In today’s Nigeria, what value is attached to life?
In journalism parlance, we say facts are sacred and opinion, free; some prefer to say “opinion is cheap”. Writing the manifesto for the Guardian newspaper in 1921, its editor, Charles Prestwich (CP) Scott, said: “Comment is free but facts are sacred”. Comments, or opinions, are like wishes which an old English proverb says beggars would ride were they to be …