LARRYDKING: Media: A Panacea For Global Terrorism (supporting)
Good afternoon esteemed judges, distinguish coordinators, erudite co-debaters and intelligent observers. Larrydking is my name, the second debater of the university of Lagos, Nigeria and I am in support of the motion that the media is panacea for global terrorism.
To start with, it's important to familiarize ourselves with the world terrorism. Oxford advanced learner's dictionary defined terrorism to be the use of violence action in order to achieve political aims or to force government to action. Therefore, it is not out of order to explain global terrorism as 'terrorism ' as it affects the world. The same dictionary gives the meaning of media to be the ''main way'' that large number of people receive information and entertainment.
Pakistan minister of information and broadcasting, Qamar Zaman Kaira once said " the monster of terrorism cannot be wiped out from the soil of Pakistan without eliminating ignorance and changing the mindset of these people'' .Undoubtedly, the greatest amory of human weapon to battle utter ignorance and shred knowledge, both of which are key players in global terrorism is embedded in adequate and timely information. Global terrorism sprung and spread ultimately due to misinformation, misguide and wrong teaching by political warlords, religious extremist, etc who may have felt offended by government decision or indicision and as a result took terror as a means of seeking redress.
If misinformation lead into this mess called global terrorism, the most effective means to combat it thus become orientation and re-information. For umpteen times, the media has preached to the world about the danger masked in terrorism. Local and international television stations, magazines, newspapers, the internet to mention but a few have all played leading roles in advising the world on the danger hidden in terrorism. Public prosecutions and video coverages of shameful ends of terrorists across the world helps in reducing the urge for recruitment and give existing members an overview of its repercussions if eventually clasped in the act. The brutal end of Osama bin Laden, a world renowned terrorist known as one of the masterminds who wrecked havoc on the world trading centre in the US will forever remain a deterrent to whoever shares an iota of Osama's belief and wishes to take after him.
The media, in curtailing the menace of global terrorism has contributed immensely to swift circulation and awareness of security information and threat respectively. It has also fed security agencies timely information and ideas obtained from members of the public or during journalism. Severally, the media has proven to be a panacea to global terrorism through the promulgation of pictures and videos of known terrorist across the world, thus restricting their freedom and eventually leading to their final apprehension. When the head is in disorder, by default, the entire body system malfunctions. In the same vein, when the leader of a dreadful group goes underground, the flow of intelligence among members minimizes. France notorious terrorist, Salah Abdesalam, the one who masterminded the Paris attack in his country was declared wanted through the media, he was later apprehended some days after the promulgation. Similarly, in Nigeria, a hundred boko haram kingpin were declared wanted through the media, in few days, it was reported that three of them were already behind bars. It wasn't rocket science, the media only proved it worth as a solution to global terrorism.
Oxford advanced learner's dictionary explained education to be fact, skills and ideas that have been learnt formally or informally. The adverse role lack of education plays in global terrorism cannot be overemphasised. That explains why terrorist attacks are enormous and wax stronger in education less develop countries like Somalia, Northern Nigeria, Afghanistan and so on where they suffer at large from Al Shabab, Boko Haram and Taliban respectively. Rakashada Mehmood explained terrorism to be the worse form of illiteracy when people do not have to realise the importance of innocent lives that are lost in attacks. Apparently, the media which has been the apex source of information serves as a great source of knowledge across all spheres of life accessible by all and sundry, thereby educating everyone willing to access it. This has further shown that education doesn't end only at enrolling for a programme for the purpose of obtaining a degree but takes a large work into human psychology by mere reading of articles and pdf file.
My opponents may likely want to argue that the media has long existed and it ought to have curbed global terrorism, well, it's imperative to note that developed countries where media is at its highest efficiency such as America, Russia and co have reduced terrorism to its minimum across their boarders and have even taken it upon themselves to help other 'media developing countries' with low media appreciation. In the same vein, Somalia, Afghanistan and other countries affected may have to continue battling series of attacks until their govenment recognise and exploit the full potentials of the media as the panacea for global terrorism.
Observers, having said these, I'm confident that you are also supporters of the motion that media is a panacea for global terrorism.
Honourable judges and observers, I am of the belief that having said these, you will agree with me that the media is a panacea for global terrorism. Thank you.
