 Good morning. Thanks for still being here with us on the breakfast on plus TV Africa It's now time for off the press and that's our segment on the breakfast We'll take a look at the stories making headlines in Nigeria today We've invited a mr. Ademola akimboa at the publisher of the podium media. Good morning. Thank you for joining us Thanks for having me again. Happy new month for us. Same to you. All right Let's go straight into the daily independent newspaper. The headline here reads how Conflicts in interest led to suspension of 280 million US dollars Passport insurance scheme. That's the daily independent newspaper. Gov. Nokoa here says Southern governors all critics know apologies open grazing ban restructuring or her knees it condemns ACF's Southeast travel advisory to Northerners Also Constitutional review had carried a loop course for scrapping of Senate Buhari says desperate power sickers plotting my administration's failure It's a vassity professor suspended over alleged sexual abuse APC presidential hopefuls move to install loyalists in national working committee Ninjas school abduction the government confirms bandits arrest Neko registrar died of national natural causes and Neko and a family So that's a you know adding more clarity to the story there after news reporter Lester He had been assassinated In the dead of the night. Those are the stories on the daily independent. All right the Nigerian Tribune Coming up next We can see on the screen it's gonna be up in a few seconds. Yes as you there is this Shocker waits those who wants to destroy my government. That's from president Buhari Says Bernie and a vinyl coffins is won't stop elections Insecurity, we're tired of observing one-minute silence as a Senate president Constitutional review. What's it back? Here are the loopholes for part-time, you know Cameroon federal parliament Also a 90-year-old commit suicide in Kadena amoteco arrest suspected ritual killer recovers human skull the bones guns and charms federal government accelerates local COVID-19 vaccine from her production And also agitations good for development part of democracy about your government declares We can also see police guard Neko registrar's residence in Mina as the son says his father died during a brief illness and we can also see a Shea mackin day slashes a lau-tech tuition fees by 25 percent Senate approves federal pulley Illaro to become a university Southeast governor's call for probe into gulag's death and Only one thousand seven hundred oil reserves producing out of seven thousand discovered and that's from the federal government The all right, I think these are the stories we can show in the tribune this morning on the punch newspaper stop threats PDP tells Buhari as federal government again promises tough actions President blames politicians just lean for power says it'll be hard on troublemakers Also, the PDP says lead battle against Intercurity match words with action enough of threats Above the headline on the punch newspaper external reserves dropped by 640 million dollars in May That's according to the CBN Senate threatens arrest of 56 MDA chiefs over probe Federal government says we're reviving grays and reserves in 21 states 2023 constitutional crisis looms over attacks I neck alerts Buhari Scraps Senate make National Assembly part-time to reduce governance cost at Kyridolou oil prices rises above 87 above $70 OPEC projects demand growth Also on the front page of the punch newspaper. I saw Osho Malay is a almost congratulation messages on social media That's according to a Basquee and we can see a picture here of a rally With the PDP flag apparently supporters of a basquee. They're celebrating his victory at the Supreme Court Also on the punch newspaper Buhari congratulates NGE as Isawa in second term Rector excited as Senate or case Ilaro Polytechnic's upgrade to University Immoffling inmates steals Lagos Church members belonging to during vigil Businessmen accuses policemen of assaults extortion of five thousand five hundred dollars Bitcoin 4 a suspense lecturer over alleged sexual harassment another under probe and lastly on the punch newspaper bandits confirm kidnap of 156 90 popes demand 110 million Naira ransom Wow, I think that's that's quite contradictory after we just saw that one of the bandits was arrested And now it demand for ransom. Well, the nation news was a I think our final paper this morning Buhari to arsonist and killers agitators. I will shock you Also in the nation and to graft war customs CG top officers to declare assets controversy of a NECO registrar's death Editors urge to join government and fight against fake news Macindy slashes lau-tech tuition by 25% Also, Kauara governor and PDP disagree on achievements Tall likely to return on federal highways 110 million I ran some for school kids. That's also in the news this morning Insecurity won't define our administration says the says the federal government And they're also amoteco arrest suspected body parts dealer in Ibadon six killed in Kaduna No excuses were president tell service chiefs and IG attacks on ionic facilities won't affect future polls Exactly. Well, I good morning once again. I think we will start with The federal government saying in security won't define our administration Um, there's you know, roughly two years left in the administration Do you think that you know something else will be able to define the administration of the or the current administration? Absolutely nothing Insecurity has already defined this administration I said it sometimes that don't matter what you achieve in other areas if you cannot secure life some properties They were much different. Okay The way I see Nigeria today, I see something like four-way parts for the soul of Nigeria Okay, just like the Berlin conference of 1886 of that about this comes from Africa before we Battle for Nigeria. You have the bandits are criminal You have restructuring agitators. I pop Sunday. Oh, you have governor Especially certain governors who have beaten against their not an counterpart on open grazing Then of course your presidency is struggling