[chapter-delegates] SAD NEWS AND Position of ISOC Nigerian Chapter on Veni Markovski's petition

[Isoc Nigeria Secretary]

On behalf of the  ISOC Nigerian chapter I am annuncing the very sad news
that our president and chapter founder Prof. T.C. Nwodo has suddently passed
away.
The sad event happened  on 27 April 2005 at Rivers State University of
science and Technology Campus in Port Harcourt.

Thanks to his immense contribution and selfless work for  the development
and widspread of Internet in Nigeria and in Africa at large he has
actualize the Isoc mission that  " Internet is for everyone"

More details on his contribution will follows.

At the same time Isoc Nigeria chapter like to support the
petition sent by Veni Markovski so that he can be allowed to run as a
 candidate in the upcoming election for the Chapter member of the Board
 of Trustees.
 At the same time, we like to remark that we are agreeing with the comment
sent from the Italian chapter saying that
"the present discussions are severely
 damaging the public image and the internal cohesion of ISOC"
For that reason we are not contributing on the discussion and we are
thinking that other chapters have the same opinion.
It is our strong believe that actions are the best way to encourage the
Internet diffusion and democracy than words.
We noted that a lot of speeches are going on and at the end not concrete
solutions are drafted.



for Isoc Nigeria Chapter

Effiong Umoren
General Secretary