Plagiarism again

[Obododimma Oha]

https://globalsentinelng.com/2020/07/03/plagiarism-ezeilo-others-dont-own-copyright-of-the-works-i-used-prof-ladan/

--
--
B.A.,First Class Honours (English & Literary Studies);
M.A., Ph.D. (English Language);
M.Sc. (Legal, Criminological & Security Psychology);
Professor of Cultural Semiotics & Stylistics,
Department of English,
University of Ibadan.

COORDINATES:

Phone (Mobile):
              +234 8033331330;
              +234 9033333555;
              +234 8022208008;
              +234 8073270008.
Skype: obododimma.oha
Twitter: @mmanwu
Personal Blog: http://udude.wordpress.com/

[Moses Ebe Ochonu]

This is a clear (or in legal lingo, prima facie) case of plagiarism against Professor Ladan, whom Buhari just appointed DG of NIALS. A professor of law does not know what plagiarism means. Read his wooly, self-indicting defense in the story and you'll know why there's an epidemic of plagiarism in Nigerian higher education. Nigerians think that you can just copy other people's work verbatim without paraphrasing or indicating with quotation marks and that as long as you include the work in your reference list or cite it in-text it is fine. The "professor" even hilariously said he couldn't have plagiarized because the professor he is accused of plagiarizing is not the author of the book but its editor and does not own the copyright!!! Apart from the fact that the author/editor distinction does not make a difference in plagiarism, the Professor's "defense" is the equivalent of saying, yes I stole this money but the person who accused me of stealing the money is not the actual owner of the money. 

--
Listserv moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin
To post to this group, send an email to USAAfric...@googlegroups.com
To subscribe to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDial...@googlegroups.com
Current archives at http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
Early archives at http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "USA Africa Dialogue Series" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to usaafricadialo...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/usaafricadialogue/CAA-CzCGyOAMRbnXCKqb81m-MTsMa0d8jHV%2B%3D%3Dp92o0Ro87m2bA%40mail.gmail.com.

[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

Is it

''Nigerians think that you can just copy other people's work verbatim without paraphrasing or indicating with quotation marks and that as long as you include the work in your reference list or cite it in-text it is fine. ''

or ''Some Nigerians think...''

God have mercy on Nigerians.

toyin

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/usaafricadialogue/CAAHJfPqgPUrKGVgLcEfC%2B8buR5U3GxSdreTAvnpnyzXCViVpHA%40mail.gmail.com.

[Moses Ochonu]

Toyin Adepoju,

Please stand by to include the qualifiers—“some”, “most,” etc as necessary. Thanks.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 3, 2020, at 3:51 PM, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin....@gmail.com> wrote:



To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/usaafricadialogue/CALUsqTRaRy8czZp0OfgAtAxWAM0YsReemim4WMMq%2BXRaue6iUw%40mail.gmail.com.

[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

i thought our education included learning not to vilify an entire nation bcs of some views we have.

if others have to make such basic refinements for us, how are we better than those lesser informed.

critique can be good, but when it starts to slip into uncritical generalisations in public space, we have a problem. 

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/usaafricadialogue/A5C7FAAD-C6EC-4CE2-BD7F-9DE9EF9F8B54%40gmail.com.

[Moses Ochonu]

Well, Toyin Adepoju, I am not in the business of hair splitting or getting lost in the weeds. I prefer to keep my eye on the main points. It goes without saying that when we say “Nigerians” or “Americans” in relation to a habit or tendency, we’re not referring to all Nigerians or all Nigerians, which is why I said tongue-in-cheek that if you’re so inclined and if it makes you feel better you could simply add the qualifiers when I refer to Nigerians in my posts.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 3, 2020, at 5:34 PM, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin....@gmail.com> wrote:



To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/usaafricadialogue/CALUsqTTz4Xi6zO4j2XzBjLaf6FY5vGr9nL59EzoJ3xD2Jr%3D4FA%40mail.gmail.com.