to hold on to whatever is left for Nigeria So you you just look at what the minister said I just laugh Okay, you are telling others we should only use security to judge government or that you meant which are the achievements They're not saying that we can see any achievement. Okay. The economy is not doing well There's no there's no there's no stability in exchange rate in securities order of the day What else are we going to use to judge this government? So I think that's just a sandbite I wish we know it's just the way the president was sounding off yesterday. Okay You want to shock them? Yeah, we look forward to that shock. Okay. It's long overdue. People really want to see government taking action Okay, not sounding off not issuing threats. We want to see action So and each time the president comes out to issue a threat The band is keeping us the kidnapped us the other way of responding. So I pray that in another two or three days Something tell it will not happen. It's like what was that in my mind testing comments commitment. Mr. Kim Yes, you know, it says, you know, I think it's on the tribune that Ordination it's as reported as you will shock them But you know, if you look at the tweets and of also the video clip, you know from when president made that statement He called, you know, and you know spoke about the civil war spoke about, you know, the experiences in the civil one then says, you know, we'll treat them in a language that they Understand or that we understand that doesn't seem like it is directed at the Bandits or the criminals and those who are destroying, you know Government facilities it seems Because I'm trying to link, you know, both of them to the civil war. How do those two things come together? What what the president was trying to say is that for those who have constrained terrorism for those who are backing All these bandits that government to come after them those who are financing them is going to come after them Linking that to see what it's like. Say look, we've been through a 30 month civil war. Okay No nations survived two civil wars. So it's probably time to let people know look if we continue this way We will end up having a civil war. But unfortunately, Nigeria is already at war with itself Okay, Nigeria is at war with itself. I Thought about the strong way back to for the soul of Nigeria. Okay, so what the president is trying to say is that look We've been through this before let's lower them. Do not let us let this Degenerate for that. But see you need to do something you need to take certain actions For peace to return to the interior. There has to be justice. Okay, there's stability all this ethnic Inclinations Everybody in Nigeria has lost conflict and lost hope in that entity called Nigeria project Nigeria does not fascinate when longer most people They may not come out to open the call for the structure on it, but people are Beginning to say look what exactly are we getting from be together? Okay? I'm not advocating for us to have a photo to To be divided was if you if you also listen to what golf and I gradually said asking for a unique ever Legislature as a decision should be spent a totally sort of a call Okay, because it's like the National Assembly has had no effect We haven't felt the impact in any way. Okay. I said earlier on that a national assembly that is open doing Should not put a lot of it on the president to either resign or perform so for me It's not a year or death it's time for all to face the reality that things are not working which working and The president to me has come to us with it I do not know of any new team that this decision will come up with to reverse The trend I do not know. All right. Okay. I do not know I do not see anything new that they want to see or that wants to yeah So still talking about, you know security matters in Nigeria. I was into Conflicts in headlines about the same story in Niger state Recall that about 200 students had been abducted from an Islamic school in the state and here On the daily independent newspaper the headline, you know Told us that Niger school. It says Niger school abductions government confirms bandits arrest and when I read the story The Niger state government, you know was assuring Nigerians that we have some of the bandits in our custody We will not pay ransom We will get the children released safe and sound but on the punch news paper Another source here says bandits confirm kidnap of 156 Niger popes demand 110 million Naira ransom. So I don't know what the information is And if indeed the government just like they said have some of the bandits in their custody Why can they force out a confession of the location and you know that release the students mr Hakeem Bola Yeah, absolutely The most important thing for the parents of this case is for them to release Whether the bandits have been arrested or not, whether they're asking for ransom or not We want the kids to release and that is when we take that seriously at this point You can't rule out propaganda. You can't rule out information management. Okay Truth is always the first casualty when crisis of this state are up So until the kids are released We do not want to believe anything that is coming from the government The media also needs to be very careful in reporting stuff like this. Okay Um, we shouldn't take every press statement of every press release that government officials sent to us We shouldn't take them as as as it goes to truth Otherwise, we'll be misleading people and we we we we will be unfairly seen or judged Not to be uh, cooperated with society In fighting criminality So it's unfortunate that we have this confusing report But I I think we we should keep our focus on getting the kids to release until they are released. We can't believe anybody Well, so that's the situation we are in today. So I I I I can't agree with you There's absolutely no reason for this disparity in space Well, it's also um important to note that you know over the years since uh chibok and dapchi Not very much seems to have changed with regards, you know being able to protect school children