High ranking D.C. ethics official lies about degree, but is not fired.

Cehi, not even close...

Not even in the same ballpark. The press likes to paint all lobbying as something bad but for the most part lobbyist's are honorable people. My little old neighbor has been known to lobby on behalf of the teachers association when she is called. If I write my congressman and complain about the roads that is lobbying. Offering a bribe for a vote is bribery. Different thing totally. It is extremely foolish to equate the two things as one and the same.

Corruption is a fact of life in all societies. However, it is way more prevalent in some than others. In my 42 years I have only been asked twice to give a bribe, twice in the US and never in Europe. I was offered a ticket on the Chicago-Northwestern train and a parking space in downtown Chicago each for $1 less than the usual price. This told me right away that they were going to pocket the money and I paid the full amount. Can you as a Nigerian say you have had so little exposure? It is not a valid excuse to say. "it happens everywhere".

 

Does Pan-African offer a JSD?

 

Chris: "Corruption is a fact of life in all societies.


Cehi: The above was your comment. And, it was the point that I have previously made. Corruption is corruption. It will have different meanings depending on how the word is explained. All in all, I understand your illustrations. Thank you.


Chris: "It is not a valid excuse to say. it happens everywhere."


Cehi: Well, this comment contradicts your comments above. Anyway, I respect your views.


Chris: "Can you as a Nigerian say you have had so little exposure?


Cehi: Hmmn, Not really. I have spent 24 years alone in this country to know something called "exposures." and, I am older too.

 

No cehi...

You pointed out corruption was everywhere and indicated that it would be wrong to single out Nigeria. You used an incorrect example to make your point. I corrected your misconception and pointed out that the excuse that it exists everywhere does not excuse the excessively high levels in some countries (not just in Nigeria).

I really don't understand the point here.

I am not pointing fingers just at Nigeria. However, for too long some people have used the excuse "it happens everywhere" to justify corruption. It just shouldn't be allowed to be an acceptable excuse, not in Lagos and not in DC. Personally, I think the DC example is worse.

 

Chris: "It just shouldn't be allowed to be an acceptable excuse, not in Lagos and not in DC. "


Cehi: Your point is well taken, and I agree. The bottomline, corruption is wrong anywhere. I appreciate your comments. Thank you.

 

Here we go.

Latin may or may not be dead, but it is pliable.

The Portuguese Lagos was originally Lacobriga. So the people of Lagos would almost certainly be Lacobrigenses (Lacobrigi is most unlikely as it is so hard to say), and the term would be the same whether for the later but real Lagos in Nigeria or the older but fake Lagos in the Algarve.

Further, one might suggest, along the lines of Cantabrigian for Cambridge-pertaining, Lacobrigian as the adjective in Latinate English for persons or things pertaining to the Nigerian metropolis.

DC pales by comparison.