 The federal government has funded 422 delegates to COP 28 summits, says the minister. And there's also of the press that we will be doing this morning. And by the way, good morning and welcome to the Breakfast on Plus TV Africa. My name is Nyam Gul Aghaji. My name is Rume Paulsen. It's going to be a wonderful day. Yesterday I was so sure it was already the 12th of the month. You know, days are moving fast and fast and fast. But today, fortunately, I remember the date quite clearly. It is the 5th of December, 2023. That means we have 20 more days and then it's Christmas. But the entire season is the season for Christ. That's right. Yeah. I don't know how you are preparing, but I'm preparing to go to church. Isn't everyone? Well, you know, there are some people beyond the church. They are preparation for Christmas. Church is just one of those things. But the major thing that they are going to spend their time, spend their money, is not even church. But this year, we go plenty for church. Of course. Well, I'm sure there are other ways to celebrate. Even if you are not spending so much money, as long as you are sharing love with your family and your friends, that works. That's a good way to spend Christmas. Yeah, sharing love. That's what we've always been saying. And we've always told you that sharing love doesn't always mean that you're going to give someone a fact check for you to say that I've shared love or for the next person to know that you've shared this love. That people, even the riches of us, need some things from the people that you feel cannot even give them anything. Because my people say it is in the poor man's house that you can find a grinding stone. So anytime the rich man is in need of a grinding stone, he comes to the poor man. He comes to the poor man. So everybody needs something that another person can give. And I always say a community that is full of rich men or only rich people is probably the poorest community. Because everybody is a multimillionaire. So who will work for the other? So you find out that you are now poor. All of you are very poor. So everybody needs the other person. Poor ones and the rich ones. At the end of the day, nobody is actually really poor. Yeah. And I think even in this time of sharing love, you should also share love to yourself. Be able to give yourself grace. You've come so far, which is great. You're doing amazing. And just take time out to relax. I mean, this is the season of sharing love. So share love to yourself. You can watch something, watch a Christmas movie, go out to share loved ones. Just do something that will make you happy in the season. Spend some time with yourself. Even if you're not going to a very, very expensive place, you can go and be at peace with nature. Sometimes you go to a waterfall. You go to a canopy work way. You go to... Thank God Lagos has a lot of beaches. Some of them are free. Just go there and sit. And, you know, just think about life when you're sitting right there. Because you need to love yourself before you can give love to anybody else. That's right. You cannot pour from an empty cup. I love to say that you definitely cannot pour from an empty cup. So you need to fill yourself up before you're able to pour into other people. And I mean, I'm Christian. So for people who are Christians, God loves you. So therefore you should love yourself and then love others. Even if you're a Muslim as well. God loves you. At the end of the day, we find out that this thing about God is just a matter of terminology. We all believe in a force greater than us. And whatever name you call it, no matter how you see it, it's like the story of an elephant where blind people went to see an elephant or to feel an elephant because they can't see. Some went to the trunk. Some went to the tusk. Some went to... So all of them were describing the elephant according to how they were able to feel it. They didn't have a complete picture. So that's how I think in Christianity... Oh, in religion, we all try to describe God. At the end of the day, God is love. Whatever name you call it, it boils down to love. And if your religion has no love, then it's not a religion because even the traditional religion, African traditional religion, talks about love. So try to love one another and this is the season to share love. It doesn't matter whether you're a Christian or not. It does share love. That's right. Okay, in the spirit of Tuesday, we have Tech Tuesday and we're just going to take our course of the day and we'll just banter on it. Okay, that was our course for the day. It's talking about technology. Technology cannot replace great teachers, but technology in the hands of great teachers, it's awesome. It's transformational. It's transformational. Exactly. I think it's a very, very important thing to note. There's a lot of fear that technology is going to take over our existence. I hope that never gets to the point where we all will need to just be sitting home because we have something to send to the market. We have something to send. We have a place that we can watch preaching online. We have everything. We just sit in our rooms and we don't get to do everything, anything at all. I'm not sure it will lead to our life being better. I think it will lead to our lives being shorter. That's what I think. Well, I think technology is great. I mean, there are a lot of things people have been able to accomplish with technology. And like the court said, in the hands of the good people, it is transformational because we're talking about the advent of mobile phones. We're talking about the internet. All of these things are technology. Even if you look at it, computers are technology, cars are technology. Everything. So everything started like, even from all through