 Good morning, you're welcome to my birthday, it's really a fault thing. My name is Nyamgul Agadji, it's another wonderful day and like I just said before we came on camera it's a good day to smile, whatever the condition you might find yourself smile, laugh and know that God's God to you, that's it. What day is today by the way? Today is your 9th and I know this because it's about 7 days to my birthday, so I'm counting down. So I'm counting down to the day I'm going to have free cake, free rice, free chicken, free... You're bringing them for me right? They couldn't be free but we're bringing them for you. We're bringing them, it's my birthday now. So you are celebrating, you should let us be a part of your joy. I don't know. Why do you guys do this? So if it's your birthday you bring the cake, we feast together, I would pray for you. Okay, so when is Jesus' birthday, does Jesus bring the cake for you? I go to church. I will bless you with my presents. Oh, I see. That's a good one, I got you. Okay, you actually got me. Alright, like we said it's a wonderful day to be happy because like everybody says happiness is a choice. Today is another day that you've had this opportunity to be happy and glorify the Lord who has given you the opportunity to see today. That's right. So we're going to be looking at a few topics this morning. First of all, hot topics will be TNB Suspends Better A Do Others Probe by EFCC, that is the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. Also, we are going to have a second topic. Yeah, which is IOC Blames What's Name Insecurity on Failure to Prosecute Traitors. So that's our second hot topic but we'd also be looking at Off the Press. We want to know what the headlines are saying this morning and we'll also have some top training stories. But first, let's take our quote of the day. Well, innovation is not a random habit, right? I mean, that's what the, a random act rather, it's a habit. The product of habits is not a random act. That's amazing. Yeah, yeah, maybe you cannot just jump into something that you know nothing about and innovate. Innovation comes from a need and a need comes from the fact that you've been doing something maybe consistently and you find out there is a better way to do this and you create something out of almost nothing. But you cannot just, you can't miss what you don't know. You cannot innovate in an area where you don't know anything about it. So, yeah, so if you want to improve your life, you have to start doing things in that regard and then new ideas will come. That's how I saw it. Yes. I mean, it takes me back to Thomas Edison. It takes me back to the people who innovated, you know, everything technology that we know today. So, from the light bulb, I think the light bulb was, they tried to do that a lot of times and then you fail, but you go at it again, you fail and you're like, you know what, let me change the equation here. If 2 plus 2 is not giving me what I want, maybe I should try 2 plus 3, maybe I should try 2 plus 5 and then you just keep expanding and one day it would just be like, wow, I was able to achieve, you know, all of these things. I was able to build a product. I was able to, you know, even do more than I thought I could and that's what innovation is about. Innovation is not something that you know right now. Innovation is something new, something out of the box, something that no one expects. Sometimes it's even something that people don't know they have a need for. So, you might just have that need and you're like, well, how can we do this? And boom, something comes up. Yeah, a light bulb never comes. When, like we said, when you're doing something or you're thinking about it, you're consistently looking at it. Even if, for instance, you're not a footballer and you are an adult, how do you expect it? You watch football all the time. You could find ways to make some things work, to bring in new rules or to some dribbling, some whatever it is that will improve the game. You could be a coach that cannot play football but you've been watching them, you've been studying them, you've been doing a lot of things and then you find out if I do this, this strategy will work. If I do that, the game will be better and so on and so forth. That's how people play football manager. You're now a manager, you're like, no, I will put this player here, I will do this here, I will do that. So it helps you with strategy, it helps you, it sharpens your mind. There's just so much more that the mind is capable of and that's what innovation is about. The basic thing is that put your hand into whatever you want to do. Like they say, put your hand on the floor and never look back and if you don't look back, you'll know where to go, how to do it and how to succeed even better. That gives room for innovation. Innovation doesn't just come from the blues. You have to be consistent about it. So that's how it is. So what's that plan that you have for 2024 and beyond? You will have to start doing something about it. You can't say, I want to become a millionaire by the end of 2024 and you're expecting... You're expecting to find a Ganamos goal on the road? You'll find a Ganamos goal on the road. It doesn't happen like that. Sometimes, yes, it