Nigeria, May 3 -- William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is, in my view, one of his best plays ever written by history's greatest bard and playwright and it is indeed amongst my favourites.

It speaks of mob psychology, ambition, power, treachery and the most brutal and painful expression of betrayal by a loved one.

Caesar loved Brutus his protegee above all else but at the end of the day it was Brutus, after others had stabbed him all over the body with their knives, that struck the fatal blow deep into his ageing chest and killed him.

The shock of the betrayal by a loved one and his famous last words, "et tu Brute", as he slowly bled and died, (which when translated from Latin to English means "and you too Brutus?") conveyed his anguish ...