[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

"i thought our education included learning not to vilify an entire nation bcs of some views we have.

if others have to make such basic refinements for us, how are we better than those lesser informed.

critique can be good, but when it starts to slip into uncritical generalisations in public space, we have a problem"-Oluwatoyin Adepoju.

Thanks Toyin for this timely reminder.

CAO.

[Salimonu Kadiri]

​The greatest of all slavery is the mental one. The United States and Western Europe are in total control of the brains of Africans, Nigerians in particular, and like trained dogs we always obey whenever they  command us to do anything no matter harmful it is to our interest and wellbeing. To the Americans and Western Europeans we, Africans, don't know what is good for us unless they, Euro-Americans, tell us. I will explain this later.

​Reporting in Nigeria's Global Sentinel on 27 June 2020, Godsgift Onyedinefu wrote that Professor Muhammed Tawfiq Ladan published a book titled in 2007 as : Law and Policy on Health, HIV-AIDS, Maternal Mortality and Reproductive Rights in Nigeria. According to Godsgift, Professor Ladan infringed on the copyright of Dr. Joy Ngozie Ezeilo by reproducing the bulk of the book she wrote in 2006, titled : Law, Reproductive Health and Human Rights, and making it his own. Professor Ladan is therefore accused of plagiarism in 2007 i.e., thirteen years ago. However, on July 3, 2020, one Senator Iroegbu reported in the Global Sentinel, the response of Professor Ladan to the accusation of plagiarism levelled against him. He said that the book, Law, Reproductive Health and Human Rights (2006), was not authored by Dr. Joy Ngozi Ezeilo but edited by her. About the 2006 book he said, "It is a collection of papers presented by different authors, including Mohamed Tawfiq Ladan self, as part of the International Conference proceedings on Reproductive Health and Human Rights held at NICON Hilton Abuja, between 19-22 August, 2003." He added that an Enugu organisation called WACOL owned copyright to Law, Reproductive Health and Human Rights (2006) and the organisation was duly acknowledged by him under acknowledgement and preface of his book on page (iii) and Endnotes 1 to 160. Facts remaining to be made public on this issue are : (1) Did Dr. Ezeilo obtain the approval of the  authors of the different papers presented at the Abuja International Conference on Reproductive Health and Human Rights between August 19 and 22 August 2003 before she edited them in a book three years later? (2) Were the people whose papers were part of the book edited by Dr. Ezeilo entitled to share in the royalties arising from sales of the book? (3) Why was WACOL registered as the copyright owner of the book emanating out of the papers presented at the said Abuja international conference? (4) If Dr. Ezeilo unilaterally edited papers presented at an international conference into a book in 2006 and made her organisation, WACOL, the copyright owner without the consent of Professor Ladan who also presented papers on the subject matter discussed at the conference, what law stops professor Ladan from using the same papers at the conference to write a book of his own, a year later having discovered that Dr. Ezeilo had short-changed him economically? Without considering the above interrogative questions Professor Moses Ebe Ochonu declared, "This is a clear (or in legal lingo, prima facie) case of plagiarism against Professor Ladan, whom Buhari just appointed DG of NIALS." DG stands for Director General and NIALS stands for Nigerian Institute for Advance Legal Studies.