could happen, but that would be a problem of someone else teaming something from somewhere and dropping and then you are going to pick it up as it is. It doesn't always happen that way. You have to start doing things and creative ways of achieving that will come. That's innovation. That's innovation. That's right. Let's get to our top trending stories this morning. Our first story is court finds federal government 100 million Naira for violation of Imefeli's rights. Justice Ulukaya De Adini of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, has awarded the sum of 100 million Naira against the federal government in favour of the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Imefeli for the violation of his right to personal liberty. The court also declared his prolonged detention without trial as a flagrant violation of his fundamental rights. It further restrained the federal government and its agent from re-arresting or detaining Imefeli without an order of court. The judgment was given in fundamental human rights suit filed by the former CBN governor following his prolonged detention in the custody of the Department of State Services. He also asked that the court to order the respondents to pay the sum of 1 billion Naira in damages and to restrain them from further arresting or detaining him. The former CBN chief was arrested on June 10, 2023, shortly after his suspension by President Bola Tinibu. Many hours after the judgment, the EFCC expressed dismay over the development, saying Imefeli's detention was in line with the law. A start to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has now revealed it will appeal the judgment. Okay, well, I think it's not the first time people are just captured, so to speak, and detained without prosecution, without taking them to court in most cases, without sentencing. If you see that the person is guilty, then sentencing. If you think you have evidence against him, take him to court. Let the pronouncements be made. Don't just hold somebody. They caught Imefeli, they arrested Imefeli, put him in jail for a crime that was later removed from the accusations that they were leveling against him. He was having firearms, he was doing this, he was doing that, and those didn't hold any water. But did they account for the time that they detained him over things that they were not even sure they did not? So it's a great time we learned this lesson and started doing what is right. If you are supposed to hold somebody for 24 hours or less, do that. And after that, if the law requires you to take him to court, do so. Don't hold somebody without any meaningful reason. Yeah, because they say you're innocent until proven guilty. So if I am not guilty, then why do you have to hold me for that long? But I know this is Imefeli's story now. How about the normal person on the street? You hear of people who are being arrested and they're being held. Do you know they are being detained? I've done some teachings and all that inside the prisons with the inmates and I found out that in the particular prison I was teaching, catechism, you know, for the church, about 75% of these people were waiting trial. Some of them have been there for seven years, ten years. A waiting trial, that means they call it 80, a waiting trial matters. So that means they've been there, they don't even know what their fate is going to be. How do you think those people are going to come out and be better citizens in the society that has filmed them that much? Yeah, and sometimes they're even innocent. Because they're coming back late at night from a party or something and then they'll come in here and there's nobody to talk to for you and you're just there and they're saying our prisons are congested. With who? Are there the criminals or the people who are criminals by circumstances? What are we talking about? So the Nigerian police, whoever is responsible, should start being held responsible for all these things and they make to pay a lot of money if they contravene the rights of people or the law or something. Because that will make them not, you know, just arrest people for the sake of arresting. When you find me with a laptop, you throw me in jail and nobody's talking for me. I stayed there 10 years awaiting trial. Everybody forgets about me. It's sad, very sad, very sad. We need to do better. Yeah, well, so blue subscribers to be bought from calling empty end lines, that's according to Nigerian communications. So NCC rather. We'll not be able to call empty end lines soon due to the non-settlement of interconnected or interconnect charges. The Nigerian Communications Commission disclosed this on Monday in a public notice signed by Director of Public Affairs Department Ruben Moka. It stated that it granted partial approval for this connection of global comm from empty end Nigeria communications PLC. It said global comm was notified of the application made by MTN and was given the opportunity to comment and state its case. According to NCC, it had examined the application and circumstances surrounding the indebtedness and determined that global comm does not have sufficient or justifiable reason for non-payment of the interconnect charges. The NCC reveals also that the