Senator Abdullahi Adamu has challenged journalists to move from the traditional stagnated mode of journalism to a more professional method of journalism.
Adamu threw the challenge when NTA press crew visited him at his Keffi residence to conduct an interview in advance of the upcoming 59th independence anniversary which is just around the corner.

Senator Adamu lamented the gross naivety exhibited by most journalists who have made it a tradition of asking questions like: what is your dream..., what progress have we achieved... and so on in a manner which depicts the old sterilized fashion of journalism.

Senator Adamu therefore urge journalists to review the contents of their interview questions and come up with new ideas that will redefine the rudiments of journalism which carries with it ingredients that dwell on challenging current national and international issues rather than continuing with the boring repetition of the same old fashion styled interview over and over again.

The senator groused at the modus operandi whereby journalists and pressmen would restrict their questions to asking about: what did you do when you were in government, what is the progress so far, what is the way forward, etcetera? He said these were rhetorical questions that every prudent individual should have an answer to. He therefore tasks journalists to improve and get beyond this reoccurring tradition and fashion their interviews to suit the current issues facing the people and the polity instead of recycling interviews every year without any change in questions. On a lighter mood, the distinguished senator said that the only thing that changes when it comes to the Nigerian media interviews is the crew members and their mode of dressing.

In the cause of the interview, somewhere in his highlight, Senator Adamu enumerated some of the achievements and progress the nation has recorded in the past 59 years. For instance, he posited the fact that during Independence, Nigeria had only 3 universities, some few hospitals and secondary schools, countable number of roads and media outlets compared to the overwhelming majority of these institutions now available and at the reach of the citizens all over the country. He said that those who are lamenting over the deplorable state of the nation's achievements in the last 59 years, though have reasons to complain about the slow pace in progress and development, but are simply not being fair to our country when they say that nothing has been achieved at all.