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BouquiLake:
“If you could keep quiet and hear me out, you will appreciate my viewpoint.” Remove "Keep Quiet and" from the sentence and see if it's not the same message that is communicated. You don't use keep quiet when talking to an elder no matter what and in whatever way.

There are better ways of saying things... The guy is just rude presenting himself as fountain of knowledge.... "The driving in BRT lane" can never be forgotten (in fact, that was what brought him to limelight then). Doing like being a journalist means you have to be aggressive towards the person you are interviewing. He has a lot to learn from Channel's Seun Okinbaloye who is also fearless and never back down and yet never rude.

Let’s break down the statement carefully:

“If you could keep quiet and hear me out, you will appreciate my viewpoint.”



Tone and Language Analysis

1. Politeness markers

The phrase starts with “If you could …” which is often a polite, indirect way of making a request (more courteous than saying “Keep quiet and listen to me”).

The use of “you will appreciate my viewpoint” expresses confidence but not necessarily hostility.



2. Potentially rude element

The phrase “keep quiet” is quite blunt and directive. In English, it often sounds like a command (similar to “shut up”) and can come across as abrupt or rude.

A more courteous alternative would be “remain silent”, “hold your comments”, or “listen for a moment”.



3. Overall tone

The statement is assertive — the speaker is asking for silence so they can explain their viewpoint.

Because of the wording (“keep quiet”), it may be perceived as mildly rude or brusque, especially in formal or sensitive contexts.

In informal situations among friends, it might be taken as direct but not offensive.




Conclusion

The statement is not fully courteous.
It’s borderline rude because of the phrase “keep quiet,” although the conditional structure (“If you could…”) softens it somewhat.

👉 More courteous version:

“If you could give me a moment to speak, I’m sure you’ll appreciate my viewpoint.”
or
“I’d appreciate it if you could hear me out — I think you’ll understand my perspective.”

PigTormentor:
Same way you guys were praising FFk and Reno, worshipping them with the crap posts back then. Now they are your number one enemies.
Sooner or later, una go curse this fake journalist too
Just wait and see.
You people love to worship nonsense, is this how a professional journalist suppose to act? No decorum, bias and very uncouteous.

The fact that you said this thrash here and recieved more "Likes" more than those who made reasonable comments shows that Nairaland is 98% filled with your kinds.....APC data boys.

This space is no longer what it used to be some 10 and 5 years back. It has been hijacked.....very toxic.

lexy2014:
Who is the "our"?

Is there anything said the the "personal opinion" that is not true?

If there is, can you point them out and negate them?

"Our" refers to the several people who don't think Rufai Oseni was being professional, respectful and neutral with his handling of the interview session with the minister Umahi. As a journalist, you can ask delicate, incisive or difficult questions in a refined, professional and tactful manner.

Your personal opinion seems to question a lot about the project. Those questions can only be answered by the presidency or the ministry of works. I suggest you write to the ministry to request answers or more information on the strength of the freedom of information bill.

I want to think you should get a response or good information, that you seek, if your letter is well addressed, professional and carefully scripted.

Complaining to the public on nairaland and other social media platforms may be noises that doesn't get you answers. Is it just about politics or getting information?

freeborn02:
Are you saying it is a crime to question a minister on projects paid for with Nigeria's money?

APC dogs attacked Jonathan because of corruption, but they're now protecting tinubu over the same corruption.

This shows that APC dogs do not really hate corruption; they only hate corruption when the perpetrator is not their preferred thief.

You are the one alleging a crime, he didn't mention a crime.

Godswillu:
sometime you have to be, if not they will not answer your question, they will talk down on you and make you feel as if you are below them

No! You don't have to be rude, arrogant, unprofessional and disrespectful to ask incisive, difficult and intelligent questions.

Tact and careful planning of the questions may just be skill set that Rufai Oseni should acquire.

freeborn02:
I challenge you to mention one rude, arrogant or disrespectful comment that Rufai uttered during the interview.

Go and watch the video again.

BouquiLake:
“If you could keep quiet and hear me out, you will appreciate my viewpoint.” Remove "Keep Quiet and" from the sentence and see if it's not the same message that is communicated. You don't use keep quiet when talking to an elder no matter what and in whatever way.

There are better ways of saying things... The guy is just rude presenting himself as fountain of knowledge.... "The driving in BRT lane" can never be forgotten (in fact, that was what brought him to limelight then). Doing like being a journalist means you have to be aggressive towards the person you are interviewing. He has a lot to learn from Channel's Seun Okinbaloye who is also fearless and never back down and yet never rude.

