Zazzau emir: Between words and headlines

Ambassador Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli, the 19th Emir of Zazzau, has consistently attracted both admiration and opposition through his public pronouncements. A recent Media Trust interview, which was painstakingly edited and published in three full pages of Weekend Trust, serves as a clear example of how his words are dissected and challenged. The original conversation, recorded and transcribed, runs to approximately eight pages of A4 in Times New Roman, 12-point type. The Emir's statements are rarely allowed to pass without scrutiny and are often harvested for secondary news.

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