Blame Political Jobbers For Airhiavbere’s Petition – PDP.

PATRICK OCHOGA.

Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday,blamed those it described as political jobbers for urging  its defeated candidate in the last gubernatorial election, Major General Charles Airhiahvere (rtd) to continue with the petition  he filed at the tribunal.
State chairman of the party, Mr Dan Orbih, made this allegation while reacting to  a signed petition issued by Edo North leaders of PDP led by Gabriel. O Ojo and three others challenging the decision of the party to abandon its governorship candidate at the tribunal.
 General Airhiavbere’s petition, it would be recalled,ran into a hitch  soon after it was filed when the PDP, named as co-petitioner,  withdrew from the petition.
Orbih had explained that the party after consultations decided not to pursue the petition and get involved in protracted electoral case in court.
Since the party made its stand on the election petition known, there have been varied reactions from some members of the party in the State, with a faction of leaders of Edo South Senatorial District of the party throwing their weight behind Gen. Airhiavbere and urged him to pursue the petition.
Another faction of the party from the same senatorial district led, by its Leader, Mr. Lucky Imasuen endorsed the decision of the party not to pursue the petition.
Ojo, in the petition circulated to newsmen, yesterday, said “the justice of this case will be better served by prosecuting the case in the court of law.
“That we are unimpressed by the dissolvent theories and  or reasons given by Chief Dan Orbih which led to his unilateral withdrawal of PDP from the suit filed by Gen. Ehigie Airhiavbere in the election petition tribunal. We consider them very untrue, unfounded, baseless and lacking in merit,” the communiqué signed by Chief E. O. Ojo and three others,said.
 However, in swift reaction, the State Chairman of the party, Chief Dan Orbih, described its authors as unknown members of the party and political jobbers who were out to eat Gen. Airhiavbere’s money, and  insisted that the party’s earlier position stood.
He announced that the party has filed a counter petition at the tribunal to formally withdraw from the petition filed by Gen. Airhiavbere.

Mass failure in WAEC.

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Stories by CHIKA ABANOBI
Former Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Peter Okebukola, has given a hint on what government and various stakeholders in education, can do to curtail the scourge of dwindling fortunes in education in Nigeria.
The former Lagos State University (LASU) vice chancellor spoke in the light of mass failure recorded in the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) May/June results released by the West African Examination Council (WAEC), at the weekend.
Less than 40 per cent (38.81) of 1,695,878 candidates, who sat for the May/June exams, scaled through in the results said to be about eight per cent improvement on last year’s results. The outgoing Head of the Nigerian National Office (HNO), Dr. Uyi Uwadiae, who announced the results said that 649,156 candidates representing 38.81 per cent obtained credits in five subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics. That is to say that over one million failed the exam said to be the best result in the past three years.
But while the Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Education, awaits comprehensive details of the results before taking any official stance, Prof. Okebukola has urged governments at various levels and education stakeholders, especially corporate sponsors like oil companies, telecommunications, etc, to adopt the South African formula, if we are willing to see, if not the end, at least a minimization of the mass failure recorded every year in public exams.
Okebukola who was answering questions from reporters at the just concluded 2012 Mobil/Science Teachers Association of Nigeria (STAN) national science quiz competition for schools, urged governments to emulate South Africa by setting up dedicated TV channels and radio stations to teach science and other school subjects to our children. He believed that if this is done diligently and consistently it will go a long way in impacting on their performance in public exams such as WASSCE.
“The South Africans have a dedicated channel, Channel 319, for teaching Chemistry, Biology, Physics, English, Mathematics, Economics, everything,” he said during the chat. “I advise every child in secondary school to watch that programme. It is on DSTv Channel 319.
You go and check it. It is a good educational programme. I will like to see a situation whereby the Federal government, state government or whatever will also mount up that kind of programme in Nigeria for our students. If we get more funding support, STAN can move in that direction. Let me tell you what it did for South African students.
When that programme started, their performance in their equivalent of our GCE/SSCE in South Africa topped several percentage points and it is still improving.” Asked to say what extent the Mobil/STAN national science quiz competition on sciences can go in improving the teaching-learning situation, Okebukola who is the foundation member of STAN where he helped to birth the idea of the competition, said: “We are trying but we are just scratching the surface; we need several more of these efforts.
Like I said, if you have a dedicated TV channel that I am talking about or FM stations scattered all over the place, running educational programmes in Math, English, etc, it will help because our youths tune to these channels for music and other programmes. Since they are attracted to them, I feel we can use that opportunity to catch them and teach them a few things.
So, STAN intervention is helping. If we had 20 per cent pass rate, consider a scenario whereby this intervention was not there, I could see the situation getting worse. So, I think we are doing our own little bit but everybody should contribute so that we can go beyond the stage where we are now.”
Volunteering his opinion on the development at the competition which saw more students from private schools doing better than their counterparts from public ones, Prof. Okebukola attributed that to effective teaching and learning taking place in private schools. “In 1996, we did a national survey organized by UNICEF on literacy, numeracy and life skills; literacy, mainly English, numeracy, Mathematics, life skills, sciences and social studies,” he recalled. “I did the analysis for the entire country.
And we disaggregated the schools by ownership: private and public; private any day did better on all the clusters. In all other national assessments, I have seen more examples confirm the better performance of the private relative over the public. But you should expect that that will be so because there the classroom population is fewer. Let’s assume you have a school and you engage a teacher in Mathematics, if the man does not teach well, of course, he will be sanctioned.
Because of that, there is the motivation to work harder in the private than in the public schools. But I have been able to see some bright rays in some states like Lagos that are showing some promise in terms of revamping their primary and secondary schools. I can see that. So, the simple answer is that private is doing better than public and it is good for competition.”