the days of the scientists that we know, just the technologies. And this is where we are now. Now we're in the era of AI, right? However, there are people that are saying, you know, your jobs are on the line at the moment because AI is coming to take over. Now you can just go on your phone and type something and AI brings out all the data that you need. But then you're learning as well because this is a wealth of resources that you can get. So I don't think it would end our jobs like people like to say or change things for the worse. I think it will be better. It will be transformational just like the court said. The court also has an underlying warning that if it is in the right hands, it will be transformational. So what we need to know is that no matter how good technology is, it should never be a 100% alternative for human interaction and all that. For instance, you go to a family, they're having dinner, or they're having a time that should have been family time. Everybody's on their phone, but it cares what the next person is talking about. It wasn't like this before. There were times families could bond. They could talk to each other, interact and all that. People, the kids can go outside to play. Now everyone is playing on their phone or gaming. So some things that can be discouraged should be discouraged. You do a little bit of what technology has given you the opportunity to be able to do easily, but do not forget the human factor because that really is what makes us humans. And the more you grow old, the more you know that you need physical people more than the ones that you can find on the internet or that technology has given you. I think we should not seclude ourselves because naturally we're social creatures. You need to be able to interact with other people. You see them physically. Technology cannot give you a hug. Even if you're seeing someone smile on the other side of the camera, it's still not the same like being there with them. So it's important that... It just reminded me. There is this app, I think, an app that was created by the Chinese that was teaching people how to smile and another one how to kiss. So you're calling your friend or your wife, your husband or something and you're kissing the phone or you're learning how to smile. That's weird. It's a natural thing to smile. How would that be the same as when you're doing the natural thing? I see you smile. Smile. I see you smile. There's something that you just exude when you smile physically. You even change the atmosphere. Your aura. Because when someone is physically there with you they can feel your presence, your energy, your aura. So it changes everything and that way when you interact physically it's more wholesome. I think that's the word to you, it's more wholesome. Technology is very good. Everything is very good but we shouldn't let technology take over humanity. For instance, you want to write a book. You just need a topic. You type it in. AI will bring you everything. So you can write a book and all that. But we know that if you fail to use your brain your brain dies. Just as every other thing. It just gets paralyzed. You're not tasking it. You're not tasking it. So you just have AI. So we might be forming, we might be giving birth to a generation of people who may not want to think. Mentally lazy. Mentally lazy. That's the word to use and all that. So let's use technology like let's be the right people to handle technology like the quote said. So we can be transformational. I mean with everything there's pros and cons and if you abuse something it gets bad. So you must find that balance. So use technology but use it for the greater good. Don't be lazy. Don't even use it to scam somebody or create bombs. Don't use it for the evil things. Use it for the good things. Some of these things that are even good. I don't know how the psychological effect will be and how tomorrow will be because of the good things that we're seeing today. For instance, there is a natural bond between a mother and a child. A mother carries a child, a mother gives beds and then a mother carries the child and feeds the child and all that. Now you can just go donate something, put it in an incubator somewhere and then the child comes out and you don't have any problem just to hold for you. Yes, a surrogate mom. To hold for you and then you just go and collect your baby back and all that. I don't know how these people that are born this way in 50 years to come what kind of grandparents or parents there will be and all that. I'm old school. Some of the things that I think should be natural that we are just using technology as possible to do all these things. I don't know how it will turn out to be and it was in a place like Nigeria where you find technology the way we use technology we discard everything else that we have ever known. We just discard it. For instance now we have phones. You still have pay phones in America. You don't have it in Nigeria. You still have a lot of things that are still existing in America but you don't have it in Nigeria. We are the worst hit. We leave them behind the food we eat we leave them behind the things we do the communion we have with our kids. We don't have that anymore. We just leave everything behind and move on. I don't know how that... I think at the end of the day just use it the right way and find that balance. Who will define what the right way is? Well I think you should be able to find out. Let's move over to our top trending topics. The first one says federal government task MDAs on cost cutting measures. The federal government is expressed concern over the country's dwindling revenue and tax ministries departments and tax agencies and the federal and state government on cost cutting measures in order