 is the outgoing government of President Mohammad Ibrahim leaving Nigeria better than he met her in 2015. What are the hot points and what have been the low points of this administration? This morning on the breakfast, we continue our assessment of this administration, the economic realities of the Mohammad Ibrahim's presidency. One of the things that mark our democracy is the respect for the rule of law and the interaction with the people who the leadership governs. Today we'll be looking at the social and legal issues of the Mohammad Ibrahim presidency. How has it fared? Has it fared well or badly? We'll be taking a look at the headlines on some national dailies this morning as well with our guests on Off the Press who will join us to analyze them critically this morning on the breakfast. And welcome to the Friday Flex edition of the Breakfast on Plus TV Africa. I am Maureen. And my name is Nyam Gul Aghaji. Welcome to the show this morning. We'll be looking or zeroing in on the theme organizing our time, key to success and enjoying life. Like Michael Cree sang a long time ago, time, not money. So our theme today is organizing time, key to success and enjoying life. Those who fail to plan have planned to fail. It's a popular saying. So how well do you organize your time? There are people who are very good in managing their time. They're very good in organizing themselves. They have the skill. Some of them are said to be melancholic in nature. And so they are good at organizing things. If you enter their rooms or their spaces you see everything well put in the right place and at the right time. But there are those who are scattered by nature. Yeah, you are very scattered. When we talk about time management, some people think it's time tight to work. Like you manage your time so that you can work. Now you're reading, next time you're cooking, you're doing laundry, you're doing this and that. But also when you're talking about time, fun is in the picture as well. So if you manage your time well, time management also is important for having fun. When are you going to have fun? When are you going to rest? Where are you going to unwind? Kick out those sandals, let down your hair and make sure you have real fun. But knowing that the next time there is something else to do. Maybe wake up and go to work at five o'clock. Yeah, your skill of preference. You should be able to itemize them. Especially plan your week. Monday this I do, Tuesday this I do, Wednesday this I do. And then you tell yourself, what will I be doing this weekend? Oftentimes we just allow things to go by. I know that a lot of things will come that you didn't plan for. But if you have a skeleton as it were of your plan for the week, it's going to be good. And it's not just like when you think about planning for the week, some people might have it in their head that you use like two hours, three hours planning for the week. You may not necessarily plan it, especially if you've been doing it over time. Some things just fall into place that okay, on Mondays I go to work this time. And at work this is what I'm supposed to do. I already know that. And I just fill in the gaps as it were so that when that time comes, I will not be taken by surprise except something else comes. There are those who believe that what will be will be. What do you say about that? Yeah, what will be will be. But there are a lot of things that you also need to do. Exactly. Yes, because Jesus was going to die. Because what will be will be, it was a dine that he was going to die. But there was a Judas who chose to be the one to betray him. So there was that human factor. There is also a human factor contributing to whatever your destiny may be or something. If it is possible, let this cup pass away from me. Things like that. As I always say, balance. You must be able to draft out that skeletal plan that okay, this bearing all against all odds, bearing any kind of distractions on circumstances. These and these and these are the things I hope to achieve this week. And then make room to accommodate uncertainties or unplanned events. Things could just come and someone could just call me and say, hey, boy, I get something for you. And so you should make room for that. Bottom line, make good use of your time so that you do not waste your time because time cannot be gotten back if it's lost. One minute gone, you're not getting it back. Yeah, like my friend used to say, opportunity lost can never be regained. Well, in some cases you regain them, but that's not the exact one. Because okay, you could have had an employment somewhere, you lost it. You may not, you may have another employment or that same one, but you didn't start at the time you were supposed to start. So you have lost it. If you have lost any time, any second, you cannot get it back. You're growing older and you're getting, getting nearer and nearer to the grave as it were. We should also plan for that, you know. Oh well, everyone who is alive, well not everyone. Everybody will say not my portion. Some people say, some people would say everybody wants to get to heaven, but nobody wants to die. Yeah, but any living being, any living being, especially one who has a conscious, a consciousness of his or her existence, knows that one day, you know, you will go to meet your maker. The plan and the hope and the prayer is to go at a good ripe age. That's the prayer of everyone. Yeah, so that you'll be worthy of standing before his presence. And the thing about preparing for the afterlife is that it is either there is an afterlife or there isn't. So if you go there and find out there isn't, then you have nothing to lose. But what if you go there and find out there is? There is. And there's a reward for being a bad person, then what do you do? Do you start making amends at that point? So why