Osayande committee rejects state police.

By Vincent Ikuomola.

Osayande

...Wants ministry of police affairs scrapped ...Seeks fiscal autonomy for force

Advocates of state police seems to be losing the battle as the Presidential Committee on the re-organisation of the Nigeria Police Force on Tuesday kicked against the idea.

The committee in a report suggested that the Ministry of Police Affairs be scrapped because of its irrelevance.

The former Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Parry Osayande- led committee submitted its report to President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday at the State House, Abuja.

The committee based its opposition to the call for state police to what it called inability of states governments to fund the project.

Besides, the committee said such a move will lead to eventual break up of Nigeria. 

Rather than it advocated for a funding of the police by all three tiers of government.

Osayande, who spoke to State House Correspondents, after presenting the report to the president, said that a stronger and more efficient National Police Council with effective participation of state governors; financial autonomy and better professionalism for the police will deal with the agitation for state police.

"State police? It is irrelevant. The states cannot afford it. Do you know how much it is to police a country? What we are recommending is that they allow the Police Council to function.

"The President is the chairman, the chairman of Police Service Commission is a member, governors are members, the IGP is a member, and (governors) will bring their policing plan to the council. They will now decide on what to do. We don't need state police; the country will break up, take it from me."

He further explained that "the Constitution provides a trilateral arrangement for the organisation and administration of the Nigeria Police Council, the Police Service Commission and the Inspector-General of Police.

"However, it is a known fact that the Nigeria Police Council is inactive as it hardly meets, and hence does not fulfill its constitutionally assigned role of administering, organising and generally supervising the Nigeria Police Force,"  the ex-police chief said.

On police funding, the committee’s report noted that since policing is a capital intensive venture, the current funding system of mere federal budgetary allocation cannot be sufficient. 

The report stated that it is either that funding of the Police be made a first line charge or an intervention/special fund be created to accommodate the needs of the force.

Corruption And Insecurity, Threat to Youth, Says Young Journalists’ Forum.

