Nigeria, Aug. 10 -- John Cardinal Onaiyekan has been known as a temperate, sagacious, and even-handed man for all his 82 years on earth. Anyone now trying to cast him in the mould of a rabble-rouser does so in vain.

President Tinubu, in his own case, has always been a straight-shooting, wily exponent of 'political wiseness.' The convivial smokescreen accompanying his famed braggadocio is but a booby trap to ensnare anyone presumptuous enough to underestimate him.

Sharing Ideas

When the pulpit confronts the palace, perspicacious observers know that it is a solemn moment for truth-telling and cross-fertilisation of ideas, rather than an opportunity to create a tempest in a teapot.

What was the recent hoopla all about? A delegation from ...