 President Bola Tinibu, Nigeria's chief marketer and his team are willing foreign investors to seize the investment opportunities in the country and bring their money to Nigeria. He is also called on Nigerians living abroad to come home and invest. However, Nigeria's weak fiscal monetary firm work are scaring foreign investors from coming to Nigeria. I want to take a look at what the barriers are and the factors affecting the effectiveness of Nigeria's monetary and fiscal policies as our first hot topic this morning on the breakfast. At the cost of livelihood increases and more pressure comes from various angles, there is a correspondence stress on the mental health of individuals. So today we'll be looking at coping with mental illness and understanding suicide prevention. We'll also be taking a look at the front pages of some national dailies as we look at the headlines. Our analysts will be joining us on off the press for that. Hello, good morning and welcome to the Breakfast on Plus TV Africa. I am Maureen Menong Weizigwe. And I am Yamgul Agadji. Every weekend we just pray for the days to run so that we can get to Monday and reconnect with you because it is because of you that we are here as well. So we're hoping that you have a positive mindset, this mindset Monday and welcome to the breakfast. Yeah. We hope you woke up on the right side of the bed because if you didn't wake up on the right side of the bed, the rest of the day may just not be, but whichever side of the bed you woke up on, it's a new week. It's begun already. So just embrace it and make the most of it. Tell yourself that, look, this week I will achieve, this week will bless me. You see, the sun rose, no matter how dark the night was, the sun still rose. No matter how cloudy the morning might be, the sun is still there shining. So no matter how you woke up, like she said, whatever part of the side of the bed you woke up from, be sure that the evening meets you smiling, meets you with a positive mindset, meets you as a very, very joyous person because even in scripture they say, even if you are angry, you shouldn't allow the sun to go down on your anger. So no matter how you're feeling, if you're feeling negative, be sure that as at the time the sun will be going down, you will be so positive that the people, even your enemies will be like, wow, what's going on here, you see. So but it's a Monday and it is the final Monday for the month of September. Every time we get to September, they say we are in Mba Monsa. Yeah, the Mba Monsa here. September to remember. So make every moment count. That's what really matters this morning. Make every moment count. We have our top trending for you this morning. We have three, four of them and we will begin with. All right, I'm waiting for it to be scrolled up. Okay, we'll begin with the situation in one of the states where I'm talking about Delta State specifically, the Ecobaptist General Hospital Delta State, the MD, the team of doctors and the state government, among others, have been dragged to the Delta State High Court for professional negligence that allegedly led to the death of a 33-year-old woman, Mrs. Anesta Egede. In the right of summons, the Mr. Fester's Gotson Egede, as Clement named Ecobaptist General Hospital Delta State, government, and Dr. Totibo, among others, as defendants, that his husband, Gotson Egede, said that Dr. Ibom Totibo allegedly let cotton wool in his wife's abdomen after surgery, which led to her death. Mrs. Egede Anesta was allegedly having pain in her abdomen and went to Catholic Hospital Obiaruko, where she was admitted, and his scan of her abdomen was duly recommended by the hospital, which revealed she was suffering from appendicitis. According to Mr. Fester's Gotson Egede, the hospital claimed the appendicitis was not up to 7.6% and as such, not up to the level for her to need the minor appendicitis operation as she was discharged from the Catholic hospital after two days of admission. Upon getting home and the pain persisting, Mr. Fester's Egede claimed to have taken the wife to Ecobaptist General Hospital for further examination of the already established appendicitis. A certain Dr. Edom Totibo, after having done another scan on her and further physical examination on Mrs. Anesta Egede, allegedly opined that her appendicitis was due and directed to surgery to remove the appendicitis for the next day. Mr. Egede stated that after the surgery, his wife was wheeled to a private ward for close observation, noting that instead of improving, she started to rapidly deteriorate, you know, weakened as her abdomen began to swell and she could not gas or stew for over 14 days. Dr. Egede recommended MRI scan which was conducted at Lilly Hospital, Benin City, Edo State and the result analyzed as a plethora of specialists, by plethora of specialists. It was allegedly determined that Dr. Edom Totibo and his team led a huge cotton wool on Mrs. Anesta Egede's abdomen after the surgery. She died from that. It's really unfortunate. The first hospital said it was not ripe enough. It was not mature enough for them to do an operation. And I don't know if that is what happened here, but the experience I've had is sometimes these private hospitals just make sure that you get a procedure that will bring more money. For instance, you're going to have a baby, even