 Saharareporters.
Young Nigerian journalists have identified corruption and insecurity as major threats to the development of the nation’s youth.
In a press statement issued to mark the 2012 International Youth Day, the National President and Secretary of the Nigerian Young Journalists Forum, Ayodele Samuel and Zacheaus Somorin, lamented that the twin monsters are killing the dreams of Nigerian youths although they constitute over 60 percent of the country’s estimated 165 million population.
Drawing attention to the theme of the event, “Building a Better World: Partnering with Youth,’ they described the present as the best and the worst of times for Nigerian youths.
“In a way, young people are the new masters of the universe,” the statement said.  “From the United States to Europe and the Middle East we see young people on the streets negotiating the nature of the world they live in. The collapse of corrupt autocracies in what is now memorialized as the ‘Arab Spring’ signifies how the combination of youthful vigor and smart technology extends the possibilities of establishing democracy.”
Turning to Nigeria, they noted that while insecurity, poverty and hopelessness stalk the landscape, opportunity and prosperity nevertheless beckon through fruitful partnership and hope.
Urging governments at every level to engage the youth through programmes that will positively impact their lives and communities, the young journalists stressed that a thoroughly empowered youth will enhance the development of its community.  They pointed, in this regard, to the tremendous exploits of Nigerian youths across the globe, which they described as a sign of the enormous potential that the nation’s youth is endowed with.
The statement said, “The government should create employments for our teeming unemployed youths and also ensure that the business environment is more conducive for them. There should be a re-activation of our manufacturing sector which has been moribund over the decades; introducing spirit of entrepreneurship and self-development by providing stable and secured environments where small business thrived.”
The group also called on the nation’s youths to stand against corruption; to embrace strong and positive moral values, and to continue to engage the government and policy makers on issues geared towards positive change in Nigeria.
“We must embrace our moral values to bring Nigeria back on track, no doubt corruption has finished our nation but it’s a responsibility to secure the future; government and its institutions are failing to provide a better tomorrow for its noble leaders, we have the strength, we must develop the zeal to shun corruption,” the statement said.

Plagiarism: Between Sanusi and Zakaria .

