 Welcome once again to the breakfast here on Plus TV Africa and now let's go to off the press where we have a quick review of the stories making headlines across Nigeria today. We're going to be kicking off with the Daily Independent and of course our guest Tunde Colawale, a legal practitioner will be joining us via phone. Good morning Mr. Colawale. Good morning my friend. Thanks for joining us. How was your weekend? It was beautiful. Welcome once again. Thank you. Now let's start with the Daily Independent newspapers should be on your screen in just a few seconds. Yes it says travel at risk as vandalism of airport's critical equipment spikes. How Nigeria can cut one billion dollars annual importation of egg powder and also we trekked four days to our doctor's den says a free Tejina islamia school pupils. Emirates extend ban on Nigerian flights till September and also danguete is two billion dollars petrochemical plants to produce 77 grades of polypropylene. Still on the Daily Independent, why Secundus may not return as PDP national chairman and controversy trails death of captain Balaz who's a kebi senator's son. Paralympics Nigeria's Amalaya wins gold, sets new record. These are some of the big ones on the Daily Independent. Now let's quickly see what we can find on the nation newspapers. Just a few stories. We can see here Kayamo, government unaware of planned power tariff hike. Also on the nation, gunman kills senator's son. NMA issues, NMA's 21 day strike notice on fare says Ngegei and why revenue formula needs review and that's by the RMAFC. There's also a big story. It's a court proceedings, a court-sacked Taiwo Lakanu, Amkan receiver and manager from Nikon. I'm not sure what this is about but it also makes the headlines on the punch this morning and we could also quickly just share one or two from the punch. It says 21 day notice strike dangerous now. Federal government begs, doctors, NMA, ministry all disagree. Asu threatens fresh strike gives the government Tuesday ultimatum and also government implements cooking, gas, imports, tax, price jumps by 100%. NMA, false federal government as minister rejects ultimatum. Citizens lives on the threat, Hanyire laments. That's some of the stories on the punch this morning. Finally, we're going to take stories from the Guardian newspapers. Despite approvals, absence of ports scanners cost government 800 billion naira monthly. Also on the Guardian this morning, handle insecurity creatively, editors advise government. Nigeria needs new revenue sharing formula to address emerging challenges and also Singapore vaccinate 80% of population against COVID-19. NMA threatens to join Dr. Strike, gives federal government 21 day ultimatum. That's also on the Guardian this morning. Just a few stories across the papers this morning. I'll start with one of the stories on the Daily Independent, I believe. Anyway, good morning Mr. Kola Wale, thanks for joining us. Good morning my brother. All right. It was beautiful. Let's start with the story from the proposed strike by Asu. They've given the federal government to Tuesday, another ultimatum to Tuesday. What are your thoughts on that and put that side by side with the NMA also threatening to join the resident Dr. Strike in another 21 days? Well my brother, these are very troubling times for us as a nation. All those institutions that we have mentioned, the Asu, the NMA, they all represent very critical sectors of the economy. And as such, it is not decidable at all when any of those people a bullet of strike. Say for example, the medical people. You and I are quite aware that the nation is going through very serious problems in the area of the COVID pandemic. The Delta variant, which is considered to be more violent and which has faster has begun to ravage the country. And the support that the government and the organized by the system were giving when this COVID-19 started, that kind of massive order we saw is no longer coming as it used to come. So if the medical people now won't strike, these possibilities are that the nation might be witnessing a lot of casualties in the health sector. Furthermore, if Asu begins another land of strike, the possibilities are that our children who had said at home before now for almost two years because of this Asu strike will again return home. And of course, with no implication of that, the devil will find jobs for a high demand to do. That's how you find out they will now come again and join the unemployment market, which is already 33 percent of the employable persons in the in the concert. The girls who went back on the fire's activities, courtesan will be on the rise and all manners of undesirable behaviors will be seen among these children. So that's the extent I want to appeal to the federal government in the name of God. So please honor the agreement that you have signed with the NMA, with the resident medical doctor, and then with the Asu. Agreement is an agreement. One's individual, one's adult, and a good adult, who's Asu, who has their minds and thinking for causes, in fact when they are entered into an agreement, you're supposed to honor whatever agreement you have signed with the people. And especially when this is an industrial agreement which you executed in the full glare of a camera before the old natural people. And now you begin to see a difference here. This is not a defiant at all. It doesn't paint a very good picture for us, both internally and externally. So the board is in the court of the federal government. It is also in the court of the state government that they show for God's sake and the name of what is good and defiable. Please honor whatever agreement they have signed with the medical people and with Asu so that we don't witness another strike in there. And the lessons again for those who work in those areas like I used to say, it's desirable for them to strike for good governance all over the country. Until you have had good governance all over the country, it is difficult if not impossible to have a rational location of resources across both subjects, as well as education for social and all other areas of our crisis with the adequate place taking care of. The kind of people we have at the end of our lives today are like locals who