Nigeria, March 2 -- Teaching is a noble profession, whose true rewards and deepest satisfactions extend far beyond immediate gratifications and material benefits. This belief is echoed in the popular local saying that a teacher's rewards are in heaven.

Professor Babafemi Badejo, a staunch advocate of Utmost Freedom - an idealistic state where the quality of life and access to the best living conditions create a semblance of heaven on earth - may already be enjoying some of his well-deserved heavenly rewards here on earth. His former students from the University of Lagos, where he progressed from a University Council-appointed Graduate Assistant to a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, have come together to organise a ...