not just, you know, put in the effort and be a good person and be remembered for the good that you have put into life. Exactly. Because at the end of the day, what we leave behind is not the wealth. It's not anything but the name that we leave for people. I know of some people in Nigeria, even leaders that have died and people closed bars and they were celebrating the death of somebody. Don't remind me of what happened a certain time ago. So, yeah. I remember I was in just Plata State when that happened. Yeah. And it was initially was hush, hush, hush, hush. Because people were unsure. And there were all sorts of tricks at getting people back then if you spoke a certain way, you were apprehended and tortured. Those were the stories we heard. And so when it broke out back then, people were like, have you heard? Is it true? And then when it eventually was confirmed, woo. Where I was when that news broke, there were no restrictions like that. We were not afraid people could arrest us. It was inside a village, not even mine. It's more village than my village. A village of villages. And I heard it from Radio Kudirat. You remember that? Oh, yes. Radio Kudirat. I heard it from there. And once it comes from there, it's like, okay, it's as good as authentic. So if you saw the kind of jubilation there was on that day that someone died, you know, of all religions, people of all religions were rejoicing. I was like, okay, are we not Christians anymore? That should pray for life and not rejoice over someone's calamity? Are we not Muslims too that have respect for life? Are we not even traditional religions? It respects life and all that. So everybody was just rejoicing like, oh, so you too can die. That should never happen to us. It should never happen. We should be like Hezekiah who challenged God and said, remember the good things I've done. You say I should put my house in order so that I will die. My time has come. But remember the good things I have done. That was his prayer. He didn't say, Lord, please, he had something that could testify for him. I wish that all Nigerians, everybody on earth could have something to testify for him rather than against him. Yesterday when we learned of the news of the passing of Tina Turner, every one across the globe mourned her passing because she left for us things that will remember her by good things, positive things. It is not the Bible that says when the righteous prospers, the people rejoice. When the wicked perish, there are shots of joy. So let us live even today on a daily basis as we live, even though sometimes we find ourselves not feeling so good ourselves, but we must try to leave people feeling better than we met them. And that's why today we'll also be taking a look at how this outgoing administration of President Mohammed Dupuhari is living Nigerians. How are they living Nigerians? Are they living us better than they met us in 2015? And I believe one of the ways to do that is to go back to his script, to his inaugural speech in 2015, and look at the promises he made because if you're going to judge someone's actions or inactions, you probably should start from what promises did he make you. So yesterday as I was preparing for this, I went to look at some of the things he said back then, and there we have it on the screen. At home we're facing almost challenges, insecurities, pervasive corruption, and hereafter unending and seemingly impossible feel and power shortages are the immediate concerns we're going to tackle them head on. So today we're going to see how have they been able to match these words with actions in the past seven and a half years? Well, Dupuhari himself is playing the lizard. You fall down and then you nod your head, I have tried. It's called the Agama lizard. Yeah, Agama lizard. So I just saw where he said that just like Paul said, I've run my race, what there is left for me is a crown of glory. And Dupuhari said in small words the same thing, that I have run the course, I've done well for my people, I've kept my promises and all that. Waxing biblical. I saw that head when I said, wow, that's good. It's good to have our leaders go to the holy book. I don't know how he has run his race, but it depends on where you're standing. There are people who will see him as a mini-god for what he has done because of how it has impacted on them and their families and their communities and all that. Take for instance maybe the people whose commercial activities will go up because of the Second Niger Bridge, for instance. They will glorify him and say a lot of things. But the bulk of the people don't seem to be on the same page with him. He says he has done well in security, he has done well in economy, he has done well in whatever he said he was going to do. But some people are interpreting the I am for nobody and I am for everybody speech saying that he was using style as we put it to tell us on your own. Whatever it is, you are on your own. But depending on where you stand, let us try to x-ray what he has done as a president and he's leaving us in a matter of days. On Tuesday, he will no longer be a president. He would have returned to Daora and possibly in Niger if people like you disturb him a lot. He's going to leave Nigeria for you. The Japan syndrome is real. He will leave Nigeria for you and go to Daora and have his peace of mind. And so from the theme of the day we'll go to our very first top trending on the Friday flex today. Commercial banks to provide multi-purpose card as debit and national identity card. Now so commercial banks have been given the authorization to bring out these cards. And that's according to Issa Pantami who disclosed this yesterday, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy revealed this to newsmen after this week's FEC meeting saying that even though the National Identity