​As it could be derived from Professor Ochonu's submission, Professor Ladan is being declared a plagiarist thirteen years after he allegedly committed the crime because of his recent appointment as DG of NIALS. Obviously, if Buhari had, instead, appointed Dr. Ezeilo as DG of NIALS, nobody would have heard about the alleged plagiarism committed by Professor Ladan 13 years ago. With that said, let me get back to the problem of mental slavery which we Africans are constantly suffering from. If truth were to be told, both Professor Muhammed Tawfiq Ladan and Dr. Joy Ngozi Ezeilo are plagiarists because the subject matters of their books were appropriated from former Belgium born Director General of the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Peter Piot. In 1990s and upwards the USA backed UNAIDS claimed that Africans South of Sahara were on the verge of extinction due to the spread of HIV infections transmitted only by heterosexual intercourse in Africa, whereas in Europe and the US, its main routes of transmission were homosexual and drug addict injection. UNAIDS statistics by year 2000 had shown that over 60% of HIV infections in the World were in Africa, South of the Sahara, even though no HIV tests were conducted because it was too costly. ELISA-Enzyme-Linked Immuno-Sorbent Assay and Western Blot (WB) which were used for tests of HIV cost $50 and $100 (US) respectively which African countries could not afford. Therefore, HIV/AIDS statistics for Africa were based on presumptive diagnoses based on WHO 1985 Bangui agreement. In an interview in the Newsweek magazine of 8 December 1997, UNAIDS' DG, Dr. Peter Piot, said among other things that, "We are now realizing that the rates of HIV transmission have been grossly underestimated, particularly in Sub-Sahara Africa, where the bulk of infections have been concentrated. UNAIDS now estimates (guess) that 7.4 percent of Africans 15 to 49 are infected. Because voluntary testing is so rare, at least 90 percent don't even know that the virus is lurking in their body fluids (p. 41-42)." The total statistic of Africans who were between the age of 15 and 49 was not given by Peter Piot and how he arrived at the estimated 7.4 percent infected was a fraudulent guess. Moreover, how could he know without testing that the virus was lurking in the body fluids of 90% Africans when they were not sick and the virus could not be visually observed until the virus, as they said, has suppressed the immune system of the infected to result in AIDS? Any Caucasian can say anything about Africa, it will be accepted as the truth by Africans.

​Speaking at an international conference on Malaria in Abuja, in May 2000, under the paroll, Roll Back Malaria, the President of Nigeria then, Olusegun Obasanjo, said that Malaria, and not AIDS, was killing Africans (New African magazine, June 2000, p. 13). The International HIV/AIDS Conference took place in Durban, South Africa from 7 July to 14 July 2000. The US led Western World who used to pose around Apostles of freedom of speech and expression, threatened to boycott the Conference if Scientists that questioned HIV as the cause of AIDS were allowed to attend and the government of South Africa succumbed to the threat. However, in his opening address, the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, told the Conference that the biggest killer in South Africa and, in fact, the rest of the developing World is poverty and not a single virus called HIV. He told his audience that the inequalities of the imperialist and apartheid eras still defined his country and he urged his guests to go and reside just for a day in the shacks and substandard houses with no running water and toilet to which majority of Black South Africans had been confined for ages to see if they would escape being afflicted with dysentery and cholera, the greatest killers in South Africa. The US HIV/AIDS scientists at the conference walked out in protest against Mbeki and later ridiculed him for his reference that there were alternative scientific views against HIV as being the cause of AIDS. The entire arsenal of Western media pounced on Mbeki and accused him of not caring about what they called, estimated (no test proves) 3 million HIV infected South Africans and about 400 thousand AIDS deaths (no verifiable graves). A South African homosexual of Malaysian origin and his organisation, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC),  was financially supported by the US to sue Mbeki's government and pleading to the court to compel the government to buy what they called HIV prophylactics from the US. The US controlled World Bank was prepared to grant loan not only to South Africa but also to other countries South of the Sahara to buy anti-HIV gargets from the US. It was at that stage that UNAIDS waded in as arrow head in the fight against the supposedly spread of HIV and AIDS deaths threatening to decimate African population.

