I saw death face to face. I thought it was finished. It was meant to be a mock exercise that suddenly metamorphosed into reality not particularly bargained for. However, this stunning reality met with some form of preparedness irrespective of the loss and damage experienced - especially of the aircraft and two, the badly injured few on board the aircraft. The beauty of the scenario as horrible as it appeared was that in spite of the seeming equipment and structures available to handle emergencies of such nature, the responders on ground had a gallant performance taking action.

Some paradigms on which the practice of Public Relations thrive such as objectivity and transparency were brought to the fore the more in recent time through the apology of the Chief Executive Officer of the Toyota Motor Corporation for a positive crisis control. Akio Toyoda has successfully intoned the PR paradigm on openness and transparency. These qualities exhibited in the leadership of the corporation in making a public declaration to the entire world for error discovered in the manufacturing of the Toyota Hybrid are the bedrock for which the practice thrives.

Congruously, one can readily infer that if Abdul Mutallab of such aristocratic background could be recruited into Al-Qaeda with all his education abroad, it may not be out of place to say that for one Mutallab suspected, there could be other hundreds hibernating somewhere in Africa that are Al-Qaeda trained, which translates to mean that Al-Qaeda has penetrated Africa apparently.

The attitude of government playing lip service to the problem of climate change must end now. There is the need for them to take bold steps to tackle this problem - it is real. Whereas, decisive steps to remedy whatever problem the challenge is posing or may pose to our nation ought to receive some workable attention as it were. The policy of government must address this issue without holding back; otherwise, all will suffer.

In an effort to make a full proof of the mandate of the agency and to further mitigate and reduce emergency and disaster in the country, NEMA has taken a step ahead in the area of human capital development and capacity building for emergency stakeholders. It flagged off a second leg of the executive training in Calabar in the bid to prepare stakeholders for adequate and indispensable skills for emergency and disaster situations. This of course, is one of the numerous capacity-building exercises embarked on by the agency to equip the people for any emergencies in the country and beyond.

The multidimensional and controversial movie, District 9, constitutes a paradox of unending and quizzical interpretations which could pass for a documentary packaged as it is, possibly as a style to lampoon and denigrate Nigeria further considering all that was reflected in it. There is no need attempting to interpret code 9 which could simply stand for the city of Abuja, a synecdoche for the country.

The global picture is what Nigerians should consider in the face of the ongoing bank shake-up. There is a need for caution in the entire setting to avoid a huge international embarrassment this may cause. The mixed feelings and the likely fear this entire scenario could or might have created so far in the minds of investors and prospective ones could allow for more worry and uncertainty in the citizenry. It is not that these things don't happen, but in our own kind of terrain and developing democracy, a lot of things call for concern.

Unfortunately, the country has so much played into the hands of her African brothers, neighbours and the westerns to the point that it has to take the American Secretary of State to tell the country what has been wrong so far with the polity and that has eaten so deep into the fibre of the nation to the point that Nigeria is crying out droplets of blood. The challenge in this is that the continuous drop of the blood may cease some day and without blood the continuing existence of course may be cut short.