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Independent Nigeria's Post
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Dear Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States,
We are writing to you today as professional physicists and astrophysicists to respond to comments made bygd Justices in the course of oral arguments of Fisher vs. University of Texas which occurred on Wednesday, December 9, First, we strongly repudiate the line of questioning from Justice Antonin Scalia based on the discredited Mismatch Theory [1]. Secondly, we are particularly called to address the question from Chief Justice John Roberts about the value of promoting equity and inclusion in our own field, physics.
We share the outrage and dismay already expressed by many other groups and individual scientists over the comments of Justice Scalia, which appear to endorse the claim made in the amicus curiae brief of Heriot and Kirsanow, that affirmative action prevents black people from becoming scientists. We take this opportunity to strongly rebuke this claim and offer a rebuttal.
We object
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: A rare gem; a leading woman
A winner she is any day. Whilst we are awaiting her stepping in as World Trade Organization DG, she has just been named as Forbes Africa Person of the Year
With this, she becomes the second Nigerian to win the award in a space of one year, and the first Nigerian woman to do so. Akinwumi Adesina, current African Development Bank (AfDB) president, was winner of the award in The AfDB President has won the award twice.
Okonjo-Iweala while reacting to the news dedicated the award to Africans suffering health and socio-economic challenges of COVID during a very tough year. “It is a great honour to serve Africa in different capacities. I look forward to deploying my energies at the WTO for Africa and the world,” she said.
The award is coming weeks after David Walker, the chair of the general council of the WTO and Facilitators of the process for the appointment of the DG formally submitted her name as the