are just ravaging the country in such a manner that they live with you on nothing for the other sectors of the economy to be able to develop. All right. I'm going to say good morning also to Ezekiel Ngayetok who's also joining us on the afterpress this morning. Good morning. Thanks for joining us. Good morning. Pleasure to be with you. Thanks for having me. You're welcome. All right. Let's also get your thoughts on the threat by Asu too. Once again, you know, resume their strike on Tuesday and the NMA also given a government 21 days ultimatum. What would you say about the Nigerian government's failure to adhere to memorandum of actions and memorandum of understanding? It suggests there's an unimaginable level of deceit that runs our government. They do things not because they mean it, but because they just want to get rid of you for the time. And that should not be the mentality of government. Government runs on trust. Trust is one extremely important factor in governance anywhere in the world. You need to say something and the people believe you for what you have said. But are governance as generated to a point where the sign papers, not because they mean it, they say things, it's not because they tend to stand by it. The concept of integrity has almost completely eluded us as far as governance is concerned in this country. That is why whenever you want to get into an agreement with government, you just find it very difficult to understand or to know what to think, what to believe, how to get about it. And the only language that really gets government to seemingly wake up or sit up is when you go on strike. And even when you go on strike, the initial body language is like you are an irritant and they can't understand what I would dare to do that until it starts to bite and the citizens start to complain and they start to feel worried that their position might be affected on the long run. All that matters to government and those in power is their position. Anything that threatens them as individuals, either their party or a nation that is coming or their resources, you see them waking up and jumping open in terms of being committed to the essence of government and governance as clearly stated in the constitution. They are in for a different ballgame completely. It's like, look, we're not here for this taking care of you. We took care of you at the election. We are here to take care of ourselves and recover whatever we have done. And I think Nigerians need to start to wake up to this new reality and decide who they would want to get into power in future. All right. To Nikola, sadly over the weekend, we lost the son of a senator, Bala Nala, his name is Captain Ibn Nala of the weekend Kaduna. Quickly also share your thoughts on that. You mean the killing of the son? Yes. What is a tragedy when people lose their children in the way and manner that the senator has lost his son? To my condolence to the senator and then to entire members of his family and to the friends of this boy. I have lost his son before. I lost my fourth son from three, four years ago. I will not believe that I haven't gotten over it, hope you today. So I know what the senator will be feeling. And in that respect, I really sympathize with him. What this tells us is that no one is longer safe in this country because I'm aware that most of these high-place politicians, senators, governments and what have you, they have securities that land their children. But still, thanks to that number, some of them have had their families been hit or been adopted or been killed by these bandits that we have all over the country. It is for the people, not just in the legislature, but in every arm of court, and including them to begin to treat this as charity. It is now obvious. People are more common to the law for sure to address this issue. It is now obvious that it is beyond them. And it is for that reason that one who wants to say and appeal to the legislator and the judiciary to help the people in the sector more common to sort this out. Nobody is safe again in this country. Generals have been harassed, intimidated, abducted and kidnapped. Emlers have been kidnapped. School children have been kidnapped. Life and property no longer has meaning in Nigeria. These are all indicators of the failed state. What this is signifying is that Nigeria as a nation has collapsed and the security architecture that we have on ground today is not working. And to that extent, it won't be too much if the people in the legislature are more common, we will do the next thing. If the executive, if the people in the legislature are more common, no longer have the capacity to decide their responsibility. They have primary responsibility to secure life and property. Then the legislators will do the next thing. Get rid of that executive more common so that we can help people who are in power, who will be a life and a responsibility and who will be able to guarantee the security of life and property to all our people, all over the country wherever it may be. All right. Ms. Dianna, can you also quickly show your thoughts on that one? Some people have pointed out certain things that have happened in the last few years and said, oh, maybe this will be the wake-up call. Now it's affected a sitting senator. How bad do you think this is? I think it's actually worse than we report. And the reason is simple. The security and welfare of the people is far from being the priority of the people in government. And that is going against the spirit of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I think that every senator or every assemblyman, once they get into the chambers, they should all recite that section of the Constitution. Chapter 2, section 14, subsection 2b, it states, the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government. When you talk of government, government has three arms. You have the executive, the judiciary, and the legislature. I can rephrase it and say the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of the national assembly. The security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of the national assembly. When they recite this on a daily basis, my hope is that one day, they will come to understand the importance, the