to reduce the cost of governance in the country. The head of efficiency unit Mrs. Adebusola Agiboye spoke yesterday in Uyo Acquire Bomb State Capital during a sensitization training exercise on activities of the unit organized by the ministry for MDAs in the south-south zone. Agiboye who highlighted some initiatives of the efficiency unit to include continuous awareness and sensitization price checker initiative less paper initiatives stressed that the aim of the workshop is to equip the participant with the tools they need towards effective use of public funds. She appealed that the efficiency unit should be replicated in all the MDAs in the country because of the critical role the unit plays in prudent management of public resources. In a word the sensitization workshop provides us with an opportunity to explore the various initiatives policies and strategies employed by the efficiency unit to ensure the optimal utilization of the resources at every level of the government. She described this as a platform for engaging in meaningful dialogue, sharing experiences and fostering collaborations across different sectors while aiming to equip all participants with the knowledge and tools that contribute to efficient and effective use of public resources. Speaking further she explained that by promoting efficiency reducing and improving value for money and government spending the unit contributes significantly towards achieving the nation's development goals. Yeah well it's a good advice cut cost but you know they say the federal government is worried, the government is worried that the cost of governance is so much and then they are doing they do as I say not as I do kind of thing and it's so bad like the previous government said change begins with you and if the political class cannot show us that they are here because of the people it will be difficult because the civil servants are the ones that do all the work that the politicians enjoy and then they are going to work for 35 years and retire with a one month salary of a politician and then you're still showing us that there's money to spend and you're expecting us to do what you're asking us to do. Example has to come from the political class and no matter how we see it it rises and falls with leadership and the leadership is given by the political class they provide the leadership the civil servants are civil servants they serve us in all the capacities that they have but if the politicians do not do what they're supposed to do nobody else will want to look at them at all Yeah like you said it's about leadership and it's what you tell these people that's what they'll follow because they'll follow your instructions and so I think as a nation I think one of our guests yesterday said something about Nigerians love to waste resources so as a nation obviously she started with. Yeah avoiding the word he used. Well I can't use those words but yes he just in general he meant we waste you know we waste resources and I think we should all have like a check in words and say why are we wasting so much and you cannot waste public funds because we're talking about the economy right now our economy is not so great let's be honest and if any way we can reduce cost that's what should happen because if you were running a business that's the same thing you would do you won't you know go and spend lavishly you would say we need to make profit and so that's what we should hold in Nigeria right now and even the government the political class they should start with that. I wish something that came up in the last administration could have continued body language when the former president Mohammed Buhari came into the saddle everybody was afraid of his body language everybody was careful even spending money let alone taking money that did not belong to them until maybe they found out that he didn't know a lot of the things that he should have been holding them accountable for and then they started you know doubling the kind of stealing they were stealing and all that under his nose a man of integrity I agree he has some sort of integrity but his awareness of his environment may not have been top-notch so they exploited that and did what they did so but that goes to say if you show example by the kind of life that you live for instance if president Tunibu comes out and says because of this cost of governance I will not have the kind of convoy for instance or I will not have the fleet of airplanes that I have in the presidential fleet because we want to cut cost we sell some of them and all that everybody will be looking like okay I should not be found wanting just by doing an action that you don't even need to tell the senate or anything and especially now the senate and the house of revs when you find them wearing hats they wear the eight symbol which is president Tunibu's symbol a signature cap everybody wears it so they are more or less his boys and girls so if he shows an example I'm sure a lot of them will just fall in line I don't want to come and say we want to renovate the house of these 40 so so billion we want to buy cars for this because you already seen that the person who is at the helm of the affairs is already taking these measures and you too you want to follow suit anyway the president went to the COP28 and he was telling them how the government is trying so much that we are going to buy a hundred buses and here is a story of a federal high court sitting in Sokoto it has dismissed a suit filed by former governor of Zamfara state Bello Matawale over the ownership of the vehicles he took away on leaving office in May 2023 in June the police went to houses belonging to houses belonging to Matawale to take possession of the vehicles as ordered by the court the statement