 The Nigerian Railway Corporation NRC has suspended train services between Abuja and Kaduna until further notice, following the attacks by bandits. More updates on the train attack. And what is the impact of too much television, too much content on child's development? We'll be looking at that on the show today with our psychologist. Don't forget, we'll also be looking through today's papers and analysis. Amazing one, looking at the big stories on the front pages of our papers. Welcome to the Breakfast and Plus TV Africa. I am Justin Akadone. I am Massey Boko. It's good to be back on your screen this morning. Yes, it is indeed. Very, very, very glad to have you join us today on the show. We trust you had yourself a wonderful night rest. It's always a pleasure to be in front of your TV screens. I'm talking about issues. I'm talking about things that will build our nation. Things that will build us up as individuals and of course, just enrich our lives. So we have a whole lot to install for you on the show this morning. So I'm sure you just want to grab maybe a cup of cocoa, coffee, tea, green tea, chamomile tea. You probably want to pay for all of these adverts that you free. Should we hold you for that? So just relax. I'm sure Massey is having chamomile tea. That's not even good. Alright, we just move on straight to top trending and then paid television is in the news. Massey, I was a bit excited when I learned about this. Why? Because oftentimes you pay for subscriptions and sometimes you hardly even get to enjoy the services. You just have to because it's one of those things that just keep you, is when you're not working. But you find that most of the times you are not even there to enjoy or to watch this paid television. At the end of the day, you pay for one month and it might have just used about four or five days one week. But another thing again is that the rate at which they go about increasing the subscription for various bouquets is really becoming very alarming. And the Senate is stepping in and is demanding that pay per view, is demanding pay per view from pay TV operators in the country, aside from that they've also constituted a panel to ensure that this price high is looked into. Well, as much as that sounds very fantastic, but the big question would be how doable is this? I mean is this achievable? Someone said for the first time you have the Senate talking about the interests of the masses and the question would go on. But you want to ask yourself what kind of economy do we operate the free market economy? In terms of price regulation, it probably might just be a little bit difficult to regulate the price because you say that the forces of demand and supply should actually take the price and not having that. You can't really control price. And so some other people have said that if you have these paid TV operators increasing the price of your services, you should also understand the dynamics. They operate in an economy. They operate in Nigeria. And you want to look at the ease of doing business. What's going on right now? The price of diesel is on the high. And that's number one. It's not that we live in a climate where there's constant power supply. So you want to factor in the fact that people are paying for diesel, right? They're buying so much. And they have to keep the offers running and they have to keep things going on. You factor all of that. You also factor the fact that you're going to buy all the equipment. I mean all of this would also necessitate that services and whatever would be on the high. And that might just be the reason. Even though for some paid TV operators it feels like it's part of their DNA to just go ahead and increase the price. So I don't know how viable that would be because if we operate a free market economy it probably might just be very difficult for the government to regulate the price. Because part of that conversation is around the fact that government needs to, they're asking, they're demanding, they want to use legislation to say, okay, hey, you need to bring down the prices of services. But let's see how that pans out. And that argument has been put up. But on the other hand, pay as you... Pay per view. Pay per view. And some people are saying pay as you go. They are the same, yeah. No, no, but we don't know what pay per view might necessarily mean. We have to think for what you're viewing at the time. Okay, at the time. So which makes a lot of sense. Because sometimes you have people who, like you have mentioned, you pay for these services because it's a month-to-month kind of payment. So if your subscription is monthly and sometimes... How many times are you even available to even watch from morning till the dawn of the day? How many times are you available? And sometimes also power issue. You will look at that. So that's also... I think that's very... That's something fantastic. That's the one part of the argument that is very fantastic. And if we're able to achieve that, it would be great. So as you use, you actually pay for what you're using. Because most times a lot of people pay for services that they're not using. We just pay TV or prayer tools. You know, which were some of the issues we had for electricity, for telephony, you know. Before now, when... Tango for per second billing. You know, when we started with the GSM operation and every other time, you know. Even if you've just used one second or two seconds, you're charged a full minute. So the other 50 seconds you didn't use, you're actually paying for that. You did not use. So over time, they now brought them the whole concept of per second billing, which is what is done globally. I don't know why we started with them per minute bill. Just because we started newly. Then competition actually stepped in. And I think it was glow then that started the whole per second billing. But then the thing for me right now is that you should not be paying for what or the services you are not using. And then again, I think the market needs to be open. They need to be competition. If you had a lot of competition and the operators are really competing, maybe neck