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  The sun was out in the city of heat, within the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria in Africa. Dipped across the barricade at the pharmacy casting a warm, amber glow with her bright smile, perfect dentition and lights all green, lady Edatu stood up from her table, nervously twisting her hands, glancing at the door for about 30 seconds. Feeling totally prepared for this she smiled for him again, as he walked in for enquiries and to get the much-needed malaria medication. He left few minutes later knowing that he got more than everything he ever wanted. It had been over five years since she met Abel. Their love had been anything but easy. From the very beginning, they’d faced opposition from their own convictions, choices and fears. The unstable and unpredictable realities also affected everything. Still, they wanted the best of each other, she believed in his dreams, he was in tune with her passion, even on the days when he doubted himself. She encouraged him to keep going, to ...

  PROTECTING TRADITIONAL CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS AS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ASSETS BY HON. OLOWO OJO AJIBOYE [1] Abstract Traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) are sitting on a gold mine worth in the latest estimation, billions of dollars. Yet they remain untapped particularly in undeveloped countries like Nigeria. The principal cause of this is all round ignorance. Ignorance is synonymous with darkness and with darkness comes inaction, or the pretence of action. With darkness comes fraud and thievery and their accompanying agents of intellectual property poachers or exploiters. As a consequence, little or no effort is put in place by the people or agencies concerned to recognise the economic importance of TCEs as intellectual property assets and to protect and enforce them as such for the benefit of the source communities and for the nation. This lapse has given rise to cultural appropriators or intellectual property thieves to plunder cultural intellectual property assets worth ...