 You're welcome back to the breakfast and plots TV Africa. It's now time for all the press and we've been joined by the chief lecturer of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Mr. Julia Johnson. Good morning, Mr. Johnson. Good morning. Good morning to our viewers all over the world. Fantastic. We're beginning this morning with the Daily Independent newspaper. The headline reads, Or Osai reports on civil service reform outdated and that's according to the HCSF. And it says, even the agencies and paracetals that were meant to be rationalised had been increased with more created after the report. Also, 21 year old Unilag female students says, how I killed Super TV CEO. Again, Buhari travels to London today for medical follow up. World Health Organization raises the alarm over rising COVID-19 cases in Africa. FCTA records seven deaths in 91 cholera cases. Syrica says federal government to finalise airport concessions by August. Dangote receives highest civilian honour in Cameroon, pledges expansion in investment. Lawan rejects INX request to involve lawmakers in constituency delineation. Also says National Assembly will pass electoral act amendment bill in PIB soon. Northern coalition drags National Assembly to court over constitution review. Federal government pays 24 billion Naira to 413,630 public works scheme beneficiaries. On the Daily Sun newspaper, alleged soldiers collision with bandits, defence chief Irabo attacks Sheikh Gumi. Says anyone accusing military of conniving with bandits is hallucinating. Islamic clerics should be arrested. FGWs retired military officers. Anambra Guba. Soludos runner up rejects ABGA primary results. Buhari goes to London for medical follow up. INEC admits security threats as registration at registration areas to deploy machines. 5,346 staff to 2,673 centres. Federal government states owing 33.11 trillion Naira. That's according to the National Bureau of Statistics. Senate president justifies Buhari. Honour to submit revised 25 year roadmap on national space policy to Federal Executive Council. Onion producers hail Uzzadimma for brokering peace with South. The constitution has gone men's Storm Abuja hotel, kidnapped six guests, owner, five bandits killed, two arrested in Niger. Zanfar al-Govna metawali may join APC next Tuesday. Moving on now to the Nigerian Tribune. The story about the murder of the super TV CEO is also here. The headline reads infrastructure in Nigeria is poor. Only option is to borrow Senate president. Federal government states owing 33.11 trillion Naira external domestic debts. Also caught late July 21st to hear suit seeking Buhari's sack from office. Buhari returns to London from medical check up. Ban government officials who violate press freedom, electoral reform stakeholders charge US, UK, Canada. Reps storming a MHA NPA over 166 billion Naira unremitted revenue. Allegrape court grants Babayjasha 2 million Naira bail. IPOP tells Gumi we're not after Northerners but terrorists. Kogi governor moves to stop grants to former governor Idris, others. Ondorobri's suspect says I wanted to be more popular than Oyenusi and Nini Rambo. 13.5 million children can't access quality education in Nigeria. We'll also take a look at the punch newspaper. The headline talks about the president living for the UK for a check up. It also has a story about the super TV CEO's murder. Other headline reads Emirates makes a U-turn except Nigeria, South Africa, Indian passengers. Amoteco consorts residents as robbers rights ocean community demand 20 million Naira. We see a picture here of a school with school kids and the soldiers with the children. And the reads NYSC director general Brigadier general Ibrahim in Udega community of Nassarawa state. During the health initiative for rural dwellers campaign of the scheme on Thursday. Also food vehicle Bolion van crash in Ogun. Four women, two men killed. Caught here suit challenge in Atikus citizenship September 27th. Kara Bologna's 28 year old grandson dies. Residents suspect suicide. Also NPC NBC amendment be used against constitution. Attempts to criminalize freedom of expression that's according to Falunel. The federal government says we're investing one billion dollars in Lagos but an expressway to others. AFDB unveils 10,000 megawatts of solar power plant for 250 million Nigerians. Let's take a look lastly on the nation newspaper. I will be I will okay restructuring bill if passed says Buhari. Senate to begin final push for PIB passage next week. Bandits kidnapped 33 in Kaduna threatened ocean community. Baba Yajasha gets bail. Sweeter suspension a hard decision to take. Minister 476 online platforms working against government. 