Adewale Kayode Joseph

God bless Ayo @ayomairoese for standing her ground and ending the session during the interview with Mr. Lere Olayinka at @ARISEtv You cannot willingly walk into a media house for an interview and then attempt to cherry-pick which journalist deserves your answers based on your personal perception of who is “reasonable” and who is not. Journalism does not exist to provide politicians with a comfortable environment or a carefully curated audience. It exists, among other things, to interrogate power and demand accountability. Nigerians have endured years of unreasonable, dismissive and sometimes uncouth narratives from different quarters of government and political actors. Yet, the same political establishment suddenly demands extraordinary levels of formality and courtesy when confronted with difficult questions. Rufai Oseni represents something many Nigerians desperately want to see in journalism: courage, persistence and an unwillingness to allow powerful people escape accountability through political rhetoric. Whether one agrees with his style at every point or not, there is no denying that his fearless interrogation is one of the major reasons many viewers are drawn to the ARISE Morning Show. The growing tendency of politicians to hide behind the demand for “professionalism” whenever they are asked uncomfortable questions is becoming concerning. Professional journalism is not synonymous with convenient journalism. Respect does not mean immunity from scrutiny, and courtesy should never become a tool for evading accountability. Our politicians cannot preside over a country facing enormous challenges, make promises to millions of citizens, and then become offended when journalists ask them hard and difficult questions. Democracy is not strengthened when journalists become overly deferential to power. It is strengthened when those who hold public office understand that public scrutiny comes with public responsibility. Fire on, @ruffydfire . Keep asking the difficult questions. Nigeria needs more accountability, not more carefully managed conversations.

My Take on Xenophobia in South Africa 🇿🇦 The recurring xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa should compel Nigeria to rethink its diplomatic response. The Akinyemi Doctrine of 1987, popularly known as the Policy of Reciprocity, holds that Nigeria's goodwill and support for other nations should be matched with equal respect and consideration. Simply put, you get what you give. That principle should guide Nigeria's response to South Africa. A purely diplomatic or moral appeal has done little to deter repeated attacks on Nigerians since Buhari administration till present. While I commend President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for declining to receive the South African envoy, that alone is insufficient. Nigeria needs a tougher, firmer and more strategic response. Under successive military governments, Nigeria often applied the principle of reciprocity in its foreign policy. Whether one agrees with those methods or not, they projected resolve and often compelled other states to take Nigeria's interests seriously. Ironically, Nigeria was one of the strongest supporters of South Africa during the struggle against apartheid, yet today Nigerians continue to face hostility, violence, and forced displacement there. They've become irreparable victims of collective amnesia on the role Nigeria played during apartheid. We were regarded a frontline state despite not sharing border with apartheid South Africa. This is not merely a matter for statements at the African Union or ECOWAS as our Vice President has posited. It is a test of whether Nigeria is willing to defend its citizens with the same commitment it has historically shown in defending the interests of other African nations. The Buhari–Idiagbon government's response to the 1984 Dikko affair is often cited as an example of reciprocity in proper action. Alhaji Umaru Dikko, Nigeria's former Minister of Transport under the Shagari administration, had fled to the United Kingdom after being accused of large-scale corruption by the military junta of Buhari/Idiagbon. Nigeria's National Security Organisation (NSO), working with former Mossad operatives, attempted to abduct Dikko outside his London residence. He was reportedly drugged, placed in a wooden crate falsely labelled as diplomatic baggage (which cannot be checked), and taken toward Stansted Airport. British customs officials became suspicious because the crate lacked the required diplomatic seals and emitted a medical odour. Upon inspection, they discovered an unconscious Dikko alongside a doctor monitoring his condition. The incident sparked a major diplomatic crisis. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government immediately expelled Nigeria's High Commissioner, Major-General Halidu Hananiya, along with another Nigerian diplomat from UK. Nigeria responded by expelling the British High Commissioner, Hamilton Whyte, and other British officials from Lagos. When British authorities detained a Nigeria Airways Boeing 707 during the investigation, Nigeria retaliated by forcing a British Caledonian passenger aircraft flying through Nigerian airspace to land in Lagos, where it was held until the Nigerian aircraft was released. Following the trial, British courts sentenced three former Mossad operatives and Major Yusufu Mohammed to 14 years imprisonment for kidnapping on British soil. Nigeria responded by arresting two British engineers working in Nigeria and sentencing them to 14 years in prison, mirroring the sentences imposed by the UK. That's what policy of reciprocity looks like. Return madness for madness until diplomatic sanity is forcefully restored or becomes inevitable. By the way, Tyla shouldn't be allowed to perform in Lagos - it's part of the entire whole. #SayNoToXenophobia #SouthAfrica #Tyla

I was at the Novare Cinema with my wife to see the historical adaptation of Efunroye by @FaithiaWilliams. It was such a great work of art and one worthy of commendation. Retelling history of great figures/times should be appreciated. Kudos to the creatives behind its success.

'Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth' - Mahatma Gandhi. The Nigeria state has a reputation of gagging dissent views. It's never new but what we must stop to celebrate is our pseudo-democracy under this malfeasance governing system. #FreeDeleFarotimi

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It must be noted that Education is a right and must be accessible to all. The culture of oppression that the reigning FG has established through its insensitive policy making has caused the management of some socialist-established federal Universities to resolve to increment.

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OAU carnage before dawn - exactly 24 years today that the sponsored and systematic killings occured on Awo soil. The aftermath is revolutionary resistance against sheer injustice and cultism on GREATIFE soil and Nigeria as a whole. #Afrika lives on - #OAU-5 lives.

Blocked students Portal, violently threatened students for maintaining dissenting opinions. All what we shall remember for a man of his calibre. In a saner clime, someone like this should have a lot of questions to answer. All left for posterity in perpetuity.

God bless the *Daily Trust* news 🗞️ for properly revealing the veil on this juicy claim by the Miyetti Allah getting form for Goodluck Jonathan. Who on earth will believe that nonsensical claim. Nigerians ain't idiots #Dailytrust #EFCC #APC