Eduntee: Debate, the art of reasonable discussion of controversial topics, will help us all become morally aware and will enhance our ability to think critically. We take the perspective of others, and make thoughtful moral decisions for ourselves. We may often disagree—but we learn to do so respectfully and civilly.. Good day moderators, distinguish adjudicators, co debaters and amiable Nairalanders. I am Eduntee representing the prestigious Lagos State University and am here to vehemently oppose the notion which says that “Education is a right not a privilege. I shall be addressing this house by giving a definition of Education, Right and Privilege after which I would be supporting my claims that Education is a privilege and not a right as well as opposing the opponents claim on different grounds. What is a right? A right has been defined as that which is proper under the law, morality or ethics. Hence they are inherent and cannot be taken away from a person. However the problem associated thereto Right is that they are usually either enforceable or un-enforceable and also subjected to jurisdictional issue because what is attainable as a right in a particular place might not necessarily be a right elsewhere while a privilege are those special legal right, exemption or immunity granted to a person or group of person. A privilege grants someone the legal freedom to do and not to do a given Act. Education simply put, is the process of teaching, training, learning especially in school or college to improve knowledge and develop skills. In line with the above it is therefore safe to define Educational privilege to mean those benefit, exemption or immunity granted to a person or class of persons who has showed interest in the process of learning. This brings me back to the notion which warrants me to ask; is education a right or has education ever been a right? In other to answer the questions above, I will plead to use Nigeria as a case study, so let’s take a trip back to the history of Education in Nigeria. The entrance of the Europeans into Nigeria brought along European western Education in the 1840s. In the western part of the country western education was encouraged by the Missionaries. The Northern part of Nigeria, majorly populated by Muslims, western education was prohibited giving way to Islamic school that focused primarily on Islamic education. Prior to Nigeria’s Independence, only two Established Post Secondary Institutions were available, Yaba Higher College (Now Yaba College of Technology founded in 1934) and the University of Ibadan, founded in 1948. Post Independence brought about the major development of education in Nigeria, with increase in the number of primary, secondary schools, teachers college and Polytechnics and Universities. Flowing from this, it is a notorious fact that Education in Nigeria is as a result of the adventures of the colonial masters to our part of the world and as such Education is, was and is still a privilege of such colonial visit to Africa. Globally Education is a privilege that accompanied civilization and that is why the very yardstick for measuring civilization in any part of the world is Education, then are we going to say; those part of the world that lacks Education have been deprived of their rights? Emphatically No they are yet to get such opportunities More so it is painful, odd and self deceptive if at this stage of increasing tuition fee, cost of reading and instructional materials someone will still stand to say “Education is a right”. I beg to ask my fellow talk mate this question why do still have to pay school fees when this so called education is your Right. It makes me wonder why rights need be paid for. In the words of George Carlin; Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away, as a matter of fact they are only privileges. As much as we have rights, they are inherent acquisitions of which enjoyments cannot be exhausted. All over the world, educational structures have been put in place in varying size and qualities but yet one thing makes them unique and that is the fact that whatever services you get from the school is a product of your tuition fees. The moment you stop paying, your rights to those benefits are withdrawn (Now, are you thinking what I am thinking?) and then do we call that a right? Right are never to be paid for. Even though my colleagues on the other side might want to argue that there are certain institutions of learning that have been put in place by government to ensure the enforcement of this supposed right but if we are to call a spade a spade then my colleagues would agree with me that no such as free education exists, it’s just a form of education in a subsidized rate. This I found out after random interactions with both current and past students of these institutions. Furthermore, Quid sit jus, et in quo consistit injuria, legis est definire. What constitutes right, and what injury, it is the business of the law to define. The implication of this is such that, if education is a right its a claim arising from ignorance because if this government takes away this right as calmed, they are as a matter of fact non-justifiable because section 6(6c) oust the jurisdiction of court from sitting on the issues that fall under chapter 2 of the constitution and matters in this section are not justifiable as the court in the case of Okogie v A.G Lagos State held. Now it is crystal clear that the education provided for are simply the special privilege that is enjoyed by student who has shown interest in it. The implication of this is that, until such laws are enacted to make Educational rights enforceable then education remains a privilege and never a right. And as we all