 It's about that time where we take you through the front pages of a national dailies that's been made available by paper vendor. And we have Tunde Kola-Willi, he's a legal practitioner, he joins us in the conversation. Tunde, it's good to have you join us this morning via phone. Good morning, thanks for having me. It's alright. We'll take a look at the punch this morning starting off with the punch, the bold headline reads, presidency, obese camp protesters, PDP dumps, zoning in bold letters, screening begins Friday. Underneath it will be injustice if Southeast is denied PDP ticket, obese spokesman is quoted on that. We're talking about Peter Obie, a former governor of a number of states, Nigeria needs a nationalist, not a regional leader, articles aid is quoted to say. We can't stop any presidential aspirant, it's unconstitutional really. And so this is what the PDP is quoted to say, I find this very, very interesting. But away from the bold caption, you also find economic crisis worsens as Forex inflow falls by $9.58 billion and clearing agent kicks as customs reintroduce e-valuation next week. That's also another caption, you find 10 banks raked in 1.5 trillion narrow interest income in 2021. This is according to reports. And just before we move away from the punch newspaper, you have several reports on banks and also telecommunication. Now Ogun governor, a bill to declare support for the vice president's presidential bid. This is also another bold caption you find here. And again, you find another header saying, Emo explosion, relatives absent as victims get Mars barrel, Lagos businessman battles or shun prints, wife over six million our diesel deal and Nigeria leads first quarter oil production short for really sorry, World Bank sides sabotage. This is what you find. Nigeria others woefully lagging in COVID-19 vaccine administration. This is what the WHO is quoted to say. And that's so much we can take this morning on the punch. Away from the punch. We're moving next to the daily independent newspaper are leading the stories for this morning. Criminal gangs planning to bomb worship centers. That's according to the DSS terrorists released new photos of abducted train passengers above the must head 2023 a burden abundance to the both throws way behind or she budget more writers are more experienced than him. I'm a key tells a burden and all this. All right. The governors ask courts to stop four hundred and eight ten million dollars Paris club debt deductions. I left the salt. You must appear before said it cold or the CCT chairman Omar has for a pure court over judgment. Russia Ukraine war AFDB air max one point five billion dollars for Nigeria. Others and the emergency food plan. Okay. Supreme Court nullifies and or boss participation in a number of give up home. Farmer herder conflicts national livestock transformation plan now in operation 22 state interested 10 already opened NLTP offices presidency. Of course, our full state have mapped out gazetted grazing reserves. That's all we can take on the daily independent newspaper. Away from the daily independent. We take a look at the leadership newspaper this morning. Five days after collapse of northern PDP consensus. Tambor was close to a meeting with president of Mohammed the Buhari raises defection rumor. So I mean, some of these issues, you know, Justin, you remember that a lot of them has become a reality. Some people will say this a conspiracy theorist, but you see them becoming reality. Tambor was close to a meeting with president Mohammed the Buhari raises defection rumor. And that's what you find. It's bipartisan democracy. I was invited by the president, so go to a governor's quoted. President wouldn't impose outsiders on APC aspirant members or culture or culture is quoted to see apparently maybe making reference to good luck, Jonathan. Bello picks 100 million narrow APC presidential form as I add a declares his interest zone presidency loser vote, nothing you threaten APC and the PDP is quite interesting. These are the riders underneath the boat caption on the leadership. Now, and away from that, you also have the former governor, Bola Akhmat, unifier best candidate to succeed Buhari. I'm sure it's an editorial Yakubu Jaga others want electoral offenses commissioned before 2023. Jim or Ibrahim in trouble over 69.4 billion our debt owned old amcon. It's quite interesting how people just go about all in government agencies. And just before we move away from that, seller DSS on covers plans to bomb warship centers and orders army orders troop to crush security threats. Allege assault called orders CCT, CCT chairman to honor Senate summons. These are the headlines on the leadership this morning. And the final paper we are reviewing this morning is the Nigerian Tribune. And also leads with the DSS alleging plan to bomb warship and relaxation centers. Virtually all the papers have that one today. Just above the must head, Jonathan's posters with APC logo adorn northern cities. I will support Jonathan if APC present him. I added is quoted on that. My allegiance is to the oath I took not to anyone. Shiba Joe. Terrorists released fresh pictures of adopted train passengers. 50 corpses given mass burial after evil illegal refinery explosion. Two fiat killed in Ibadu as park managers, transporters clash. Now Bello pays 100 million Nair nomination fee, peaks APC forms tomorrow. Okay, at inauguration of two bus terminals in Ibadu. Obaseki comments Makin Day says our government should be to empower the masses. All right, it also has some writers. Why we built the bus terminals Makin Day is quoted on that. AFDB support will help Nigeria to produce 9.5 million tons of food at Deshina, Kano, Ogun or your forewathers to benefit. And those are all the stories you can find on the front page of the Nigerian Tribune newspaper. All right, so we have Tunde Kola Wili who joins the conversation this morning via phone. It's good to have you join us. Thanks once again. All right, so let's get straight to it. Tamberwell has, I mean, he's had a closed door meeting with the president and, you know, some quarters are saying there might just be an interest, you know, defections, rumors going around town of the governor of Sokoto. But do you see this, you know, becoming a thing shortly after the primaries or maybe before the primaries for the APC? It's very difficult to predict what transpired between the president and