Time: 3.00pm Date:5 /09/2011 Destination:  Port Harcourt International Airport  Purpose: Catch a Flight back to Lagos.   Now hear my story if you will. I had estimated that the time from my house to the Airport takes 20 to 30minutes tops simply because I have done it many times before, so I reckon I can get to the airport well before check in closes If I leave my house by 3pm for a 4:10pm flight. How wrong was I to make these calculations on this particular day forgetting I leave in Nigeria where anything is possible.  Under normal circumstances nothing was wrong with my calculations because I have used this time frames before,however not with encountering the Nigerian police along the way,but with encountering the police every thing that's right can be made wrong and every thing that is wrong can be made right but in a bad way. I got a taxi cab to take me to the airport and less then 10 minutes into the journey  we hit a police check point, the police man(with no nam

I believe the recent fatal bomb blasts in Abuja -Nigeria and the level of violence seen in some Northern states of Nigeria, all of it  is not  really  born out of religious or ethnic intolerance,or  happening cause of  the much talked about  disconnect between the governed and the ruling class. Arguably all of these things mentioned are challenges faced today in Nigeria, however the bombing and recent violent actions of an extremist sect by the name Boko Haram who keeps claiming responsibilities for these attacks,is a different ball game.  A somewhat valid theory being put forth in the public domain  especially via online sites and socila media is that : What Nigeria is facing today,"let's call it terrorist acts" are home grown acts of violence engineered from behind the scene by a few of the high and might persons within the so called ruling class(politicians). These ones  currently feel deprived of power "Political Power"  and are simply reacting.   Make n