Management Commission Act of 2007, that's the INIMC only mandates Nigerians to have NIN, which you have every Nigerian I believe this day has their name. Almost every Nigerian. Well almost every Nigerian. But he's saying that there are significant demands for cards by Nigerians, especially those living in the rural communities. And that it will be of no additional cost to Nigerians. So you walk to your bank and say, okay, I want the card. And so apparently what the way it should go is that this card is going to have your NIN and then it also serves as your bank card. Well, it's about time. We always have been saying that the banks have the details of everybody. They have the BVN and everything else. And why didn't they in the first place give the banks this opportunity to do this? Because the clogging in the network that we experienced when we were trying to get the NIN was so much so that people had to spend months to be able to get their NIN. The crowd was massive. People were paying through the nose, even if they tell us it's free. People were paying through the nose at that time to get their NIN. If they had given to the banks, every bank will be looking for customers because some people who want their NIN may not even have bank accounts. So they will make it so easy that even if you don't have a bank account, you will come and open because I'm not sure they're going to give you when you're not a customer. You come and open an account and all that. When this cash less economy came up, by this time almost everybody would have had a bank account. But now some of the problems that we faced when we had the cash crunch was the fact that some people were not even having bank accounts. Even though they were bankable adults but they were not having bank accounts because they didn't see the need for it. And if you ask me truly, in Nigeria I don't know why people will bank. Why we even bank because you're running a savings account and you're losing money. You're running a current account. You're losing money. Whatever account you're running, you're losing money. You're making any transactions about three or four cuts. This is for this tax, this is for this tax. Even charges and all of that. And then at the end of the day, you're sending a 1,000 Naira to somebody. The person is collecting 800 Naira or at least 900 Naira. So if the problem to be solved was 1,000 Naira, he will now have to look for another 100 Naira to go and add up to that. It just doesn't make sense. But now that NIMC is now saying the banks should do this, I do hope that it is not too late and it will be very seamless and it will be very, very easy for everybody to get this. But what about the people who are still in the villages? Did they say something or did they do something or are they going to do something to make sure they capture these people because there are still people who do not have any faith in the banks? Or even if they have the faith, getting to the banks is a very difficult thing. The banks are there and every state, even if they do not have banks in the core villages, the people you call the unbanked, the state capitals would have banks and so they would have to move until the time when Nigeria evolves to the point where the core villages will have banks, the current reality on ground is that every state capitol at least would have banks. So those who move these cards would have to go to the state capitals and get to the banks. Let me tell you why this is very terrible. Permit the word terrible. Let me use cross river where I come from. From my village to the state capitol is an average of 7 hours drive. On a good road from my village. From my village also to my local government headquarters is about 2 hours drive. So if the driver is rough or has an SUV. Why is it because of the distance of bad roads? Distance and the road. So if the driver is, the driver that speeds, let me know if you use the bad roads because it's easier to get to a bonus state than to get to my local government headquarters. So if it takes you like one and a half hours to get to the local government headquarters and you're paying like 2,000 Naira to get there. Or you're going to the state capitol and you're paying like 6,005 to get to the state capitol. How do you expect that old woman, that old man to go to the bank because he wants to have an NIN? That is a good question and I do not mean to... There's a local government that doesn't have a bank. We call it Okboma local government area. Okboma local government area. They do not have a bank from Okoku to Yahetu, Okboma to everywhere. They don't have a bank in a local government and to travel around that local government I can't even put the number of hours that you will take. The entire local government doesn't have a bank. So how do you capture those people? What is your state again? Because I come from Delta State and I say that proudly and I didn't mean to make little of the concerns that you're raising and I imagine that is the reality of so many people in the country and it's very unfortunate that we are in the 21st century where people in Nigeria in any part of our state do not have at least one bank in their local government area. I am shocked to hear you say this and we do not have that level of underdevelopment from my understanding. That's not the most backward state but that's the reality and whether the government likes it or not whether we shy away from that reality or not but it's still there so people are because of the policy ostracized or I don't know how to put it but there are people who do not feel this impact and they don't they are not being impacted into everything. The incoming administration in your state would take up the challenge and do what they need to do. Establishing banks? It's opening up the state so that more banks would be up because