to neck and there'll be healthy rivalry and the customers have like an array of operators to choose from. So if this one is not really doing well, you move to the next. But right now I think we just have almost like a monopoly of pay TV here in Nigeria. And I think it's a thing that we need to because monopoly has never been very favorable in the capital system. I mean in the capitalist system, it just allows one person to be in control of the market and of course they can do as they will knowing that people do not have an option. But to be very frank with you, I think a lot of people have moved away. A lot of persons have moved away from pay TV, subscription and what-have-you. They have a lot of people. And you know what that means for us. It's not good business for us. For us in the media, it's not good business. Because these days you probably would have a lot of people who would say, oh, I don't watch TV. I don't watch TV. I don't watch streaming platforms. I don't watch streaming movies. I watch streaming what-have-you. And people are not necessarily paying attention to what you have on the pay TV. And because you need to look at it at the end of the day, if you chunk out all of that amount to pay, you begin to ask yourself, what's the content? What are we paying for exactly? The content you are looking for. Yeah, actually, are you getting a value for your money? Value for your money. So but firstly, argument isn't put out as very valid. Pay as you view would be great because if you look at the current realities of our country, you talk about the constant power. That's not available to everybody. And you also talk about availability. For those who actually get to do the 95 job, how many times are they available to be around? So it's a lot of exploitation and extortion that's going on. But on the other hand, you talk about the price regulation and controlling. I don't know how that's going to happen. Let's just see how it goes. And the fact is that I would want to enjoy services and I'm paid for them and not pay for what I'm not using at the end of the day. But let's move away from that one. There is a video that is actually trending somewhere, I think it originated somewhere from, I'm not sure again, the South East or there, but it's one of those states. It's in a dual state. Where? The Coltas issue? Yeah, that video where the child was actually, I see more or less that she was left out in the cold, while the people she supposedly lived with were actually indoors sleeping and it was like in the wee hours of the night and the child was just left in the cold. But understand that we have to take the video, we'll watch that. Some of it was said in the Igbolango, you try to do a bit of translation. Come back and talk more about it in a moment, stay with us. Locked aside by the madam by this time of the night. Let me show you people. Seat time, seat time, seat time. Seat time, this is 12.18 am. Madam locked the housemaid, passing between. Locked but we are just coming back from the location now. Somebody locked somebody's daughter aside by this time of the night. On the cold? On the cold? No, be back. Who am I? Are you kidding me? Who is here? I'm going to drop him in my house. I'm going to be aside by this time of the night. I'm not going to run around with you. Okay, do you want to be here? She's not eating. I'm not going to run around with you. I'm not going to run around with you. You're not going to run around with your children. You can't do anything if something happens to her. Can you? We can't mess around with her. You locked somebody's daughter aside by this time of the night. And you go in and sit with her. You can't do that. Which country can we get mess with this? Greetings sir, greetings sir. Don't listen to me, no, no, please. Let me sit here here. I'm not listening to you. I'm not listening to you. I would have liked my wife to be with me. Do you know why? Honestly. She said to me, I came back and I laughed at them all. That's the way it's best. I didn't know. Are you serious? I was thinking that she's staying home. Sleeping. Let's stop crying. I want my wife to see what I want to do. I have been sleeping on the other side of my dog. Back and back. I don't know what to talk about. I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. See you in my game. Alright, welcome back. You just watched a video for yourself. It is self-explanatory. The child was locked out in the wee hours of the morning. From what we saw from that village, it was about 18 minutes past midnight. She was left out in the cold to sleep. She was left in the lodge. The people she supposedly leaves with, or leave with, left her there. According to the man who was talking in the background, he said they had the mind, they had the effrontery. They just went to bed and left the child there and they could not even care less. These are some of the things we see. Every other time people just bring in house helps. At the end of the day, they subject these children to all sorts of treatment, mistreatment, or something they would not ordinarily do to their own children. It's something that's been going on. When we talk about child abuse, we are always very quick and fast to limit it to sexual harassment and sexual assault. In most cases, we always think that child abuse and child abuse generally would just be about someone trying to harass your child sexually. But this is also part of child abuse and if you look at it in its definition. So child abuse is not necessarily limited to sexual abuse or harassment and all of that. But when you treat a child in this act, if you treat a child like this, because anything would have happened to that child and according to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, if a child was looking at children if you're not up to the age of 18, so between 0 to 18, you're still a child. And I would constantly say that we have lost humanity. So we live in a climb. We need to understand that as human beings, we are flawed. So how do we treat children? It's not like I have a child, but I'm thinking that if someone has done something wrong, there should be