AMBASSADOR’S NOTES
the ways we are working together. At
the same time, it shows the power of
people creating Intellectual Property
to enrich and transform our World.
W. Stuart Symington
U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria
O
n behalf of all of my colleagues
at the U.S. Mission in Nigeria,
Welcome to the latest edition of
Crossroads!
This issue is special for two
reasons. First, it celebrates the
partnership between creative Nigerians
and Americans by describing some of
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When ideas become intellectual
property, they literally create new fi elds
from dreams and grow enterprises
that no walls can contain, creating
new jobs out of imagination and
new opportunities at the speed of
inspiration. It has long been said,
“buy land, they are not making any
more of it.” The creators of intellectual
property build new worlds from ideas.
Painters and poets, artists and
avatars lead us every day down paths
they have just, as Walt Disney said,
“imagineered.”
I have now visited all 36 of Nigeria’s
states and know fi rst hand the wealth
of your nation and the “WOW factor”
of your natural beauty: your shores
and rivers, mountains and plains, birds
and animals, forests and fi elds. In
every state, I have met Nigerians who
are living proof that Nigeria’s greatest
resource is the Nigerian people, not
oil or gas, soil or minerals, water
or sunlight. I saw everywhere proof of
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Nigerian’s resilience, diversity, warmth,
imagination, and indomitable spirit. I
heard Nigerians, from one end of the
country to the other, describe those
very traits as what they love about
Nigeria. Those ideas, that spirit is a
powerful base for sustained Nigerian
success as a united nation and as a
leader as a global leader in the world of
ideas.
You create opportunities at
the speed of hope with ideas
that become industries and growth
that outpaces need and fear. My own
fervent wish is that this year, many
of you will fi nd new ways to turn ideas
into enterprise and that intellectual
property will help create fi elds
large enough for every Nigerian to fi nd
a place to prosper. We hope, too, as you
approach the 2019 election, that - in
the world of electoral ideas - the pre-
election speech, the partisan platforms,
and the electoral process itself - those
who seek to earn your vote will
always show the utmost respect for
Nigeria’s greatest asset, the Nigerian
people.
W. Stuart Symington
Vol. 24 No. 2
Nigerian
Media
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English
Language
Education
Pg 14
National
Parks Emerging
Entrepreneurs
Pg 10 Pg 16
Sports
Scholarships
Love
& Ashes
Pg 18
Pg 11
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