word for a host of others in some states of the country.

Amidst a flurry of protests and counter protests, traffic gridlock and outright disorder, the planned tolling of the Eti-Osa -Lekki Expressway, took off yesterday on a shaky note.

On Friday, December 23, 2011, it will be exactly 10 years since the former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, was assassinated in his home in Ibadan, Oyo State. Ige was killed shortly after a trip from Lagos with his son. In this interview, the son, Muyiwa, now the commissioner in charge of lands and physical planning in Osun State, speaks on the night of the murder, the controversial trial of those suspected to be behind it, why his father wanted to quit the cabinet of the then President Olusegun Obasanjo, and many more. Excerpts:

lBAGAUDA KALTO, of the News magazine, abducted from his room in Durbar Hotel and murdered during the Abacha dictatorship. Since then, there have been no clues as to who did it.