 It's the breakfast on plus TV Africa. We will be looking at the pages of our dailies and We do have a guest joining the conversation Kola to make Kola will a as good to have you join us to the color will a Very well, thank you for asking All right I'd start off with the leadership newspaper and the attention would be on the top stories or top caption on the leadership newspaper The board head of reads Niger's problem have defied cosmetic solutions IBBS quoted on that says leadership must be occupied by competent visionary leaders or individuals Nigerians or Nigerian must be rescued from wrong drivers. You also have new movement emerges backs southern presidency Communo clash Niger court sentences 11 to death by hanging and president Muhammad Abu Hari confers National merit awards and three scholars court dismisses suit against Zamfara governor's defection to the APC quite interesting as we hit as we you know look ahead of 2023 CBN's Naira support dips foreign reserve despised the rising oil price and Committee suspense creation of agencies You can't turn us to slaves as who tells federal government as they plan to embark on another strike That's it on the leadership this morning That's most straight to stories coming on the front page of the independent to the daily independent. It is the major headline there upcoming mega-party revs up process to square up to PDP APC It's been quite interesting to see how that plays out. It has a rider sets up transition harmonization cancel APC Hills court ruling again. So okay, rather than for our governor's defection At the top of that front page of why there is field scarcity and the NMD PR a NMPC increases Supply to bridge gap said at okay is the NMD PR is the NMD PR is the NMD PR Supply to bridge gap said at okay six new law skills across geopolitical zones And the last few headlines from that paper don't remove labor from exclusive list and LC warns federal government Reps summon five ministers permanent secretaries over financial infarctures Gunman kills eight at emo cancer headquarters tension as gunman gunman kill a number of official and CJN hits back at AGF over utterances against judiciary interesting All right away from the daily independence. Let's look at the punch newspaper this morning adulterated petrol federal government may return fuel to suppliers 100 million litres affected says marketers and that's you find on the punch newspaper this morning fuel short short-age Cues me last till weekend says marketers NMPC increases supply to bridge supply gap and recalls polluted fuel This is what you find on the punch newspaper this morning Niger made one thousand three hundred and fifty Calls about data breaches in 2021. That's according to a report You also find reps daily fuel consumption panel begins probe behind closed doors And just before we move away from the punch newspaper this morning APC governors awaits Buhari Makur Mosa led in chairmanship rays and You also have band-aids raid casino communities for hours kill 13 abducted village head others and Senate approvers Seven new lower schools and campuses and you have the figures rising to 14 another one says Subscriber grown as galaxy backbone battles portal Breakdown now. This is some of the headlines on the punch newspaper this morning and straight to the final paper the nation on Wednesday with a lead headline pressure and Buhari to reject reworked electoral bill Pressure on Buhari to reject reworked electoral bill with a rider I brow on the provision that ministers should resign to contest for office and also I like to get list of candidates August 18 at the top of that front page charges dropped as hotel air others Against hotel air others over OAU students death. That's it's been a story the script The nation Senate okay six additional law school campuses Legas blue line is 85% ready says Lamata MD Jam shifts UTME registration by one week Now the story from the nation is super south South's governors that resolute on power shift says a carry the loop NNPC subsidiary links scarcity to withdrawal of toxic petrol and shortage will continue says Macta say marketers and finally government kill turning emo firms settle on $3.3 billion a Gina project. That's a big one coming there. Those are stories on front page of the Nation, so let's turn our attention now to analysis with our guest Baris Akola will a is still with us this morning Mr. Caller, thanks again for your time. What are your thoughts on the? Headline on front page of the nation you separate Saying that there's pressure on President Buhari to reject the reworked electoral bill It requires to work the national assembly Expression to meet up with that I must make sure That will guarantee What we thought the matter is They are not ready, they are not prepared, and they are not willing to continue to ensure that we have a clear plan against them. That is why you find it so much as a result of right from the point of view of the NADC staffers who have studied from here for studies, the results on these two factors are not giving NADC staff, even though the rest of the staffers who work there are still some who are still not satisfied with some of the costs that are in there. The cost is going to be an impediment in their desire for manipulation in this case. Yeah, as a follow-up, the contentious issues now no longer direct primaries as it was the first time, but we're looking at the clause on ministers or let's say government appointees to resign their appointments if they intend to contest for that election. Is this something that maybe the National Assembly should have dropped? You know, is this something you feel is necessary to ensure that we have a smooth election and democracy is enhanced in Nigeria? Honestly, they have seen what is happening now with regard to their appointments of course. They let go of fire. They let go of permission. And we start calling them now to be made to let go of permission. All right, Tunde Kola, let's also look at the leadership newspaper this morning. Former military head of state, IBB has mentioned that Niger's problem have defied cosmetic solutions. We're talking about Ibrahim Babangida. Tunde Kola, will