expiration of 10 days from the date of the notice subscribers of global comm will no longer be able to make calls in MTN or to empty end, but will be able to receive calls. The partial disconnection will however allow inbound calls to the global comm network. This is not the first time global subscribers will be disconnected from making calls to MTN over the same issue. In 2019, MTN acting upon a directive from the NCC briefly disconnected close subscribers over a 4 billion Naira debt. In December 2018, the telecom regulator approved mobile network operators to disconnect other operators over rising interconnect debts and the failure of the affected operators to pay. The total disconnect fee in the industry at the time was about 165 billion Naira. Interconnect charges is the price that telecoms operators pay each other for calls terminating on their network. The interconnect fees reportedly owed by GLO to MTN stands at about 6 billion Naira, where 61.39 million mobile subscribers on GLO's network as of the end of August 2023. According to the new NCC notice, these lines will not be able to make calls to MTN lines from January 18, 2024. That's about nine days away from now. Yeah. Well, I mean, we can't really talk about telecom communication lines. Yeah. But why? What the NCC said was that they found out that GLOBACOM has no reason whatsoever to owe MTN. Yeah. So why are they owing? Is it just a Nigerian factor? Because if it were any other problem, I would say, okay, I will stick to my Nigerian brand. I will patronize GLOBACOM and let other companies go. But why are you owing people? And you've collected money because... People owe salaries, people owe gratuities, people owe a lot of things, and you're still owing another company that is helping you make money. Yeah. Because the fact that I can call from... You've charged me money. I'm not relying to the other. It means that you are also making money because I am calling. People are... And then why will you not pay? It's outrageous. And the whole six billion. How do you even accumulate that? Go and pay. GLOBACOM. GLOBACOM. GLOBACOM. Go and pay. I mean, you're a Nigerian brand. Don't taint our image. Because it would just be like, Nigerians were always owing. Yeah. And that's not cool. That's good. The airlines are still struggling to get their money out, and other companies are struggling to get their money out. And then you are owing your sister company. So because you are all in the same place. Go and pay. Go and pay. GLOBACOM. Go and pay. All right. Let's take our final top-trending story. It says, BBC documentary, Allegis Pattern of Abuse by TB Joshua. The British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC on Monday said it had uncovered evidence of widespread abuse and torture by the late prophet Timitokwe Ballogon, TB Joshua, the founder of the synagogue church of all nations. The BBC in its report said that dozens of former members of the synagogue, including five British nationals, had alleged atrocities committed by the late prophet. Dozens of eyewitness accounts of physical violence or torture carried out by Joshua, including instances of child abuse and people being whipped and chained. Some reportedly interviewers told BBC that they were stripped and beaten with electrical cables and horse whips and routinely denied sleep in scenes which looked like a cult operation. A man was regarded as Joshua's number two at the synagogue, Agamor Paul, who is among the eyewitnesses in the BBC's eye three-part expose on the alleged secret life of the late televangelist, popularly known as TB Joshua, said that he was interested in enslaving not just Africans but also Westerners and targeted them with miracles. According to the BBC investigation into allegations of sexual assault, physical abuse and fabricated miracles and trauma purportedly suffered at the hands of the late Nigerian preacher yielded no fewer than 25 eyewitnesses testimonials. A number of women alleged that Joshua forced them to have abortions inside the church. These were as a result of alleged rapes by the late pastor, Jessica Camille from Namibia claimed her ordeal lasted for more than five years and according to her she was 17 years old when Joshua first alleged that it raped her. She added that subsequent instances of rape by TB Joshua led to her having five forced abortions while at the church. Multiple first-hand accounts of people also detailed how Joshua faked his miracle healings which were broadcast to millions of people in Nigeria and around the world. Agomor Paul who left after staying in the compound for at least a decade claimed that the miracles were scripted and overseen by him. I tried to watch this yesterday and it's just mind-boggling but the thing is he's late. So how can we even ask the questions now? So he never gets to tell his own side of the story and they're bringing these things now to ravish his image that he built for a long time. I'm not saying he didn't do those things. I'm also not saying they are not miracles even though I'm not a fan of miracle here and there. I'm not saying God is so limited that he doesn't do miracles anymore. I'm asking the question why are they bringing it now? Of what benefit will it be? You stayed there for