8.1 kilometer if and North connecting road inaugurated by Oetola. And lastly to no bull hails. Bajabi amela son Oulu on his birthday. Good morning and thanks for joining us once again Mr. Jede Johnson. It's a pleasure to be with you. There are many big stories on the punch news on the newspapers this morning. There's about restructuring Nigeria's debt profile. The president live into the UK. There's a story about the super TV CEO and the murder. Where would you like to start? I would like to start with the presidency and I will sign the bill. Restructuring bill if passed by the Senate. And I think that the APC is just playing deep service to restructuring because it was the party that ran on restructuring. We check the manifest to the agenda. The campaign stomps speeches of APC as an opposition party. The party that promises to change the structure of governance, change the attitude of governance. So the president is saying that you passed the bill. Then why does he not raise the bill as the president's executive bill? Because the party that controls the executive and the legislature presently at the national level is the APC. The president on his own trying to restructure the system made an executive order that gave, that tried to give autonomy to the legislature at the state level and the state as a assembly as well as give financial autonomy to the local government. So the president on his own has agreed that there is a need for restructuring of the legislature at the state level, the judiciary at the state level and then the local government, which 1999 question has amended. It's not the women's provisions for, which is the third tier of government. So just looking at that, he himself has identified three areas that need to be restructured. So when he's saying he passed the bill, I think he's playing deep service to you. All he needs to do is just to call for the meeting of his party members or to instruct the acting national chairmen to call for a national course within the world, involve himself, other party leaders, the speaker, the senate president, the majority leader in both houses and then they sit together, the fashion at the base and they pass the bill in no time if they want. If you want to achieve the order and go into an executive order, which more or less is like a decree. So what's the likelihood of the national assembly passing that? The national assembly. When I'll link that to another story, the immediate function of the legislature is to pass law. Now, INEC wanted to involve the national assembly in the delineation of constituents because the constitution needs to be delineated. The population of Nigeria in 1999 is not the population of Nigeria in 2021. So you have to really delete the constituents. What did the senate president said? The senate president, Jetty Singh, shied away from his own responsibility said the national assembly will not join INEC in the nation of the constituents. So what do you expect from the national assembly? Will you ask, will you require a body to make laws that will render them inactive? In something that they have part and parcel of the beneficiary of a particular system. And even coming to that, the electoral act that was passed in prior to 2019 election, the president did not ascend to it. The national assembly went ahead to pass that electoral act. The president did not ascend to it. People are saying that there was no time. Now since 2019 to date, we are having an election in 2023. Nothing has been done with respect to electoral act that will guide 2023 elections. Even another latest story, the INEC registration is about to, continuous voter registration is about to start nationwide. The INEC as chairman said that the registration process is being threatened because of security challenges. So you could see, if we begin to link this story together, you could see how agencies of government, institutions of government and those who have elected into offices, how they are filled in their responsibility of making sure that things work out smoothly in the nation. So, as I am concerned, I will sign the bill. All the president needs to do is to ask his land office, our people working in the presidency, for them to fashion out the bill and they present it before the national assembly as an executive bill. Proud to present it before the national assembly. They do it at the party level, at the national cost level. They look at the bill and the presidency and the party that run on progressive agenda, that run on the agenda of change, will present it. What do you expect from a party that can hold its own national convention? What do you expect from a party that is being run by a chaotic community? What do you expect from such a party? What do you expect? If a party cannot put its own house in order, cannot abide by its own conscience, cannot expect that party to put Nigeria in order, to put the caution of Nigeria in order. Except you can't give what you don't have. It's a busy, busy book. You can't give what you don't have. It's an operation. Now, there is a story in which it's also related to that. The run-off of Abga in Anambra State said he rejects, he rejected the result of that election. Yes, today I next said, they are not going to accept the candidate of Abga because Abga did not notify them concerning that election. I have not seen Ainege writing APC, telling APC that having a chaotic community managing your party at the national level, to the state level, to the local government level. It's an operation and antithetical to democratic spirit. Ainege has not written APC because concerning that too. God will not help Nigeria. Nigerians will help themselves. But you can't flood principle and expect to get results. You can't want to build a house without having a foundation. That's the building waiting to collapse. It's just a matter of time. The building will collapse. Even if you have laid the foundation, if you don't put road, you only use cement and sand to build the foundation. It's just a building waiting to collapse. No matter how much of prayer you pray, you can't hold the building. You don't do the