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Popular Nigerian writer and a global icon, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has cautioned a Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka on the use of unrestrained language. Chimamanda Adichie  Professor Soyinka had earlier voiced his opinion on Datti Ahmed’s comment on the extinction of democracy in Nigeria in a manipulative election that is being contested in the law court. The literary giant had used ‘fascist’ to describe Datti Ahmed’s comment that is capable of heating up the already charged polity. Speaking on the Arise TV, Chimamanda says “I have a lot of love for Professor Soyinka, I admire him, I respect him as a writer, as a thinker, I think everyone should read ‘The Man Died’…..but at the same time, I disagree with him about this particular issue…because I respect Professor Soyinka so much, I went back and watched his interview…..I did not see any reason that Mr Datti Baba-Ahmed’s interview would have been termed fascist, facsist is really strong word that makes me often think of Mussolini

  Richard Akinola  Popular Nigerian journalist and a lawyer, Mr Richard Akinola has written an open letter to Mr Bayo Onanuga, a veteran journalist and well known civil rights activist who is now the spokesperson for Bola Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council over Onanuga’s sudden departure from principles he once espoused.  Bayo Onanuga Onanuga who fought the military junta of the late General Sani Abacha to its knee was a formidable activist who put his life on the line but escaped death by the whisker when some military goons swooped on him on the so-called order from above to terrorize his family. In the letter, Mr Akinola expressed his dissatisfaction over Onanuga’s attempts to stifle the freedom of speech which Onanuga himself once fought for. Onanuga had written a letter to the NBC asking to sanction the Channel Tv over the handling of Mr Datti Ahmed’s interview with the station.  It’s so surprising that despite Mr Seun Okinbaloye’s handling of the interview with decorum, Onanuga