if it is a possibility that you can have it naturally, it will tell you you need CS, whether you like it or not, you need CS. Sometimes, even when you're not due, but you're just finding it difficult you're having some pain, they tell you you need CS because a normal bed maybe will cost less than CS when they give you and you are paying hundreds of thousands. And then sometimes they diagnose you in ways that when you go to real hospitals, places that they will tell you the truth, you'll be surprised at the kind of things that they tell you. I don't know if it is because there's no regulation, I don't know, but in the medical field there should be so much regulation that everybody, there should be a lot of sincerity so that anybody that goes to a hospital knows if it is cancer, you know it is cancer, if it is something else, you know it is something else. Yeah, but in this case it was the general hospital that said she needed to be operated on. What I'm alarmed about is the frequency, you know, which we hear of doctors living in a sea source or cotton wool or some metal inside a patient's body after operation. I don't get it. There's supposed to be a team surrounding the person during the operation. How come all the nurses, all the auxiliary nurses, the doctors themselves, you know, the surgeons, they just forget that, I mean, I don't understand the negligence. There was a story a few days ago that a doctor died because he was on call for 72 straight hours. He was having a neurosurgery and all that, so maybe, I'm not saying this is an excuse, but maybe hospitals are so short-starved that the ones that work there, all of them will be so tired that I'm just making small excuses, but it should never happen that a hospital will have a doctor on call for more than even 24 hours. I heard that story. I was alarmed. But again, the cases, I mean, a lot of things are really coming up now. Is it that they forget an equipment in the patient's body or they have as the patient's organ? We heard of one that happened in Platus State, then the one that happened in Lagos State. And God knows other cases that have been undetected. Perhaps the person died without them knowing that indeed an organ was harvested at some point. Because there's usually no autopsy, so nobody thinks about what happens to the patient. Now the senator, Ned Woko, was saying that he was going to... Sponsor a bill. They'll make mandatory for autopsy to be done before someone is buried. Mobile case has brought that to fore. Very unfortunate things happening to Nigerians and things that shouldn't really be, I mean. There we're talking about, I remember some months ago, we're talking about how it is unfortunate that when people are rushed to hospital on emergency cases or on emergency cases, money is requested first before life is attended to, which shouldn't be. There was even a case where police had to take a patient to hospital and about four hospitals rejected the patient. And if the police cannot bring a case to the hospital and it's attended to, so where are we even getting at? A lot needs to be done in Yamgo. Life must be made sacred because life is sacred. There's no duplicate for life. So whatever it is, this administration really does have a lot. It's got its work cut out for him. If they actually are determined to do this and begin to know what their duties are, because sometimes the governments do not even know what their duties are. And so they are left unattended to so many things need to be done. The medical association, yes, they are calling for more attention to be given to that sector, but all hands must be on deck. When the government leaves up to its expectations, the practitioners themselves, you also leave up to their own expectations so that Nigerians are not left at the mercy of some very crooked people. One thing that is missing in Nigeria very greatly is monitoring. Some of these things that we're complaining about that there's not much funding that is going to eat and all that. If everything that goes into some of these sectors is monitored, we will have better results than what we have now. You go to the educational sector, there's no monitoring anymore. When we're growing up, school inspectors, we're like some demigods. They will come all the time and teachers know that they can come at any time. So their notes are up to date. The students are such that if an inspector comes and asks the question in the class, the students will be ready to answer. So the teachers are teaching. They know that the scheme of work is being covered and all that. Nowadays we don't see monitors anymore. We don't see inspectors of schools anymore. We don't have aggregate extension officers anymore. We don't have all these people that used to be there to see how the people are doing. Farmers, how are you doing? Are there innovations? Aggregate extension officers will show you. Now they are no longer there. Teachers, are you doing well? The students, are you doing well? Schools, inspectors are there. Now we don't see them anymore. And it cuts across all the sectors of our economy. All the sectors, even NAVDAC. Even NAVDAC, I remember when that issue of the Indomie came up. It took a long time before NAVDAC conducted daring tests and were told is because they had to import what they were going to use to conduct the test. And I