if the states are not made viable banks would not need to come they wouldn't even want to go there because banks are set up for profit and if the states are not made viable they are not if there is no business for them they wouldn't come. We have this topic we are talking about people in Delta state Delta state where children in secondary school and primary school are initiated in what they call the snake initiation. Well the police has come out to say that it is false that they went and did investigation. I saw a video where one young boy said initiation on the police policeman that went the investigating officer that went and he had the marks he used the paper rubbed on the back of the hand and the policeman had the marks so they said it was not a snake bite but it is a game that they call snake bite be that as it may whatever they do whatever they do it brings wounds to the hands of the children what kind of a game is that and the policeman released a statement and said parents should ignore the falsehood that the NGO man was given Harrison Guamnichu he shared on that they should ignore whatever that is whether it is an initiation or not I think it is something that must stop the state commissioner for information issued a statement on this he said they have looked into it and he was blaming calling on parents to be more responsible and be more diligent over their wards and children and there you have the pictures the fact of the matter is whether it is true or not whether there is a false alarm or not over this you can see the marks can possibly be just ordinary games these are humps if you did that on my skin I will feel some pain so it is not something to celebrate or ignore so parents indeed just as the commissioner has said should watch out and be diligent and sit to it that their wards are not affected by this and if their children have these marks on their hands they should get to the root of it get to the schools find out who the friends of your children are and how did you come about this a lot of times parents are blamed parents are called upon to be more careful and all that but the fact that maybe I am putting my child in school because I don't have time to homeschool that child I don't have time to be with that child homeschool is not even legal yet so right now I am at work if I move at 5 o'clock and I have children and then I know that they are going to have a school boss come and maybe I have a nanny that takes them to that point where the boss takes them the children are in school from let's say 7.30 or 8 o'clock till sometimes 5 o'clock because they have some classes after the regular classes and all so they are with you when I come back in the evening I am so tired I may not have much time except for weekends to be with my children so the children are mostly with the schools who accepted the responsibility to take care of them when I am not there so while the parents will be looking at the wounds maybe attending PTA meetings if they have the time and all that and maybe making some calls there is also a primary responsibility for the schools that these children go to so they shouldn't push it to the parents he also included the school and even went ahead to say that any school found have these in existence this cultism will be shut down my first experience with cultism was in a secondary school none of the children that was involved was up to 17 in a secondary school I was teaching in Aqaibom at that time and then the problem came up and the children were brought to the assembly and from their talk you would know it was true and that was also when love pushed on from these kids what were you trying to say Cultism has gotten to the secondary school just like you during my youth service national youth service I taught in a school in Port Harcourt and I got to see and hear a lot of things just like you did and it is something that calls for Sarah's concerns our children should be left to be pure innocent children should just be allowed to be children don't steal their innocence and purity from them because they can't get it back and once you damage your child it takes almost a lifetime to heal that child so people should really schools lots of schools have been found culpable in recent times of negligence and so schools should really be on top of their games and making sure that the children left under their care protected in every way possible and as parents no matter how busy we are we know how busy we can be in making money to take care of these children but if you do not make out time in the course of your busy shadows to look into the welfare of these children ultimately that money will not even help you in helping the children because when your children get damaged that money can't fix them so we must learn to make our time from time to time to go to these schools once in a while you can't attend all the meetings and sometimes when you can't attend delegate someone to go because often times the teachers have something to say about your child either they commend the child or they say ok the child is weak in this area or is strong in this area or please prep him or prep her in this way or that so it's a synergy that's required between the parents and the teachers to make sure that these children turn out alright at the end of the day that's our future we're toying with toying with if we do not do the right thing so like you always say the balance should be there parents, teachers, everybody should be involved and before now the child belongs to a community and everybody was concerned today is not much like that but in the chain of people who should take responsibility everybody should do their job well we'll take a short break here and give you the weather report we have a weather report and then after that we go to the headlines stay with us