you? Yeah, I will switch. I know it's been stopped. So on the leadership newspaper, we have the former military president Ibrahim Babangida saying that Niger's problems have defied cosmetic solutions. And you also have him saying leadership must be occupied by competent and visionary individuals. Yeah, I'm just talking about the issue of cosmetics. So, but as a follow up, I mean, if you talk about the issue of cosmetics here, he probably will be talking about the fact that we ought not to look at, I mean, it goes beyond just the surface thing. We need to address the issues from the root. What would that be, sir? Yes, I can hear you. Go ahead. What would that be, sir? Okay, so we definitely have a team of, you know, technical engineers working on it. And I'm sure that we can restore and have proper audio where we have a smooth, you know, communications. We apologize for all of that, but Tunde Kola will, as soon as we're able to connect with you, definitely get back. With the issue of having, you know, the former military head of state saying the president saying that the issue of Niger goes beyond cosmetics. I'm thinking that we're talking about surface issues at this point. I mean, there are a lot of issues that we need to look at the root, the root causes. So it just goes beyond saying, oh, this is what it is, but we need to get to the root of it and address it. And that's the only way because there are structural issues. Most of the issues that were faced with as a country, you want to agree with me that there are structural issues. And if you don't deal with them from where they're coming from, then it would just be you treating the, you know, just treating the symptoms like the medical practitioners would be saying that we're treating some of the symptoms. For instance, the issue of security, if you look at it, you want to find out that it's actually encompassing across the entire country. So in different parts of the country, you have different, the issues are not very, they're not the same. So you have issues coming out of the fact that some persons are saying, hey, we're dissatisfied with how resources have been allocated and how we're being treated. And so all of the security issues emanating from that. You also have, you know, the fact that you have group of persons who are terrorizing or killing people randomly. And so the issues of, you know, are quite different. And if we have to address it, it wouldn't just be just saying, hey, we have more security personnel. All right, so to Nicola, it's good to have you join us. Let's have you share your thoughts. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Ms. Colla, are you there, please? Yes, I am. I am. Okay. I think, Mercy, you were asking me a question. So Sosa, can you, if you hear her, can you just give us a response to that? Yes, to Nicola Wale. So the conversation, you say you do not agree with the former military president of Nigeria. And you say you don't agree with him when he talks about cosmetic solutions to Nigeria's problem. Now, Bob, you also would want to agree with me that we can talk about solving Nigeria's problems on the surface. I mean, we need to go to the root of some of the issues and some of the issues that we're faced with as a country comes out of, I mean, some people are not satisfied with how resources have been allocated. And that's also a problem. And so if we have to address the issue, then we need to go to the root of it. Most of the problems we have in the past few years have been served and fixed there. Why do I see it served and fixed there? Most of the problems we have, I mean, a slide from the defendants to defendants to defendants, please. It's not a thing that we don't know. What should we do? We struggle as well as we think we can learn there. We see the kind of problems that I think are out there. But they've invented the concept of corruption because of their attitude towards the sector politics and then because of both of the digital issues, are those problems from a very specific perspective? So what's the benefit of the answer to Nigeria's question? So in Nigeria, we're faced with a potential problem. We can't solve that in a contract. We have to look in at the next 2% of the data and take it to those very capable stories. They're back to go. Okay. We'll see whatever goes and works for us to do. So that we can do, let's do a lesson that we have to take off. Okay. Yes, let's move on to a headline coming from the Daily Independent. The big one there, upcoming mega-party revs-up process. Revs-up process to square up to the PDP and the APC. And we're told they've set up a transition committee and harmonization council as well. And the details of that, it says that a new party to square up to the All Progressives Congress and the People's Democratic Party in the 2023 general elections is already putting finishing touches to its registration in order to context the next year's election. Names being mentioned in relation to this are the likes of Atayu Jagar, a professor from INEC National Chairman and Patutomi Professor as well, Senator Rabiu Kwankwa. So, King Simigalu Obie as a question and also others. We all know what happened the last time Patutomi and Coal, including a former Kwaraste governor, had sort of a symposium where they were talking about coming up with a third force and the next, the EFCC picked up the file of that former... I think it was the EFCC who went to see his property. We've heard of this third force before. Do you think that this is something that we should take notes of? Well, it was the first time. It was the first party with the capitals. Patutomi, who is it actually? The party's idea? Well, thank you so much, Tunde Kola-Willay, for being part of the conversation. We really appreciate your thoughts and your time on the show. Thank you so much for having me. Quite interesting with those stories. So many stories, so little time to analyze all of them. But a very breakfast and plus TV Africa continues. We have a look at what happened today in history and when we return, we dive straight into our first major conversation on the program this morning. Stay with us. We'll be right back.