purpose, and the prognosis of that statement. Because what they are doing, they don't seem to know why they are there. The day that our security matters, our priorities will be rearranged. And I call on Nigeria's again to think of that passage or that section of the Constitution and think in their leadership recruitment. To play down on collecting money from politicians. To play down on thinking that election time is the time that they benefit from government. And know that you cannot have a little window of one day and then bargain it off against four years. It doesn't make sense. Nigeria should wake up. I have actually stopped blaming people in government. I am actually no longer really interested in doing that again because they got into a contract with us. They paid us in exchange for four years for themselves. I think we need to reverse that by talking to ourselves first and think of sending people and not being baguined against to collect, you know, our power for four years. Yeah, but also Miss Zaire, apologies. Pretty much the same thing with the attack on the Nigerian Defense Academy. The government made statements about making sure that the perpetrators are brought to book and some of all of that. We've heard that so many other times here in Nigeria. I'm sure that there would be a similar statement made here, but there doesn't seem to be actual arrests being made and prosecution for some of these criminals that are running rogue across the country. So don't you feel like that is one thing that has maybe led this thing continue? Their statements, I said before and I say it again, their statements are things that you just like copy and paste. It's never the thing that comes from your heart. The only statement that comes from your heart and they mean it is what affects them directly or indirectly. That's when they come on hard. You know, maybe you've not taken the part on the on the majority and the body language that stands the disposition of Mr. President. And you see how he comes. He takes certain issues first. Now, certain issues are no go areas. He's willing to bend over backwards. He's willing to use a sledgehammer to kill a flight to get to prisoners. When will the security and welfare of the man in Ikatepene give Mr. President a sleepless night? When will the life of the armadry boy on the street who has no future, no life, make Mr. President to say this is not okay? When will that woman who goes to prayer house in Ikate instead of going to the hospital? Because she can afford and the medical facilities are not enough and the doctors are on strike. When will her life be so important to Mr. President that he goes down on all fours, if need be, to say no, this is not enough? I think that we should be careful the people that we send into office. I could never say this enough. Our leadership recruitment criteria must be looked into again. We've become the poverty capital of the world. We've become one of the three most terrorized nations in the world. We have become one of the top five most insecure places in the world. What else do we want before we can wake up? I call on Nigerians to wake up. I call on the complicit in old elite to wake up. I call on the so-called professionals like us to wake up and know that this is not okay and start to talk and start to reach out and start to say it is not enough. That is why I will always commend the National Consultative Front for wanting to come and give alternative narrative. I want all Nigerians to wake up. Okay, let's quickly then share one last story and that is on the nation this morning. It's talking about the first of Skanyamo. It says government on a way of plan, power, tariff, hike. To Nicola, well, let's start with you on that one. There were some fears last week when there was supposedly a notice put out asking discos, and this is from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, asking discos to go ahead with a power tariff hike from the first of September. First of Skanyamo has said that they are not aware of that. And the same thing with the EKEDC. Ms. Nicola Wale, do you think that- The papers, even before today. All right, go ahead. Just go ahead. There was something on the social media and which the people in charge of electricity were said to have issued a notice of a power increase. Generalist went and interviewed the man who signed the notice. Only for a man to begin to- that there is no intent to increase the challenge. The truth of the matter is that their voters have been playing games with us just like my brother, who is running this commentary with me, have said. For the people in government, they have no respect for the Nigerian people. All the activities are carried out with impunity. They look us all like they call us a prodigy to deal with. And as of today, and before now, it's nothing we're going to ensure that every home has a prepared matter. After that, if you have prepared matters, you call this regular whatever power that you have called. As they've fulfilled our promises to all of us, the answer is no. All that we've been getting most of the time is promises and promises. Now, the question I want to ask is this. If people have to pay as much as $10,000, $30,000 for power consumption in a night, but it may be a mini swap where a woman follows her cause. And this kind of a process is on the monthly salary offer, which is what they call the minimum wage. Which means to come and which most of the state are coming and that is called to pay. And that also our minimum wage, for example, all the women in the village, they can move themselves by pay. Move themselves to the north. We'll not be entitled. Is that what we are saying? The truth is that they have sold this power to themselves and people who don't know the nitty-gritty of generality and disability in power. And that is what the majority of people are paying for today. Inefficient in the sector. They thought the power sector would just be like the telecommunication. And with the beginning of the pandemic, they will start running in a GSM company and start flipping the pantheon out there without knowing that it's the more complicated game over there. And other than handle that or answer, that sector, not those who would have the