 Hello and welcome to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. I am Maureen and I am Yamgul and we're so glad to have you join us today It's a Friday and we're hoping that you are going to unwind when everything is done. Thank God It's Friday and we thank God that we are alive and well to see today. Yes. Thank God We are alive and well. It's a Friday flex and we are taking things a little bit easy Yes, yes, and that's why like we said we're going to be talking about spa I know a lot of people when you hear spa you think about massage Are they really the same or is there a difference and what kind of benefits will we have from there? Well, we also have the theme of today Do we play hard enough to offset the stresses of Nigeria's hardships? All work and no play as they say makes jagged all boy or makes you whatever your name is So when you work you play how much do we even play in Lagos? How much do we unwind in Lagos as it is not really that you will be playing like a child But when you rest and when you do other things that are not your routine things then you seem relaxed But do we have that time in Lagos at all? It's funny how it's funny how Lagos has become synonymous with stress, isn't it? Yet we do love our Lagos Isn't it interesting though because if you leave Lagos and go to Climbs that are more quiet and more where things are more calm stay there for a week And you begin to miss the madness of Lagos. How do you explain that? It's crazy. You just step into Lagos and you're like yeah Yeah, yeah, but you know we're talking some days ago about mental Evaluation that people need and all of us in Lagos kind of like need this thing once in a while You know go check yourself see How how your clock is ticking how how much sharp you are and what you need Sometimes you might just need help, but you don't know that you need help because I mean the stress is crazy You you're moving a 35 Minute journey. I always use that because the axis I leave is 35 minutes to the island and sometimes you spend the other day I spent eight hours on the road before I got home Close at 4 30 got onto the bus and then I got home like quarter to 12. Who does that? Way on earth you meet that and it is almost like it's a regular thing So federal government whatever it is whatever it's going to take for you to finish the road for us to move freely, please do because the hardship is When you're saying yam go that it's almost like a regular thing It is a regular thing in Lagos traffic is a regular at least we have an excuse now that okay They're working on the road So finish the road let that excuse be out of the way and let's know that our normal Lagos traffic has returned Not this one that is avoidable. So how do you recreate in Lagos? How do you relax when you're not in traffic when you're not in the office? You know recently I discovered some beaches in Lagos apart from the popular Oniru beach that's close to us here I don't want to mention their names because they've not paid us to advertise for them But you should take time and discover some of these beaches go there and just Immerse yourself in nature and let go don't take yourself too seriously all the time because sometimes trust me not A lot of people don't really take you as seriously as you think that they do So just try and relax and be happy with yourself and you know When you when you go to the beach the breeze From the water from the sea that hits you is different from the one you see You meet on traffic or even if you're sitting in the ac or anywhere The natural breeze you just feel like you know something is added to your life We came from nature. Yeah We came from nature. So when we when we communicate in nature, it is very therapeutic More than we can even explain when you pull off your shoes and let your feet down in the sand when you get your hands dirty Plain in the sand when you jump into water, whether you can swim or not like some of us that cannot swim Just splash it in there and just feeling that natural connection Is healing. Yeah. Well swimming swimming comes in various ways. Somebody asked me if I could swim I I come from a riverine area. Well, let me not say a riverine area But we have a river in my in my community and everybody can't swim. I said I can't swim, but I wouldn't drown I will float. I know how to float But to move from one point to the other I'll just go with the current just stay afloat and move with the current. That's all I do So, okay, I have an edge over you. You do have an edge of a riverine that we got So if we look at last mar today, uh, what they are saying, um last my Here to hard working. Okay. So mass movement along marina road from uba towards nnpc filling station kakawa and Cathedral still good connecting in a marina from outer marina by cms bus stop A good movement down to nitel intersection from cathedral Force road towards tbs is okay. Okay So if you are on that axis, let's say it is okay Well, when I was coming the roads were relatively free this morning even both ways So we hope that an improvement has come They get really free by this time of the day. Well now it's seven. So now this is the The the crazy time, but if you were to leave your home say five a.m. Six a.m It's relatively free. Uh, but when you get to seven six thirty six thirty then it gets crazy And then seven o'clock it gets really really crazy. So wherever you are You begin to find yourself in dire situations. What was the situation on third main line? Do we have that? Well, uh, that main land is not here But this morning when I was coming that main land was very very free, you know, uh, compared to all the days And why I'm saying this is both axis sometimes in the morning when you're coming the traffic is much If it is up to six o'clock and beyond the traffic is much But when you're going out of uh, vi to the mainland the traffic is very free Yes, but today on both sides it was very very free So I wonder what is happening if people took weekend earlier And then they are not on the road So from the