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‘Lest we forget': Life Lines’ World War I digitisation workshop in DHC

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Model Making: Part two by DHC Leonardo Fellow James E Smith

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Hearts of Heritage project update by volunteer bloggers Laura and Caterina

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Digital Time Travellers: MayFest 2015 at the Digital Humanities Centre.

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A postgraduate perspective on the Faculty of Arts

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Tracking the progress of a Hotline query

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Research Centres and Research Groups at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus

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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

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International Relations Students of Platon University Collaborate with The World Leadership Alliance

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Thoughts and challenges for your journey to becoming a teacher

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It’s time to think creatively about higher education funding

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Sustainability focus on health and gardening!

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Discovering the Future of Gen Y in Health Sciences

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Learn how to lead by example and empower others: the Leadership in Sport module

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On this day in AD284 Diocletian became emperor

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Study questions whether elite college courses are of higher quality than others

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From sensitivity into intellectual vacuity

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A testing time for university admissions

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Knocking louder on Europe’s door

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The academic network

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Negative educational equity?

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Universities and the UK’s EU referendum

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Critical Thinking Creating Students That Solve Problems

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60 Ways To Help Students Think For Themselves

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Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers

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What Close Reading Actually Means

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Why Teaching Is Still The Best Job In The World

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Changing Playing Formation At Arsenal - A Case For Flexibility

One of the most pleasant ways to end a season as a football fan is for your team to do so with silverware.  It is usually just reward for a year of faithful devotion, often at some cost physically and financially.  This year, Arsenal fans experienced emotions which last occurred in 2005.  Doubtless, this will wet the appetite of players and fans alike and will impact on the preparations for the new season even as the previous one has barely ended.

Arsenal: Success or Failure this Season?

The season ended on a real high with the 9-year trophy drought broken by one of the most nervy, nail-biting FA Cup final in years.  Starting catastrophically by conceding 2 goals in the first ten minutes of the game, Arsenal rallied.  A Santi Carzola free kick after 17 minutes brought measured recovery confidence before the end of the first half.  At 72 minutes, it was beginning to look like one of those days when Koscielny bundled home a much-deserved equalizer to wipe out Hull’s earlier lead.  From then on, it was, effectively, a matter of when the winner would come and in extra time, indeed 19 minutes of the regulation 30 minutes, Aaron Ramsey, undoubtedly the stand out player in Arsenal this season, despite prolonged absence through injury, conjured a winner that sent the Arsenal faithful into the kind of improvised delirium by a following who had forgotten how to win titles.  It was a pulsating way to end a long period of emptiness in tournament success and one that Arsenal fans will savour for a very long time.   But, truth be told, it could have been so much better if, but only if, certain factors, both unfortunate and sometimes self-inflicted, did not conspire to deny Arsenal a far more successful season.  In Post-Mortem mood, here are some of those “if” factors and probably what needs to be done differently to address these.

Convoys, Sirens and the Tragedy of Recklessness

Festus Iyayi was, by every account, a truly exceptional Nigerian.  University lecturer and activist, he was, between 1986 to 1988, the leader of the labour union entity known as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the umbrella organization responsible for the activities of academic staff unions across universities in Nigeria.  In 1987, as its president, ASUU confronted the military leadership at the time, advocating critical improvements of working and education conditions for the staff and students population alike.  As its influence grew and with typical military fastidiousness,  ASUU was banned by the government at the time.  Its leadership, starting with Iyayi, were arrested, detained and tortured.

CONVOYS, SIRENS AND THE TRAGEDY OF RECKLESSNESS

Festus Iyayi was, by every account, a truly exceptional Nigerian.  University lecturer and activist, he was, between 1986 to 1988, the leader of the labour union entity known as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the umbrella organization responsible for the activities of academic staff unions across universities in Nigeria.  In 1987, as its president, ASUU confronted the military leadership at the time, advocating critical improvements of working and education conditions for the staff and students population alike.  As its influence grew and with typical military fastidiousness,  ASUU was banned by the government at the time.  Its leadership, starting with Iyayi, were arrested, detained and tortured.  His employment with the University of Benin was terminated.  He experienced – and survived – this extremely harsh and inhuman treatment, grew in stature and principle whilst achieving, albeit in part, some of the objectives that led to the original standoff in the first place.  With the passage of time, he ceded the front-runners role to others but remained a formidable encapsulation of wisdom for ASUU.  For 5 months now, ASUU has embarked on a strike, citing some of the same issues for which Iyayi so valiantly put himself in the forefront.  With the stagnation of efforts by government to resolve the crisis, yet another negotiation exercise was arranged to take place.  Iyayi’s considerable experience and voice was called upon.  On Tuesday, 12 November 2013, on a journey by road to Kano to attend an ASUU National Executive Council meeting, Iyayi and three others were involved in a fatal motor accident in which, most profoundly, he lost his life.  That Nigeria, the Academic Staff Community, Edo State and most importantly, his family have lost a leader of immense proportions is unquestionable and the nation’s deepest sympathies are with them at this extremely trying time. 

