LAOLU AKANDE, New York, NY, USA (Nigeriaworld) - With due respect to Chief Adesanya, the making of a gentleman is not complete yet for Abubakar or any of those former dictators who want us to embrace them. Is it just that we don't like their faces as Abubakar charged? No! Actually, their faces look better and more humane out of power.

STEVE U. NWABUZOR, Ph.D., Michigan, USA (Nigeriaworld) - I salute Mazrui's courage for letting the world know that Sharia in Nigeria is in essence a 'bargaining chip' by the Islamic North after losing political leadership to a Christian southerner! In plain language, Mazrui posited that the Islamic North in Nigeria views the wave of globalization sweeping through the world as a Trojan horse for westernization.

WORLD IGBO COUNCIL, Baltimore, MD, USA (Nigeriaworld) - We write to express our shock and dismay at the issuance of visas to Generals Muhammadu Buhari and Ibrahim Babangida (rtd.) by your Department through the American embassy in Lagos, Nigeria, to attend a lecture series at Chicago State University.

WORLD IGBO COUNCIL, Baltimore, MD, USA (Nigeriaworld) - After several meetings and deliberations, we wish to establish our anger and disappointment, as many Nigerian citizens and groups all over the world have done, at your invitation of generals Muhammadu Buhari and Ibrahim Babangida (rtd.) to attend the Abdulsalami Abubakar Distinguished lecture series.

COPPED, Nigeria, (Nigeriaworld) - We urge you to cancel this fraudulent "Lecture series" in the name of decency, transparency, accountability, human rights and the suffering youth of Nigeria who have been robbed of their future by General Abubakar and his colleagues.

MUYIWA SOBO, Esq., (Nigeriaworld) - In reaction to the upcoming Lecture Series, I have written a letter to the two senators from Illinios and the Attorney General of the United States, John Ashcroft, requesting an investigation of the university and its connections to the Abubakar Foundation. As many of us may not be chanced to participate in the protest in Chicago, we may conveniently express our opinons to these officials and call for an inquiry to the issue. They may be contacted as follows:

NIGERIAN PRO-DEMOCRACY NETWORK (NPDN), Pontiac, MI, USA (Nigeriaworld) - Upon reviews of the list of your invitees to the so-called Abdulsalami A. Abubakar Distinguished Lecture Series this year, we are stupefied that the Chicago State University would support such an amorphous group of Nigerians most of whose members have been discredited in their own country for various crimes against their fellow countrymen and women.

NATIONAL CONSCIENCE PARTY, NORTH AMERICA, WASHINGTON, DC, USA (Nigeriaworld) - We ask Nigerians and their true friends to join us for a rally to show our indignation at the Chicago State University on Friday, February 23, 2001. NCP is providing free transportation from the following locations in North Eastern part of the United States.