 Welcome once again to the breakfast here on plus TV Africa. It's time for off the press where we have a quick review of the major stories Making headlines across the country today. We have been joined this morning by Coyote. La Dende senior news editor. Good morning Thanks for joining us sir. Yeah. Good morning. See you Let's kick off with stories from the nation newspapers one of the big ones there already says southern governors call for urgent national dialogue How we will secure Nigeria by NSA, CDS and IG also attacks on security operatives a declaration of war says the federal government A do pdp or basaki at war Exco reports governor to NWC Also this morning while we turn down McIndy's cash offer by SAC or your council chairman You can also find on the nation this morning troops and Boko Haram in Meduguri battle No Eid prayer at Abuja national ground Ramadan Today that's on the nation and also EFCC recovers one hundred and fifty three million dollars 80 assets from Desyani Bankers must declare assets. That's also on the nation this morning. NSIA gained one hundred and sixty billion in 2020 First floating LNG project and also UTM offshore signs packed A few others back as shots adoration ground for one month and pastor abducted in understate Those are the stories on the nation this morning on the Nigerian Tribune the headline reads southern governors meet in Asaba Ban open grazing demand restructuring wants Buhari to convoke national dialogue urgently Above the headline on the Nigerian Tribune how 2023 presidency is splitting the zones A do pdp falls out with a basaki wants deputy governor to resign for harmonization Lasu VC no to non-native Omoiko Pataki group says Ramadan Adelfitri is Thursday Buhari should resign or step aside and that's according to the leader of the affinity NSIA grew assets to seven hundred and seventy two point seven five billion Naira in 2020 Below the headline on the Nigerian Tribune insecurity we are considering restructuring not separation That's according to the federal government are still below the headline on the Nigerian Tribune FG says 40 terror financiers for prosecution and judiciary to be unbundled Buhari approves new security measures for southeast and south south those are the stories on the Nigerian Tribune And on the punch newspapers Indian COVID-19 strain surfaces in Nigeria Disease Center alats NCDC strain detected in Oshun, Edo same with India's different in characteristics Also this morning on the punch convoke national dialogue south tells Buhari or Nezah Fenifere back governors Governors condemn armed headers atrocities fear food scarcity Booker I'm scared National Assembly orders thorough screening of vehicles and persons And also this morning moon not sighted Ramadan continues today says the NSCIA Ogun state business woman disappears on way to vigil in Lagos And also security experts demand probe raise concerns over Villa robbery We can also see on the Pontius morning a Japanese firm to build Nigeria's first floating LNG facility And Oshun mosque shot Salah prayers banned as imams battle for seats I think those are the ones that we can share from the Pontius morning On the Guardian newspaper 17 southern governors ban open grazing Foreign investors pull out 1.64 trillionaire from stock market over insecurity Women leaders give Buhari two months to convene a national security conference NSI assets grew by 193 billion Naira as investments in foreign assets appreciate $100 million lost as NNPC gives a bunkering service to foreigners says SOAN AW pledges greater interest in youth as Dari is buried And another story here on the Guardian newspaper Masab de Pauze A presidential shoot on site order in southeast All right, good morning once again and let's move to Kairu de Ladende The southern governors of course have made all the papers this morning One of the biggest stories from the last 24 hours Yeah, I kind of find it quite instructive For news journalists like us we might look at it there was a big deal When these governors make we only hear some kind of political rhetoric We only hear things that sounds good but they are hardly matched with actions But what I find is very instructive is the fact that there is a man And permit me if I sound like eulogizing him and that's the governor of those states Now if you talk about any governor who has benefited so well from the center Talking about President Buhari is this man called Akira Dulu And for him to look away from the partisan interest and align with other governors And consider the people that voted in and said I need to be the chief security officer of my state By supporting what everybody embers out so to say is supporting And we need to sound something very clear here This is not a divisive move this is not to say that the south is different from the north But what they are saying is we are the host communities you don't tell us how to receive you You don't give us how to relate with you we have our rules and you need to blend with our rules You need to make this a win-win situation it's not that you tell us what should be done at any point in time So that's why I like what he is doing is leading this whole thing He is saying that open grazing is banned and for him to even say president you need to address the nation You know what the president has said that you cannot compare me to address the nation talking about the spokesman So for him to be on a different lane with the president it's about the urgency of the situation That's what I found quite interesting national dialogue cannot be overemphasized it's needed You can hear them saying we are considering restructuring and not suppression obviously that is expected This situation it's not the first time we're hearing different governors in southern states say they ban open grazing We've heard this time and time again at what point does it move from making public declarations to actually actions in their states Yeah it's quite technical but for the fact that it's becoming a reality we cannot all shy away from You know the president whom we've been shouting about the state of insecurity They've had series of marathon meetings now with the security chiefs That's to tell you that when you are not proactive you'll be forced to be reactive And that's exactly what is going on reactive may not be the best option being proactive is better So it's a situation where we'll be forced to implement these state laws Whichever way I know our Our concept of federalism is is cute for the fact that if I drink you need another loud to govern themselves They decide so many things they do for them But trust me we've had the likes of river state governor who decides how the