more than ten years and you never opened your mouth till now that the man is dead. You were doing abortions and all that. Was it that you couldn't survive outside the church that you were keeping quiet of this? What do they intend to achieve with this? I don't see the importance of this except just to ravish the man who is dead and cannot answer any questions. Yes, he may have done bad things and if he did bad things I would have loved it if he was exposed. Yes, he was exposed at the time he was still alive he either can defend himself or we shame him so that no other person gets to go through that or deal. But you kept quiet and if you were there for ten years and he was abusing you it means that maybe for the last five years that he abused some people because of your silence that's why those people started to do that. So why are you saying it now? That's my only problem. I need to answer your question about them still being there for that time. Sometimes you are being manipulated and you don't know when you are enslaved. Yes, it happens. Emotionally, psychologically, you can be manipulated sometimes you can be the victim and you don't even realize that you are a victim. It's psychological. So at the end of the day it's possible that they were there they didn't even know that they were being manipulated they were there for the longest time and maybe now that he is dead they suddenly realized they were being manipulated. Yeah, but I just wish he was here because when I saw it I'm like personally I'm not into churches and miracles I want to go there, serve my God for myself I have my own personal relationship with the Divine so that's it for me but when I hear of all these churches and miracles I just look the other way but still I wish he was here to defend himself if he was here to defend himself he can say no I did this no I did not do this same other people that might forget him but he spends decades and decades building a name and build and I actually know a lot of people that he helped a lot of people I cannot rule out the fact that all his miracles were scripted and fake and all that because sometimes even the fake person will do a miracle because of the fate of the person who is coming for the miracle so things happen so for you to wait for him to die two years later then you begin to reveal things about him I don't find that comfortable yes name and shame whoever is doing that there are pastors now that are still doing fake miracles and doing a lot of things that we don't know about expose them now that they are alive so that people get to know that okay if they are the faithful there are genuine pastors out there and there are fake ones out there so if you find out something say it now, don't wait for him to die wait for the BBC if you've been doing an investigation for the longest time why now and I know the BBC they have a lot of resources to be able to and then we know they are also propaganda machinery but what they intend to achieve with this is what I do not know they have labeled a lot of good leaders bad because they did not throw their line you go to Libya and say Galafi is the worst person and you put that everywhere and we believe you because we believe in your brand and then we find out later that Galafi has died and Libya is the worst for it and you are the one who labeled a terrorist and all this and that so we've begun looking at some of these foreign media with you know let me look again why do they want to do this whether it is true or not it's not the issue but what do you intend to gain you are telling the truth because of what what benefit will it be to the people or to yourself so you look at all those things if they had brought it when Jusra was still alive I would have no problem with that he can defend himself but it's not here a part of me wants to say let's sleeping dogs lie is that how they say it a part of me wants to say that I mean he's passed away he just let it be but then I don't know what the aim expose is supposed to be that's nothing good but I use this opportunity to call on anybody who feels manipulated who knows that a first-setting pastor or a mom is fake because it's not only Christianity there are people who say they have healing powers and all that when you find somebody doing something that is not right anonymously expose this person if you cannot come out rightly don't wait for the person to die because you are saving other people he may have been a bad man but you don't let him die first before you can begin to say it and his legacy now is just because whatever he did it's possible that the wife didn't even know about it so now what do you want to do you want to destroy the children you want to destroy the women it's a lot whoever wants to believe can go ahead and believe whoever wants to vilify the man so it's a three part expose and I want to watch the entire thing before I can make up my mind and say this is what it is I mean if you want to watch it you can catch up on it there might be a lot of elements of truth inside but my quarrel is not that whether there is truth or not truth the timing is bad the timing is not right the timing is bad anyways let's go on a quick break we'll look at the weather and when we return stay with us