other axis that last ma is talking about, uh, jegun le connecting Cola is good, but busy approaching cola due to, uh, commercial activities is better in what Uh Cases But busy approaching Is this cases that the road I have to what it's a rare set use my noko meter. I have okay castle Approaching castle due to an impediment along the corridor, which is expected to be evacuated soon So maybe there's a breakdown there. There's better movement in what marion road a bullet bar or Jaoba charity down to abattoir Return journey from abattoir down to charity is good inward and outward of social club road is also good. And finally On the return journey the entire stretch of a bullet bar inward a jegun le is good Good movement inward and outward of elecbo corridor So most of the things we are being told today Says that um or say that um the roads are good Relatively they are good. So whatever brought that to be Thank you Thank you for the traffic. Okay. So from there we'll move on to top trending And you have over 300 Nigerians fleeing the war turns to dan arrive safely in abattoir Yeah, well, finally, but that's just 300 out of 5,500 official figure We have 300 so we have 5200 also That have not arrived and I wonder what the logistic problems are And there you have the visual there of the returnees from sudan I'd like to I imagine most of them are students I also heard that we have up to 5 million In sudan 5 million Nigerians resident in sudan But I imagine and I think that they are concentrating on the students In the course of Let's say they are concentrating on the Registered ones because as we've heard some people are there and they're not registered With the embassy and I wonder why that happens. Some people travel even without the passports Nigerian passports They just want to smuggle themselves into another country and leave Nigeria and that's all I wonder how these people will be identified in a time like this So it should also serve as an advice, you know Less advice ourselves as we say in Nigeria Next time you're going to any country make sure you go legally and whatever it is let Have you said yes documented identify with your embassy? Let them know that you are in that country because you never know what will happen Yeah, whether you have enough confidence in the embassy there or not because they're helping complaints about Nigerian embassies in different countries Yeah, the way they operate Nigerians cannot count on them in terms of emergency when you go to renew your passport The kind of stress you have to go through we have so many complaints about our embassies in different parts of the country And so that I imagine it may be responsible for why some people do not go there to register Or identify with them So but whether that is the case or not where you are you must try to have yourself identified with your embassy So that in times of crisis such as this you will not be left behind Yeah, and um The authorities the Nigerian authorities you should try to do better The complaints coming from the people who are being evacuated already are so much apart from the fact that they were More or less abandoned in the desert as they were saying because they hadn't paid the Drivers that were conveying them to Egypt and all that and so many other problems. They also are footages Where they are showing us the kind of toilets the kind of places that are being lodged and is yes They are refugees as it were But when you say you have voted so much money Per individual to take them home. Let the places that you put them at least be decent enough. Let them not Go get diseases Because you are evacuating them and when they were complaining some people were saying is the entitlement Mentality, why would they even complain about what the federal government is giving them? I was asking myself if you have said this xyz amount was voted for that person What did you use the money for if the person that you are giving like the said prisoners for instance is uh Is it 12 000 or so per day that they vote for prisoners and I have been Inside those premises. I have interacted with the prisoners. I have worked With them and among them and I've seen the conditions of living and I don't see a 2000 era That goes to anybody. Yeah, I'm go when you begin to talk about Allocations, but it's it's terrible. You you you're just going to have a blood high blood pressure But when you talk about let's go back to this student situation and the you are talking about the welfare that they saw I think the the incoming president has is what cut out for him because some of the things identified as I said duplicity, you know a conflict of interest you have the minister of foreign affairs, then you have Uh Neymar diaspora commission diaspora commission and then you have the embassy over there who are the officials in that country Supposed to interact with who are they going to have all these negotiations with who should represent Nigeria out there with regards to things like this These may be reasons for all the delay of the bottlenecks And all the shabbiness that we've seen so for every one million naira It is going like four weeks because every of these bodies that you have mentioned will have a share. Yes, so That that explains it. I think that's a good reason that you have said that but Let the next government like you said Look into things like this. This duplicity is really bad But I hope that what was said in potakot will not be repeated in other things What's that like, you know wiki saying We we worked on the federal roads Do well to when you enter Return our money that we used to work on federal roads and the president like said, I owe you nothing You have to love me. You have to love you me to get whatever you want. Well, loving is a part of politics actually and Should they be lobbied to pay back? That is a question But that let's wait and see how all of that unfolds. They they they know how to settle themselves When the cameras are not rolling. Yeah, but let's just take a look at what has been happening