writing. The writing is critical, concerning. I've been in nation. I don't know how you can tie some other national stories together. The senate president has said Nigeria is poor. The only option is to borrow. The MBS has talked about how federal government and state owe over 33 trillion Naira in external and domestic debts. The president's medical tourism is jetting off to the UK today. Look, the senate president Nigeria is, we are like this leader to think. Just imagine if it's a private company. A private company. These elected leaders are like you are hiring someone to help you manage, to manage your company, to manage your resources. Just imagine that if the crop of people that we have, a leadership, if it's a private company, if it's a private company and we go up the public liability company and we go for the shareholders meeting. What do you think we do in the shareholders meeting? We vote them out as board of directors. We take them out. What would you expect from a senate president that has been, that has been in the national assembly since 1993? What do you expect from them? They don't do anything. All they do is to sit and have meetings and then they say they do oversight function. They don't think outside of the box. And then how have you justified the money we have borrowed? How would the senate president be making justification for borrowing? He shouldn't even come from him. That's the responsibility of the executive. Let the assembly present before the national assembly that we want to borrow. And the national assembly will look at whether they can borrow or not borrow. And what do you want to use the resources for? But when the gatekeeper that should gatekeeper, whether they borrow or they don't borrow, or they don't borrow on how, that has the power over the post, becomes the spokesperson for borrowing. Then you know where we are as a nation. And the NCF said the states are owing. The federal government is owing. Everybody is indebted. And we can't see any meaningful impact of the money government has borrowed in the lives, the effect of it in the lives and property of his insecurity. We understand nations borrow money. Yes, the United States of America, the president, made a press conference where he said they are enjoying a bipartisan infrastructure to build infrastructure. Nations borrow money to build infrastructure. Infrastructure lasts for a longer period of time. And everybody yet, children yet on board will come to enjoy it. But they will also pay for it. Not the kind of borrowing we have in Nigeria. If we borrow money to build a class of spiritual, the president would have to travel to London. If you have to come the number of times the president has traveled to London. Who is paying for his medical trip abroad? Who is paying for that? If we have the resources in Nigeria, if we are borrowed to build that of spiritual in Nigeria, what will be given, will be, will be, will be, will not be contributing money to United Kingdom economy because everything will be done in pounds tellings. If the president will go, he will go with the situate age, he will go with the fire failure of his, he might be at least, at least with, but we are contributing more to the economy of Britain. But imagine if we have a hospital and the doctor that is consultant to Nigeria, the money will be retained in Nigeria and it will contribute to the growth of Nigeria. But here we are, the president keeps going to America, keeps going to London. What of Nigerians that cannot afford to go to London? What of Nigerians that cannot afford? Have you ever seen the president, the prime minister of Britain coming for treatment in Nigeria? Have you ever seen the prime minister of India going for treatment elsewhere? Have you ever seen? I've never seen. It's an abrasion, it's an insult. In fact, our leaders should be ashamed of themselves. I don't know whether they have any sense of shame for them to be travelling abroad to seek medical facilities. So Nigerians that can't travel abroad, how would they get medical? All right, Mr. Johnson. Mr. Gino Johnson. We need that to the security issue. The chief of the defense staff said, Sheikh Gumi explained to the gallery by accusing the military. Can you say that statement? Can anybody say that statement? Or walk freely the way Sheikh Gumi has been talking with respect to security challenges in the country and then accusing the army? Is that not treason and felony? Can I or you and I just wake up and then go on air and say, the army is conniving with the bandits. That's why we are having bandits and the rest of it. Only for the chief of the defense staff to come. I think it should be invited by security. If you remember, some other people have been arrested for making similar claims. Yes, go ahead. It seems to be untouchable. It seems to be untouchable. At least you cannot say it should be debriefed. It should be invited. Not even arrested in this facility. We invite him debrief him, gather intelligence from him. That's what he should be done. That's what he's done in normal life. And then if whatever you gather from him shows him being being copied in the security issue that we're talking about, then you prosecute him. But if it's not comfortable, you use him as a viable intelligence gathering resource. That's how it's done. Not for the chief of the defense staff to be replying and responding to him on the pages of Miss