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.