some of the clips that come from are coming from sudan their returnees and Some of them are shot in nigeria and let's just see about the people who are coming back from sudan So we're expecting that what they are against me by them is going to be more claims not just more complaints Because egypt makes it difficult Egypt says if the number of people you brought is less than 200 and the aircraft It can only take 150 then nobody will So they want you to help pick the exact number of people that they are you're bringing into their Order, so if you call them all planes The four planes go at the same time you bring everybody So nemals are sure that They've done that and that's for egypt and the ports of land be Um, they're trying to get tickets Because it's even more difficult to get flights to But they have an airline So they're processing them now get them tickets and they come back home And if other elas get the right I learned it from it At least they're coming back home and nobody will We're glad about this life has been lost and Proud to was given to students women and children So There you have on of our bkw area who's in charge of the commission for Nigerians in diaspora Giving us updates Is she talking for need come or is she talking for the foreign affairs or nima or what was she Is she supposed to be the one to talk and give us updates on all these ones? Well This is nigeria some of the questions being raised. All right The second top trending has to do with the court in lego's grants bail to is indeed were accused of ipop threat He was charged for allegedly threatening to bring the prescribed indigenous people of biafra to the state And well, he's been granted bail and the sum of one millionaire with four suretees All of them must be Resident in lego's and that one of them must have property in lego's So he has to have four suretees and all that I don't even want to comment on on that issue because Well, I don't want to comment on that. Well, the thing is this the dust the dust raised by politicians and the wake of that election that took place is far from settling All right, and we just hope that This income in administration would do all it can To make all Nigerians feel at home. Yeah to put an end to all this ethnicity and Tribalistic sentiments that are doing the country. No good because if we say we are one we must see ourselves as one All right, the the issue he raised even though I said I wasn't going to comment about on that the issue He raised was that The ebosa losing properties Right after the election, it seemed to see if it was a strategic Way of dealing with the people who were not in support of a particular political party and he said Do I need to bring my people? Do I need to bring high pop to come and protect our property? I think it may have been taken out of context But the fact that he mentioned a proscribed Organization that put him in trouble. So that much I can say, okay, it is justified But now that he has been granted bill I hope that they will look at all the sides of the story and see what prompted that Kind of statement in the first place. So even if he's serving jail term Why did he make that statement? Is that statement true? Was there something that connects that statement to whatever the government needs to do and they should look at it and And find solutions because nobody wants to feel unsafe wherever he is Especially if you're in Nigeria and you are in any part of Nigeria You should feel safe enough to do your business to interact and have your social life your business life And then you want a kind of life that you want to live And you know, this is a lesson for the politicians and the people indeed Nigerians must be able to swift, you know, sift out these very very desperate politicians who Do not have the interest of Nigeria and Nigerians at heart as a pursuit their individual political agendas because if you want to lead Nigerians, you must not destroy Nigeria to do that We are one North south east west Nigeria is one And in the attempt to destabilize the country to be able to clinch anything Makes whatever it is you're seeking very very questionable. I wish also that Well inflammatory statements are bad. So whoever makes them Should be seen to have gone through some form form of punishment I wish also that um The person who made a statement that a particular group of people should never come out On the day of election because they don't support him We're just I wish they had taken him to to then grant him bill later We will at least see that they're working. There's justice But you leave one person who Who made statements that influenced the outcome of the election so much whether we like it or not And he's going scot-free and the other person who is crying that things are being done to his people He's a zendibo. So he's responsible for his people and then he's arrested. Well, if it is good to arrest him I don't have a problem with that But if you are arresting him for inflammatory statements arrest everybody that did that even was it festus kiamo No, no Fanny coyote was arrested or at least invited to come and explain why he made some some statements And after that he didn't say anything anymore At least we saw that they were working and they were making sure that people didn't talk carelessly So what what do you do for one person do for another? What do you do to one person do to another as well if they're doing the same things? There is need for social capital Development in nigeria. There is need because we do not want to continue to be divided along different lines 62 years as a country is no joke I think it's enough time for us to be able to have blended in very well and not to be swayed here and there by individual interests 62 years Someone who is old enough And then in nigerian context someone who is old enough to To contest elections because you need to be that old before you contest election. That's matter for another day It is matter for another day if you're watching the breakfast on plus tv africa