 Welcome to the breakfast and plus CV Africa. We're about to look at the pages of a national dailies. We'll call it the paper of the press. You want to see the newspaper review. Gide Johnson joins us in no time. I set off with the punch newspaper this morning. On the punch place holder running mate PDP Sue's INEC APC 6 will be attendables disqualification. I also find the underneath it. One Shatima Baba Ahmad Barada's vice presidential candidate joins Donnie Massary label in suits. Will respond to PDP says labels lawyer were aware of the suit. Tunibals legal team is quoted to say article orders campaign for a delicate INEC distributes materials. We're not aware of 1.2 trillion Naira proposal says ASU and the few fuel queues dispense as marketers dispense above 165 Naira per liter by Joshua Gild for 16 years whips princess sings. Quite interesting headline. I CPC probes MDAs over COVID-19 intervention funds. INEC probes buried PVCs and threatened sanction. It's a good thing that INEC attention has been drawn to it. 421 fleeing inmates recaptured and 454 at large. Confront terrorists eliminate them. Buhari tells security agents jets A1 security or scarcity hits airline passengers protest delay flight. Muslim Muslim tickets direct attack on Christians. That's what the XSGF is quoted to say and ETTI threatens action against oil firms over $6.4 billion debt. More interesting headlines. We need to move away for the want of time. Let's go straight to the nation this morning. The nation has a big headline. Wipe out terrorists. Buhari gives military a fresh order to military. Wipe out terrorists. Buhari gives a fresh order to military. He wasn't just speaking at the meeting with the military hierarchy on terrorism and said to them, hey, guys go wipe them out. No. He attended a ceremony, a graduation of 247 students of the senior course, 44 of the armed forces commanding staff college, Georgia Kaduna state. And while he gave his speech, he talks about the difficulty the country had been facing with terrorism saying that the last 12 years and the most challenging, Nigeria is set to sustain sub regional security collaboration. And in that he said the military must wipe out the terrorists from the face of the earth. But it was a speech that he was prepared and delivered at that ceremony. Maybe nothing new. More from the nation is why public debt will rise by DMO while why public debt will rise by DMO. Of course, GDP, the same will grow by 27%. But this is in DMO that disagreed with the CBN on the nation's debt situation. I'm sure that story is worth a read. IPOB to UK High Commissioner, don't come to Southeast. IPOB to UK High Commissioner, don't come to Southeast. There's page three. Are they trying to, you know, to bring up more of the situations that we are seeing reduce a little bit? Well, you can read more on that story on page three of the nation newspaper. Sexual assault, Baba Ejesha gets five year jail term. Sexual assault, Baba Ejesha gets five year jail term. Like you said, the 16 years, different years for different counts and all will run concurrently. And since the highest sentence on those counts, each of those counts is five years, it means that he will spend five years in prison. I carry the loose signs amendment to a more taken law. This is the first amendment he's signing since he enactment of that law. More from the nation. INGIE meets informing Buhari about strikes as ASU president. It's back and forth between the presidency and, of course, the minister of labor and employment in ASU. And it seems like there is no end in sight. The minister before saying the president doesn't have any collective bargaining agreement to sign on his table, accusing the union of also imposing their own, you know, salaries and wages on the Nimib Riks committee. Well, they're saying the minister of labor and employment is misinforming the president about the strike. Tinibu plans to intervene in government ASU stand-up. Well, when he went to Oshobo, he had a short meeting with the Nance president and officials of Nance. He's a national associate of Nigerian students and told him that the president, having given a lamentation, these are Tinibu's words now, regarding the strike, has now opened the floor, as it were, for other people to engage in ASU in the president's statement, down the enough, it's enough statement. So Tinibu said he'll be using back channels to intervene in this ASU situation. Well, you can make of that what you wish. Those are the headlines coming on the front page of the nation newspaper. We turn attention to the daily trust quickly. Federal government, British High Commission, Moom, as iPop warns and vows to stay off southeast. Group says High Commissioner Iwo Heta, warning shows that of insecurity attempt to embarrass the federal government. Refine INEC staff injured has gone men attack registration center in Emugu. 