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Trust has definitely diversified our sources of news, analyses and opinions on the national question. And it is perfectly legitimate for a newspaper to represent a particular social group and seek to advance its interests – just like the Trust has always - first and foremost, projected the interests of Fulanis.

However, it is morally wrong to manipulate news to advance your position.

The Trust also dwells excessively on our differences – regional, ethnic and, of course, religious. Some of your authors (like Kawu) are notorious for insulting whole ethnic groups, which no self-respecting newspaper has a right to do. In Europe, we could institute class-action suits when we feel a newspaper has slandered Black people.

The Trust has played ignominious roles in the riots in Plateau State and in many states in the North. In fact, in civilised societies the Trust would have been charged to court for complicity in these disturbances in which many lives were lost.

The Trust must understand that a nation is organically like a human body. There is no way the whole can be healthy if a part, however tiny it may be, is ill. There is no way the interests of the "North" can be promoted in isolation of the conditions of the other parts of Nigeria. That is very important.

	1. 27-03-2008 11:21
	Akeem missed it all I think people who have nothing sensible to say should shut up and listen to what others say. Trust came at a time divisive politics was the vogue (and it still is) in Nigeria. For someone to come and say Trust introduced or worsened it, is a complete falacy. And regarding the conflict in Plateau Akeem needs to get his facts right. That conflict had its root in cultural and religious differences that brewed over twenties years. I grew up seeing this and was there when the first crisis erupted on Sept 7, 2001. If Akeem, a Yoruba from Ilorin, has problem with Kawu, a fulani from Ilorin, that is a different thing altogether. Guest

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