 All right, it's time for us to go through the pages, the front pages of the National Daily to have some interesting headlines on the front pages of National Daily's today. And I'm glad to say we have Tunde Kolaole legal practitioner who is a weekly guest on Off the Press this morning. Tunde Kolaole, nice to have you this morning. Good morning. All right, we will try to reconnect with Tunde Kolaole as soon as possible. Let's get into the headlines this morning. We start with a leadership that has its lead story. INEC exonerates staff over PVCs dumped in streets. And there have been some videos, some trending videos. We can verify the authenticity of these videos, but it's shown ID cards, allegedly PVCs. It's a permanent voter card. People have been seeing in gutters, in parts of river state, on the streets, in Inugu state, in gutters, in legal state. And they've been filming videos, putting them on the internet. We don't know if these are authentic ID cards or not, but the leadership says INEC exonerates staff over PVCs dumped in streets, the riders to that headline. Political parties, CSOs, as commissioned to unravel mystery, vow to ensure effective monitoring of 2023 elections. Elections will hold next year. Military assures Nigerians. More from the leadership. How military, DSS, others arrested over church attackers, like you said earlier in our top trending segment, toll collection, fueling traffic on a papa, tin can port, access road. It's coming from the shippers council. Reps summon finance minister over subsidy payment. We have given 100 billion Naira to indigenous farmer manufacturers PMB. Lawan at Babio, not senatorial candidates. There was a story alleging in one of the online news websites alleging that the independent national electoral commission had updated the results sheets of the forms of some of these candidates who, the area said, didn't qualify to stand election as senatorial candidates. The commission is coming back to say that they are not senatorial candidates. Kenya 2022, Odinga, Ruto, entire race for president. It seems that for those who are watching the Ken elections, it is between Rila Odinga and William Ruto, the vice or deputy president. And it seems it's really too close to call as far as the 2022 Ken elections are concerned. Seplat Exxon Mobil Deal rejection based on PIA provisions. That's coming from NUPRC. All right, let's move on to the next paper. The nation has interesting headlines, but it's sticking with the Oval Church attack and it says five suspects, one accomplice, held over Oval Church attack. The rider to that Irabaw, Nigeria does not need mercenaries. We have been trailing attackers, says Akiri Dulu. All right, more from the nation. I can sway rivers, voters, wiki boasts. I think you're not interested in genuine truth, say, governance men. I think you're not interested in genuine truth, say, governance men. It's been all action right there in rivers. Some people who know about these things who believe that the governor has already made his decision to join the APC indeed as a tweet put out on account that it says it's the governor's Twitter account where he put up a picture of himself and the governor of Lagos State, Babajvesa Oluhu, who was in River State a couple of days ago to commission a new flyover. And he put the caption to that picture. City Boys is what wiki said. All right, Nigeria can't afford another civil war. Tells politicians, president preaches unity. Senate orders NIMASA to explain five million dollar payment to law firm. It's a lot of money. FIRS demands one trillion narrow tax remittance from MDAs. Interesting, you're not smiling at all. 15 states fail to implement 30 minimum, 30,000 narrow minimum wage for teachers, RCCG ordains over 15,000 ministers at 70th Convention. I saw someone I knew back in the university who was celebrating being ordained a deacon in the RCCG. It's quite interesting and the ongoing 70th Convention holding right there at the redemption camp. And on the state assembly declares two seats vacant. We wish them all the best. Those are the headlines on the front page of the nation, these were which cost 200 Naira. It's interesting to see maybe inflation is not affecting the papers. You can see. All right, let's move on to the next paper. The punch sticks with wiki and the Tiku and the headline then on the front page of the punch. This morning it says wiki's romance with Tidibu's men and rattles amici's base. And I was asking myself, and I probably put it online this morning, and what happens if wiki, as it's been rumored, joins the APC? What scenario would it be? Will the amici men be chased away? Questions to be asked. The good man wrote in Michibica amici had some things to say when one of his strongmen celebrated his 60th birthday over the weekend talking about when in that wali. Wiki was in that church service and I think he was an interesting one to see. A riverside politics is quite, quite, quite really, really active, really hot and it's getting hotter as the elections draw closer. So what happens? Elias and wiki joins the APC. What will happen to amici's men and indeed the structure and the hold of the former minister of transportation on the old progressives Congress? It's interesting time. So the point says wiki's romance with the Tinibu's men rattles amici's base. The writers to that story wiki desperate for alliance with Tinibu. It says words, a warrants protection after 2023. This is what rivers APC seen. So already they are attacking him. Wiki desperate for alliance with Tinibu. Wants protection after 2023. Amici unhappy about Abe's closeness to Tinibu. Says ex minister, says ex ministers associate and reverse governor free to join APC. She too, wiki articles loyalists trade blame. It's all action in riverside. It's something that will take some while to unpack but deserves its own attention for full discussion. More from the punch. Reps summon finance minister of a subsidy query or query NNPC. Reps summon finance minister over subsidy query NNPC. Settle with ASU now vice chancellor's beg FG. Diesel hike NRC reduces legal legal