48 terrorists killed, 3,858 surrendered in two weeks and not east. This is according to the defense headquarters. And 23 million young Nigerians unfit for job market controversy rages over Nigerians, increasing debts appetite for your bonds, some of the headlines you find here this morning. We need to move away from the daily trust. All right. We'll quickly take the headlines, a few of them on the front page of the Guardian. Muslim ticket, APC puts on horsesha timbers and veiling opposition mounts, violence, vote buying, threatened, fair, credible, 23 polls, big story on pages four and five of the Guardian. Court of Appeals, sacks, bios, assembly member of a defection, over regulation, new taxes, impacting business growth, survival. Quite a number of stories on the front page of the Guardian, but we'll leave it at that now and bring in J.D. Johnson, our guest analyst this morning. He is from the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Senior Director. Mr. Johnson, thank you for your time. Let's start off with the big one coming on the front page of the Guardian newspaper, seems the APC's foot dragging on the announcement on unveiling of a shatima as a running mate, or to Bola Metinburi presidential candidate. Do you think this means that they're reconsidering the Muslim ticket idea? The deadline is today. If anything is not done, should we then get stuck with it. However, there is no consular provision. That's the most present candidate publicly. What is required is for them to nominate, to nominate their running mate and submit name to INEC. In this case, to substitute the name with the name of the placeholder they use in the first instance. So it might just be tactic to reduce the backlash and the opposition to that particular decision. And that's why the nomination, the presentation is suspended for now until the time that it's available. So that's why it is because there's no consular provision or there's no legal requirement for them to fulfill with respect to public presentation or no public presentation of their running mate. So it's the decision they've taken and accepted to change it by informing INEC by sending another name. They are stuck with shatima for now. But let's look at the punch now. It talks about the People's Democratic Party. They have instituted a lawsuit repelling the independent national electoral commission to prevent all the progressive Congress, presidential candidate and the Labour Party's standard bearer from replacing their running mate with Senator and Dati. What do you make of this? Once upon a time INEC said it wasn't... It's left for the courts to decide. It's left for the court to decide and INEC to decide moving forward. They have the right to dedicate if they feel that the law has been broken. However, the courts will decide that. But I think that they should be less concerned with that. What they should concern themselves with is how to bring about unity within their party hold and how to campaign for the election. We don't want the elections to be decided, the 2020 elections to be decided by the courts. We want the people themselves to decide. So I think this matter, the country should deal with it expeditiously and allow Nigerians to determine who become their president and we don't want to have a situation whereby we will not know the winner on the election day or after the election day until the courts pass the ruling. That's why we don't want that for 2020 elections. And I think that's why there have been adequate provisions for all of these things to be dealt with with the electoral act 2022 so that every issue relating to litigation would have been solved before we have the election in 2023, February. So they have the right to go to court. But the court will look at the merit of the case. But they should be much more concerned about the how running. They are only internally used before the court will understand our problems about our party. That's just my candidate advice to them. And just before we move away from this issue now, we also remember that Fester Zoukoie had made reference to the fact that, of course, Ainec had said it wasn't in the constitution, but it's actually a new intervention, Nigerian intervention, the placeholder. And it wasn't really a situation or a big deal if you like to put. So why do we have the PDP now trying to make this an issue? Well, you see, the two parties were smart in moving forward. The placeholders resigned. They withdrew their nomination. So you have the right, it's their franchise, the right to vote and to be voted for. So we saw the resignation letter of, and they withdrew, withdrew a letter of these two placeholders. To the extent that the labor placeholder even granted the press conference, made the press statement to that effect. Why that of the APC released the press statement? So the PDP does claim to the call. They are just wasting their time because these parties and their nominees have exploited the loophole in the constitution, in the electoral act. So they are still operating in their midst of the law. That's my take on that. All this litigation and the rest of it, I think, because you could keep dispense with it so that we can know who is contested in the election. Okay, Jina Johnson, quickly, the Daily Trust has gone the way of the situation in the Southeast as its lead story. Looking at what the independent people of Biafra group has given as a directive to the British High Commissioner saying that she's not welcome in the southeastern part of Nigeria, she shouldn't come there. The headline on the front page of the Daily Independent, or Daily Trust rather, FG, British High Commission mom as the IPOB warns the unvoiced state of Southeast. Group says High Commissioner Igbo Heta warning shows depth of insecurity, attempt to embarrass FG, don'ts, and INEC staff injured. Well, this is another one that's going to be the Taken Registration Centre. What are your thoughts on this? If you don't want to be monitoring the statements... Well, it's just for them to draw attention to the agitation. Don't forget, the problem is this will lead to the agitation with respect to the British High Commissioner placement and role in the Diplomatic Circle. I think that the Diplomatic will do that. There is a serious issue facing us and the Diplomatic and Global Company is not paying attention to us. We are not from international agents like United Nations from powerful companies that will exert