Nigeria, May 10 -- Information, intelligence, knowledge, idea, or any bit of fact designed to make a recipient or group of recipients better is always helpful, not just in building understanding, but in the shaping of a being, or a community of people. It is like the cartilage that lubricates the joints of systems and societies. Information is feeding, supportive and helpful to the mind, towards confidence, and productivity. It is a tangible intangible required to build trust, compatibility, and for the consolidation of unions, institutions, organisations, and cultures.
It may, however, tempt us to imagine that the sort of information we are talking about as the positive. It should not matter, really. Information might as well be negative,...