state should be governed When he says there's a coffee there's a coffee when he says nobody's moving nobody's moving Though he went too far when he said he was going to ban the airspace from people flying And you know how far he went about it So I see a situation here when they say desperate situation demands desperate measures And that is exactly what is going on what is going to happen The understate governor has no choice all the southern governors have no choice than to ensure that they do not leave losses This does not mean that all the elders are criminals or they are about to attack the Southwest But necessary measures are to be put in place to save both the northerners and the southerners in their host communities It's also do you think they also have ignored an angle the headers aren't necessarily or would you put them as also responsible for the kidnapping For the banditry for the attacks on police facilities Yes, I totally agree with you this has to be look holistically you know there's an angle I saw sometimes and when I had that kind of debate a lot of people tried to show me In the Southwest I'm from the Southwest so I'm going to be very practical in the Southwest We have some Southwesterners or the Europas as you may call them who have these cows We would prefer that these northerners help them to move around to feed these cows And they will come back to sell it off in other words the Southwesterners should not be absorbed from this old open grazing It is a complicit everybody is involved but what we are saying is if we ban it whether you are doing it softly When that you are behind the scene you are going to be affected you got to change your strategy You need to have a you need to have a ranch you need to feed your cows because you are selling them You don't have to feed on people you don't have to make life you know unbearable for people so this is not an attack on the northerners It's not an attack on the headers so to say because headers here even the person that owns these cows you know is also a header so to say So I think we should look at the big picture let's not regionalize this old thing let's see it as a good measure to stop any form of criminality coming from that end And one of the decisions that the Southern Governors reached at that meeting in as a by yesterday was the government needed to address the nation And we've seen here on the punch newspaper that a fenifery backs the government and saying You know back the governors insisting that the government need to convoke a national dialogue also on the Guardian newspaper women leaders here have given President Muhammad Wuhari two months to convene a national security conference How important is it for the government to address the nation and convene this national security dialogue they are talking about I'm going to sound this is not my words now I'm going to remember some of my friends some public affairs commentators who had said that What difference does it make when the president addresses nation but it is okay for the president to always have an interface with the people So what do we really need is it national address which I'm not against or we need day to day address You know that's what happens in other climbs when you have shootings of in secondary school in colleges You see the president coming up to speak why the governor is also speaking they are giving updates they are telling us this is what they are doing This is not what they are doing. This is the true situation. We've gotten the person that gone down the people Oh, this person has killed himself. Oh, why he killed himself that doesn't end the matter They look at the family they look at the history and they give us an update It was an update so that's the nation we are talking about. So whether Afenivari or the women group is a microcosm of what a lot of Nigerians are saying I think that's where the president should look at it. He should not look at it all the time. Afenivari is always on the other side against me But let's look away from the messenger and look at the message but like I said I'm not waiting for a national address I'm not waiting for a presidential address. I'm looking for a daily briefing. Security of lives is key and we cannot continue to be hypocritical about it It comes from the president or from the idea of police, you know, governors Oh, you know, the chief of defense, chief of army, chief of army, we need to Not just, you know, as a journalist sometimes we get so infuriated with the kind of threats releases we get from these security agencies Oh, we have deployed this and it's always about them, you know, neutralizing and doing these things and we see them taking some territory So it's quite appalling, I want action, we want record, we want names, we want, they told us we want to start measuring the names of sponsors of terrorism And this is, is better than you didn't tell us I mean, just take a look at just how much Nigeria is losing, not, you know, beyond the lives that are being killed, the people being kidnapped On the guidance paper, it says here that foreign investors have pulled out 1.64 trillion Naira from the stock market over insecurity This is despite promises from the FGT time and time again to prioritize security of Nigerians Very, very important. I hope we see it out there because there are quite a lot of issues you talked about I would like to talk a bit about politics, you know, when I heard that Edo PDP, their executive, they are working with the governor And just a few days ago, I was doing a playback of some of the interviews I've had with some politicians on the station And I remember, in quotes, more like a prediction from the former governor of Ekite State Where he said that, I put it to you, write it down That Obaseki was going to win this election which he won And I put it to you that is going to leave PDP and come back to APC And I'm waiting. Is this going to come to pass? Because the man of Obaseki cannot be gay I mean, cannot be put in a cage by politicians. This is a full technocrat This is somebody who was doing well in the private sector And so he's not used to coming to this office every morning and calling yourself political jobbers And you want to get money from what people have done And a good number of us have been praying for that kind of leaders So what do we do at this time? We need more Obasekis I'm not to show whether his performance is above average But we need people who would turn to the people that voted for them And not just elected few who are sharing the commonwealth of the state or of the country Political jobbers are not restricted to one party Exactly. That's why I said he moved from APC because