Honestly, I am impressed with your analysis of that statement. You made it so simple yo comprehend, anyone who can't get your point from this analysis is either playing dirty 😏politics or just disrespectful too.

Karlman:
Don't they watch news and see how journalists quizzes even the most powerful presidents in the world

Nigeria is a sorry country run by criminals from top to bottom

Don't mind them. They have not watched interviews such BBC Hard Talk and see how world leaders tremble and stutter from teeth gnashing questions.
Let Tinubu go for just 10 minutes and we'll know what's up.

Omihanifa:
If it was babajide kolade otitoju of TVC news that interviewed Dave umahi, he would have been ass licking him up and down.

I watched his recorded interview yesterday with the akwa ibom governor, see the way baba was just using style to hero worship the governor.

Man must survive

That's the reason wike avoided arise to be interview and went on to channels to be interviewed

hatchy:
The fact that you said this thrash here and recieved more "Likes" more than those who made reasonable comments shows that Nairaland is 98% filled with your kinds.....APC data boys.

This space is no longer what it used to be some 10 and 5 years back. It has been hijacked.....very toxic.

Instead of you to dispute with facts what I said as wrong, you are here wailing and crying as usual. You hate facts snd reality. What is posted is factual. No one can dispute it.
You people were worshipping FFK and Remo even when they made no sense just because they wre busy abusing Buhari and Tinubu.
Now that they have switched to expose your package fraud, Reno is now your number enemy.
This fake uncouteous clown on Arise will meet the dame fate eventually.
It's just a matter of time.
No be only APC date boy, na Agulu clone boy.

freeborn02:
Are you saying it is a crime to question a minister on projects paid for with Nigeria's money?

APC dogs attacked Jonathan because of corruption, but they're now protecting tinubu over the same corruption.

This shows that APC dogs do not really hate corruption; they only hate corruption when the perpetrator is not their preferred thief.

To helinues it is a crime o. APC practices a special brand of politics. Don't ask, don't tell, babasopecracy. Attack Obi at least once a day.

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motionarena:
Argentina dey wire our super eagles under 20 and no one even cares

No more age cheating...so my friend don't be surprised if will are losing 7-0

Wallade:
Go and watch the video again.

I did. He didn't tell Umahi to shut up.

Sir down well and watch the video again.. Don't let your desire to cover up corruption make you a disturbing liar.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFQc7q58mHc?feature=shared

Wallade:
You are the one alleging a crime, he didn't mention a crime.

Even he can't say he didn't mention a crime

MICHEALADEX:
Then you don't understand polite rudeness... Like saying "dad don't be stupid"

Have you called him stupid?

Rufai ask the right questions with the wrong attitude and it's obvious in his character when it comes to opposition to the Lp

Watch the video again
Umahi was the one being rude:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFQc7q58mHc?feature=shared

Femi kuti always says it, if there are any set of people who destroyed this country, its the working professionals. Having somwone lkke Rufai as a professional doing his job is nothing but pure class. I respect him for it.

BouquiLake:
“If you could keep quiet and hear me out, you will appreciate my viewpoint.” Remove "Keep Quiet and" from the sentence and see if it's not the same message that is communicated. You don't use keep quiet when talking to an elder no matter what and in whatever way.

There are better ways of saying things... The guy is just rude presenting himself as fountain of knowledge.... "The driving in BRT lane" can never be forgotten (in fact, that was what brought him to limelight then). Doing like being a journalist means you have to be aggressive towards the person you are interviewing. He has a lot to learn from Channel's Seun Okinbaloye who is also fearless and never back down and yet never rude.

Seun is a puppet. He asks very stewpid questions

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Morbeta11:
Source:
https://x.com/UmarSanithecat/status/1975809458933518384?t=CI0ksNmtD_fpXDT-8s4Vng&s=08[/quote]I watched the interview and l think Rufai went a bit too far telling the Minister to keep quiet and hear him out...when he said l was a bit surprised and annoyed. As much as l love his courageous attitude and my dislike for most public officials Rufai should take it easy..there are better ways to carry out your message the "keep quiet" part don't need to come into it.

Shows you actually know nothing about languages. Who told you anticipating someone to keep quite because he was shouting, is wrong? Do a translation to your native language, you would realize how shallow you sound.
If you would keep quite(in the present-future ie. an anticipation)
There's nothing as respectful as this, Mr English man wey no sabi the Anglo

BouquiLake:
“If you could keep quiet and hear me out, you will appreciate my viewpoint.” Remove "Keep Quiet and" from the sentence and see if it's not the same message that is communicated. You don't use keep quiet when talking to an elder no matter what and in whatever way.