Written by Emmanuel Onwubiko

Fareed Zakaria and Sanusi Lamido Sanusi are two young professionals that progressively rose to the pinnacle of their different professional callings.
While Fareed Zakaria became one of the best known and recognizable television presenters globally from his United States base, the other young person from Nigeria in the person of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi who is a banker eventually got elevated through political might of the president of the federal Republic of Nigeria to become the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria against all odds.
Incidentally, both men have in the past couple of years received accolades from certain quarters for what those nominating them for such awards regarded as their very remarkable achievements as technocrats in their own fields.
Both men are equally said to be fairly well educated even though Mr. Fareed Zakaria seems to have attended better graded and World rated Ivy League Universities in the United States than Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi who is reported to have read at the post-graduate level in one of the remotest and little known universities in Sudan, a war ravaged country.
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria who was born in January 20th, 1964 and rose to become one of the finest Indian-American journalists and authors is a distinguished international public policy analyst who has used his media visibility to gain some personal milleage. From research conducted online, he was said to have worked as a columnist in the internationally reputable Newsweek and editor of Newsweek international from the year 2000 to 2010.
Zakaria became editor-at-large of Time Magazine in the year 2010 and also the host of the cable News Network’s 'Fareed Zakaria GPS' [a must watch] and a frequent commentator and author about issues related to international relations, trade and American Foreign policy. He is loved and admired by younger intellectuals from across the World including this writer.
Fareed Zakaria received a Bachelor of Arts from the highly respected Yale University where he also held the prestigious position of the yale political union’s president and editor-in-chief of the yale political monthly. He later earned a Doctor of Philosophy in political science from Harvard University in 1993 where he studied under Samuel P. Huntington and Stanley Hoffmann, as well as international relations theorist Robert Keohane. Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia therefore rates Fareed Zakaria as an original thinker prior to his latest plegiarism controversy.
From the above loaded history of the enormous scholarship attained by Mr. Fareed Zakaria one can comfortably deduce that he is one of the finest learned minds among contemporary youth. But something has gone wrong that threatens to puncture his illustrious educational, academic and professional meteoric rise. This threat is related to the accusation that he plagiarized the Newspaper piece of one of his reporters and passed it on as if he was the author. He humbly owned up and profusely apologized in what is seen as grave human error.
On Sanusi Lamido Sanusi the other personality who is equally rated very highly by his contemporaries as one of the best bank administrators of his time, there is a connection between him and Mr. Fareed Zakaria in the unfortunate fact that he is also facing charges and accusations of plagiarism by an American-based Nigerian born scholar who has even proceeded to institute a court litigation at the Federal High Court, Abuja Division which is still being heard.
The only difference is that while investigation is yet to be completed in the plagiarism case involving Mr. Fareed Zakaria which is largely administrative, he (Zakaria) has apologized for the human error and has been suspended from work by the Cable News Network in Atlanta, United States of America and the Time Magazine but Sanusi Lamido Sanusi still holds forte as the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria even when such a damaging allegation of plagiarism has being slammed on him and a court case instituted.
The failure of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to resign or be suspended by the federal Government pending the determination of the subsisting court case is not all together surprising because in Nigeria public office holders do not resign even when they are accused of committing grave atrocities.
Nigerian public office holders always hold on tenaciously to the excuse that section 36(5) of the 1999 constitution of the federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) which states thus; “Every person who is charged with a criminal offence shall be presumed to be innocent until he is proved guilty”.
But why are Nigerian public officials shying away from throwing in the towel whenever their integrity is questioned and why is the government of Nigeria not showing good example by asking public office holders facing such damaging accusations such as plagiarism to step down pending final determination of the matter in the competent court of law?
Again, where is Sanusi Lamido Sanusi drawing the legal fees that he pays his legal team who are defending him at the federal High Court, Abuja Division in this instance?
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi who was born in July 31st 1961 graduated from the Ahmadu Bello University earning Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1981 and earned a degree in Islamic law from the international university of Africa, Khartoum, Sudan. As stated earlier, he is currently facing the court litigation bordering on alleged plagiarism which was instituted by Professor Victor E. Dike who is a lecturer at the School of Engineering and Technology, National University of Sacramento, California, United States of America.
Dike, who is also the CEO and Founder for Social Justice & Human Development, claims that he is the original author of the article titled: “Review of the Challenges Facing The Nigerian (Is National Development Possible Without Technological Capacity?).
The article was published in the Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa (volume 12).
He claimed that the CBN Governor, in a public lecture delivered at the Eight Convocation Ceremony of Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo state on 26 November, 2010, titled Growth Prospects For The Nigerian Economy, copied verbatim and pasted from his academic articles he published without referring to him as the original author of the work.
The plaintiff averred that Sanusi copied from pages 98,99 and 100 of his work titled, ‘Review of the Challenges Facing the Nigerian Economy: Is National Development Possible Without Technological Capacity?’
He stated the copied lines as follows: “The challenges facing the economy is ineffective institutions and dilapidated infrastructure (bad roads, erratic power supply, limited access to potable water and basic healthcare, and ineffective regulatory agencies, etc). The plethora of reforms and policies are ineffective due to institutional failure (Hoff, 2003)”.
The above is just a few sentences from one of the publications in which Lamido Sanusi is alleged to have plagiarized.
At another lecture delivered by the nation’s Chief Banker at the Convocation Square, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi where he presented a paper titled ‘Global Financial Meltdown and the Reforms in the Nigerian Banking Sector’, Prof Dike alleged that Sanusi also copied verbatim articles originally written and published by him without acknowledging him as the author of the works from where he sourced the materials for his lecture.
He also stated that Sanusi on different occasions copied his materials without acknowledging him as the original author of the works.                          
The plaintiff subsequently asked for the modest sum of N15 million as compensation, the cost of filing the suit and the cost of travelling to Nigeira.
The United States based Nigerian born University don is also asking the court to declare that Sanusi plagiarized his works and breached his copy right.
Professor Dike further asked the court to issue a perpetual injunction restraining Sanusi form citing his papers as his (Sanusi’s).
He asked the court to direct the CBN Governor to retract the papers from the public by removing them from the CBN website.
The plaintiff asked the court to make a publication in a national daily denouncing the authorship of the articles.  
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has already entered appearance through his team of lawyers led by a senior Advocate of Nigeria Chief Kola Awodein. He has filed preliminary objection to the suit and is praying for the dismissal of the entire case. The matter is pending.
Just like Sanusi Lamid Sanusi, Fareed Zakaria was accused of copying aspects of the work of Jill Lapore without citing the proper author in compliance to standard Journalistic practice.
An introspective look at these two cases therefore compels me to urge the federal government to stop promoting impunity by allowing public office holders with damaging court cases that borders on their person to remain in office and probably draw fund from the public treasury to service the professional fees of his team of lawyers in a matter that such a public office holder should bear the entire cost on his/her own. There has to be an investigation to ascertain the sources from which the legal team representing Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi draw their professional fees.
The best possible thing for the Nigerian government would have been to suspend the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria until such a time that the nation’s court system finally reaches an unassailable determination of the pending matter. Plagiarism is a very serious allegation that ought to be sufficiently cleared by the person so accused before he could go about his official duties which demands unimpeachable integrity. When will Nigerians ever learn from Americans and Europeans?  
Emmanuel Onwubiko, Head, HUMAN Rights Writers’ Association of Nigeria blogs @www.huriwa.blogspot.com.

