[sidebar] The fight against drug abuse must be total.... "...collaborative efforts to successfully fight the menace of fraudsters and money launderers in Nigeria and Africa" - Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR, President Federal Republic of Nigeria. IN his inaugural speech at the Lincoln Memorial Mall in Washington D.C. on Monday, January 20, 1997 titled We will redeem the promise of America in the 21st Century, the former US President, Bill Clinton, said among others: "Our streets will echo again with the laughter of our children, because no one will try to shoot them or sell them drugs anymore" a maxim which adds impetus to the raison-d'entre the United Nations sets aside June 26, every year as the United Nations International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. It is a day all nations are expected to re-affirm their faith and re-inaugurate the clarion crusade against the scourge that has continued to bedevil mankind. The United Nations since the Single Convention of 1988 against illicit traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, always has a theme as focus and/or area of concentration each year. [continues 650 words]
Lagos Has it not been said already, which seems indisputable, that some are borne great, some achieve greatness while some have greatness bequeathed on them. But the personage at this locus-in-quoi is an embodiment of all the aforementioned variables. Firstly he was born great, he moved to achieve greatness because he was anointed to be, and early in life he believed that heaven helps those who help them selves despite having greatness entrusted on him. Suffice it therefore to state here that birth days or celebration of achievements like Thomas A. Edison wrote "everything comes to him who hustles while he waits" if not for the commemoration of attainments, feats and other concomitants of excellence becomes insipid and a robust waste of resources. [continues 642 words]