pressure on the government to do one or two things which British government is one of. I just think that they are trying to draw attention to the international community to be aware of the prevailing situation and circumstances in Southeast. Is it an irony to you that the IPOB as a group has had a strategy when looking for causes and enemies and people point out to blame and build a rally its base. It's usually the British establishment of the British government over the years they say they are the ones who have been partnering or supporting the northern part of the country. They put Nigeria together. They blame them a lot for this. Even when the woman herself personally has not said anything against IBOs, whoever is the British High Commissioner will be blamed as our call label, Ibo Heta. But do you think it's an irony that the leader of the group himself is a British passport holder and a beneficiary of the services of that country? Even they've called on the British government to say your citizen has been extraordinarily rendered into Nigeria. Say something about this. Is this an irony to you? That's where the suspicion lies. That's where the suspicion lies. Because in their own thinking they would have felt that the British government would not have tried a much more forceful ensuring that now they can be the leader of the IBO almost to be a dual citizen, a citizen of Nigeria and a British student would get a better treatment and better recognition from the British government in terms of asking the further government in ensuring that now the country is given a better treatment is given the easy thing to arrest and mitigation will be addressed as quickly as possible. So that's where the suspicion lies. And to the suspicion with the British government as far as Nigerians are concerned is not limited to the people from the southeast. There are others, what are part of the government and some of them not, people from the south, they are suspicious. So they rolled and pretty clean up together in the nation called Nigeria and we rolled it in creating a lopsided arrangement for the country. So that's what the suspicion is. It's not limited to the IBO people. It's a suspicion that the Nigerians would respect to our opportunity in terms of having good government over the years to fill the potential of Nigeria as a giant of Africa. Well, let's quickly look at the Guardian newspaper it seems like an editorial here Valence and vote buying threatened fair credible 2023 polls feels like it's a reputation, something that we're very conversant with nothing new. It's it's nothing new because politicians are not one massive turnout of voters. It's when you have low voters turned out that you have the opportunity of manipulating the voters. Now when you have massive turnout of voters one, you don't have the resources to buy all the voters. It's only 150 people turned out that you have the resources to buy. So how do you stop massive turnout of voters? As the election is approaching as the election is approaching, you have to perpetuate and perpetuate violence. That itself is a scare tactics to stop people from coming out of wood. You have to accept this question if you actually want to win election and go to the government and rule over the people and govern the people. Why do you have to use violence to ensure that you win the election? If you actually you are working in the interest of the people. So it's a scare tactics that the political class use to ensure that there's no massive turnout and then it happens they are both buying. It's only the few people that come out. It's the same person who messes you and I. If there is a gunshot in our neighborhood two days before the election there's violence in our neighborhood and nothing was done to that effect. Do you think you or I or people by category or people in your category with the exception of some of them that have fully resolved will go out to vote on the day of the election? It is only those that are pressured, that needs that have been impoverished will come out because they have something that's why. It's a tactic and then I ask you have they prosecuted all those arrested for violence in 2019 election? Have they prosecuted all those arrested for 2015 election? Have they look we have a classic case let me end this. We have a classic case in which the attorney officer said gun was based on his head to declare the result of a senatorial election and till then the winner of that gun hold election is still a senator of the federal republic. Let's look at one on the front page of the country newspaper. The pictures coming out online. Thank you for the internet because nothing is hidden these days of buried PVCs in the politicians of the country. There are hundreds of them if you want to call it that looking dirty and all that and I now having to come out to Spitfire to say they are going to investigate it and they are threatening sanctions on whoever is involved in this whole dirty or buried PVC saga. I mean this is quite embarrassing. What's your analysis of this? Look, you can follow the trail. Why are they coming out to see that from which for example, which state the state that interest the state the state to the local government from which local government to which unit. What is the timeline? Who was the INEC president for the local government? Who is the INEC president for the state for the state? Now we are involved in the registration of those people and then who are those that were in custody of those PVC that should be released to the big top it's not the timeline coming out to say you don't just don't do the paper trade if you do the paper trade you