Such convictions, which were designed to stifle dissent and militant nationalism, which at any rate had given way to micro-nationalism, went side by side with government's implementation of its second postwar propaganda and containment strategy. By this strategy government utilized the weekly Nigeria Review to reply to views expressed in the nationalist press. This policy, however, merely made the newspaper unpopular, as both the nationalist press and some sections of the colonial bureaucracy resented its manifestation. Resentment arose because, contrary to expectations that 'a Government paper should stick to facts and truth and not to aim at discrediting the opposition', the Review did the opposite. It not only subjected the opposition to too much abuse, it also peddled half-truths, thereby condescending to the use of lies to counter the 'lies, opinion and abuse of the "yellow press" , (NAI Oyo Profl2/3 C151, 7 July 1947) which it had sought to teach the principles of sound journalism.