Sibadon trips by 67% FG in all grades cancel to revive Ajau Kuta others. Nigeria spends 82.2.35 billion Naira on phone importation report. Nigeria spends 82.35 billion Naira on phone importation. More from the punch FG issues 1.9 million passports in all grades production center. Some of the headlines on the front page of the punch the rest have been covered by all the papers that we touched on them. Let's go to final paper very quickly. The daily trust has these headlines. Presidency NU PRC fracker puts $1.2 billion dollars separate Exxon Mobile deal in limbo. Right, president has said he's approved it. They can go ahead. But this is what the paper is saying this morning. Presidency NU PRC fracker puts $1.2 billion dollars separate Exxon Mobile deal in limbo. Right as to that headline, how PIA empowers commission on business deals while we oppose president's approval. Regulator, it's interesting to see it. Regulator saying they oppose the president's approval. Parties must follow regulations. Experts and writers to that story. More from the daily trust allow attacks on national assets and be sanctions. NSCDC CG warns commandants. They call them from meeting in Abuja. The NSCDC has been seem to be now the de facto intelligence agency in the country with the security reports they've been giving in considering Abuja and other parts of the country. More from daily trust. Republicans react as FBI raids Trump's Florida home. Republicans react as FBI raids Trump's Florida home. That's the popular Mar-a-Lago in Florida. Residents' camper for safety has banded strike in a consider metropolis. And you wonder if a day will go by without such stories gracing the front pages of the papers. Atikoo, WCA's dispute, stalls composition of PDP campaign council. The party's lagging behind. The other parties, especially the APC in deciding who will head the campaign council. Candidate considers marking the tomb wall for DG post. I can perform well in or out of PDP reverse governor. The governor is already believing, insinuating or saying that reverse people vote against enemies of reverse state. The question remains, will the governor go from polling booth to polling booth to know who people are voting for? All right, final one from the daily trust. Oil subsidy reps, someone finance minister give one week ultimatum. We'd like to welcome at this point, once again our guest analyst on the press, Tunde Kolaole, legal practitioner. Mr. Kolaole, thank you for joining us this morning. Good morning, my brother. Thanks for having me. What are your thoughts on this Seplat ExxonMobile deal? It seems that it's not all yet in the clear as the regulator and of course the NUP are still talking and opposing the president's express approval of this deal. Louder, please, louder, I didn't get this. All right, what are your thoughts on the ExxonMobile Seplat deal? I'm not quite a bit of that, sorry. Okay, all right. Let's take another talk. Yeah, we'll come to that in a jiffy. I'll give the details maybe later. In River State, it's still a war of words or let's say cold war, a battle for the soul of the PDP in River State with them and indeed in the country with the WikiCamp and the article camp still at Daggers Drone. And it seems that this is affecting the composition of the party's campaign council as the daily trust has told us. The APC has already completed the formation of its campaign council with someone along as a DG. But for the PDP, it's still talking. Nobody has been appointed, apart from the spokesmen, namely Daniel Boala and Dino Meliah. So what are your thoughts on the current state of affairs in the People's Democratic Party? Well, the truth of the matter is that there isn't much difference between the APC and the PDP. All the two political parties are not based on any rigid ideological disposition. The two parties are theatrically Republican in nature. Capital is oriented. So if you find a politician moving from APC to PDP or from PDP to APC, it shouldn't be a shocking deal or a strength to anybody. Secondly, you and I do know the disposition of the average Nigerian politicians. So the political parties, you see political parties as male structures for the realisation or a kind of vehicle for the realisation of their political ambition. That is why they find it too smoothly to move from one political party to the other. With regard to a weekend, it is shocking and I consider it very embarrassing that it has been behaving like a jittered old woman because you know the presidential primaries of the PDP and she's a large article above the card as she feels to pick him as a running mate. I would think that if he were to be a statement, if he knew the application, what he is doing, he would queue up, he would align, and said he will subscribe to whatever the wishes and aspirations of a large article was and whatever his position, his political party may have to attend. I say this because we can see a very young man, I like the antiquities about himself, he has those. The implication of that is that we can see as all the opportunities in life. God gave him a good head and long life. So he's become the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that he doesn't require to continue to rock the boat the way he has been rocking it. And he must realize that when you behave like a prostitute, the way he's behaving, nobody will ever get to trust me again. If he has done what he did to antiquity workers and to his political party, the PDP, the APC may nearly take him using to win the 2003 election, but thereafter, they will drop him like a potato because they will never get to trust him and they will never get to put him in a very strong position in which he would have to wear with him to start challenging whatever authorities have tortured. The APC may also put online. As to what is going to happen, but the fact that before Rotimiya Metshi, if we can eventually cross to the APC, I'm not to show that Rotimiya Metshi has any base in the state, but the wiki has contended a relation against him, so to say, two times now. And with Rotimiya Metshi presenting his