There are better ways of saying things... The guy is just rude presenting himself as fountain of knowledge.... "The driving in BRT lane" can never be forgotten (in fact, that was what brought him to limelight then). Doing like being a journalist means you have to be aggressive towards the person you are interviewing. He has a lot to learn from Channel's Seun Okinbaloye who is also fearless and never back down and yet never rude.

Godswillu:
sometime you have to be, if not they will not answer your question, they will talk down on you and make you feel as if you are below them

You can’t be rude as a journalist, you can disagree and fact check. Tell me one journalist home and abroad who would ask his guest to keep quiet?

Broveens42:
Shows you actually know nothing about languages. Who told you anticipating someone to keep quite because he was shouting, is wrong? Do a translation to your native language, you would realize how shallow you sound.
If you would keep quite(in the present-future ie. an anticipation)
There's nothing as respectful as this, Mr English man wey no sabi the Anglo

You are spelling “quiet” wrongly sir… man wey sabi🤣🤣🤣

Omalicious1:
It's only corrupt people that become aggressive when you ask for accountability.

Not true...
It's only unlearned minds that become aggressive when you ask for accountability.
Acquiring degrees doesn't necessarily mean you are learned in mind.

You can never see politicians like Rochas okorocha shouting at journalist when the most difficult of questions are thrown at him. He must find a way of navigating such questions by way of rhetorics, idioms, parables, comparative analysis etc, and even the likes of Hope Uzodinma; these are people we claim didn't go to school ooh

Godswillu:
A minister is ment to serve the people. you are spending our money that is tax payer money. and you are ment to be accountable for every kobo spent.

I mean if you have been in a top level management meeting no one will massage your ego even if you are performing you go collect first before then applaud you.

it is only 8n politics that we praise someone that is not performing and we will not ask the right questions.

Good one rufi on fire

Hahahaha.

Management meetings .
The day my oga told us, "the reward for hard work is more work", my head wan burst .

He still no tell us well-done oo

But politicians want nigerians to worship them for living extravagantly on our common wealth

freeborn02:
I did. He didn't tell Umahi to shut up.

Sir down well and watch the video again.. Don't let your desire to cover up corruption make you a disturbing liar.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFQc7q58mHc?feature=shared

Did Rufai Oseni say this:

“If you could keep quiet and hear me out, you will appreciate my viewpoint.”

PepeXKermit:
Femi kuti always says it, if there are any set of people who destroyed this country, its the working professionals. Having somwone lkke Rufai as a professional doing his job is nothing but pure class. I respect him for it.

Do you think Seun Okinbaloye and Kadiria Ahmed ask tough questions? I think they do without being rude, you cannot tell a minister or anyone older than you to keep quiet.

Wallade:
You have simply expressed your personal opinion, not our opinion or general opinion.

Thanks but no thank you.

What is stopping you from expressing your own personal opinion as well now so that we can thank you

Bosman17:
Do you think Seun Okinbaloye and Kadiria Ahmed ask tough questions?

I think they do without being rude, you cannot tell a minister or anyone older than you to keep quiet.

What has age to do with holding shifty and dodgy public servants accountable for the public funds that they spend?

Is this how we will develop to the point of no longer birthing children to slave in cold and racist neocolonial countries, bragging about japa and being a diasporan?

chisomkachy:
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s first supplementary budget includes a fleet of SUVs for himself and his wife, a presidential yacht and the renovation of his villa amid a cost-of-living crisis for some of the poorest people in the world.

The proposal — which seeks additional funding beyond the annual budget approved by Tinubu’s predecessor — comes as the government asks Nigerians to persevere through pain caused in part by a raft of economic reforms ushered in by the new president. Africa’s most populous country faces rampant unemployment, soaring food prices and a plummeting currency.

Federal lawmakers approved the president’s request for extra spending on Thursday, but eliminated the provision of 5 billion naira ($6.01 million) to buy a presidential yacht. Instead, they doubled the allocation to a student loan fund to 10 billion naira, according Abubakar Bichi, chairman of an appropriations committee in the House of Representatives.