get this thing it won't take you a week to do it they can hire me to come and do it for them but they can give me all the document and bring it to my house. I would do it for them for free and I would tell them and you don't need to set up the special committee waste money waste anything all you need to do is to do the paper trade and the timeline and get to the bottom of it but this is the beginning and the end of what you hear of it But this is not the first time we are hearing about attacks on the offices of INEC in different parts of the country I mean between 2019 and 2021 it's been reported that 41 offices of INEC has been attacked in 14 states and topping the list or the log for these attacks you have EMOS state so it's been going on I mean why haven't we been able to find the way because this looks like an attack on our democracy in fact I tend to target suppression and it should be treated as such like the cards you talk about is the same thing with the security and these people ghost don't they have identity what is the intelligence community doing what are security agencies to explain to this can these people be traced how is it possible for people to foment trouble and perpetrate crime without being attacked without being arrested it's something which is you relate that to the story which the president during the graduation of a student from the staff college where he said he directed the military to ensure that the how did he even put it he said they should wipe the terrorists out of the face of the earth how many times the president wipe them off the situation whereby terrorists will be arrested and then captured during the exchange and the terrorists will have a change of mind at the point of capture to see that they have repented if society wants criminality we have a situation whereby it is more it is more lawful to be unlawful and unlawful to be lawful that's the situation we haven't gone through I'll take that again it is more lawful to be unlawful than to be unlawful lawful to be unlawful so that's the irony to start on an irony cannot so we play on that irony that's the situation you see people that are meant to maintain the law breaking the law at me our government is a law breaker one they break traffic rules they don't break traffic rules they don't have respect for people utilizing the road they send you a way with sign on the road our security agencies they drive against where we are to be because there is a little traffic they drive against against traffic when the people that should maintain the law are the law breaker they will maintain law and other anxiety they are calling for order when there is no maintainers of law when there is no respect for the law by institutions that should respect the law we have a country that I don't know about how do you measure the repentance of a criminal mind if you are giving a term the opportunity to repent someone like Babar Yesha too could have gotten to the court and tell me lots of I'm sorry I'm repenting I can't help but laugh my law would have granted Babar Yesha a repeat Babar Yesha a repeat let him go for rehabilitation once he is rehabilitated he does not need a term he is a repenting sexual offender people people committing small petty crimes ascent to jail someone people committing any crime crime against humanity crime against the state giving them the opportunity to repent well General Johnson, still to stay with security update on the Kujie inmates who fled from captivity we hear that so far front page of the punch in the super so far 421 of them have been recaptured whilst 454 of them are still at large and of course Rafa Ibechelao barely himself when the couple of days ago and said that none of them nobody who breaches the walls of the prison should be made to see the next you know should be alive and all the statements going around I don't know if these statements still hold water you know when the president says wipe terrorists off the face of the earth I don't know if he holds weight again because he's been saying several times we'll end insecurity we'll just say so it's too much and we don't see anything going on interestingly, some countries in the West African sub-region are placing their security operatives on red alert because of this situation of 554 of the inmates of Kujie medium correctional center being at large for instance in Ghana the Ghanaian sorry Ghanaian police forces have told the immigration officials and those border patrol officials to intensify their search, you know their vigilance and all that so it's quite a situation for Nigeria's image and countries within the sub-region are also afraid then what about those of us who are within the country so what are your thoughts on this update 545 or 554 are they still at large before on 21 that I understood as it may who are those that validated number what are the identity I think these are happening at that time there will be a press conference a press conference whereby these people might be piloted and there will be an openness and transparency we are dealing with people we are a society that people love to ban these people before on 21 through what means what day we arrested 5454 at large what are the identity now in civilized crime don't let me use in a transparent crime now there will be daily updates with respect to what has happened you see that that issue we have moved away from it it is just the media that enjoys what light on it and we have continued government as usual not a single person has been fired not a single person has been head responsible and you begin to wonder are we running in nature or what are we running now let's put it in perspective