Weeper. I don't understand where we operate the security apparatus of this country. Also the federal government here say they're trying to woo retired military officers to get back into action. They can get back retired military officers. But the concern really have been these people are being politely treated and how really can they come back? The patriotism is still there. Their welfare has been taken care of as retired officers. So what are your perspectives on the story of the federal government trying to woo retired military officers to join the anti-insurgency operations? Well, this modern warfare, this modern warfare, those retired military officers can they fight in this modern warfare? Are they equipped, are they trained to fight this modern warfare? Or what should we do? Should we recruit new soldiers and have them as a reserve? Do you have the military? You train them, you keep them to deal with the challenges of this particular modern warfare that's guerrilla warfare. In any case, whatever government feel is appropriate in it. Bringing the third and third but there's a key element that we need to must talk about which is the motivation and the warfare package of those fighting soldiers. If you don't motivate your troops, if you don't encourage them, if you don't build their confidence there's no way you can win anyone. So government is doing a lot with respect to the warfare and motivation that is given to these agencies fighting the war on the war front in the north-east and fighting in the north-west. I think if government has the plan but they must put in place to encourage those that are retired to come back to fight the war and for those that are also presently fighting the war, are we saying that they can't fight the war? What is really wrong? How to personally fight in the war? The totality of the insurgents, their number in strength, the resources they have, their resources can match that of them. And I think that we should be up and doing fighting this particular war. That's just my opinion of this question. All right, do you have any thoughts on this particular story? It's trending nationwide about the story. This is an unfortunate story but from my own understanding I'm sure that I think it is my opinion now it is not fact that drug is involved in this particular that's my opinion. She did mention that they took some of those, yes. In those substance because for someone to you must have had a relationship prior to that and then for someone to kill, to stab another person separately someone in his right senses should not be able to do to do that particular issue. It's the case that the police are looking into that under investigation. I think that we should wait to be true before we come to judgment but it's unfortunate it's rather unfortunate that the younger that has a bright future will be caught up in this particular message for all the guests out there as well as for all the men out there with respect to who you ever want to have relationship with you must have a background check of whoever you want to have whoever you want to bring into your house concerning your private matter. Now this is a private matter if the security, if the complications of murder is not in homicide is not involved in it we will know about this particular about this particular particular incident and then how they did after I was able to overpower the man to stab him to death to stab him to death in his sleep all of these things during the course of the investigation and the police coming up with their report and then filing for for prosecution for the stories it's rather unfortunate I just pitted the young lady and I pitted the family of the young man and the people working with him it's unfortunate it's saddening it's when I read this story I tell you I didn't want to have the courage to listen to the entire story because it's something that's telling that the two lives have been wasted already two lives have been wasted depending on the outcome the man is gone and the lady no matter how, when one prosecution starts even if she's not charged with murder probably she'll be charged with mans but that means she's going to spend some time in prison and she has to stigmatize code of code with this particular issue I pray that God in His Invinitiveness will just help to console both families that are involved that's just my comment on that All right moving on we see a story here on the Daily Independent Newspaper it says that the WHO has raised the alarm over rising cases of COVID-19 in Africa and there's also has recorded seven deaths in 91 cholera cases I'm taking a look at this cholera situation and the whole COVID-19 would you say Nigeria has lent any lessons regarding our health sector it's not even the health sector it's about public health this area of medicine is called public health public health when you talk about cholera outbreak what type of drainage system do we have how clean our community why we were growing up as kids we we used to have this sanitary inspector we called them woolly woolly you see this sanitary inspector because in the 70s and in the 60s one of the major public health issue with that was cholera outbreak you have this sanitary inspector they can enter anybody's house you don't clean your drainage and the rest of it you are arrested or you are given a fine or you are given a deadline to ensure that you do all of