Curiously, while the vicious campaigns led by UNAIDS sponsored US about saving Africans from HIV/AIDS extinction, another UN organs, UNDP and UNFPA were warning about overpopulation in Africa. They claimed that women's fertility rate in Africa was too high. Thus, while UNAIDS was alleging that African men were infecting their women massively with HIV the UNFPA suddenly discovered large scale maternal deaths in Africa and their immediate solution was to empower African women to decide over when and how many children they want to bring to this world. Under the pretence of preventing the spread of HIV and maternal deaths in Africa UNAIDS in collaboration with UNFPA launched what was termed, ACCESS TO REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH. United Nations under the strong influence of Western global leaders enticed African nations to buy into what was termed MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGs), 2000-2015, planned to be fully implemented by the end of year 2015. Between year 2000 and 2015, the MDGs was to achieve, in Africa the followings : (i) Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; (ii) Achieve universal primary education; (iii)Promote gender equality and empower women; (iv) Reduce Child mortality; (v) Improve maternal health; (vi) Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; (vii) Ensure environmental sustainability; and (viii) Global partnership for development. In Nigeria, just like the rest of Africa, some Nigerian intellectuals were recruited and paid by the global owners to write and campaign in favour of maternal health and Combat against HIV/AIDS. In reality, Law, Reproductive Health and Human Rights, 2006; and Law and Policy on Health, HIV-AIDS, Maternal Mortality and Reproductive Rights in Nigeria 2007, derived their origins from UNAIDS/UNFDP's programmes and supported financially by the global owners. The fifteen years Millenium Development Goals expired since the end of December 2015 yet, in year 2020, over 90% of child births in Nigeria still take place at home because maternity hospitals are very scarce to access. Access to reproductive health as propagated by UNAID/UNFDP has turned out to be another expression for family planning whereby Nigeria became flooded with all kinds of imported contraceptives (oral and injectables) and condoms. Consequently, most Nigerian boychild/girlchild role models nowadays are sex-crazy drug addicts, skin-bleached Nollywood actors and actresses, hip-hop drug parading artistes, public funds looting politicians, military officers and civil servants. In Nigerian (Africa) musical vulgarity has become the new lyrics as fast-tempo beat and pornographic dances have displaced the meditative sounds of yesteryears that placed more emphases on philosophical and moral messages. Since we are in the habits of allowing others to think for us, our mothers are no longer sweet, as they have been turned into misandrists in the name of women empowerment. Rather than reducing child mortality by the end of 2015 in Nigeria (Africa) according to MDGs, Nigeria has witnessed proliferation of Nutritionally Acquired Dysfunction Syndrome (NAIDS) caused by starvation and malnutrition in children exposed to poor environmental conditions and thereby making them susceptible to respiratory and gastrointestinal infections and septicaemia. The children that are alive but dead are partly recognised as Almajiris in Nigeria. As for HIV in Nigeria, it has become an epidemiological castle in the air kept alive with statistical patchworks. In the London Financial Times of Tuesday, 15 August 2006 (p.2), former President Bill Clinton was reported as saying that, "90 per cent of the people in the developing world who are HIV-positive don't even know it." There have never been massive tests for HIV antibodies in African population but there have always been statistics of HIV infected in Africa peddled by the evil Samaritans who pretend to love us more than we love ourselves. While Professor Mallam and Dr. Mgbeke are engaged in bitter struggle on who first plagiarised from the now failed MDGs (2000 -2015) pakaged by the Global powers, the same Western World has busied our mentally dependent African leaders and intellectuals with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2015-2030. When shall we, Nigerians (Africans), start finding solutions to our own problems? My late father had the 9th Beatitude in Yoruba aphorism that says, Ìbùkún ni fún enití o fi òbó lo ènìan ègbé ni fún eni tí ó gbã. Roughly translated to - Blessed is the one that treats a person like a monkey, woe unto the one that accepts it.

S. Kadiri                

---

Från: usaafric...@googlegroups.com <usaafric...@googlegroups.com> för Moses Ebe Ochonu <meoc...@gmail.com>
Skickat: den 3 juli 2020 17:46
Till: USAAfricaDialogue <usaafric...@googlegroups.com>
Ämne: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Plagiarism again

 

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/usaafricadialogue/CAAHJfPqgPUrKGVgLcEfC%2B8buR5U3GxSdreTAvnpnyzXCViVpHA%40mail.gmail.com.