Dr. Oluwaseun Egbelowo
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Dr. Oluwaseun Egbelowo
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Pharmacometrician | I explain how FDA-approved drugs actually work — so patients make smarter decisions | Faith + Science
Pennsylvania, USA شامل ہوئے Temmuz 2014
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Authority that is not rooted in intimacy becomes arrogance. Authority rooted in intimacy becomes calm confidence. Stop chasing thrones. Start pursuing the Father's heart. 🙏
#SpiritualAuthority #BornToRule #FaithLife
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Identity first. Authority second. When identity is unclear, power becomes dangerous. When identity is settled, authority becomes useful. Know who you are in Christ before you reach for what you can do.
#ChristianIdentity #BornToRule #Sonship
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The Gospel does not merely rescue you from sin — it restores you to design. God's heart is not simply to forgive you. It is to form you. The end of God's formation is not confusion. It is maturity.
#BornToRule #GospelTruth #SpiritualGrowth
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You were not saved to remain small. You were adopted to mature, to stand, and to rule under the authority of Christ. Sonship is your identity. Maturity is your calling. Victory is your inheritance. 👑
#BornToRule #Sonship #ChristianLiving
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@SegunShowunmi @mehdirhasan Lol, this egbon wan run the same script Reno & FFK used to collect ambassador title. Reno that linked you with Atiku can still help you switch lane to Tinubu. But that road don already get traffic, Reno, Daniel Bwala & their crew pass there long ago. Better find another route.
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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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