if it is if it is your private organization or if it is your family let's say Nigeria is a family and something of this nature happens in the family what do you think will happen if it is your family with respect to those that they have called the ex the previous ex of the family because the government is not transparent enough with respect to this issue and those that are responsible have not been held culpable you see look you recall the jailbreak in a those state we have had 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 jail breaks and we have no fear of those but the minister of interior he was at Kirikiri medium and maximum correctional facility 2 days ago where he said that he proudly proclaimed he actually said that the prisons and had successfully curtailed jail breaks from within several attempts to break the jail and they had successfully made sure that no single jailbreak from within had been carried out you know the only thing that has happened was that the attempt from people from outside the prisons to break their friends inside was a problem but there was nothing that happened from within maybe some opportunity for us to commend the minister of interior for a job well done I agree with him on that I agree with him on that that what you have seen in testimony and it has to do with external security outside of the jail what we have to do with internal security of our nation as a country how safe are we going to look if we have people that have been killed breaking jail and going around the street on arrest there is no good danger no good danger it is better for government to secure them than for them to be one they were dangerous to the society dangerous to the community dangerous to the people now you put them in prison they have become more aggressive if they succeed breaking out from the jail and now we have serious problems on our hands and neighboring countries are tightening the rules in order to prevent these people from entering into their country see all those that have been arrested who is arrested are the people what was the factor in the crime they were caught with drugs they were caught with drugs it was also treated by men and women of the enforcement agency that mother was arrested in a bourgeois they were not good at what were arrested they were caught with drugs they were not good at what different types of drugs let's also look at the garden newspaper and this is very interesting because it comes from the WHO and we understand how it is with the WHO IMF and the World Bank well Africa records 63% jump in diseases spread from animals to humans that's what the World Health Organization is quoted to say what are your thoughts at the moment do you think that we are having all of this because of the consumption or what's really going on when it comes to Africa it's easier for WHO IMF and the rest of them to mention or identify diseases in Africa it's easy WHO has not been able to come up with the source and origin of COVID-19 they've not been able to come up with it but it's easier to say okay see the outbreak of monkey paws that broke in western world some fuel if that happened in Africa I'm sure they would have shot our border and prevented us from traveling from traveling our border I have no issues with their reports with respect to excuse me with respect to to providing us with people of this outbreak it's been spreading out because when we are there we are not at our cells our leaders when they are sick they have not received medical help so our medical facilities cannot, it's not that these issues are not in western world but they have developed an fully developed healthcare system that is that addresses what diseases in society but throughout it we don't have any all of these things you are talking about in the 70s, in the 80s we have all of these problems when our medical facilities even our primary healthcare system some of the issues that are secondary and national healthcare system cannot be solved because there are no improvements because our training themselves society is not investing money in training doctors and medical medical personnel it's for me which I look at is the failure of leadership on our path to provide what is bad to protect to protect our people for our diseases that might arise from what we have identified so if we are to we have enough healthcare for safety this won't be our this won't be our engine let's look at the one coming off the front page of the punch in East River which talks about jet A1 scarcity hitting the headlines it's talking about aviation fuel and of course it says that the passengers are protesting delayed flights it's becoming a repeated of failure in the aviation sector I mean it's about mirroring failure in different parts of national life it seems to be no end in sight do you see an end in sight I mean are we is it a lost cause till 2023 Kofi I went to last week I went and as I was embarking I saw a big generator being used to power to power the aircraft why the aircraft was still was was still on the thermat and the journalist in me made me to ask the guy a question what is this big team doing he said it's a generator oh I quickly put one one plus one together you are powering it with generator with little generator so that people can embark on the aircraft in order for it to save fuel and the guy smiled all you need to do is it's where I was coming from O'Reilly he said it's not cool but the generator does not have enough power the AC is in the aircraft big aircraft was off it was about making up that case you are horrible and how terrible this is and you begin to ask yourself a question you have someone