He radically expanded the American middle class through his magical economic growth policies. Nigeria, the nation with the largest wholly African population on earth, a veritable paradise, a land of immense opportunities, should be empowered to become a global partner with the US in the expansion of prosperity and progress through trade and investments. That can only be achieved if the crushing debt burden is lifted. We can fight for human rights. We are on the threshold, I believe, of providing the world a cure for HIV with the prospect of eventually taming AIDS, no matter what our mandarins say about Dr. Abalaka's HIV vaccines.
Drugs are alien to our culture.
We are good business men and women and we can shape our political future to ensure that the new democratic ideals become permanent in our lives. What we cannot tackle, unaided, is the burden of our dubious debts. President Clinton would be doing America, Nigeria and, indeed, the world the greatest good if he becomes persuaded of the need to wipe out our debt burden and if he persuades his G 8 friends to follow his anticipated example. That way, he would be remembered in history as the President who brought prosperity to the Americans on the threshold of the 21st century and who spread prosperity throughout the world. The Post Express .