Yeah, we haven't improved, you know on our security tactics or security apparatus We haven't improved in any way and kids are still very much in danger in Nigeria. So not much has changed Um, but let's talk about the controversy over the neko registrars. Nothing has changed. Um, there's um Those who say that he was assassinated, you know neko put out a statement saying he died after a brief illness Um, you why can't we get any clarity? The same question will ask that why hasn't a post mortem be done A simple autopsy will tell us the cause of the death We we like I said we would like to compliment seemingly simple issues Okay The most reliable source of information that will undertake his course of death is an autopsy It was assassinated. Why is it true? Why is the evidence if he died after a brief illness? What was the nature of the illness? Okay, we we live in a country where there's so much um A lot of things are shrouded in secrecy, especially concerning public officials. I want to wonder what is the big deal Okay, why is it why so difficult for us to get exactly the truth? What really killed him? So if the family is saying that after a brief illness, why don't you believe that? Why do we want to come up with concrete? By who? Who asked the truth? Who asked the evidence? So, Mr. Kimbalan, really? Personally, I would like to go with the line that The family has come out that died Yes, yes I think this issue is Yes, please This issue seems more complicated because The news reports we saw online said that the wife of, you know, professor Gotsville had said that These assassins came into the house. They simply killed him and they took nothing. They just left But the next morning we saw a message from Neco that said that the son had forwarded a message to them saying The father died of a heart failure or heart attack. It wasn't clear But the story that really tips the skills for me is the Nigerian Tribune. It says police guard Neco registrar's residence in Mina As son says father died during briefing. So why would the police need to guard the house? If he if he had died of natural causes just just a question there that we need to ask Don't you think? Yeah, as a result of the controversy that has now Yeah, because now there's a controversy surrounding that the police need to guard the residence Maybe do for some time praying with evidence. Okay, so the police probably will not want to sweep under the carpet The the the the the claim that was assassinated. All right, so Apparently the police wants to try to investigate Court of the residence prevents anybody from sampling any evidence while investigation continues. So it's an interesting development Which will look forward to unfolding more in the days to come But as we speak, like I said the son sent a message that his father died after a prevalent The wife said he was assassinated. Okay, can we have an autopsy? I'm sure the cops have not disappeared The body of this gentleman has not disappeared. Let's condone an autopsy and that will solve The riddle for me Okay, all right. Um, I think we can also quickly speak on Uh, the uh, lautech issue. Uh, governor makinde slashing school fees in lautech by 25 percent Um, if you remember a couple of years ago, actually lautech has been you know in in years and years of you know One crisis or the other Shea makinde seems to be doing a little different or doing a little better. Uh, the governor before he looked at jimobi Um, had a totally different reaction to you know, the agitations in lautech Um, so quick thoughts on that one before we wrap up My question is is this sustainable? Was it a decision he took In order to be correct or did he do his homework and discover that the state government could do with that 25 percent reduction I I I I I am not sure that Decision is sustainable. We know the way things are actually for you to slash school fees Then what is the project that you have airmarked for this institution? What is the quality of education that's being delivered there? Okay, I have no problem with fees being sliced But don't do things because we want to be in the good book of the students or because we want to um, uh Same to between the right thing. Is this sustainable? In this state economy where inflation is rising Purchasing power is jointly I I I do not see how the government will be able to sustain it. But if they're able to good news Good news if they're able to but I doubt it. All right So still talking about education We know that the senate has approved the federal polytechnic ilaro to become a university And still about education another story here That we're seeing about The school i'm trying to get that story out now, but yes, it's a four year Four year suspense lecture over alleged sexual harassment and another on the probe So seems like we're making quite some some headway Regarding the sex for grades issue Especially we know that when that documentary by the bpc came out It put a lot of lights on you know lectures universities people who are supposed to be custodians of the students who you know Break that trust. So um, what are your comments on what the school here is doing? And also on the other hand about the upgrade of that ilaro polytechnic to a university Okay, um sex for graders do with us forever. I mean, I think um Social media technology is probably helping us To to to discover so many and I think we live that we are yet to even scratch the surface Okay, um, whatever Discovery has made nice problem. Maybe one percent Is he going on as speak and it is going to end Very soon due to so many reasons. Okay. Uh, we have students these days who don't believe in studying Um, we have students who don't have time who would be living? Um, money can get them anything they want or the audience their body So it's commendable for four years to have done that and I would just advise them not to relent and other institutions through To international efforts to ensure that Um, those lecturers who are involved in such practices are identified the upgrade of federal polytechnic ilaro to university Good, but what is driving? their decision