was thoroughly alarmed that NAVDAC cannot conduct some necessary tests in this country without having to take some time to import what they would use. And sometimes it doesn't come because they cannot get these equipments, but they just don't want to get... I'm not talking about NAVDAC now, I'm talking about all other sectors. They just don't want to import it because it will not give them the opportunity to go outside. And there's money that comes from going outside and all that, so they will just neglect it. Even the people who have, let's say, they have conference rooms in their ministries, they still go outside to do their meetings, they do whatever they need a conference room for. I'm interested in the fact that Nigerian governments have to go abroad for their summits. The entertainment industry goes abroad to do a ward for artists of Nigeria, it doesn't really make sense to me, I don't know the craze of going abroad that everybody wants to do. Nigeria needs a rebirth, a lot, a lot has gone wrong, a lot has gone wrong. Staying with health issues, the next story is about diphtheria. I know it is not COVID and the craze about it, the whole world may not be talking about it, but we are losing people, people are dying. At least 10 people have reportedly died following an outbreak of 91 suspected cases of diphtheria across 14 local government areas in Jigawa state, that is just one state. The State Minister of Health confirmed this to a journalist during a press briefing in Dutsey on Sunday and the permanent secretary in the ministry, Dr. Salisou Mouazou, said so far two cases had been confirmed at Kazare and Jahun local government areas while some samples have been taken to Abuja for confirmation and you see during the COVID era how many people died from that state. Now we are talking about 10 from something that is not even given that much attention. Mouazou pointed out that this outbreak was particularly concerning as it occurred in areas with a history of zero dose routine immunization against the epidemic and according to him the ministry swiftly initiated an investigation gathering essential information and data from the affected regions and promptly notified the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency and the National Center for Disease Control, NCDC. They asked them to coordinate further actions and according to him the state government is actively preparing to administer vaccines as soon as they become available. Meanwhile, permanent secretary attributed the outbreak to the disruptions in healthcare services caused by COVID-19 pandemic explaining that the suspension of routine immunization during the period posed a significant challenge. Now COVID-19 will now be like the devil, you do anything but you blame it on the devil even if you're doing it with your clay constant you blame it on the devil everything is now COVID-19 but the worrisome thing is that in the north people are still not as welcoming to immunization routine as they should be at least not as much as the south. There are some communities you go to and they don't believe in immunization and all that so I'm thinking where the problem is is it that the the the clergy are not doing enough or the government is not doing enough but national orientation and all that but a lot of these people their beliefs come from a religious background so is it time to train the clergy or to talk more to the clergy or how does this orientation get to the grassroots so that they can accept this it's not enough to even say it is because of the disruptions in COVID-19 pandemic it has been a big problem in the north that a lot of times people reject immunization and if things like this happen how are they going to cope they'll be prone to it. Oftentimes people reject immunization because of lack of trust and confidence in these immunizations there have been different stories some have been said to be conspiracy theories some have been said to be quite legitimate so there have been concerns I think one of the ways to get over this is for homegrown vaccines to be made available to the people perhaps they would have more confidence that this is coming from our people it will not do us harm because there is this concern and we cannot wish that away and people are entitled to their analysis of what you're going to be putting into their own bodies so they're entitled to whatever safety precautions they think is necessary for themselves all their words or their children so that is the issue we need to find alternative to the vaccines brought from abroad to our people but is that really their concern because the people who reject these vaccines sorry to say but I don't think they are so educated to know the difference so I place as a person I'm just placing the fault on the people who need to really educate them because even if you're they're homegrown so long as it's an injection and not a book let me use that one a lot of people will reject it so whoever is responsible for letting the people know the importance should do do do their work I think there's not enough education for them okay also in the north I hear stories you lived in the north I don't know maybe the stories are wrong but sometimes some men especially a lot of men believe that if their wives need to go to hospital to give birth they are not strong enough to