several ways to punish them rather than expose them to that kind of rigs. And you ask yourself, a lot of people will say, okay, if that child were yours, would you be comfortable with shutting your eyes in a time like this, this very crucial and very, very sensitive period that we live in Nigeria where we know what happens with retrokilling, kidnapping and what have you. How are you comfortable that you shut your eyes and you sleep knowing that that child could be, you know, that child is out there. You just exposed. Think what happened to that child. And the reason that you're a parent or a guardian is that the reason these children are children and the law says, of course we have the Child Rights Act, Child Rights Act. The problem is it's been domesticated in about 28 states. More states. You still have a lot of states that have not domesticated. And with the states that have domesticated, how effective is it? Do we implement it? How far have we gone with the Child Rights Act for states that have domesticated this? So you believe that a child is a child. The reason why the Constitution will say a child is a child until they are 18 is because they don't, at this point in time, you're supposed to make decisions for them. You're supposed to protect them. They can't take decisions on their own. That's why you are there to guide them. You're there to protect them. You know, physically, mentally, mentally, you know, health wise. Everywhere. I mean, in all ramification of a human being, you are supposed to be their guardian or point to the age that, you know, they are able to make decisions for themselves. So it's really saddening that those who should be protecting the children are abusing the children. And let's not even begin to talk about the law. The laws were created by man. We created these laws. But let's even begin to look at our conscience. How... Humanity. I mean, this is not even... I'm not surprised because this is not even... This is not even the first time we're having a situation like this. I mean, this is even not up to cases that one has actually heard of. There are worse cases. But not to make nonsense of this one, not to say that this is not a child abuse. But I'm just saying that it is sad and this practice is going on every day. It's a practice that's ongoing. And sometimes it's not reported. But this is one out of so many. And then you have children. For instance, why do you even have to... The fact that you even have a child that is 17, that's child labour. What are you doing with this? So you have a lot of people who have made as 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. You just need to know that you are engaging in child labour and that's a crime. And that's a crime against the state. But of course, this is our country. We are still developing and that will be the excuse we're yet to get it all properly. But I think that we... Mostly for me, I would say let's keep the lower side. As much as the law is important, what is important for us to approach our conscience. Yes, we should. But I understand we have to move on. But then again, I just feel that that incident should not be swept under the carpet. It should be investigated. We have the Ministry of Youth and Social Development. They should look into it. We have that and also in most of the states. So that incident should actually be looked into cursorily. But before we leave on top trending that the last we'll talk about is Yahu Boy's mother somewhere in a those-state beneficiary, if I'm not wrong, who banned a five-year jail tab. I don't know if we could just look at it very quickly before we just move to off the press. Look at her. She was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. I don't even know what to say. One would say this might just be a step in the right direction. There's been a lot of ideology surrounding the Yahu-Yahu boys. And some people feel that this kind of practice is that we're actually taking advantage of the exploitation. I mean, it's like a revenge. It's like a payback for what was done to Africa, the population of Nigeria. And so it's a time to take advantage. I mean, a crime is a crime. It is a crime. It's something that does not belong to you. You are a thief. However, you do it. And that's what it says. But it's still both to one and the same thing. We are leaving a society where some of this, I mean, a lot of things have become a normal now. We have condoned it. So you see a lot of parents. Parents celebrate when children bring in cars. They don't even have jobs. And they just come with lots of gifts. And you don't question them. So I grew up in a background where you have to be accountable for almost everything that you have. It's not possible that you come back with a buyer that's not yours. And you will not be questioned how you got it. How you got it? It's not possible that you're spending and you're living some kind of life and you will not be questioned. But these days, I feel like, you know, parents have actually closed their eyes a lot of parents. They looked you other way. I will not say entirely, not the entire parents because it will be hasty generalization. But most parents have shut their eyes against some of this. And we're not holding our children accountable. And accountability does not necessarily, we're asking that the government should be accountable. But like I always say, the problem that we face starts from the home front. It's a fact because family is a combination of our entire society. So my family, your family, Shay's family, everybody's family becomes a society at the end of the day. And before we grow larger to, you know, a bigger society. And so if we're not able to be accountable at, you know, the family level, at what points do we become accountable? So what right do we have to begin to ask our government, you know, officers and people say, let's be accountable. But that's it. We're being prompted to move away. And that's because we're out of time. Thank you so much for being part of the show this morning. Top trending. We'll take a break. When we return, we'll be time for all of the press. Please stay with us.