own candidate, Rotimiya Metshi has lost, I mean, most of the seats in the Senate and the House of Rep, in the House Assembly, they are controlled by wikismen, those wikismen that lost. The crossing over of wikis to APC will merely send the political debt of Rotimiya Metshi if he's not very careful. Except he himself would jump the boat and then maybe cross carpet again and go to the PDP party, which he used to belong to initially. The truth of the matter, however, is that we as Nigerians should not encourage the kind of thing that the APC is doing. And the APC too, we know them for scientific reason, that sooner than later, the whip that is used to truck or to trash the first wife or the oldest wife will sooner than later be wielded against the younger wife. The APC will also teach him a lesson sooner than later if he continues to behave like a fool in the China we have to show. Nobody, nobody has a base who will appreciate all like the kind of things who are in authority that wiki is doing. But wiki have tolerated any of his own subordinates, any of his own commissioners, any senator in the state to start behaving the way in the behavior of larger people and to his political party, the answer is no. Interesting, interesting indeed, to what they call a, in events in river state have really attracted attention. Articuo Buacaro's men in river state, if you look at the headlines on the front page of the punch, and you see also been getting the stick from the governor of river state with his recent statewide broadcast. It seems that he's going after the supporters of Articuo's presidential campaign in river state. These are PDP members. Recently, one of wiki's right hand men, those were the men who was in his inner circle, those who moved with him from place to place. Former Senator Lee Mayba accused the governor of engaging in anti-party activities by inviting the terrible men in court to come to river state. He said that that is promotion of the APC presidential candidate. And he said it was anti-party. So it seems that even within the PDP in river state, there seems to be some fracker with those perceived to be Articuo's men now becoming the enemies of the governor of river state. And also, that's number one. Number two, the river's APC, they're in a jittery in a way. They've had to release a statement and to say that wiki wants to protect himself after 2023. So these are two dynamics. Just quickly, can you talk about the situation and how should he approach those who are within his party, the PDP who are working for Articuo? The truth is some of the people with wiki and PDP will be G3 and will be afraid for their political future. If at the end of the day, wiki takes, I mean, goes to join the APC because the way he's approaching it today I'm not too sure. He's doing it in the larger interest of his party, the PDP. But, principally for his own personal interest without carrying along the lieutenant, the senator, the house of members, commissioners and whatever. And so they will be asking themselves, what is going to become of us? Even eventually, the governor joins the APC. Are we also going to be equally accommodated? The way Maria Pavle will be accommodated if you cause the capping. That might be the reason why you'll find out that there's a lot of disquiet, that there's a lot of restlessness within the PDP political party in government wiki's state. And why should not they blame them? Because if they have future that they have to take for the PDP, that has not been considered as a campaign council in Liva, and what are they? I should say, they are merely giving governor wiki enough room to find themselves to say, for enough time to rethink about his reflect with the APC as a political party. But if you ask me, most times the PDP will look at the governor wiki become APC as a good reason to back off it. Because, or why do I say this? I think it was a very, very experienced politician. He also knows the terrain very well. Look at the methods took, steps that he took. My opponent, Nukua, has his vice-presidential flag there. For me, that has contributed wiki wiki in the Niger-Japan region. And that thing is equally very popular thing. That turns out very large votes. So, you should also remember that election in this part of the world is not by free will. People merely go in there and purchase the voters, buy the voters, and then they vote for them. And like the article back on the PDP, have more than enough resources to undermine wiki in the river state by putting in a lot of money to buy the voters when the 2003 elections have come. And of course too, data state money is also there. When you put the resources of data state and then the resources in the hands of a large article back up, it's going to be a very, very unclear race for both the PDP and the APC in river state. But what is at stake really is the future of the digital politicians and both the APC and then the PDP in river state. All right. We stick with the punch in East River this morning, to call it the CDS yesterday, Lucky Rebel General, announced that five persons and one accomplice or enabler had been arrested in connection with the war attacks and killing. So, what are your thoughts on this? I think we should thank God that eventually that the government has announced the arrest of those who went and carried out the attack on the Catholic Church in the war. I know a little bit of a war. And I know that that Catholic Church is situated in the center of the city. In fact, not too far from the Obat Balab. I have been wondering, is that attack to place? I thought it would be possible for the attacker to walk into the out of the city, carry out the attack at the beach and just walk away without being arrested, without being apprehended, without anybody putting obstacles on their way. It could only have happened if there was an insider, if there was a collaborator within the city, if there were people who guided them, who colluded with the attacker. So, thank God there's been arrested now. The question again would not be, who is going to take credit for the arrest of