the governor of Sokoto state because we were not there when they were holding the amnesty. For the most, the newspaper reports it's a purple leaf leaf, but the truth of the matter is that it's not impossible that Tamberwell is angry or not comfortable with the decision of the TVC, with regard to the modus operandi for selecting their presidential candidate. Furthermore, you and I will know that the Nigerian politicians, these political parties, have nearsighted who put the realization of their political ambitions. They don't know digitally any ideology. They have no loyalty to anyone. They behave like the common processes, with due respect, money for hand back for grand. So it's not impossible. But like I said earlier on, the report is purple leaf. It is difficult to rely on a three-category candidate that that is going to happen. Number two, Nikola Wale, if you look at the persons who have actually declared their interest, you know, in the presidential race under the party, I mean the APC, you would understand, of course the APC is not even, they're not trying to tell the consensus pattern. So one, I really do not have an idea what that might probably be, who knows whose interest and what interest they might really be maybe asking. So you're saying that you don't see people defecting if their interest is not met during this period. Well, the politician who has the permanent interest is only they don't have the permanent allegiance or loyalty to any individual or political party. It's just their personal interest, the realization of their ambition that is paramount to them. But the truth of the matter is that if Tambua goes back to the APC, a few weeks to the presidential, for the select of their presidential candidate, how is he going to measure up with the other juggernaut that has been campaigning for the presidency? Like Ashua Tupola, Nessie Novo, like Vice-President Shimbardo, and some of these other few weeks to have in that party. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's difficult for him. It's not impossible. And I also don't see him not sizing Tambua in his presidential ambition on the platform of the APC. All right, let's move on to other stories. Let's slide to the daily independent newspaper this morning. The governors are in the news, they are asking the courts to stop the $418 million parish club debt deduction. Baista, let's get your opinion on this particular one. Honestly, I have read a few of the papers of meetings that were filed in court with regards to that parish club penalty fund. And with due respect and humility, I have been one of the very acidic critics of that sole court parish club penalty fund. I have only said that it is a scam. And some of the papers that I have read equally reinforce my position on that penalty fund. It has been reporting some of the papers, especially premium times. The certain businessmen in alliances, politicians and some lawyers just cooked up papers and say that the repayment of money borrowed as the nobody took it from the account of the local government of the state. There were also reports that the governor and the local government gave contracts to certain businessmen which has not been paid for. And it's because of some of these things that forms have to be deducted from the local government from the state to repay back the sole court parish club penalty fund. So many things happened in this country. I remember a few years ago, a big politician whose name I'm not going to mention, from where in the United States, cooked up papers and went to the nearby local government close to his house when he was broke and then presented to the town of the local government to pay him a contract that was never awarded to him and that he never executed simply because he was broke. And through blackmail and law firms of propaganda, the local government was forced to pay this politician. So we see these things happen too many times in the immigrant political sphere. It is a conspiracy between the politician, the some lawyer and then contractors. That's some of the ways we report the country of hard-earned money and money that certainly should be plowed to the development of the country. Now we supported the governor. All right. More stories to look at this morning. Nigerian Tribune, the former president and good luck, Jonathan, is also in the news and his posters have been adorned all over northern cities. It's as though a lot of people want him to come back as president in 2023. And there's this talk about him also joining the All Progressives Congress. And just yesterday Ben Ayade, you know, when he declared said he will support Good Luck, Jonathan, if he eventually is picked by the APC. There's a Yoruba saying, very common thing in Yoruba land, that just keep on dancing. We are working your back for you. That's what they are today, to be what is about to be, what is about to happen to Dr. Goulod Jonathan. I'm not too sure that those who are coming to Dr. Goulod Jonathan I mean to contact the president in 2023. And also in the platform of the APC. That is interest at that. And the interest of the South South at that. Also, there may be some realignment of forces between the presidency and Dr. Goulod Jonathan. What is of the matter is that I am not too sure that the presidency have totally forgiven Dr. Goulod Jonathan for some of the misgivings and perceived of what we put in. Some of the things he has done against them in the realization of their political ambition in the past. I don't see that happening. Some people just think Dr. Goulod Jonathan is loaded with a lot of money and the way to upload them or some of those resources is to mislead him. So, Mr. Kallawale, are you saying that the APC may not in any way want to accept the former president, Goodluck, Jonathan, into their fold? Well, a few people who are interested in his money. Well, the pushing is candidacy. But the generalcy, the rank and file of the APC member, those who call the shots in the APC, are never likely going to be disposed to his presidency. Furthermore, there wasn't any spectacular performance by Dr. Goulod Jonathan as vice president, as local government chairman, as governor. It's because of the woeful performance of the present government that is why people are humoring or are throwing sarcasm at the present government by asking Dr. Goulod Jonathan to come back and contest. They are trying to humore the presidency. They