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@channelstv They destroyed their own, their region for their selfish desire.
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APGA Supports Party At Centre, Won’t Field A Candidate For 2027 Presidential Poll — Soludo
channelstv.com/2026/03/20/apg…

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@UzoChukz @blossommartins Both locations, and when you get there ask for Nkiruka.
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@blossommartins Nne are you in ManCHESTER or CHESTERfield? Would love to pay you a visit
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@firstladyship Its a shame!
The investment Tinubu has attracted in the entire country is not upto Half of investment ALEX OTI has attracted in ABIA STATE.
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Tinubu directs nationwide distribution of rice for Ramadan, Lent
vanguardngr.com/2026/03/tinubu…
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@MasterBolaji Yeah sure, a game changer to every Nigerians pocket. They will suck all your income in the name of taxes. They are Exploiting people and calling it taxing. Even you will soon complain if Tinubu returns in 2027.
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@SaharaReporters Local champion advice... that will automatically amount to regime change in Nigeria, Mufu! You are advising him to hang himself. I pray he listens and take your advice, so he can be gone forever.
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Falana Calls On Tinubu's Govt To Collaborate With Other Nations Against US ‘Aggression’ In Iran | Sahara Reporters bit.ly/46WPkuo

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@yabaleftonline Seyi Tinubu's wife is Igbo. She is so beautiful, so opposite of her husband.
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@ChuksEricE she has been settled. they told her to do this and they paid her even more than the money they owed her. naija on cruise...
please oga Showere how market? any word from your woman?
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“David Umahi never tied any wrapper to meet me in a hotel room. I apologize to Minister Umahi for the embarr@ssment this allegation may have caused him and his family.”
— Tracy Ohiri, the businesswoman who accused David Umahi of owing her money, apologizes to him.
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@ennyola0015 Just like Daniel Bwala did with that trending interview right? Get sense.
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@SegunShowunmi @mehdirhasan Confused man.... i used to love and respect this guy, but since he has been supporting APC, he talks poorly, its a shame.
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Hostility Is Not Journalism. Mehdi Hassan Take Note.
There is a clear difference between tough journalism and outright hostility. One serves the public interest. The other serves the ego of the interviewer. Unfortunately, the recent exchange between @mehdirhasan and presidential spokesperson @BwalaDaniel fell squarely into the latter category.
What viewers witnessed was not a serious interview. It was an attempted public ambush.
From the outset, the tone was aggressively confrontational. Questions were framed less as inquiries into governance and more as prosecutorial traps. Responses were repeatedly interrupted before they could develop. Clarifications were brushed aside. The atmosphere was unmistakable: this was not a conversation designed to inform viewers but a spectacle designed to embarrass the guest.
Serious journalism does not operate this way.
The craft of interviewing demands discipline. It requires the ability to ask difficult questions while still allowing the guest to articulate answers. It requires intellectual confidence strong enough to permit disagreement without descending into open hostility. Above all, it requires a commitment to substance over theatrics.
That commitment was glaringly absent.
Nigeria is currently grappling with a range of serious national challenges economic restructuring, security threats, governance reforms, and the complex work of stabilizing a large and dynamic democracy. A responsible interviewer would have used the opportunity to interrogate the administration’s policies on these matters: What strategies are being deployed? What reforms are underway? What outcomes should citizens expect?
Instead, viewers were treated to an exercise in selective outrage and repetitive interruption.
Even more troubling was the insinuation that political realignment is somehow illegitimate. Democratic politics is built on shifting alliances. Individuals and movements evolve. Former opponents become partners when national circumstances demand cooperation. This is neither shocking nor dishonorable; it is one of the defining characteristics of democratic political life.
History provides countless examples. Leaders across the world have entered alliances with former adversaries when the demands of governance required it. To pretend otherwise is either intellectual dishonesty or a deliberate attempt to create sensationalism where none exists.
But the deeper problem in the interview was tone.
A journalist who openly ridicules or repeatedly attempts to humiliate a guest crosses an important professional boundary. The role of the interviewer is to hold power accountable not to behave like a courtroom prosecutor seeking a viral “gotcha” moment. When the pursuit of humiliation replaces the pursuit of insight, journalism loses its credibility.
Audiences deserve better than that.
They deserve interviews that illuminate policy, probe governance, and help citizens understand how leaders intend to confront the pressing challenges of the day. What they do not need is a theatrical performance in which hostility is mistaken for intellectual rigor.
Respectful engagement does not weaken journalism; it strengthens it. Firm questioning does not require contempt. Professionalism does not require aggression.
If global media wishes to retain its claim to moral authority as a watchdog of democracy, it must remember a basic principle: the goal of journalism is to inform the public, not to stage spectacles at the expense of civility and substance.
The interview in question did neither. It was not a demonstration of fearless journalism. It was a demonstration of how easily the craft can slide into something far less admirable when provocation becomes the objective and professionalism is abandoned.
Otunba Segun Showunmi
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