But what is so significantly galling is that having survived the most indescribable physical abuse for a cause for which he stood so heroically tall, he was to be claimed by a quite needless, entirely avoidable and hugely unnecessary accident.  The accident occurred when the vehicle he was travelling in was hit by another from the convoy of the Kogi State Governor driven, it appears, with such capriciousness that its impact caused the injuries from which he sadly never recovered.

Convoy related accidents are not new in Nigeria.  Incidents of very serious and fatal accidents occurring across the country have continued to occupy news headlines and occur with shocking regularity.  The key features of these accidents are largely two fold.  First, these vehicles are driven at such speed – generally by drivers who, in real terms, are so ill-prepared for high speed driving of this nature that masterly control of the vehicles is generally difficult – and with such disregard for other road users that accidents are often prevented largely by the other drivers taking evasive action.  The second reason, to which this article will return in some depth, is that the proliferation of “convoy driving” from an obscenely inordinate number of “convoy users” makes it inevitable that high volumes of accidents would necessarily occur.

Convoy travel – for want of a better description – is an inherited luxury.  Essentially conceived to aid easier travel on congested roads, the purpose was to provide faster travel to destinations for emergencies and urgent attendance for matters of state attention.  In doing this, the security of those being transported, itself an important consideration depending on the passenger, was an additional benefit as speedier travel would inevitably provide a security bonus for the “Very Important Passenger”.  This practice is common across the world. But it is important to look at the current position for some of the world’s most advanced nations from where these practices have been culled. 

In the United Kingdom, sirens and flashing lights are described as “blues and twos”.  Almost completely utilized by the emergency services, like the Fire, Ambulance and law enforcement services,  its use is chiefly too obtain faster access to respond to an incident of the type covered by the emergency service.  The use of blue flashing lights is regulated by the Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989, and sirens by the Road Vehicles Construction and Use Regulations 1986, both as amended in minor respects by various other pieces of legislation subsequently.  Vehicles used for these purposes may have exemptions from some road traffic regulations whilst responding to an emergency.  These exemptions range from exceeding the statutory speed limit (police, fire and ambulance purposes only; and special forces purposes only for national security emergencies where the driver is trained or is being trained in high-speed driving); driving in a bus lane; stopping on zigzag lines; parking in restricted areas, using audible warnings outside permitted hours. However, the guiding and overriding principle is that merely being authorised to use blue lights and sirens does not of itself grant exemptions from road traffic law. In other words, despite the exemptions, compliance with road traffic laws including driving with due care and attention to other road users remain paramount.  As for official usage, this is extremely restricted.  Prior to the premiership of David Cameron, only the Prime Minister and a very small selection of government officials used flashing lights and travelled, convoy style.  Tony Blair, the last of the prime ministers who did so travelled in a state official car, with no more than a small number of other vehicles and highly trained police motorcycle outriders.  Without motorcycle support to keep travelling routes clear, the reasoning is that the inevitable occurrence of London traffic and traffic lights renders the passenger a static, vulnerable security target.  Post 9/11, the security concerns around the person of the British Prime Minister has heightened tenfold, justifiably sustaining the reason for this high level of security during vehicular movement.  This movement is often quietly done, with only the flashing lights giving any indication of such top-level movement.  Despite this quite justifiable premise, David Cameron has now dispensed with the motorcycle outriders and scaled down the size of his motorcade to almost invisible proportions.  He has been fiercely criticized for this decision particularly because, at a fundamental level, the effective protection of the prime minister is necessary, it has been argued, for the secure function of British democracy.  He has stuck to this decision, still at no personal cost to his safety.  Imagine then what this has done to those other “entitled” public officials.  Such “convoy” movement for private citizens whatever their status and wealth, is unknown.

At the other end of the scale, in the United States, the vehicular movement of the President is common knowledge so much that it has actually become a tourist attraction.  The motorcade for the President of the United States comprises twenty to thirty vehicles.  In addition to the president, the motorcade may carry his spouse, members of the press, security, White House officials, and VIP guests. The major members travel in armoured vehicles, typically specially configured limousines. The motorcade contains several armored vehicles, a USSS Electronic Countermeasures Suburban, a counter-assault team, and Secret Service agents. When called for, a hazardous materials team precedes the motorcade on alert for potential hazards.  A police presence precedes the beginning of the presidential motorcade. These cars and motorcycles usually drive ahead to clear the way and block traffic. The motorcade for the president is made up of two parts, the first being the "secure package". In the event of an emergency, the secure package separates from the rest of the group. It includes two limousines heavily guarded by local law enforcement and Secret Service, with all cars driven by professional drivers.   The second part is made up of vans that transport White House staff members and selected members of the press. In the rear is the WHCA Roadrunner communications van – which provides the primary communications path via satellite, allowing bi-directional voice, data and streaming video – an ambulance, and additional police vehicles.  The US President’s movement is on of the most astute security operations the world has seen.  The movement is swift, precise and occurs with minimum disruption to other road users despite the size of that motorcade.  The reasons are also plainly obvious. The Vice President has a much smaller motorcade. Sirens, flashing lights and convoys have very restricted usage. Critically, the number of public officials is so small that this is almost insignificant.  The moral from both comparisons is that its use is confined to a small selection of individuals; its implementation seamless and its occurrence, however often, resulting in only the slightest interference with other road users.  Needless to state, there is almost no risk to the lives of those on the road at the same time.  