World Bank Exposes Corruption In Nigerian Business Climate.

 THEWILL

...Says 80% Of Businesses Pay Bribes

SAN FRANCISCO, August 13, (THEWILL) – The report of a World Bank study (conducted in 26 states) released on Monday has indicated that about 80 per cent of businesses in the country paid bribes to government officials in 2011 to stay in business.

According to the report, World Bank’s 2011 report on investment climate in Nigeria, which was released on Monday, one-third of micro-enterprises agreed that “informal payments/gifts to government officials” were common occurrences, suggesting that registered firms deal more with such requests for bribes.

Only 20 per cent of micro-enterprise firms reported to have had foreknowledge of the amount of money required to “get things done,” a situation that means the informal payments are sudden and unplanned for.

These informal payments/gifts, the report went on, represented approximately 1.2 per cent of annual sales for all micro-enterprises. It added, too, that micro-enterprises dealing in government contracts were expected to pay approximately 4.3 per cent of the value of contracts that they were hoping to secure.

Manufactured goods attracted larger bribes (6.7 per cent) than those for small services (3.9 per cent). However, firms in the formal sector obviously spent more on corruption, as 47 per cent of formal firms claimed that informal gifts/payments were commonplace in comparison to 33 per cent for micro-enterprises.

Also, the report stated that micro-enterprises have a greater mistrust of institutions than formal firms; that 63 per cent of formal sector firms and 72 per cent of micro-enterprises reported that the application of laws was not consistent and predictable; and that 41 per cent of formal firms and 20 per cent of micro-enterprises reported that they had advance knowledge of informal payments/gifts.

Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Gombe, Imo, Jigawa, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi and Kwara States are some of the states where the study was conducted. The rest are Nassarawa, Niger, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Taraba, Yobe, and Zamfara.

Nigeria and the London Olympics – Eze Onyekpere

It is no longer news that Nigeria participated in the 2012 London Olympic Games without winning any medal – gold, silver or bronze. Nigeria’s performance at the Games represents the new depths of the country’s overall rating in virtually all spheres of human endeavour. Whether it is in sports, education, health, housing, technology, politics, diplomacy, we are currently occupying very lowly positions. Ironically, the Sports Development National Technical Working Group of Vision 2020 had projected that Nigeria would win at least 10 gold medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games; top the medals table at the 2011 All Africa Games; and win at least four and eight gold medals in the 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Games respectively. But this did not happen. How did we arrive at this boxed in corner and what steps do we take to climb out of this valley?

Gone are the days when Nigeria produced world class athletes who excelled in their chosen activities. In the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Chioma Ajunwa won gold in the long jump while the Kanu Nwankwo-led Dream Team picked the gold in football. On their way to that gold medal, the Dream Team defeated great football powers such as Brazil and Argentina. In the sprints, we had the likes of Mary Onyali who won bronze in the 200 metres event and Falilat Ogunkoya who also won bronze in the 400 metres event. Ogunkoya, Fatima Yusuf, Charity Opara and Bisi Afolabi later won silver in the 400 metres women relay. Duncan Dokiwari got the bronze in the heavyweight boxing category. In Olympic events before 1996 and at other international sporting events, Innocent Egbunike, Sunday Bada, Clement Chukwu, Aniefok Udo Ibong, Chidi Imo, Davidson and Osmond Ezinwa, Olapade Adenikan, Peter Konyekwachie, and Ruth Ogbeifo among others had made Nigeria proud and hoisted our flag among the best in the world. Nigeria in the past had produced world boxing champions like Dick Tiger and Hogan Bassey. Thus, we have seen the good times in sports and we need to reinvent our will and determination to excel again.