this people? There are medical people that are saying that right from the very moment attack was carried out and concluded that they've been killing the people. And then, in fact, they got one of the vehicles that the attackers brought to the crime and sent. You will also remember that both Pastor Yedepo and the said that he has looked at his crystal ball and found that the attacker would be arrested within one week. And of course, too, the chief of defense service there about this criminal to say that it is a family set with Africa and the collusion, the collaborative efforts between the different security agencies that led to the arrest or apprehension of the people. Well, now we stand, you may have played a key role in the arrest of the people. The thing we should congratulate the security people for is the actual adventure arrest of the people. Because to steal the blood of 40 innocent people without justifiable cost and allow the people to walk away as it has happened in different parts of the country, in many states of the tradition, wouldn't be good for us as a nation. Nobody goes into a church, into a mosque to shed people's blood and they're not have the rot of God that is there on them. Even in world situation, when people run to churches, when they run to mosque, another, they are spared because the churches are mosques, hospitals and whatever places the Red Cross may have designated as a camp are considered to the sacred places that should never be touched by any right-thinking and individual. But let me also say this, that our people should now learn to begin to play a key role in apprehending whoever may have attacked or carried out a terrorist activity in any part of the country. I say this because if what happened or what's happened, if the target driver, if the occurred rider, if the individual has brought out their vehicles and uses to seal up all the roads that lead in and out of our world. And if the different people within our facilities have brought out their cutlery, their dendons and to begin to throw stones at those attackers and others, it should have disorganized or disorganized them. It would have made it difficult for them to escape from the crime scene. For too many times, if it had happened, people would bring out their phones and begin to record whatever crimes or whatever incidents that are taking place or they've grown inside their rooms and hide under their beds, leaving their kids and kids to be killed by all these terrorists and violent people that we have all over the place. We should be around the first line of defense, around crime and security people. Before we begin to look at the security line. There are some views, some people feel that or more taken with the ones who went after these men. We don't know how true that is because of course the CDS talked about them being apprehended a bit far from on those state. But what I thought on the role of local policing as far as nipping such incidents and about is concerned. When you look at what's happening in Benwick state, for instance, with the term asking for guns. It seems the motive played a role of some sort in what has now become a good step in solving this whole incident. So I want you to speak about this local policing and vigilantes around the country. Well, I don't subscribe to the idea that individuals should begin to carry weapons. Individuals carry weapons have never had or tried or mitigated or given any group or people in community or society. Peace. In the United States, virtually everybody carry guns and some of these other European countries and what have they. But as we had the situation guaranteed security for terrorists, striking and then killing people in churches, in shopping malls and different places. The answer is no. I would rather subscribe to the community police into state police. For God's sake, if a local government wants to have his own police, let them have it. If a university, a polytechnic or even a secondary school want to have their own police to protect them. Let them have it. Whatever states also want to have their own private police. Let them have it. And then what we'll require to do is to amend the law, do, I mean, provide very strict guidelines and ensure that whatever institutions, whatever organizations would have their own private police abide by whatever rules and regulations may be put down. And that there are strict laws to control the activities of all these different policies that we have recommended for different layers and the classes of people in the society. The fear as of today is that when the state begin to have their police, when the local government begin to have their police, it is abused by politicians. They will use it against their political opponents and what after. But the question you ask yourself is, is the federal police not being used by individuals, by governors, by the federal government, even by the people working in those security people against the perceived enemy? The answer is no, that they have been abused. All that we should put in place is that when people abuse the authority or the power given to them or the weapon that has been given to them to protect the people and to tell it on people, we shouldn't show that the law takes its regular course in bringing some people to vote. So as to serve as a deterrent so wherever they want to follow in their footsteps, they will always be abused. Abuse is happening in the US, it happens in Canada, it happens in the city. It will always happen in any society. But the difference has always been bringing those who abuse their power and the authority or whatever leverage it to help on people, bringing them to vote, speedily without any fear of effort will mitigate or alleviate or at least kind of insulate society from one time that this is that having different layers of police may be bringing onto the society. All right, all right. There's a certain Idriso Joe whose name was mentioned in that speech by the Chief of Defense staff and people are saying, hey, you know, this is someone who was named as one of those who escaped from