ISHAQ OLOYEDE'S CROSS
By Azu Ishiekwene
The last time a public official wept on national TV, Nigerians regretted offering her towels instead of buckets to collect her tears. She was acting, but we didn’t know it.
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Nigerian News Leader First with details then facts By Azu Ishiekwene
The last time a public official wept on national TV, Nigerians regretted offering her towels instead of buckets to collect her tears. She was acting, but we didn’t know it.
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(A Reaction To Azu Ishiekwene's Opinion Piece Published In The Nigerian NewsLeader Newspaper Online Edition of Friday, May 16, 2025)
AN UNNECESSARY COMPARISON:
By Uche Chris
The article by Mr. Azu Ishiekwene (titled: How To Crown An Impostor) is clearly a product of bad faith and muddled reason. Azu may be a celebrated writer and journalist, but that doesn't confer on him the best gift of logic and intellectual acuity. Whatever the young man, Captain Ibrahim Traore, is doing or not doing in Burkina Faso should not elicit such malevolent opinion from a Nigerian, whose country has remained an unfulfilled promise of greatness since independence - betrayed by its leaders, and endured, and even encouraged, by a docile and cowardly resilient people.