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A common-sensical policy pronouncement that is long overdue! And one that I've always been talking about in social-political conversations with people.
Someone is finally using his/her head.
This policy should immediately be extended to EVERY govt actor-Senators & Reps members
Under the "Nigeria First Policy", the FG has mandated all ministries, departments, and agencies to procure vehicles exclusively from licensed local assemblers.
NADDC DG Oluwemimo Joseph Osanipin warned that foreign procurement now requires presidential clearance.
channelstv.com/2026/10/10/ni…
Oh, how I love time and nature!
'They' know how to set everybody straight and correct warped brains.😁
She should count herself lucky for realizing the truth quickly and not in her old age when damage has been done and there's no going back.
Chivalry still exists but it's only for those who don't say:
- 'we don't need men',
-won't come back with false rape or sexual assault allegations instead of gratitude,
-don't think themselves as equal to men,
-won't say '...did I force him?',
-etc.
Largely ungrateful gender.
Hmmm!
We may just have lost this country. Because it's absolutely as if there's no govt in this country.
They came and went back freely and unchallenged and were not sent for a meeting with God!
I doubt we will have a country 10 years, at most, from now.
@NigeriaGov is useless
This is very good!
All the credits to @IgumaScott for not allowing scamming bastards to breathe easy. May God take @PwanRealEstate owners untimely.
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has sealed the Lagos office of PWAN MAX Property and Business Solutions Ltd. nairametrics.com/2026/06/08/…
The banking sector in Nigeria should be urgently "touch-lighted".
There are extreme labour atrocities going on there, especially with that staff outsourcing thing. They're wasting people's years and lifetime because they don't want to pay appropriate salaries and benefits,...
...handle promotions, staff's within-organization growth, and general staff welfare responsibilities.
They just want to use people like tools and rags and discard/dispose of them without paying.
@HouseNGR @SPNigeria @NGRPresident @NigeriaGov
"A U.S. citizen who stole millions of dollars through fraud in multiple states, including Maryland, will have his U.S. citizenship revoked."
There. Fixed it for you idiots @baltimoresun.
You all are fools for that stupid headline dragging Nigeria into what's not its concern.
A Nigerian native who stole millions of dollars through fraud in multiple states, including Maryland, will have his U.S. citizenship revoked. bit.ly/4sNKLuQ
Real matter of national security for all countries now should be protectively divesting from the hold of the dollar$.
There has to be an alternative to the dollar$.
The rest of the world can't continue to let just one country continue to hold us to ransom.
Please let the attractions get attracted first, and become an actual reality, before reporting them.
We don't want something you'll announce/report now & will never happen or be implemented in 3 generations.
We don't want "stand to attract", we want "attracted and implemented".
Nigeria now stands to attract over $41b contributions to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), with over 200,000 jobs in the next 25 years, according to industry experts, following President Bola Tinubu’s successful diplomacy...
businessday.ng/news/article/…
Please dead this rant.
It is juvenilistic and shameful. The journalist did his job absolutely well. He was only asking questions based happenings we all know about and he was always providing evidence to backup his questions. What's wrong in that?🙄
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
The Alternative
Exactly!
You can pretend to be whatever you want to be all you want. But, please let it remain with you. Don't force your state of confusion and being mentally deranged down the throats of the rest of us. It's a YOU problem, not a US problem.
There are actions and there are consequences; And you cannot dictate how someone would react to your actions, including whether just saying is enough or not. If she k!lls herself, her blood is on nobody. David too could've had his youth condemned to prison and his life wasted,...
...for false rape allegations, just bcos a fool wants to do girl-supporting-girl without using brain. This is also absolutely akin to k!lling David; bcos when you cause someone's lifetime to be wasted in prison bcos you lied against them, you have killed them.
A very cautious and courageous one from Zimbabwe.🤝
@GovernmentZW
You can't be all about your country first and expect others to put theirs as secondary when dealing with you. No.
It's either mutually benefitting or nothing.
Zimbabwe has rejected a US health deal that would have provided $367m in funding over data concerns. Access to biological samples - for research and commercial gain - raised flags for Zimbabwe as the US did not want to share the benefits of its research.
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Exactly!!!
Of course we are happy about the value rising. But it's not just about value but the quality of what constitutes it. Is it organic earnings or it's just some borrowed $ funds.
“The rate of growth of our reserves over the last 7-8 months has been growing at a rate of 3.2% every month. We should be more concerned about the quality of the reserves than the value.” - @yinkanubi, President, @Actn_treasurers
Watch full video👇🏽
youtu.be/ysM3SDhhi5Q
Cc: @proshare @ecopoliticsNG @ottoabasi1 @cenbank
#MPC
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