 Let's see all the breakfast and plus TV Africa. It's time where we take you through the pages of a national dailies Hoping to get you great insight and analysis. We have tunde Kuala Wale who joins the conversation via phone Tunde Kuala Wale, it's good to have you join us this beautiful morning Good morning my sister. Thanks for having me. And thank you so much. I hope you're not stuck in traffic Trying to get petrol No, we're trying to get by All right then Let's start off with the punch newspaper this morning looking at all of the Big stories and every relevant story on the paper now the bold caption For the punch says fuel scarcity worsens black market booms at 300 nair per liter Now others are saying that we're actually looking at 500 nair per liter The question would be if Nigerians cannot even get afford this petrol this product How do these black market people thrive? You know in the midst of scarcity marketers insist on price increase and fuel stations adjust pumps hard products motor is lament 100 fair hike And marketers differ on one billion naira payment to nmpc We cannot justify subsidy removal Western countries subsidizing fuel to President Muhammad Buhari is quoted on that. Don't forget. He's also the minister You know in charge of the ministry of Petroleum We move away from that. These are the riders you find underneath the board caption cost of powering telecom services to heat 720 billion naira and presidential poll attico raises The team to war wiki reverse governor's camp adamant That's that's interesting Buhari nominates seven ministers three apc senators dumped the party and body of Breaches raises peace panel as supreme court justifies fight of Those chief justice of niger Or the chief george. However, you want to look at it now banks record 1.2 trillion naira non-performing loans Stay to lose 19 billion naira in oil gas revenue according to the world bank ny sc swerves in core members Warns against fake news And also looking at the punch Cancel fumes and probes states for sacking 9,392 features You want to find out what's going on in kaduna state? 2079 die in 68 mass killings according to report electoral act reps move to override Buhari's veto stalled You also find pipeline vandalism I pop dismisses allegation and Buhari blames group. We're talking about pipeline vandalism right there BTR driver flees as crushed mother dies and daughter hospitalized Ogun caught remands five more suspected moana killers Now the headlines you would find on the front page of The punch newspaper this morning Away from the punch. We take a look at the leadership On the leadership newspaper again president mohammed abu harry others rescue of kaduna train attack victims Others that's what you find register Voter registration surge stakeholders worried over January collection date for new pvcs Uh, I think that Some peasants are making a lot of effort to get their pvcs And there's there's a lot of information that might need to be put out there by inek So the people are in the know Says it's too close to 2023 polls effective distribution not guaranteed Catholic churches advocate pvc sensitization at worship centers Prosecute vote buyers inekiti peace committee tells security agencies president nominates replacement for amici akabio on new others And low supply from nmpc depot heightens fuel scarcity Yobay primaries Machina fault adamu overlords Overla once participations claim You know the the claim is that there was a secret It's some sort of secret primaries that took place Where the senate president akmed law and participated. Let's not forget that akmed law and was also in the race vying to become The flag bearer of the all-progressive congress So he he he he he he can contest the elections in 2023. We're talking about the 2023 presidential ambition. I'm just wondering Uh away from that you find I want tunibu to succeed me The president has quoted bohari. Arekba shala launches 10,000 e-passports Again, do you find the chief? Judge in Nigeria blames judges poor conditions on economic realities Well, this is some of the headlines on the leadership newspaper this morning We'll move away from the leadership and turn our attention to the nation Why we dropped subsidy removal plan by bohari Why we dropped subsidy removal plan by bohari? We cannot ignore human consequence of such action only cbn Board can determine emethylus fate The us united kingdom should blacklist ipop Riders underneath the board caption three apc senators join pdp and npp mackinday relocates deputy office Find out what that's about again Petrol scarcity worsens motorism commuters grown You need to see the drama If you are on the streets of ligas President other security chiefs to rescue train attack victims now And you find another caption here underneath the The leadership and we're talking about the bottom of the paper this morning Weakest temperament denied him vice president slots says ex-governor And legas condemns illegal evacuation of wetlands in ma gordo umana five others tipped as minister song wo lu heads 86 men or shun election council the riders you find Or caption on the part on the nation newspaper this morning and just before then we move away justice memo the chief George niger Defends supreme court's integrity The stories on the nation newspaper this morning, but away from the nation We take a look at the guardian newspaper and on the guardian supreme court cash trapped CJN replies angry justice Ohanaise the bong's endorsement of tunable as cng Clarifies position on okawa You can see also a picture of Vehicles that have been lined up apparently trying to get petrol Close to a filling station. You could see that A pictorial representation of what's going on with fuel's cursory petrol federal government insists on 165 narrow Palm price advice against panic buying protest rocks enougu over pvc registration huddle and okawa's vise Presidential slot only hope for niger delta iyc tells a grief stakeholders mother of apc senatorial candidate abducted in jigawa And the board caption reads bohari to western government nigeria operates own economic model Hmm rules out fuel subsidy removal Okay, western countries implement fuel subsidy acts nigerians to remove it Defend cbn's intervention says only its board can sanction it mayfully for alleged