 Very good morning to you and thanks for joining us on the breakfast. My name is Nyam Gul Aghaji. Happy Valentine's Day to everybody, for a lot of people this is the day. We do hope that relationships will be strengthened rather than the other way round. Today we'll be looking at the fact that foreign embassies owe $5.3 million ground rent, FCTA clamps down on defaulters and also APC asks Nigerian police to arrest 16 notable persons in Kainu state. Of course we'll be looking at what the headlines are on the national dailies and it's going to be a very sumptuous one as it is. Once again good morning, welcome to the program. Happy Valentine's to you. Let's now take the quote of the day and return to do other to look at the top trending issues. The higher your energy level the more efficient your body, the more efficient your body the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results. That's the quote of the day by Tony Robbins. Energy level very important and let me use this whether you understand it or not just know that it is very important for you to exercise it's important for you to be optimally functioning with your body and you cannot do that if you're docile if you're not docile now if you're just having a sedentary job or something or lifestyle now you don't get out you don't exercise you don't run you don't do anything that will keep your energy level so great when you hear energy level you shouldn't be thinking about taking energy drinks that's not what it means but make sure your body is functioning optimally and when that happens you find out that all your other faculties will be in place to make sure that you produce the results that you need to produce whatever you do with your physical body also impacts on your brain as well if you haven't known that please try and know it so don't leave your body just there don't leave it lying like they say if you either use it or you lose it we don't want to lose our optimal performances we don't want to lose any part of our body or any faculty that we possess we need to just keep it high up there and make sure that we are the best of whatever we are supposed to be the best version of ourselves that it is so we'll take the top trending issues this morning and the first one is that MFA leaf documents used to pay foreign observers 6.2 million dollars that is according to the erstwhile secretary to the government of the federation so former secretary of the government of the federation boss Mustafa said on Tuesday that 6.2 million dollars was released from the central bank of Nigeria in February 2023 using a forged document Mustafa stated this when he appeared at the fort prosecution witness or asked the fort prosecution witness in the ongoing fraud trial of the immediate past cbn governor godwin mfla before the federal capital territory high court in meitama abuja the economic and financial crimes commission had alleged that on february 8 2023 mfla connived with one or doi ceme who is now on the run to obtain 6.2 million dollars from the cbn claiming that it was requested by the sgf by the letter dated 26 of january 2023 the antigraft agency also alleged that mfla in january 2023 fought the document titled re presidential directive on foreign election observer missions dated 26 january 2023 now led in evidence by the prosecution council rotimi jacob on tuesday Mustafa noted that neither the documents came from the president nor his office he also denied receiving any amount from the state money he explained that a correspondence that has the seal of the nigerian president does not carry a reference number furthermore he said that the the fact decision are not transmitted by letters but rather through extracts after conclusions are adopted Mustafa also told the court that the federal government had no business with foreign election observers he said nigerian government has no business with foreign election observers i'm quoting him now i have managed two election circles and i know that for a fact inek has the sole responsibility for that Mustafa pointed out that the approval of the fund was never on the agenda of the federal executive council held on january 18 2023 and could not have been approved he revealed a meeting on january 18 which the vice president presided over the meeting and as secretary Mustafa was to prepare the agenda of the meeting of which there were 16 points but none was for the payment to foreign election observers oya depo asked him to confirm if the letter conveying the presidential directive for the approval of the money emanated from him Mustafa responded in the negative he also said abu bhakar jubril who was said to have received the money in cash was never a staff of his office the trial judge justice hamza muazzu adjourned the matter till march 7 11 and 25 for continuation of trial well a lot of things are coming out of this we're just waiting for the drama to unfold and we'll see where this is all going to end forging the president's signature we have i heard that before okay sometimes in an undosted something like that happened and they said the signature of the governor was forged we don't know what the fate of these people who forged this signature is and we don't even know them for a fact that these are the people who forged the governor's signature the late governor now his signature that said was forged now