that they even check your drinking water pot we used to have this etanway pot and then we used to say woolly woolly we used to sing that song to prepare the minds of everybody in ensuring that you make adequate provisions to ensure that one sanitary inspector did do all of that but I tell you I have worked in the local government and I have sent this sanitary inspector only days they go out you know the only days they go out they only go out on Thursdays and when they go out on Thursdays they go to look out for for the people that did not comply with the 10 o'clock 10 o'clock 10 am coffee until you open your your businesses that's what they do they do not do anything they just enforcement they don't go for compliance that's the problem we have in Nigeria people go for enforcement and not compliance I think we should emphasize on compliance you have not done this do this we should be using corrective measures and not punitive measures you just correct the person I just want to relate the story to this concerning that because it's pathetic that's why you have all these some of he's driving family not familiar with that road is entering through the road and you wait for him to get to the end of the road before you arrest him you arrest him whereas you could have the enforcement officer could have waited at the entrance of the road and just direct the person and this is the way to go through but in Lagos for instance they will hide they will wait for you to commit the crime crime prevention it's the same thing with this health issue why don't we prevent it before it happens by taking measures and showing that people comply with health protocol for example what are the protocols concerning COVID-19 wash your hands social distancing use of face masks and the rest of it how have you complied and if you ensure that you get vaccinated what effort we are waiting for donation for vaccination and what are the misconceptions and truth of vaccination that people have concerned about so the outbreak WSU you will be worried the outbreak of cholera will join it because you are getting towards the rainy rainy season and if you block the drain system and the drain system can't flow it creates an outbreak is only cholera outbreak will soon see the outbreak of malaria very very soon once your drains are not clean once your environment are not clean are not neat and tidy it creates the room for the habitation of mosquitoes and then after cholera outbreak you have malaria outbreak and then we have a public health disaster and we don't we don't want to have another endemic situation we are already dealing with a pandemic this endemic situation we don't have to create an endemic situation this endemic situation can be corrected okay so finally there are other stories here that I saw on the daily independence and it's talking about airport concession Syrika is saying the federal government would finalize concessions by August and we know all the concerns concerning this job losses here and there where do you stand regarding this concession topic government has no business running businesses except to regulate it that's just it government has no business look compare when MM2 was considered to by Courtney look at the situate the operations of MM2 with the operations of MM1 situate the two together government has no business in business except to regulate as far as I'm concerned we don't have to hand it over and let people we don't have to be voting money for those airport every year look the largest airport in United Kingdom is operated by Nigeria is it from Britain was considered to him so that's the best approach that's the global standard approach and I'm in support of government but just imagine we have not considered telecom telecom sector to the private sector what do you think will happen to the telecom sector in Nigeria now what do you think will happen would that make the growth that we have made when it comes to the telecom sector if you look at that up from the grave and tell him that this is the way the telecommunications sector in Nigeria is like it will tell you it's not possible because you never live to see the development of the telecommunications sector just imagine if we have left the broadcasting industry in the end of government alone without the regulation of 1990 what do you think will happen to the broadcasting sector and that's why a lot of people are against the draconian review of the NBC NBC Act that will turn the minister of information to be immortal to be immortal that will turn into a Frankenstein monster that can just and a Dracula that can suck out life out of any media organization be it broadcast media organization online or digital platform so that's the reason so as far as I'm concerned this is maybe the second second look okay alright Ms. Ajide Johnson thank you for joining us this very beautiful Friday morning I know you Mr. Sarwage but he's joining us in just a minute alright it's a pleasure to be with you Anita once again have a wonderful weekend ensure that you enjoy yourself after a solid work throughout the week thank you and to all of our viewers all over the world thank you alright Sarwage Om joining us in just a minute for today in history and today in history we're going back to the year 1950 to tell you about a very significant event in Asia and in 2009 about one of the most awarded pop stars in history to stay with us