infraction Postcribe ipop stop shielding its leader president urges western government Buhari dumps a meiji Appabio orders and sends new ministerial Neminis to senate Well, these are the headlines you find this morning on the front page of the garden newspaper We have tunday collar. Well, he's a legal practitioner. He joins the conversation this morning today It's good to have you join us via phone. Let's show your thoughts on the big stories on our national dailies. Yes, please Well On we are driver's tax All the stories you have on the front pages of the papers And also as a tax And nothing means that will make anybody smile It is either that of a capital of well Which is costing a lot of our sheep in the land Or people can feel it this way All over the country Of the data that it may I would like to start on the this agreement between the justice of the supreme court and the fission of nishila Because that happens to be My primary consistency I would like to say at the funding of the judiciary When compared to other arms of process I cannot see to write home about Tunde color will it do we see will have no i'm I'm here. Are you here remain loud and clear go ahead with your thoughts? so I was saying that the funding of the supreme court Or the justice sector On top of the section of government and the legislator Has not has not been anything to write home about the judiciary Is considered as an offer by the secretary of government I will therefore like to appeal to the secretary of government to ensure that the judiciary is simply funded Like all the other two arms of government What the example of government doesn't remember or know Is that whatever happened in the justice sector has a direct impact Has a direct relationship with us or with what is happening in the economic arena with what is happening with regards to security It has implications people on the world that see that as very good or not affordable But for the betterment of government the thing they can do away with the judiciary What is happening between the CPM and the federal agencies It's a very very embarrassing totally unexpected I'm not too sure this kind of a thing happens in the other countries of the world so The aim of this matter is to resolve the better Thank God the body of Belgium has stopped it I hope they will be able to prepare on all the parties to shift their swaps and then concentrate on the responsibility of delivering justice to all men and women without fear or favor The other area I want to comment about what to do with pipeline vandalization The authorities are blaming IPOP for pipeline vandalization and IPOP is denying that they have never engaged in that kind of activities To the point of our knowledge I'm not too sure that IPOP will engage in that kind of very very irresponsible action or activities and if you look at it critically how many of these pipelines can you even say passes through a number in mode and some of these order it will state such that IPOP will lay hands on them with view to vandalizing them So the government has better look for the companies who are engaging in this pipeline vandalization other than kind of power when IPOP are not the one that is possible for what is happening I'm not too sure if IPOP is not possible they will wait not to eat for them all To the color let's come let's look at the garden newspaper You live in Lagos so it's okay to say you're a Lagotian The question here is with field scarcity we've seen the long queues already and it's costing a lot of hardship and discomfort to the people right here but what exactly do you think would be responsible for these queues that have returned Now on the garden we have the president saying to the western countries or western government that Nigeria operates her own economic model and so it's ruling out field subsidy removal could it also be that subsidy has been removed I mean this has been implemented I agree with Mr. President that in the general economy not our own it depends on the government it rents our economy that doesn't possess anything it is the society for any government to say that it will remove subsidy people who producing petroleum products in Nigeria are not very optimal level that we construct our domestic needs then they're holding the any cost for a lab to remove the poor subsidy but we don't produce these things here we import basically and certainly all the petroleum products that we consume in the country so if you remove the subsidy with the high cost or the green leaf protein of the Nigeria what is going to be the loss of the common mass because the prices of oil products will go up and you will have the polar effect from goods and services the president is also right that the western world they also subsidize petroleum products and agricultural products and some other products how do they subsidize petroleum products in the western world they do it through the regulated transport share that commuters are now to take in those countries of the world they should then do that here and then if you now remove the subsidy it will be double jpeg for our people now it will become more difficult and so Nigeria having an economic model I disagree with Mr President Nigeria does not have any clear for the economic model why we are practicing is a hybrid capitalism a combination of both capitalism and world-class economy and world-class economy and we have to compare this all if it is a rentier economy economy that depends solely on the rent and let them charge it and what I do that they collect on the petroleum sector if you come to the other economy model of your own then the nation will be as dependent on importation as it is today we would rather be producing more than 65% of whatever we consume domestically so for this extent the President is both right and totally wrong with the economy paradigm that it has described to Nigeria when in actual fact their economy model in Nigeria hmm alright let's also still say with the issue of fuel scarcity that has wasn't and you have the black market booming 300 naira per litre the question is in the midst of this scarcity how do you have this market making so much progress and prospering how do they even have access to this product that's on the one hand is also insisting on price increase