wherewithal to run the power sector efficiently and cheaply. They have refused to do that. The power sectors were sold to former president, former head of state, former general. And they have kept executives who have no knowledge of anything. Well, let me and Gennady work forever. All right. Who are paying for today. My opinion also again is the Nigerian people have introduced the land of their leader. They are not going to get away with too many things. And it is time we begin to stand up out of people and challenge those who are important as a nation. Okay. I have lost interest in the value of possession. I am not saying that for a long time ago that this government will merely won't do that until we conduct another election in 2003. If anybody is here, especially any good from this government, that person is wasting his time. All right. But for the power sector. Thanks a lot. Thank you. The Nigerian people that must now rise up and then no. Enough is enough. We don't want to pay any increase or we don't want any size again. In the tariff and after spending. The Nigerian people are already paying enough. Give what prepaid meter for. If every home is having prepaid meter and they can regulate their own power consumption. And we see transparency. We see transparency. Then we begin to talk about the increase in tariff. But this idea of saying that that power is done. You begin to wonder. Each time there is a fall in the power sector, we also increase the tariff. I see the water that can generate electricity. And Kanji Dam is important. Let's bring in Mr. Yaito. The use of power from the power sector and all that. And to convey everything is important. I see the tolls. The electric poles and all that. Okay. Mr. Kola Wulehuk, can you hold on? Mr. Yaito, I want you to. My brother called Wulehuk. Mr. Yaito, I want you to also add one of the stories on the punch this morning. It says government implements cooking gas, imports tax. Price jumps by 100%. So it's not just power and electricity tariffs that we're talking about increase. Now also cooking gas. Even if you just to quickly also mention that the EKEDC and FESA scheme will have both denied that there will be any increment. But go ahead. The first thing is that for goodness sake, why can't we run governance that makes sense? Keyamu to the best of my knowledge is minister of state for labor. There is power minister. And then labor minister is talking about power on behalf of power. It just doesn't add up. Doesn't make sense. What's really wrong with this administration? The doctors tried. I expect that case with my brother, the Keyamu, will be concentrating on the strike. Why is it jumping into power? I don't understand. Don't we have a minister of power? Anyway, it's like the stocking trade of this administration. Anybody, the CBA can go into the minister of finance issues and minister of finance can go into housing. And I mean, it's just muddled up. And what we expect at the end of the day, we have a system that really doesn't understand that government is so important that next after God, his government is the next most important institution. And there's something called quackery in professionalism. Do we have quacks in power? And if we have quacks in power, why should Nigerians expect anything better? I think that God will help us to manage till 2023, but that the beginning of our rescue should be on our psyche and mentality and resolve to ensure that we will get the right pilot to pilot aircraft and not engineers. And that we will get architect to design our houses and not draftsmen. We will get doctors to do their jobs and not, you know, other paramedical staff or things like that. Each of them have their role. Let everybody play their role in their assigned and the professional areas so that we can have a system that works so that we can have the governance at this focus. I think that all these things is because we are getting the wrong people into the places of work. And the answer cannot be anything different from the constitution that we are having now. Well, you know, how strange would this be for Nigerians if there's going to be an increment in some of these things? A lot of Nigerians already can't or are struggling to afford electricity and cooking gas. It's brother, when you prioritize your people, you will know the things to subsidize. You will know where to subsidize it. You know how to subsidize it when you prioritize the welfare of your people. But when it is about how you can make money, your contract, you are looking at the bottom line to you as an individual, selfishness, you're selfish, you're self-centered, you're inconsiderate, we will continue to have policies that bite on the poor that are already dead. That's why we have taxes, tax them more, tax them more. Get is like pulling and not giving back. And we don't even understand that the cow that is fattened gives you more milk. The cow that is lean have less milk. Wisdom demands fatting the cow and get more milk. That's just right thinking. But the government says, no, forget about fattening the cow, just keep pulling, keep pulling. Even when nothing is coming out, you're not even wise enough to understand that nothing is coming out. The people are suffering. The people are suffering. The people are suffering. And government doesn't even know about it. And they're just like, so I think that the people need to wake up and look at our leadership recruitment profiling criteria. And that's going to be the beginning. Outside of that, all these commentaries that we are running, we just next year will come here and run the same commentary and then unless we wake up. But we have about two years to fix that leadership recruitment process and hopefully make better decisions in 2023. But thanks very much, Ezekiel Nyayetok, for joining us. Always a pleasure to see you. And of course, Tunde Kolaouli, thank you also for joining us this morning. We wish you a great week ahead. Mountain. All right, that's it for Off the Press, this is where we have a quick review of stories making headlines across the country every morning. Stay with us. We'll go back in history to tell you a certain things that happened on this day, the 30th of August, a couple of years ago here on the breakfast.