issued on Mondays by Suleiman Bala Idris the spokesperson of the current governor of the northern Nigerian state the federal high court rejected Matawale's claim over the ownership of the vehicles in the immediate past governor of Zamfara who is the current minister of state for defense along with members of his cabinet and had taken away all official vehicles belonging to the state government leaving the administration of governor Lawal with nothing to use here there are about 50 or more of these vehicles in the possession of the people who have left office okay 50 vehicles in one government house and when they left they left with so many of them and the federal government is going to buy 100 buses for the entire Nigeria which is 220 million which means you have like 2 million plus to a bus that's what is going to happen so how many buses does Lagos state alone have the BRT buses are they not up to 100 I'm sure they are more than so now you are buying 100 to 6 states 200 and something million and you are carrying that to COP 20 where the world leaders are I'm going with 1,411 people they didn't take that much we are going to talk about that in the hot topic anyway okay so our next top trending is NAF denies bombing Kaduna villages army apologize the Niger Air Force has distanced itself from the bombing of a village in Kaduna an attack in Igabi local government area of the state on Sunday night left many dead and others injured in a statement Air Commodore Edward Gabbwet the director of public relations and information of NAF absorbed the airmen of blame he noted the news making the rounds alleging that the Nigerian Air Force NAF aircraft accidentally killed innocent civilians in Kaduna is false he forward explained that the NAF had not conducted any air operations within Kaduna state and environment within that 24 hour period may well authorities of the Nigerian army have taken responsibility for the Sunday night bomb attack which led to the death of dozens of civilians the army said the villagers were inadvertently affected during its routine mission against the terrorists on the axis the overseeing commissioner of the ministry of internal security and home affairs of the state Samuel Arouan made the clarification he spoke after the state security council meeting on Monday revealing that during the meeting the state government received briefings on the Sunday night attack the heads of security agencies Islamic clerics and traditional rulers were at the meeting presided over by the deputy governor Adiza Sabua Balarabe at the meeting the general officer commanding one division Nigerian army major general Valentine Okoro explained that the circumstances that led to the fortunate attack the general officer commanding one division major general V.U. Okoro explained during the meeting that the Nigerian army was on routine mission against terrorists but inadvertently affected members of the community according to a survivor when Tundum village was bombed by flying object and killing locals who were attending a religious ceremony called Malud on Sunday night so that's a sad story it's very sad and I don't know it sounds casual to me the apology that the the army is giving how do you give apology just apology and nobody is being sanctioned or something the annoying part is like the way dealing on the intelligence that they have gotten the set is a routine activity that they do to chase terrorists and all that routine which means you do it all the time so they didn't have credible intelligence or new intelligence that made them to go and bomb it and they didn't know that they did it yeah with civilians it's annoying I think a lot of people should want to answer for this people who are dead cannot be brought back but we should start to see that there are consequences for anything that happens in Israel right now there is a war with Hamas the president or the prime minister is at the fall of this war but he's still facing charges in court or fraud and all the things because we are at war let's finish the war first he's still changing even he's convicted now or something happens and the laws of that nation says that he must step down he will step down for somebody else so why do we keep just now they have apologized to the people what happens now how do you even and this is not the first time the other time it was Air Force now it's the army and they are beating their chairs and saying it is us routine so the people have just died for nothing basically no one is going to jail no one is being persecuted nothing how do you say sorry over a life everyone has to be brought to justice there should be justice for these people if you do something you should own up to it one which is what they've done but then what are the consequences you can't just bomb a village killing over 30 people imagine 30 people in this room and those are the ones accounted for because they're celebrating Mollud it's like the Christmas for the Muslims and then you just drop a bomb on them and 30 died immediately what about those who are in hospital they may die again with injuries we understand that there's there's a search party more or less for the people who are missing so maybe more than that they've died there's lots of casualties sorry it was us we're doing routine exercise even one life matters so talk about so many people it's so sad we pray for the repose of the souls of those who died for the people who lost their loved ones we pray that you be consoled nothing can replace a loved one but at least be consoled and have the strength to carry on the people who died would want that you should continue with life even without them we have to take a short break now when we return we'll look at the papers and other things we'll follow stay with us