The lawmakers approved 1.5 billion-naira proposed to purchase SUVs for the office of First Lady Oluremi Tinubu — an amount larger than that allocated to many individual federal colleges. The supplementary budget also proposes almost 6 billion naira to purchase SUVs for the presidency — more than the amount initially allocated to fund a student loan program for poor families.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-02/nigeria-budgets-for-suvs-and-yachts-amid-economic-hardship

The often cited biography titled Madame Tinubu: Merchant and King-maker, authored by Nigerian historian Oladipo Yemitan, paints her views regarding slave trading.

On one occasion, during her final sojourn in Abeokuta, she was alleged to have sold a young boy into slavery and was accused of it. When arraigned before Ogundipe Alatise over the matter, she reportedly explained: 'I have a large house-hold and I must feed them well. I need money to do that, that's why'.

— Oladipo. Yemitan, 'Madame Tinubu: Merchant and King-maker'

Another section of Yemitan's Tinubu biography, referred to as the Amadie-Ojo Affair, captures a slave trading deal gone sour in 1853 (notably after the 1852 Treaty abolishing slavery in Lagos) wherein Tinubu tells another slave trader (Domingo Martinez) that "she would rather drown the slaves [20 in number] than sell them at a discount".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efunroye_Tinubu

anonimi:
The migrant crisis in Libya and the Nigeria experience

The drive for survival and for greener pastures has continued to force millions of West African young men and women to gamble with death in attempts to cross over to Europe and other parts of the world. This quest to escape poverty, hunger, unemployment and insecurity, among other reasons, caused a major segment of Nigeria’s population to seek alternatives for better livelihood prospects for themselves and their families.

Those seeking economic survival see irregular migration as the best alternative, given the difficulty and resources involved in migrating through regular and legitimate routes. In many instances, very few of the original number who set out on these dangerous journeys live to tell their stories. While many regularly drown in the Mediterranean Sea, many also die in the deserts, and others are sold as slaves in a modern slave market.

Most of the victims of this trade are from West Africa. Many of them leave home with expectations of getting to Europe and other destinations perceived to have better economic prospects for them, but they end up in the slave merchant nets in North Africa. The victims are put in camps and sold in open markets in Libya, while the international community watches in silence. The geographical location of Libya renders it a transit route for migrants journeying to Italy and many other parts of Europe.

https://www.accord.org.za/conflict-trends/the-migrant-crisis-in-libya-and-the-nigeria-experience/

Bosman17:
You can’t be rude as a journalist, you can disagree and fact check. Tell me one journalist home and abroad who would ask his guest to keep quiet?

You should watch BBC’s Hard Talk series b

Apel147:
THREAD: Rufai Oseni — Preaches “Objectivity,” Practices Double Standards 🧵
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9 Nigerians deserve balanced questioning — not selective outrage. If you preach neutrality, apply it evenly. Facts shouldn’t depend on political alignment.

10 Conclusion: Rufai Oseni has built his brand on “fearless journalism,” but his on-air behaviour shows selective fire. True credibility comes from consistency, not partisanship dressed up as objectivity.

Are you talking about the same guy who supports Obi but has called him out when he doesn’t agree with him


https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3974666549511901&vanity=kjapage



https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPZkx03jFZU/?igsh=M2tsN2QzOXhpdWti



https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1315486860269965&vanity=Ceejay99991

Omihanifa:
If it was babajide kolade otitoju of TVC news that interviewed Dave umahi, he would have been ass licking him up and down.

I watched his recorded interview yesterday with the akwa ibom governor, see the way baba was just using style to hero worship the governor.

Man must survive

I stopped listening to him the day he said he swear to God that Tinubu won. He keep defending Buhari government of then and start giving us hope on fight on insecurity as security journalist but where do we found ourselves today?

BouquiLake:
“If you could keep quiet and hear me out, you will appreciate my viewpoint.” Remove "Keep Quiet and" from the sentence and see if it's not the same message that is communicated. You don't use keep quiet when talking to an elder no matter what and in whatever way.

There are better ways of saying things... The guy is just rude presenting himself as fountain of knowledge.... "The driving in BRT lane" can never be forgotten (in fact, that was what brought him to limelight then). Doing like being a journalist means you have to be aggressive towards the person you are interviewing. He has a lot to learn from Channel's Seun Okinbaloye who is also fearless and never back down and yet never rude.

You better remove that nonsense elder. I lost inheritance of over 2B Naira (e loud abi). All the elders can't look at me at my face. I've not been to the church too for over 8years too, they will only tell you God will help you and can't take decisive action on your case even they know the truth. You should be asking what the law says on his conduct? Have you ever wondered why a Prosperous Nigeria in the 70s is a joke now?