calling himself a minister of petroleum you have a minister of state you have NMPC you have national assembly you have various agencies ministries and department of government people that have been given responsibility and not a single fella team it with to regularly inform us of what is wrong for the first time I purged fuel when I returned from when I returned from O'Reilly on Friday I had to go for a meeting in Deer in Ikeja I drove my car to Ikeja I purged fuel as I was coming back home from Ikeja that the fuel inside my car should not be exhausted it was a mathematical experience Nigerians are going to Truma look at the two mental health check for Nigerians I can assure you a lot of ones are suffering from mental health and the result of the Truma government has put up over the years I ask you again is there any end in sight to this situation of a collapse of the aviation sector in the country the president said he is tired the president said he cannot which one he said he is tired to hand over to the successor and we see up some time in his tenor so much so someone who made a joke said was it you mercy that the person hopes to fear or not finish in any airplane while in midair we certainly pray that it doesn't happen a tendency to call corners in this part of the world we certainly pray that that does not happen because when your fear finishes on the road you can just simply park your car and pick up a gen but in the air where would you park the car you can't park the car in the air that's true so I mean it's a lot in the news this morning and that's because if you look at the papers it's almost everything that should make us agitated for instance 23 million young Nigerians on feed for the job market that's what the ITF is quoted to say that's on the daily trust newspaper and do you want to begin to ask the question why is this why do we have we should be competing with the global markets or contemporaries outside you have a population of over 211 million and 23 of them not feed for the job markets I mean this is locally how would you compete globally when majority of the time your students are at home through one strike or the other you have many years you have lost in training you see clearly trained and equipped that would compete what competition do you want to do one team is training they started their pre-season eight months and your own team has been on strike for five months and you actually have to come and play a football match you could compare the fitness of those that have been training for eight months that do not have any interruption in their training they check out the training system it's not possible so our graduates are not fit and proper but is it just all right I'm listening I was going to ask if it's just about the fact that the students or the people are always at home ask to strike or something about our curriculum because people are moving away from the conventional and if you look at the world it's driven by different things technology and what have you but if you look at the curriculum if you look at the structure of our educational system it's very conventional others are moving away from this pattern of education and we're still bent on this so is it the fact that we're at home or is the problem of the structure of our educational system including our curriculum it's it's part of what we're striking on it's about providing the facilities there's nothing wrong with our curriculum we don't want to treat our curriculum I cannot show you that it's causing a difference it's a bit monolithic who told me that it would take 60,000 for you to train a medical doctor in Britain and it takes 4,000 3,000 to 4,000 pounds to train that medical doctor in Nigeria and that medical doctor just need to pass one exam from Britain so it is cheaper to train a medical doctor in Nigeria than to train a medical doctor in Britain and you can see from record that our doctor that are trained in Nigeria that practice in Nigeria job would outside of Nigeria and they are doing well you know how many references I have sent to my students that have gone to schools abroad they are accountable it's such that the resources are not there we have human resources the curriculum is there but the technology the facilitating technologies are not there there are no internet facilities in our classrooms there are no internet facilities in our lecture rooms we don't have smartbots so these are some of the things that ASU is providing for beyond emoluments so it is for government to provide these facilities and I can tell pick an average Nigerian graduate he or she can compete with anyone anywhere in the world just giving at least 30% of what obtains 30% give 30% of what obtains in united states in between schools in Nigeria and I will tell you the Nigerian we excel even with the 0% that we have our students are still exceling all right you know some of your friends you know some of your friends that I have traveled abroad to do their masters through them you know what I am talking about all right very interesting analysis thank you very much for your time and we look forward to having you here surely next week it is a pleasure to be with you Kofi and enjoy your service Friday yes indeed all right Djili Janssen is the chief lecturer with the Nigerian Institute of Journalism and that is the size of that segment we will be back to talk about football mercy your mates are on the field and Super Falcons we will be making the semifinals we will call it a 1 million dollar match we will talk about that when we come back but it is the 15th of July let's check out what happened today in history and we will be back afterwards