 A very good morning to you. You're welcome to the breakfast on cloth TV Africa. It's Thursday, a beautiful Thursday morning How are you doing? My name is Romare Paulson. My name is Nyamru Aghaji. It's a beautiful Thursday as she has set So one day to Aghaji Friday Yeah, I know that some people work in the kind of Jobs that they don't have weekend, but somehow you will have to find time every once in a while to give yourself some rest We especially at this time that a lot of people are going through so much stress And we're not doing much about our mental health, but we're not talking mental health today We hope to be looking at business When we discuss today and hope that you are going to make your plans better and better for 2024 Yeah, we'll be looking at the 2025 broadband tag a dicey as 31 states remain Underserved and also how the types of investment to make in 2024 will also be seeing what the national dailies are saying in this morning as well as taking some top trending stories But first let's look at our quotes of the day and set the tone for this fine Thursday morning This before work is in the dictionary and that is from vital so soon Yes, the only place Where success comes before work is in the dictionary. So don't expect to have success overnight What do you think about that? First of all, I'd like to add that is in the English dictionary because success in my language It's an English word. Yeah, so When we talk about success, we should not translate it into our local dialects because it might come before work So but bottom line is that like you said, you don't expect to have success overnight You could have it overnight, but it has to be that in the morning before that night. You had put in some work Yes, that makes made you have this success. So Like they say suffer before pleasure suffering doesn't always have to be that you have to go hungry. You have to wear rags you have to Suffer hard labor and all that but you have to do something that will give you the success Not success before doing what you need to do. I think instead of suffer before pleasure. I would like to say sacrifice Before pleasure. So you have to give in something whatever you call it Because if you use the word suffer suffer people connect to something that is always Suffering doesn't always have to be that you are You you are suffering Before pleasure, I mean you have to give in something In the days of ritual is don't sacrifice. Oh, okay, not that kind of sacrifice Might have might have might be it's own connotations Person how you see it, but the work will have to come before success. Otherwise, you may not have the success You want that's the bottom line. Yeah, and I'm talking about it in my generation where you know people like to say We're in a microwave generation Everybody wants to you know, just be on the gram Beyond social media showing that you know, they're leaving their best life I mean, it's good to leave your best life, but don't do it Don't do something negative to get that so as long as you're doing everything possible legally Morally, I mean, I'm no moral excuse me I'm no moral compass, but everything for your own conscience legally morally to ensure that you're getting that success Then why not but don't think that overnight you just wake up one morning You see a bag of 30 billion dollars on the road you pick it up and your life is better No You have to start to put certain work in and all of that would pay off in the end and that's where you get your success So there's a saying that I don't like and I think it should people should stop using it The end justifies the means it doesn't the end and the means have to go hand in hand You cannot tell me that you kill somebody so that you can save a situation and you say because you saved it Yes, you became rich you can kill your brother or your friend or anything Just because you wanted to arrive at that point that will call you a rich man. It doesn't justify the means You do something bad to get something good. It still makes it bad So the end and the means will have to you know be the same you have to go hand in hand You cannot just do anything, right? I mean it's business Thursday. So this is focused on business So that's all talking about your success and later on we'll be talking about the types of investments You should make in 2024 for that success. You need to invest something invest your time invest your finances Any other thing that require even even yourself even the talent that you have you need to invest that So we'll be talking more about that later on anyways Let's move over to our top trending stories and the first one this morning in is US Secretary Blakken Commission's American Corner in Leckie the US Secretary of State Anthony Blakken on Wednesday commissioned the American Corner in the Leckie area of Lagos state The innovative and tech enabled American space in Lagos is aimed at supporting youth innovation entrepreneurship and creativity in Nigeria the technology bolsters the Biden administration administration US strategies towards sub-Saharan Africa's objective to drive digital transformation and stimulate an Inclusive digital ecosystem Blakken who is in his second day in Nigeria was accompanied in the inauguration of the space by the Minister of communications innovation and digital economy Boston T. Janney and other US government officials his visit to Nigeria is part of his ongoing tour in Africa I mean, this is great for everyone. I love it when we incorporate technology into our everyday lives I mean, we also talked about that on Tuesday But yes, I mean the African the American corner. What do you think about that? I'm just thinking about the fact that it is the American people that are having a corner in Nigeria to encourage You used to do the the things they're supposed to do in technology. How much is our own country doing how much? Technological hub do we have or hops do we have in Nigeria in fact in all the states? How many words of our local governments have something like an ICT center? Which doesn't take anything to do by anybody who's serving us whether a council or a chairman or something So there are still people who are not IT survey in our country that should be leading in innovation technical innovation in the in the African continent, so Well America has done it is good But we need more indigenous input into growing technology in Nigeria and encouraging the people that have been doing well We hear a young man in the north for instance who developed a car that runs on solar and we've not heard anything about it the government saying something about you know Giving him the needed support that he has to In a country that has so much sun and we have a technology that can run without fuel Even if we are the ones that are producing the highest Fuel in the world or the oil in the world. We should explore other technologies and sell out this technology But it's not being done So we are waiting for America to have corner in Nigeria Why is it called American corner? It is their corner and whatever they do in that space. They are the ones that are sponsoring it now They say this is the greatest country the country with the greatest number of this kind of American corner Think