There are serious problems with convoy traffic, sirens and flashing lights in Nigeria.  First, there is an inordinately large number of users.  Without exaggeration, this number must run into several thousands, countrywide.  The vast majority are public servants starting at the very top. There is very limited control of the process by which approval is given; who or at what level of public service this ridiculous benefit is afforded.  Then there is private individual usage.  In all cases, speed of travel and security are cited for its usage.  But this also presents the very reason for its wanton abuse.  The fact that it is extended to private individuals is plainly outrageous and that this is usually accompanied by corresponding deployment of law enforcement officers from the Police Force makes this process even more bewildering.  The incredulity does not end there.  The vehicles utilised are often high powered, sometimes customized vehicles for which their drivers receive little or no training.  These vehicles are driven, therefore, by poorly trained drivers at astonishing speeds over roads and surfaces that can be treacherous and at great risk to motorists and pedestrians.   It is this aspect, namely the speedy and incompetent driving, more than the actual convoys, sirens and lights that accounts for the majority of the accidents and fatalities. 

But by a long margin, the most culpable in this charade of recklessness are the “Very Important Passengers”.  These individuals represent the very reason that these convoys and high speed driving even exist, in the first place.  Between 2005 and 2013, no less that 10 governors and their convoys have been involved in quite serious accidents, some of them personally affected and some resulting in fatalities.  Several others outside this extremely high level of governance make up this ugly and undignified statistic. It is incomprehensible that this type of road behaviour is condoned or accepted with the kind of crass abandon that has been the case.  Its continuance connotes recklessness and institutional extravagance at its highest by some of the very people who should lead the responsibility for eradicating this syndrome.  That the passengers do not feel physically endangered by such high speed driving poses confounding questions about their sanity.  Convoy movement – along with its excesses - is deplorable and to be abhorred, the very posture taken, so admirably, by Babatunde Fashola, the Lagos State Governor.  He – and Lagos State – have followed this deprecation by the passage, in 2012 of the Lagos State Road Traffic Law which seeks to regulate both the usage of sirens, convoys and the conduct of persons driving on Lagos roads in this respect.  It is a start but its theme is so commendable it should be borrowed by the rest of the nation.

Iyayi’s tragic death, as with many others that have occurred in this way is so regrettable it should offend the sensibilities of every road using Nigerian.  It should not be ignored in typical Nigerian fashion.  This lamentable tragedy should serve as a catalyst of re-orientation for the many who are, could and would be affected by this most deplorable practice.  Enough is Enough!!

ANDREW OBINNA ONYEARU writes from Abuja

Addressing Nigeria’s Electricity Deficits Through Coal

Nigeria's electricity deficits have been well rehearsed in the last few years. With approximate installed power generation capacity of just over 9GW and peak generation capacity fluctuating around 4GW, power generation remains grossly inadequate to meet demand many times in excess of availability.

“My Oga At The Top” – Reflections on Nigeria’s Leadership Deficits

On 8 March 2013, Obafaiye Shem, the Lagos State Commandant of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC) appeared on Channel Television's breakfast programme, "Sunrise Daily".

Arresting the Decline: Arsenal in Freefall?

The humiliation of the Capital One Cup defeat of Arsenal by Bradford City on a cold, wintery night in North England on 11 December 2012 may yet have more significant – if not positive – consequences for a football club of Arsenal's hitherto immense stature. Placing 65 places below a stuttering Arsenal team this term, Bradford outfought – but not outplayed – a full strength Arsenal side missing, possibly, Mikel Arteta as a definite starter.

The Allu Tragedy: Pitfalls of Flawed Vigilante Justice

On Friday 5 October 2012, the Allu Community in Rivers State acquired for itself the dubious distinction in Nigeria's history of playing host to one of the most brutal examples of butchery that this country has experienced. It is now common knowledge that some of the villagers, in large numbers, killed 4 students of the University of Port Harcourt allegedly for stealing phones and lap tops from an off campus hostel of the institution. In a sustained attack that lasted several hours involving a large number of participants, 4 young men lost their lives in circumstances that were indescribably horrific.

President Jonathan’s Speeches, the United Nations and International Diplomacy

The foundations holding International Diplomacy are like the fault lines beneath the earth's surface, they are usually in constant motion but appear calm on the surface until they gather enough momentum to bring about earthquakes, tsunamis, etc, etc.

Diminishing Expectation – Nigerians as Victims of a Neglected Health Sector

Nigeria's health sector and its appalling inadequacies continue to make perverse headline news. Depending on which of the various public media sources is patronised, it is no longer news that Nigeria's First Lady has had to pay an urgent, unscheduled visit abroad to treat a condition ranging between a bad case of food poisoning to a ruptured appendix. The nation wishes her speedy recovery from her ailment and a correspondingly speedy return to her home in Nigeria.

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