know, the law gives a right and where the law gives a right, its gives a remedy to recover (L’ou le ley done chose, la ceo done remedie a vener a ceo) this has been affirmed by the Supreme court in the case of Aoko v Fagbemi. Awhile back I watched a TV program that compared high school students in the United States to high school students in India.. While many American high school students sleep in, Indian high school students attend four-hour-long mathematics tutoring sessions starting at 7:30 am. On what was supposed to be a typical Saturday morning, I watched as a high school boy got up late and hung out, while a young Indian girl sat in a study group to prepare her for advanced mathematics. If she doesn’t pass the test, she wouldn’t be able to move the next level. My impression was that her future is hung in balance. At least that was how her face looked. The American kid was laughing and sitting in his room. That is exactly what happens when Education is seen as a right rather than a privilege. It’s become prone to abuses because the purpose is unknown just like the American kid who saw education as his right‘ If It is my right then I can so do whatever I like with it, if only’ such kids know how many kids are outside their wanting such opportunity. Until Education is seen as a privilege then it will remain a blunt tool that can never change a country not to talk of the world as Nelson Mandela of South Africa has proposed. Access to education is not a privilege, it’s a right. And yet, 61 million children are not in school, Are these ones without such rights? A Privilege is when a child goes to school, sit in a classroom among peers of the same age and have someone instruct them. Do you know why? Many are out there seeking the opportunities to do so. I would have in my own discretion give a standing ovation to my opponent if they had argued that “EDUCATION IS RIGHT” and not “EDUCATION IS A RIGHT
menzo4u: Fynest... Please I need to get this clairification from you before proceding on our debate. My team member just told me now that there is a video on the "Fixtures thread", I have no data to watch it at this moment. He said it's Yabatech VS UNIJOS on this number one topic.. "Is (the removal of fuel) subsidy justified in Nigeria?" With Yabatech supporting and UNIJOS opposing, kindly confirm this for me please. Thanks in advance.
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As regard selecting the best essay submission for this stage, we intend changing the former procedures of selecting the winner but I can see that won't work, so we are making use of our normal way of picking the first three... The names and their essay will be display on the fixture thread soon... Already we have six according to the procedure, and all the six names will be unveil with the first three essay being display.
Tosyne2much will be conducting interview for the first three....
Check out the video on how the topics were picked for each fixtures, remember we said the fixture will be a first from a team Vs the second from another team.
[b]1. Is (the removal of fuel) subsidy justified in Nigeria?
2.Effective change Nigeria truly needs: Sole responsibility of the leaders or followers?
3.Public-Private partnership in financing infrastructure in Nigeria -- arguments for and against.
4.The Senate have a bill seeking to regulate the Social Media just the same way the Real Media is being regulated. Should the Social Media be regulated or not
5.Open University (or Online University or Distant Learning): the panacea to Nigeria's Literacy Challenges
6.The judiciary and criminal proceedings and judgement. Do jail terms actually serve as a deterrent or is absolute rehabilitation a better option.
7.Death Penalty a panacea for terrorism, crime, and corruption in Nigeria.
8."The Extinction Of Godfatherism In Contemporary Nigeria Politics" a panacea for an effective leaders.
9." The custom of Bride price collection, how sensible and profitable is it in a Contemporary Nigeria ? For and against.
10." human rights and self expression: is homosexuality to be frowned upon when its based on choice and personal desire? Are punishments the way to go? For and against.
Nigerian democracy government at 17, are we reaping the dividends.
14.Prohibition of romantic relationship in the workplace: is it a good idea?
15. According to the Nigeria constitution chapter 4 sections 33 to 46 which talks about fundamental human rights, Has our constitution been drawn up in such a way as to protect or to take advantage of our rights? For and against
20. 5,000 stipend payment for unemployed graduate: Reduction of poverty and criminal thoughts among the vulnerable youth
Well at the organizer, nice one but I want to advise you guys going forward, if you are doing this next time, make sure it cuts across all sections. I know what am talking about hence my lil advice.
Most of your list are romancelander...
And. Also if you truly mean business, this is better of in Nairaland general section and not. Romance, your title is NAIRALAND most valuable not. Romance section most valuable. I hope you take note..
and also do well to indicate criteria for your pick.... Thanks...
If not to late. Happy new year to the following nairalanders. In no right order.
Jaybee3 Caracta Tgril4real Ujsizzle Obinoscopy Jarus Naijadeyhia Isacolukay Joseph1832 HerexG Xynerise Freemanan Aminat508 Tosyne2much MizMyColi Luxanne Honeydear Eveluv Seun Lalasticlala Coogar Pickabeau1 Dominique Mynd44 And all my love ones.... To all my great ife pal on nairaland
Education › Re: Read Essay of NISD third edition best debaters :::(First Stage) by Fynestboi(mod): 9:58pm On Jan 02, 2016*. Modified: 10:17pm On Jan 02, 2016
I no need edit I dey on like that.