Kuji Prison. What is his name doing in such a speech? But I'm sure that it'll become clearer to people as time goes on. Mr. Kolaoli, let's stay with the punch because the report gives some coverage on its front page to the latest. As far as that Iqoyi collapse building is concerned and the people have probably forgotten about this case. Whether you look at the bottom left corner or right corner of the front page, the headline there, Corona Inducts Regulatory Bodies about Iqoyi building collapse can be seen. It says that the Chief, the corner, Chief Magistrate Oye Tadei Komalafei on Tuesday attributed the November 1, 2021 Iqoyi 21 story building collapse to the negligence in adhering to the best practices by relevant agencies responsible for approval and supervision of the project. He also added that the building's density and setback on the site showed gross violations of a leger state building regulations. But he also said that the project bought, which should have boldly shown the sensitive and important information of the names and addresses of the professionals who carried out the project were deliberately not provided. And according to Komalafei, he says approving and supervising agencies did not sanction the offender, suggesting that they were compromised is what he's saying. Your thoughts and reaction? Well, it's rather unfortunate that it is when the head has been blown off that we as a people will begin to whip like the group of guys. Too many times, buildings are collapsed in ladders and some other parts of the country and the regulatory agencies have been indicted for such building collapses. But in all the indictment, what says are we taking to ensure that this thing does not repeat itself? It will appear to me that we may only go back to sleep immediately that such incidents are concluded either by the coroner or by the cops whereas it does not appear. With regards to the inquiry property, also look at the antecedents of demand in some other parts of the world. When somebody has proposed authorities with regards to carrying out such an agenda project, a good regulatory agency will look at demand antecedent. They resource it as it is supposed to and they are very likely keeping and sparking to secure the project. They collect that the man was busted. The man who was carrying out the inquiry project in the newspaper publication at ILS that he was asked to do a one-story building in a place like in London. And rather than do the two-story building, he went up to three, he actually did three. But later the authorities in there had on them. He also mentioned some things he didn't start up with. We didn't quite comply with the regulatory authorities directed to him with the project that he carried out in there. So if you have a man who has openly been saying that he flaws the law, he defies the regulatory authorities, then the building control board should have the most vengeance in supervising his project. When you also look at the ice that that building was going into, I should think that the regulatory authorities would have made it a point of duty. So station some of their men on the project side, 24-7, to ensure that if you what they have approved for him, or for the contractor, or for the builder that they comply with. But they approve certain numbers, so if you pay for him, the man took it above that. And they find it difficult to get him to comply with what they have approved for him. They went in there, filled the property, the man reopened it, and continued the building without the regulatory authority doing anything. Here, as in my humble opinion, immediately the building was filled and the man went back to fill it and continue the project. The authority authority were taking the police in there to arrest him, and then a prefactor did the same thing in court so that he could face them up and justify his actions. But that didn't happen. As the guy went out where they were compromised or they were not compromised, we would not try to be to what happened, and I'm not to be sure that the coroner has been able to put his or her finger on the fact that money on investment due in beach change hands in work led to the collapse of that building. So whatever we say with regards to that will be mere speculation. But too many times, we are seeing that happen. We are seeing the regulatory authorities unable to put their foot down with regards to many collapse buildings, with regards to even buildings that are under construction presently. And you ask yourself, why is it that it's difficult to put their foot down? Could it be that most of them are compromised? Could it be that they don't have the means or the resources to do whatever control the law or empower them to do? Could it be that most of the people who engage in building these structures are more powerful than the regulatory parties? The bottom line is the blame will still lie with the authorities. The buck stops on the governor's table because whatever happened in the state not only affects the regulatory authorities, it also affects all the citizens of the state. And because the governor is the chief law officer, the father of the state, he gets much of the blame because the buck stops at his table. So as much as we win the regulatory authorities, the building control bomb, we should also be able to say that the governor has not lived up to the expectation of the legal space people. I mean, of the legal space people. All right, interesting. So you're saying that ultimately the buck stops on the table of the governor of Lagos State and of course the regulatory bodies in Lagos State. Interesting one. Like you said, the lives will never be re-brought back and the deed has already been done. Tunde Kolo, it's been interesting having you. Barrister on the program this morning. We look forward to having you again soon. Thank you very much for your time. Thanks for having me. And for having me, ladies. You too, you too, we appreciate it. Today's interesting day happens to be the 10th of August. We'll look at what happened and transpired this day in history. We'll be back.