 Good morning, you're welcome to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. Happy New Year to you! Happy New Year to you! We're January the 1st of 2024 and we're so excited that we all made it. Congratulations, you made it into 2024 and I'm sure you have your hopes and dreams and aspirations and we're hopeful that everything will come through this year for you. Yeah, the way we've been talking about new years every year is that see when we wake up this morning the sun will rise from the west and go to the east like it's going to be a different day. We made it this far 2023 was turbulent, really, really turbulent but we made it this far that means that 2024 we hope for better days than 2023. There are people who still achieved a lot of what they planned to achieve that you are one of them. You are a living so if she can do it you can do it. We cannot begin to relive the kind of things that she planned for herself but whatever your goals might be if you achieve them or you achieve 50% or 80% you thank God for small messes. My name is Rometh Paulson and I am Nyam Gul Agadji. Welcome to another wonderful day of broadcast. For some of us it's a normal day. Some other people they are resting. I wish I was resting because I mean I went for a crossover service last night and obviously if you can tell from my voice I was so up there. I was happy about my 2023 so I was there partying, crying, waiting, all the mixed emotions and I'm like God thank you so much for my 2023 and I'm excited for 2024 but I mean we have to be here the work has to go on. Yeah I felt I could stay home pray because God is everywhere anyway and then rest so that I can come early to work this morning but every way around me was a church. So whether you're in the church or out of the church you will cross over by force all the music and all that so you just couldn't sleep but we still made it this far and today is looking up and I'm thankful to God for this President Tina Burgess gave a speech which we had broadcasted a few minutes before now and one thing he talked about was about the pains that we're going through right now as Nigerians what he's saying everything all the decisions he has made so far is for the growth of our economy and for the growth of Nigeria and that was that we'll start seeing the benefits. Yes we start to see the dividends come in in the few months and weeks and you know what the view but my question is I hope it's not just a speech I hope it's not just that charge that you give people and you say oh don't worry things are going to get better may well there might be a downturn so I may be skeptical about that seeing. Oh in 2024 you are skeptical. I know right well 2024 is changing me maybe. Because in 2023 I wasn't I don't want to start with this kind of note now but let's be optimistic my problem also is that I would have loved some timelines he didn't give any timeline he said okay this year there's going to be a living wage this year can end in December so what are the timelines for these things that you see Nigerians will begin to see this living wage he said I'm sure a lot of people will be applauding but the critical question is the minimum wage have all the states been able to pay no and if they've not been able to pay how have the problems been addressed so that these states can pay so living wage will it be for the federal workers only will it be for federal and state workers will it also rub off a little bit on the private sector what are we talking about so because the market is the same for all of us right so he didn't give timelines he talked about security he talked about and that we've not been able to you know mitigate everything but they want that people live peacefully so and when I heard that I'm like how about we're seeing things in canoe whereby a bomb is being dropped by the military we're seeing things in plateau when they're writing letters yes and they're coming back so I can believe in peacefully I live here in leki I can believe in peacefully but how about people in other states are they really living peacefully so we can't pick and choose on some things or people who should be able to live peacefully Nigerians as a whole should be secured the lives and properties of the Nigerians should be secured so you can't say some people should live peacefully so I think and I know that a chunk of our budget goes into security but I feel like they need to do more the money is going there but the human resources are they really going there even the human resources are they really do they have the capacity and the willingness to actually do the job so these are the things these are the questions that we need to ask and these are the things that needs to be put in place for 2024 I remember the the song of lucky dube I think he said they don't build schools anymore all the build is prisons prisons prisons everywhere so that means you are addressing the aftermath of a problem instead of the problem itself so so if you think that people are suffering if you think there is insecurity and the chunk of your budget is going to insecurity why in the first place is there insecurity are you addressing that and until that is done you'll keep budgeting money for insecurity without addressing the problem you're being reactive instead of being proactive and then he said he'd like to bridge the gap between you know the reach and the poor and all that I kind of like that and I was asking myself what gap are you bridging when you say the reach what are you referring to are you referring to political office holders and then referring to us as the ordinary people whose gap you want to bridge how are you intending to bridge the gap when we are seeing the frivolous pendants in the national assembly and 160 million I cannot drop that 160 million our SUVs and stuff but anyways we're just hopeful that 2024 will be a better year even for us as a nation we're hoping that everything president universe said in his speech and they start to come into fruition letting them be giving us timelines okay hopefully he'll give us timelines and then we start to see the dividends of our will I say the suffering but yes let's go on a quick break we'll look at the weather this morning and when we return we'll be seeing what the national dailies are saying in the papers it'll be time for off the price but let's look at the weather first see you soon