some political jobbers wanted to frustrate him And now he's in PDP thinking he's going to be a better thing I'm not calling the executive political jobbers now But by extension we know what it means I've been covering politics so I understand that it is not beyond the dues It needs to fund the, they call it the mechanism of the party And you know what that means? Your tax, my tax So those things we contribute to the state Alright, let's quickly talk COVID-19 There's a report of the Indian strain surfacing in Nigeria I'm guessing that should worry us Seriously, seriously And you know when I looked at the new phase of the lockdown I was a bit worried that what's the record We don't have such scaring figures like we have in India And maybe by extension some other Asian countries And I was like, why are we having this? But I think time will justify their decision Let's hope it's not what we see on social media Because there's a whole lot of conspiracy theories that government is up to They have a kind of funny agenda They want to, you know, they want to Die down the issue of insecurity in the country That it has nothing to do with COVID But from the look of things, if this information is entirely true Because the NCDC boss is still trying to say It has a kind of similarity with that of the Indian strain That is scary Because this is a country where vaccines have been produced And we are having such a huge number of people, you know, confirmed But I think another part of it is we need to play up the debt toll The debt toll is not as high as the way we talk about the confirmed figures The confirmed figures sounds very scary I'll give you an example, in sports now There have been a lot of people who are at COVID There is hardly a single death I'm talking about international football, you understand There has been a single death So let's not be so scared That's why I don't use the word deadly disease We should know that even if you are COVID You can come out of it, just make sure that you open up yourself for tests And you do the necessary things, those people who had COVID before Some of them are taking their vaccines and they are safer But I believe it's also because of the rate of infection, you know, like it is in India That's preventive And if they have that, if it has that rate of infection This particular strain, it means that we are very likely to go Debt will also increase Of course, and it might be also necessary to go into a full lockdown Because of ways that we need to control it And that would affect the economy once again Because people have complained about what they suffered last year Exactly And that is one of the reasons I was a bit taken aback That COVID has always been contributing to the economic effect We went into a recession, which was inevitable Because of the spread then And we came out of it as what to say that, oh, thank God We are out of recession in record time Now we are considering lockdown again So what takes priority? I really don't know It's not the best of time for anybody to be in government at this time But beyond that, I think it's time for us to come back to that consciousness I think that's the whole idea We've lost it, so many parties are going on every day We drive late most times when we are doing evening news And we are shocked with what we see on the street You know, it is full business as usual So probably we need to come back to that consciousness And another issue still regarding politics is The federal government here is saying that they are considering restructuring Not separation Yeah, I touched on that And that, for me, is not news What is news is the fact that They are considering it, they are admitting it Because they've been turning some kind of deaf ear We've had APC set up a committee to look at this restructuring Edited by the governor of Kedena State And the paper has been submitted So put the paper on the table Even if it's your own style of restructuring Let's have something better than what everybody has agreed Is killed, what everybody has agreed Is not working Some of the reasons why we have many bad roads Due to the fact that There is no federal government can take care of all these roads Devolve this power, devolve this revenue Which is the main thing They are ready to devolve the What you call it, the responsibilities But they don't want to devolve the revenue flow But I think if it is about the people If it's about the interests of the people Let's have real devolution of power Which is part of restructuring Let's have state policing Let's look at things that will make our life more secured And not being reactive Because it just looks like being reactive And the southern governor's one of the things I mentioned Was also the state police idea once again Yeah, it's very important I know the fear is jamming These governors might turn these people To their tools when it comes to election But the question is Is federal government not also using the security agents Adjust to during election So if the fear is valid It's not enough not to go ahead The governor will not be there for more than two times So whatever he wants to do His power stops at a particular point in time And at a time the people will rise And they will have a say at all times All of this is really And some of these fears Are really just because we lack institutions The structure Not just the structure The institutions and how they should function No man should be able to have that much power If we have functional institutions And so the fears that people are expressing now Really just an expression of a failure of institutions I totally agree And so the question is What comes first Let's have the restructuring Let's begin to work on these institutions And rather than not taking any decision And you're saying you're free They will abuse the power They will do this They will do that Get something started And that is very very important At this time Okay, time is up Yes So you know It was a sad one I'm sure you guys must have talked about it A few days ago The death of Azadeboi's son And he speaks so much Now he's even making a statement Talking about the general mercy of redeem That it's time to give you the chance You know The young man has achieved so much Even in his little stay on health And it's for us to know that Let's stop giving an excuse Let's take the destiny Straight into our hands And see what comes to come of Nigeria Thank you very much Kairu De La Dende For joining us Thank you For sharing your thoughts with us this morning It's a pleasure When we come back We're moving straight to today in history And sharing the things that happened on this day Many years ago Stay with us