Experts have advanced various reasons for Nigeria’s disastrous outing in London. The reasons range from inadequate preparation to poor sporting facilities for the training of athletes, abandonment of grass roots and youths programmes for the discovery of new talents, dearth of school sports programmes, poor coaching, inadequate exposure of athletes to competitions, and inadequate budgetary provisions reinforced by little or no support for sports from the private sector. But these are all excuses for failure. These excuses offer no succour to a nation in need of heroes and trend setters. The bottom line is that these excuses are the tasks and responsibilities that should have been tackled by a visionary sports ministry with the support of the political leadership.

It is imperative to affirm that sporting talents are in abundance in the country. Indeed, some sections of Nigeria by virtue of their environment and topography have natural competitive advantages and predispositions to compete and excel in some sporting events. Our brothers and sisters from the Ijaw, Ilaje and Niger Delta areas who we are informed are literally born into the water should have their talents polished and exposed for us to start picking medals in swimming, canoeing and related events. The high altitudes of Mambila Plateau and similar areas should give us long distance runners who can match the Kenyans and Ethiopians in those energy sapping races. We have enough Nigerians with long limbs who can be nurtured to excel in such games like basket ball, long jump and the sprints.

For us to excel in the Olympics and other sporting events, Nigeria needs to take a number of steps which will produce sustainable results. The steps recommended here are not exhaustive of what needs to be done. The early identification and nurturing of talents is the foundation for producing results. This in effect means that we must bring back school and youth sports programmes. Primary and secondary schools should be mobilised to form the bedrock of this initiative. About 30 years ago, there could hardly be a school without a sizeable football pitch and pitches for at least the sprint, races, long jump, etc. University Games should also be made to regain their place of pride in the sporting calendar. Education policy should ensure the mainstreaming of sports.

The challenge of inadequate budgeting for sports should be tackled. One is aware of the fact that government is facing severe resource constraints. However, whatever sum appropriated for sports should be released and cash-backed on time to enable adequate training and preparation of athletes for major events. Corruption in the sector should be eradicated. Budgeting for the sector should also be premised on the understanding that sports is not a lottery where you invest little or nothing to hit a jackpot. Sports is the greatest evidence that as a man sows, so shall he reap. Thus, constant investments and exposure are necessary to get the right results. Scholarships, training grants, insurance, national awards and recognition should be provided for athletes who are excelling in their chosen fields. A situation where those who have contributed to the political and economic ruination of the nation predominate in the list of national honours discourages young men and women from investing their time and energy in sports which requires a high level of commitment and discipline.

The appropriate incentives, including tax reliefs, for the private sector to invest in sports should be provided by government. In this regard, sports should be seen and run like a business so that it can pay good dividends to both athletes and sponsors. Essentially, sports should be professionalised and beyond football, athletes should be in a position to earn a living that can sustain them for life. Athletes should be exposed long before big competitions to compete with the best in class so that they can measure their performance before the bid day and identify their specific needs for improvement. Facilities should be upgraded across the board through public and private resources and where feasible through public private partnerships. Coaches should have the resources to update their knowledge and to compete with instructors from leading countries in their chosen field. In the education sector, human capacity should be developed in strategic areas and sports related knowledge in law, medicine, insurance, marketing, promotions, etc. The core difference between our performance and that of leading countries is a product of planning and application of the knowledge emanating from the multi disciplinary backgrounds of sports managers in these countries.

Finally, the days are gone when the results of sports competitions will not be benchmarked on the crucibles of value for money. We can no longer afford large delegations which translate into jamborees for sports events. We should be in a position to determine our most likely and reasonable medal hopes and send only those who stand a chance to win to such big games. The selection criteria should focus on the value we want to add to Nigerian’s image and glory. What happened in London is unacceptable and a disgrace to a country that is expected to provide leadership for the Black race.