and you know fuel stations adjusting the pump price but the President is also saying or the Presidency insisting on 165 naira per litre how do we explain this is it that subsidy has been removed or subsidy has not been removed could it be the handy work of this market what exactly is going on because it feels like we don't seem to have answers well my sister is a very very complex issue complex in the sense that we are a nation that is helpless helpless in the sense that whatever affects one in the international market and with world going on in Ukraine and with Russia and the in this this has had a ripple effect on some of these challenges that the nation is facing and this has had a ripple effect on some of these challenges that the nation is facing we are now also competent with the fact that the fortune of the naira has been doing me compared to the dollar compared to the past earnings the value of naira has been falling almost on a daily basis and if you have to aim for the petrol on products that you consume and most of these other goods and services can you cover that as short that prices will go up and if prices goes up the importance of those people of the poor people who have no option other than to also increase the price because they are not protesting this locally they buy it at the international market what the naira could buy for them from three months ago in the international market they could only buy that now if they are not to why not be protesting if they are not to be running as they love if the subsidy is not going to be enough to cushion the effect of their course of importance and distribution and sales then they will have no option other than to also tackle the price the few funds that we have will show all over the country today at the world the public have had in their different reports before the scarcity began it will also be the one that some of these petroleum petrol stations have been holding in anticipation because they are starting the market trend they are seeing that later there is going to be scarcity in order to make a windfall after the scarcity they will have some of these products and then begin to sell it as very astronomical prices when the scarcity indeed to arrive as it has come to this imagine if they bought the product at $250 naira for a liter and they are selling at $300 naira now you could see the differential the kind of jumbo profit they would have been making from that even with the subsidy they are nice to know that if that government don't pay the importer or the marketer of these products the subsidy has a good view the virtually importer virtually have to go to the bank to borrow money to import these products and when they borrow the money it is at a very astronomical interest rate compound interest so by the time they import by the time the federal government is selling their subsidy it might not even be enough to cover the cost of borrowing to import the 12 from abroad so it's a very complex issue it is complex not because there are no solutions but because they have people who are independent in government to their color wale it's such a difficult like you have said it is a complex situation because Nigerians deserve to understand the reason why this product is not being available talking about the scarcity there are a lot of issues that have been put out a lot of facts that have been put out there is no statement from the minister himself we are talking about the minister of petroleum resources the president there is no statement because you also have some quotas saying that the low supply from nmpc is also responsible for frills scarcity let's not forget that nmpc is solely saddled with the responsibility of bringing in this product so can you say that again yes but the nmpc is true it's not that they wouldn't tell me the truth they gave their money from the central bank they had quality from the central bank and then they had quality from the central bank for them to import the product and would they do it and you and I do know too that cure is no longer selling as it used to be in the international market in great people people are investing in alternative energy now I have been saying it has been out from now sooner than later petroleum products will be like coal that nobody wants to have anything to do with alright well I think we need to move away from that but it's just quite worrisome when one cannot actually be certain with the situation what exactly is the problem here is that the low supply from nmpc is causing the issue could it just be an artificial scarcity that markets are hoarding this product or subsidy has been removed exactly I mean so many questions but answers will definitely come soon now let's look at the leadership newspaper it talks about the voter registration charge stakeholders are worried over general collection date for the new pvc's there's been a lot of concern about extension of dates so you have Nigerians who can go in and continue with the process so they can get their pvc's maybe temporary sleep so to enable them to be part of the elections the question here is why can we have a system where people register and get the pvc's immediately what exactly I mean what's so difficult in getting the pvc's immediately after getting registered one you see Nigeria is a very peculiar country peculiar in so many respects these are not mistaken I think the 2030 elections will begin to take place in February 2030 so if you are asking people to begin to collect the pvc's pvc's in January how will they be able or will it be possible for them to participate in a election that will take place in February taking cognizance of the difficulties the logistic problem that the nation has always seen in the situation of some of these pvc's a man who registered in Lagos will sometimes find out that his pvc has been taken to protocols while the man in protocols will find out that his pvc's lines were in Meduguri simply because we are not masters of logistic when it comes to issues as simple as the only distribution of means of identification I should want to say that the reason we are having some of this energy is the vendor system China also applied too many times the production of this pvc are not given for those who have the competence to relate