be wife materials so a lot of them prefer to stay at home give birth at least I was had of having the testimony from someone whose community believe this that you are not strong enough so you you are not even strong enough if you you you you shout when you're giving birth you have to swallow everything and show that you're a strong woman and just be maybe shaking your head and until you have a baby there are people who still need to be yeah I even I even saw a documentary in that direction and yes there are people with such mentality I haven't met anyone really but there are people or there have been people who have such mentalities who believe that a woman should not you know exactly and that if you give birth through a series or if you're required if you require serious to give birth then you're not strong as your mates are those are daft thinking but yes there have been such thoughts and there have been such people do they still exist I don't know I can't trust me they do because the story is a recent story but bottom line is people we cannot assume that people should know better until you tell them you have no right to say they should know there are a lot of people who still believe in things that are really weird and unless the people some of us who are privileged enough to read white and to to have some knowledge about these things we are failing them if we do not educate them now this is not just national orientation agency which is dead anyway as far as I'm concerned but everybody else who is privileged enough to know better should be able to impact that knowledge on the people who do not know sometimes they will trust you more than a government person coming to tell them because you are part of them what about those who know who are actually the ones telling them these things for selfish reasons maybe not for selfish reasons maybe for selfish reasons you're saying the same thing you're like a doctor who is divorcing your wife because she's giving you female children how does that work so you know and you're still doing this is selfish okay let's take this third top trend then away from the picture on the screen a two-story building has reportedly collapsed at al-haji monsoon street in jagoon in alimosh your local government area of legos in a video that went viral on sunday the building collapsed on a smaller structure it is however unclear if there are any casualties due to the building collapse another building collapsed another one bites the dust it's almost like it's a daily occurrence in legos only the ones that made it make it to the press are the ones that we see yes it's it's terrible there's a possibility there will be at least one person in that place but we have not found the whole thing just because the building in front is either a shop or somewhere that someone is yeah some shanty yeah there must be people living in there so tragic so unfortunate people are caught in corners just to make money which is very very very sad the person who is building the house may not have the intention of living there and the person who has taken the contract may not even be thinking about the safety of people it is in legos that i hear that blocks do not need to be strong because you are going to have pillars so there are some blocks that you can use your hand and just scatter you just yeah a lot of the blocks i'm telling you a lot of the blocks are like that and the kind of i don't know i don't know sometimes the buildings are not even meant to be more than a bungalow you know yeah the the rods that are being used the rods that are being used have specifications if it has to be a story building or two story building and all that but they don't do that they just use any iron they are using it it's the same way when they're doing a culvert they just use any iron and two months later the culvert has collapsed and then they're coming to fix it again every time every time and then yeah and if you look around i mean the house is the modern buildings today back in the days growing up do you remember how difficult it used to be to hit a nail on yes to take it through it's so hard we had what we call and i think we still have them concrete nails you needed concrete nails to be able to nail anything to the wall but today just a little thing and the whole wall comes off everything just it wasn't even a common thing to have hollow blocks anyway they just had the blocks that had no holes and it was one sturdy thing and it was good enough but nowadays like you said the blocks you are hitting a hole in one and the whole wall comes crumbling down because it's terrible monitoring should be done lego state government be deliberate about this the amount of buildings collapsing in legos is too much legos is the smallest or one of the smallest states housing 10 percent of the population of uh of nigeria and so everything has to be deliberated the eyes of government cannot be anywhere everywhere but there are collaborations that can be made and there are societies concerned with the building we don't know how much collaboration has been done with those people but these incidences of building collapsing every day must stop has to stop they have to stop if they're watching the breakfast and plus tv africa and it's time for us to take a little break and come back and give you up to press stay with us