this one that has been launched now makes it 25 in Nigeria alone. So how many Does Nigeria have of those kind of places in their own country? That's the question I'm asking me if they have so much. I don't know much about it And I hope I mean it's almost free for everybody you can go there and just learn more because I mean we're seeing the minister of communications innovation and Technology, you know being there doing all of this things and honestly, I wouldn't lie I'm happy at where this administration is going to We're just hoping that things start to get better and everybody's pulling their weight So if you're in humanitarian affairs, you should be doing Wherever you are like just pull your weight you're there to do a job go there do the job and yes I think a lot of ministers are doing well. Yes, I'm actually happy I know there are some policies some assaults that we are seeing that are very ill advised and all that For instance, I saw yesterday that the president is trying to give an order an executive order That will prevent people who want to leave from living like not people who want to jack up People who foreign businesses that are in Nigeria that they tend to leave because of whatever reason they're giving How do you give an executive order that people don't leave? Who wants to come and invest knows that if the conditioners are not right anymore? I cannot leave yeah, there's something in that country that will prevent me from I don't know who advises that the government or the president to take some of these decisions that it takes Well, the next thing is Hard-wrenching gunmen killed 30 in fresh plot to attack no fewer than 30 persons were killed in Plattus state in the early hours of Wednesday by gunmen who attacked Quahaz like select like village. Oh man. This names In mango local government area of the state it was gathered that the victims who were mostly women and Children had run to the house of a community leader in the area on Tuesday night for safety following an earlier Undressed during the day in Mangu town when the gunmen surrounded them and killed all of them the community leader in the area Mark Haruna confirmed the death toll In just the state capital on Wednesday According to him the unrest in Mangu town the day before created fears in many communities leading to some people in the village a Evacuating their loved ones and assembling them in a place where the thought was safe Unfortunately in the night the killers went to the village where the people mostly women and children were assembled and killed all of them the chairman of Wangavul Development Association Joseph Guankat also confirmed the killing describing it as colors the Plattus state governor Caleb Mood Fong declared a 24-hour curfew on Mangu local government on Tuesday He said the decision followed the deteriorating Security situation in the area after an unrest left several home or houses including churches and mosques burnt down The state is yet to recover from the Christmas Eve attacks on communities in three local government areas of the state gunmen had stumbed and doon gion morphet Mukundari Tamiso Chiang Chiang Tahore and the likes In but Mangu and Boko's area of the state burning houses and shooting residents over 150 people were reportedly killed in their attack Unfortunate that's quite unfortunate. I think every arsenal every Everything that we have should be going there right now because this happened the first on was on Christmas Eve they sent letters to them remember that that they were coming back again And you're seeing all of this happening. So what's what's going on in plateau right now? Why is why is there no? military forces Earth staff neighbor staff Nigerian police force like every every force that we have I would have expected that they should be there and start to protect the lives of these people Well, you find that in plateau state you find that in Kaduna state you find that in Burnett state You find that in almost every state in the north. So where will the army go? Where will they not go? The disturbing thing is that it doesn't take a full army to root out these people Wherever they are operating and all that it takes intelligence to do that But the unfortunate thing like I said is now that the most of the people who are Intelligence gather us Being are the ones that are fingered as being culpable in in all these activities So what do you do? You send the army there you pump money into security and then the security people are the ones giving the information So how do you fight that kind of crime security is already breached. It's pretty so we don't know what we are going to do But the thing is if the police or the army or the Navy or all the forces that you mentioned Do well to build confidence in the people the people will take it upon themselves to give the intelligence because nobody Intelligence doesn't succeed without the people. They are the ones on ground They are the ones that will have the confidence that oh, I could just stay somewhere and call the police and say Disinformation like this. This is what I've heard. This is what I've seen But if you see something you say something and you enter into something it is not a good thing You enter into trouble most cases So the security forces should do more to build confidence so that we can be the ones to give the information I mean, that's that's just quite hard wrenching We need to start doing everything that we can pull out everything everything in your arsenal Just is you know save the lives and properties because every life matter I mean we can be in the urban area the suburbs and say oh I'm protected and protected But look at what is going on in Abuja people are being you know kidnapped and killed All of these other states that you've you've talked about burn new Kaduna now plateau as well. I mean we security takes a chunk of our budgets. Mm-hmm So for that money, where's that money going to why we know? So just tells you that it's not how many guns you have it's not how many helicopters you have the people themselves Yes, so if the chunk of the money going into security for instance was going into education and Going into job creation. There's some of these people that a criminal is a criminal Yes, but there are some people who are criminals because of the condition to find themselves and they want to taste it and see Not that the Lord is good, but I'm interested and see that the money there is so good They just stay there and they forget about being good at all How do you expect someone to go in to keep napping demand for six hundred million Naira? And then maybe the negotiations comes to a hundred million that As a civil servant he will not end for 36 years and then you expect him to come back and all that So we are encouraging a lot of things that should never be so pump a lot of money into job creation pump A lot of money into education and the criminality will reduce whether I like it or not Just try to eradicate it out All right, this is what we're going to take a short break because it's quite some sad news So we're going to take a short break right now And when we come back over looking at what a national day needs are saying this morning, but first let's check out the weather