the president the central bank governor the former central bank governor forged the president's signature we'll just wait and see what how this unfolds we are we cannot say anything now it's still in the courts but the second thing we're looking at is the fact that union protest ban on sachet alcohol in abu ja gives nafda 14 days the members of the food beverage and tobacco senior staff association of nigeria has given the national agency for food and drug administration and control nafda 14 days to reverse its ban on sachet alcohol the association and affiliate of the trade union congress tuc issued the threat during a protest at the nafda headquarters in abu ja on tuesday members of the association threatened to increase protests across the agency's offices nationwide if nothing is done about it the national president of the association jimbo ibo let they protest and submitted a letter containing the demands of the union according to ibo the ban hurts the union as most of its members work in the distilling and blending companies on february 1 nafda started the enforcement of the ban on alcoholic beverages and sachets and glass bottles of 20 milliliters and below nafda boss bojishola a day a year says as of january 31 20 24 no such beverages were registered with the nafda okay a very interesting one and it was said by nafda that uh this uh this drinks the sachet drinks and little bottles below 200 milliliters contain about 30 alcohol and so that's the reason that it was banned that's one of the reasons it was banned and i don't know all these drinks that come in sachets most of them have big bottles as well uh so does it mean that whenever it is in the big bottle it is not up to 30 percent there are some alcohol beverages that are almost like a hundred percent alcohol so what are we talking about so if that is the reason why it was it was banned will they ban the big bottles or are they going to be looking at the big bottles to see when we were growing up there was something called shot you know you you measure alcohol in a small glass cup that they call a shot so you take one shot and the shot is almost let's say equivalent to one of the sachets that we are seeing now or the small bottles that we are seeing now so are we going back to that because if it is not just to ban alcohol in its entirety like in some parts of the north then there must be a way out for these people who drink it so i don't know why do people really resort to drinking so much alcohol why do they resort to selling it at parks and everywhere that we find this sachet alcohol why why why those are the questions we're asking and if we're not able to answer maybe something really terrible may happen so if these people are protesting what if the protest escalates it to something that we do not want i don't know i'm just asking the questions i'm not saying go back on your decision i'm not saying do not go back on your decisions i'm just asking some questions and and hoping that the best will come out of all this now UK science deal to allow British lawyers practice in Nigeria that's this third top trending the United Kingdom and Nigeria are set to sign a partnership agreement that will permit British legal practitioners to operate businesses and render services in Nigeria in a press release on its website on Tuesday the partnership deal between the UK and Nigeria is to promote trade and investment and open new prospects for both countries it also disclosed that it was designed to extend beyond finance and it can build upon an already productive seven billion dollar partnership between both countries according to the UK's department of business and trade the two countries are set to sign a new partnership intended to enhance cooperation between both nations now the deal was tagged the enhanced trade and investment partnership a tip you might want to call it which would be the first time the UK would be signing this particular deal with an African country British business and trade secretary kemi badinok disclosed that the agreement would open a lot of opportunities for the brits as Nigeria is one of the fastest growing economies in Africa the deal will also see Niger commit to taking steps towards reducing barriers that keep UK attorneys from practicing international and foreign law in the west African state I do not know whether what happens is that Nigerians can practice in Britain or not but I do not see in that document where it states that Nigerian lawyers can also practice in Britain so if it is a one-way traffic I don't know how that is going to be a very serious benefit to us if our people cannot also practice in Britain but maybe other documents that are not are not available to us show that Nigerians can practice in Britain because the question Nigerians are asking is British lawyers can come to Nigeria and practice can our lawyers also go to Britain and practice if that agreement has been reached a long time before now we need to know if that agreement is also part of this document that is going to be signed or if it has not been signed already then we need to know so let it be a two-way traffic rather than a one-way traffic I'm just saying now we'll take a short break and when we return we'll be reviewing the paper see what the headlines are saying and our guest is hopefully going to be tuned illegal practitioner stay with us