Why UK is working and Nigeria is not
Feyisike Adeoye, Executive Director, Community Peoples Initiative Against AIDS (COPEAIDS), was on a two-week tour of the United Kingdom. She reports that the sturdy social and political institutions of the British are rooted in a strong culture of respect for human dignity . It appears nothing manmade on earth is new that the creator had not hitherto bestowed on nature. Our textiles are modeled after butterflies, sub-marines took after whales, our war strategies sourced from wild animals and their intrigues for survival, limousines shaped after reptiles. Little wonder that as the Virgin plane took its flight, my mind flashed to partridges in my ancestral village, the way they scurry forward before a flight from the hunter, followed by a lowly ascent before the cruising altitude, supported by two protruding wings. [caption id="attachment_297651" align="alignnone" width="412"] Dancers perform with the British national flag in front of the Buckingham Palace...