Nigeria, Feb. 14 -- It is with a heavy heart, worry about Nigeria and a sense of impending doom that I am sending this message to my colleagues in the media.
Let me begin with a question: What exactly will we gain if Nigeria descends into war? How does it advance us, if our fellow citizens turn on each other and begin large scale ethnic killings, against each other? Let me even assume that a few of us don't believe in Nigeria anymore and want to see it broken into its constituent parts. How does enabling ethnic strife help achieve this objective in a way that guarantees the outcome you want?
For sometime now, many of us have thrown away the book on ethical reporting; propelled by emotions, we have betrayed every moral consideration that a...