are trying to humore the APC. They are trying to live before the APC with the complaint that Dr. Goulod Jonathan should come back and contest. Away from politics, let's take a look at some economic concerns and it has to do with the SIEM and the NIN linkage. Now, according to the headlines on the punch, it says SIEM, NIN 22 days after, telecom lose 700, I beg your pardon, I take that again, 76 billion naira and subscribers stranded. Now, this doesn't sound like a win-win situation. So you have Nigerians who are stranded and also you have the fact that telecommunications, those who are in business are also stranded and that's not also good to the economy at the end of the day. So what strategy should the government or what should the government be considering at this point in time? Honestly speaking, when you look at some of the decisions that the different government takes, the program that they roll out, you begin to wonder whether they think critically about the implication of the steps that they are about to take. The truth of the matter is that on the daily basis, more and more people will acquire SIEM cards and they will require to register them. So putting a moratorium or insisting about SIEM cards must be registered within certain periods of time and that was they are not registered, you cannot use them again, you will part them. It wouldn't work and if it works, it will have very great consequences on the economy. So the essence is that the service provider will lose money, government will also lose revenue in terms of the vast and company income tax and other factors that they get from some of these telecommunications agencies. It will have been better that immediately people acquire their SIEM, you will make sure that they register it before it is activated. You will collect that it was at the peak of the COVID-19 thing that people were compared to go to the National Identity Agency to go and start taking the NIN card just by forcing those people with lots of danger. The decision of SIEM will continue to be a continuous exercise. We don't need to put a very rigid frame on it. We should put a very rigid frame on the decision of SIEM cards. The possibilities are that you lose a lot of money. Furthermore, the policy makers won't forget that the Nigerian Telecommunications Service is not the only thing that is available for people to communicate. There are platforms like the World's Up, there is the Facebook and so many other service providers. The Surayas are there. So why put an impediment on the part of your own local company? In fact, when you do your statistics or you work there and call a major company, you will find that the most Nigerians now no longer use the local services. Most of them are on World's Up, they are on Facebook because the security agencies are making it difficult for people to be able to hold conversations and talk freely on most of these lines and on services that are provided by the Niger Telecommunications Company. Most times, we call our own policies in order to spy on ourselves. It's not well thought out. It's a program that is not well thought out at all. All right, on the daily independence tale, the CCT chairman is in the news for his failure to appear before the court, and it is captioned this way, alleged assault, you must appear before Senate, court or the CCT chairman, Omar heads for appeal court over judgment. Barista Kolaoli. Look, my brother, I feel ashamed when people are invited, whether the police are in the army chief, the Kossom director, the big people in the ministries when they are invited by the National Assembly, the Senate and the House of Rights, and the State House of Assembly to appear before them and they refuse to go there. And then when they judge for that matter, like the term of the CCT, who knows the law and who can send people to prison for contempt of court if they have not purchased to appear before them and they refuse to appear. We will not be invited by the Senate and then we will start rushing to court to prosecute his appearance before the Senate. So court say that is not a good example to lay as a judge. We must always remember and I keep shouting this, the National Assembly is the highest authority in Nigeria. They are the bosses of Mr. President and all the other political officials. So when people refuse to honor the invitation of the National Assembly, when they ridicule the National Assembly by going to court to prosecute their parents and all that, they are not set in a very good example. They undermine the authority of the National Assembly of the CETA assembly. So if in future the CCT man has the Senate president to appear before him, as the speaker of the House of Rights, to appear before him, ask any of the other assemblies to appear before them and they refuse to appear. But what will he look like? How will the chairman of the CETA do the act to prosecute him? Is he going to try them before them and send them to prison? No, no, no, no, no, no. The chairman of the CETA should go and not know his invitation and if he doesn't, the Senate should wish it eventually for the PSS or the police to arrest him and bring him before them. Or even if that is not possible, he can be pushed to remove as the chairman of the CCT, chairman of the CCT and then prosecuted because those people have the power to remove them. They can also stop the funding of the agencies. They have the power so that when the project of the CETA is presented before the Senate and the House of Rights, they can put it in a plan and see if they appear before us, we are never going to approve or discuss your process. So these are the great implications. All right, thank you very much. That the chairman of the CETA has embarked upon. All right. Well, thank you so much, for being part of the breakfast this morning and to be very specific, the newspaper review. We look forward to having more of you sharing your thoughts on the show. Thank you. We appreciate and that's the size of the paper review. Quite interesting conversations and some of these headlines will just be the crocs of our conversation. We look at the issue of zoning and whether or not who becomes the next president come 2023, as well as the security threat that's been put out by DSS. We take a break now, but when we return it will be time for that conversation. But just before then, let's let tell you what happened today in history. Stay with us.