"... Nigerians do not naturally want the truth to be told. Whoever dares to tell the truth is marked for destruction... " Justice Ayọ Salami (Lagos, Nigeria, January, 2014).
As a teacher, I am often interested in the meaning of words and how words sometimes say more than what we mean, and how words might mean more than what we say. This is the case with Justice Ayọ Salami's recent characterization of "the Nigerian". Mr. Ayọ Salami is not an ordinary person. He was a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal. Therefore, I will take him seriously for I think he knows what he says.
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