to them they are given to party cognizance they are given to relations they are given to preferences with the view to make money from those projects you may even be surprised that the pvc may be prodigy something whereas Nigeria has the way with us to produce those pvc's printing like I said before started here in Nigeria and started back as in the 40s or 50s the way in Yoruba was already being produced in Adel Kuta and if you go to Shumonit to regard and you go to Yoruba there is nothing that you want to print that the Nigerian printers cannot print for you all we require to do is to empower them to acquire some serious technologies to be more efficient in the manufacturing and production of these things I should say that whatever happened with regard to this incompetent in the production distribution and usage of pvc's they claim to be faster to hide them and to the development of governments that are showing incompetence in virtually almost all the activities in almost all the programs in almost everything that they have laid their hands on when they go to power about 7 years ago hmm alright on the nation just before we move away it talks about it talks about also another issue that we're looking at and it's the issue of having to say that the president or the security chief to rescue train attack victims you know what do you make of this you remember the unfortunate incident with the show of the nation that is the the secret shame of the nation that people have been kidnapped many months ago and the adopters are reaching out to people in government they are reaching out to family of those who have been kidnapped and with the nature of the sophisticated technology that are available today to locate where ever anybody might be and with the level of technology that is available to carry out rescue operations we as Nigeria we as the people we with all the different emphasis that we have all over the places we cannot rescue people who are kidnapped from the train attack so many months ago why I have said this time with our number even though I am not a soldier or a military man but do you know it is possible to kick in a system of friendly nations who have the technology you could use GPS you could use a satellite you could use drones to detect where the people are being kept and when you have detected where they are being kept you know it is possible to drop a small bomb on the account and everybody in the account will slip off and then you send me your paratroopers they help me the air force will drop the paratroopers in there to rescue the people that are being kidnapped and probably neutralize their kidnappers the truth of the matter is from revelations we got from the privilege of the method that was kidnapped not too long ago and the youth copper the navy youth copper was kidnapped long ago and then from some of the arrests that have been made it will appear that a few bandits within the military within the police and the other security forces are colluding with the kidnappers they have done kidnapping to a very very rich and not only lucrative business it is probably more lucrative now than politics the act of kidnapping and when you have that kind of a pollution it is difficult for you as a nation to be able to do the necessary with this rescue your people why we blame this woman we must also blame the reality people for not inventing for their lack of creativity in the ability to rescue whoever they are being kidnapped for public people are being kidnapped and this has been taking place for more than 10 years when Bukwara fought kidnapped the top key girls the school girls in the Pornos state and we sense in 10 years ago we have not been able to map our strategy and tactics and also design models with which we will be able to rescue whoever is kidnapped in Mejira furthermore, we connect that an American is the best one person and he was kidnapped he is either in Mejira or Chad and he was brought to Mejira here and the Americans came all the way from America to rescue that single person who was kidnapped without a political justice or no and they also were able to neutralize those who kidnapped the person to the color let's move away from that quickly now because we just have a few more minutes before we call it a wrap now on the leadership newspaper it talks about you know the senatorial seat in Yoben North there seem to be a lot of conflict or maybe some you know argument however you want to put it with China and Ahmed Lawan now according to the chairman he is saying that Ahmed Lawan that's the senate president participated in a secret senatorial primaries in Yoben that's the APC primaries that happened there's been a lot of back and forth what do you make of this secret senatorial primaries the truth of the matter is that from some of the things we read in the other papers it would appear that Ahmed Lawan wanted to easily take a notion of it you and I know he considered the presidential nation that he loved it is also not impossible that he asked that he put this the senatorial seat and asked somebody to give that the slot for him and the man who is only the slot for him it's not possible to give that position that he's not going to give that position to him that is my context because it's not possible to have a party with a presidential form another party the senatorial form the constitution of the BBP the laws of the land that is the electoral act and also the constitution does not permit people or does not give power to a lot of people to contest through a nation at the same time because you find a more time with a nation with the senator and the presidency with the answer of that you have to take place at the same time so how do you not protest we have to go now thank you so much for being part of the show we appreciate your thoughts and your time your perspective this morning these politicians are criminal thank you for having me thank you so much for bringing your insight on the stories this morning we appreciate it have a great day Tunde Kola Walea Begopardon is a legal practitioner and he's been bringing great insight and sharing his thoughts on the front pages of Anashina Dailies thank you for staying with us we take a break now but just before then let's let you know what happened today in history