Nigeria, Oct. 1 -- My dear Reverend Aburo,

You have reached out to me, and I feel moved by your entreaty. You urge me to say some-thing, anything at all to silence the recent caterwauling - my own deliberate choice of words - by our familiar custodians and adjudicators of the public weal. In reality? A bunch of hyper-active but clearly successful motley. I say "successful", because they have succeed-ed in distracting you from your undoubtedly overstretched but urgent ministry - given the plight of Nigerian and other migrants in your current abode, I am touched by your effort to renew contact with this global migrant in pursuit of a common ground for communal understanding despite distances - political, religious, environmental - that, at...