University for what? Okay, technology what aspect of technology? Okay, the federal polytechnic ilaro as it is Just like the other nuclear institution is struggling So when you upgrade are you going to give them more money? for research Are you going to give them more money for equipment? Or is this just an upgrade? Because we want to look good So I I I'm not going to be dancing or jubilating because it's it's it's upgraded Polytechnic was set up for specific for specific purposes If you're going to upgrade the universal technology Then you need to do your homework you need to make sure that you have money To fund research technology involves research innovation Ideas incubation do we have the money to fund all of this? Do we have the structures? Okay, so for me I it's it's not too much of a sharing is for me I mean for those who want to profit from such For those who want to score political points Good luck to them. But when you look at these issues realistically With the knowledge of what has happened in Nigeria It's nothing So to jump around all right. Let's talk, you know, let's go back to the south um, there's a story on the uh Tribune this morning saying Southeast governors call for probe into i mean gulak's death um So I want you to speak with regards to southeast governors and you know the role that they Expected to play at a time like this when the southeast seems to be Um, you know suffering its worst, um, you know security challenges in a very very long time There's also been a twitter hashtag questions for us on dimma Which you know went on yesterday and people question in you know his you know role You know and um, you know the the role that he is expected to have played Um, you know in these times and also, you know who invited gulak to the state Who was meant to has caught him to the airport, you know, and some of all those questions So quickly speak on the responsibility of the southeast governors and where they may have gone well or failed Okay, do you know that those who killed gulak I know it might not even have known On or it might not have known who he was A lot of people have been killed in south east in the last one week So gulak might just have been another of those victims. So I wanted to be careful not to not to um Spin conspiracy theories around this assassination If it were a country where we where we had a very good police force effective You probably investigate and get rid of them at that south east governors at this point need to come together It's not about Uh, pdc versus apc that about us on dimma versus gulak But they need to come together because what is going on there? It's it's mind-boggling If he stands now was killed in prodigy like I think I saw the video So these dead are becoming too Too frequent. So they need To tighten the security they need to work together as a unit I wouldn't expect anybody to sit down in the school's office and begin to say why did they come gulak had They try to go to anywhere who sent him it It's immaterial what he went to do there is immaterial He could have gone on a private business. He could have gone on a political summit. That's not the issue The issue is that the security situation is worse than the south east and the government is going to talk about it The earlier the face reality to come together And and and tackle that issue the better not to be in putting motive into Who killed him who was supposed to escort him anything could happen And gulak's life is not in any way more important than the other life that have been lost So I I want us to look at the issue would you say clay in terms of Insecurity in the south east we don't necessarily singular any individual. Yeah Okay, so another story here is about that people have been killed Okay, another story here on the punch newspaper also on the guardian newspaper Is saying that nan's national association of nine john students have declared june 12 a day of protest and they're basically saying they're what they're going to protest against the worsening insecurity of in Nigeria the kidnap in the banditry Kidnap of over 200 students in in ninjas state. So they're saying June 11th would be a day for students prayers They'll offer prayers for all the students who have lost their lives Junts however be a national day of peaceful protest and call on the government to act and you know proactively And create a strategy towards ensuring safer schools That what's the essence of or why are they celebrating democracy when many students and the den of kidnappers? This is this is a story here. What do you think about him? Mr. Kimmola? Okay my Question to nuns would be what is the average age? Of the criminals in Nigeria actually i'm robbers Bandits kidnappers was the average age They are youths So the protest is good But more importantly nuns will sensitize youth in Nigeria to stay away from crime Over 80 percent of criminal uses in Nigeria have been perpetrated by young people in the early 20s teenagers So nuns should find a way of getting involved in the various security arrangements Because the protest will come and go in security will remain Um So the protest is one thing that they can do more importantly. They need to get involved vigilance activities orientation reorientation Are youths have completely lost hope and confidence themselves that they embrace crime at the drop of the heart So I do not know what that protest will achieve I I I I I do not see it as anything that's going to be effective It's going to be yet another protest Beyond the protest I respect nuns leadership to find a way of coming up with Activities that will help youth to reduce their criminal tendencies Okay, that's nice you. All right. Mr. Addimola akimola publisher the podium media We appreciate you for making time to join us this morning on off the press on the breakfast All right. Thank you so much. Have a beautiful Wednesday ahead. Um, just was going to quickly mention the nuns president is not necessarily a youth but We are where we are Stay with us. What happened on this day in history the second of june. 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