 A very good morning to you. You're welcome to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. It's Monday the 15th of January 2024 and today is known as the National Civil Rights Day. So for everyone who's exercising their civil rights, well, today is that day to celebrate even more. But yes, we're going to be having some hot topics with these 10 of your suspense social investment program over one-term corruption. And EFCC revives the 3x governors 772 billion fraud cases. We'll also have off the press when we're looking at what the National Dailies are saying this morning. But first, let's take our quote for the day. You're never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream and that is from CS Lewis. So it's a new year. We're just starting. It's about the second week proper in the new year and I'm sure you have that goal and that dream. And CS Lewis is telling us this morning that you are never too old to set a new goal. You cannot just say, I want to set a new dream. You can set a new dream. You can change your life and 2024 can be your year. So whatever goals, your sets, whatever aspirations you have, well, you should start today and you will just be able to achieve them by the end of the year. Alright, that's it. Read our quote. Let's move over to some top trending stories this morning. And this one says, Tinibu establishes a panel to probe and power other social investment programs. President Bola Tinibu has set up a special panel on social investment programs. Presidential spokesman Adjiri Ingelele said on Saturday. The move is a sequel to Tinibu's suspension for six weeks of the four programs under the National Social Investment Programs Agency, NSIPA, and the panel will be led by the Coordinating Minister of Economy and Minister of Finance, Wale Edun. According to Adjiri in a statement, this special presidential panel is taxed with immediately undertaking a comprehensive review and audit of existing financial frameworks and policy guidelines of the social investment programs with a view to implement in a total re-engineering of the financial architecture of the programs with detailed modification to procedures guiding the program's implementation moving forward. Adjiri further explained that the panel also comprises of ministers representing strategic sectors and will ensure a multidisciplinary approach to reform the effort or to the effort reform. The panel will be filed out by the Coordinating Minister of Economy and Minister of Finance, who will serve as chairman, Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Honourable Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Honourable Minister of Information and National Orientation, Honourable Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, and Honourable Minister of State for Youth. Adjiri also said President Tinibu anticipates that this special presidential panel will validate the confidence posed in it by winning back all lost public confidence in these vital programs over the years by ushering in a new era of operation based on open and accountable governance frameworks that will prove impervious to abuse and incompetence for the exclusive benefits of disadvantaged households across our nation. The audience is in response to the public outcry following allegations of fraud involving better edu, the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Elevation, her predecessor, Sadia Umar Farouk, as well as a former head of NSIP, Halima Shehu, who were being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Another story we have is the National Assembly extends recess to resume January 30. The House of Representatives has announced an extension of its ongoing recess with the resumption of members now slated for Tuesday, January 30. The National Assembly proceeded on a break during December 30, 2023, shortly after passing the 2024 Appropriation Bill and announced January 23, 2024 as the resumption date. However, in a statement issued on Sunday by the House spokesman Akin Routimi, the lawmakers have an additional week to resume following an official communication from the clerk of the House, Yahaya Danzaria. The extension also affects the Senate and prior to its recess, the House had since its inauguration in June 2023 considered a wide range of issues including peace and security, social welfare, health care, education, infrastructure development, economic growth, and more. At a special session held on December 30 for final consideration of the budget, Speaker of the House of Representatives Abbas Tajidin loaded the dedication, unity of purpose and willingness of his colleagues to engage in constructive debates instrumental to the legislative outputs recorded since the inauguration of the House. The speakers also noted that 500 motions on pressing matters affecting the people were adopted while 962 bills in the area of legislation were received by the Green Chamber since inauguration. So far, 120 of the bills have passed the second reading and are currently further legislative work at the committee stage. Among the notable bills passed by the House in this period included the Defense Industry Corporation of Nigeria repeal and reenactment bill 2023 which was on November 23, 2023, assented to by President Bola Tinibu. And our final top-trending story today is Lagos tax force impound 354 Qatar across the state. The Lagos state government through the state tax force has impounded about 334 commercial motorcycles popularly called Okada across the metropolis in a renewed clampdown against illegal operations. The week-long exercise was led by the chairman of the agency, Chief Superintendent of Police CSB Shola J.J. Lowe who vowed to cripple the activities of Okada operators. J.J. Lowe lamented that the activities of Okada along some highways in the state continually put the life of commuters along that axis in harm's way. Well, it also said according to him the tax force has proven to take a taken upon itself to end Okada operation in the state and is thus putting all mechanisms in place to ensure full realization of its goal. He therefore sounded a note of mourning to uniform men and urged them to obey extant rules and regulations of the states regarding Okada operations or be prosecuted. He explained that any uniform man cocked, conveying passengers on a bike for commercial purposes will be thoroughly dealt with. The chairman warned that the reactant of Okada operators should not test the might of enforcement compliance of the agency as it was more determined more than ever to eradicate the activities for good. He also urged residents to work together with the states and her agencies in ensuring that mischief makers do not derail the vision and mission of the state government as enshrined in the themes plus agenda of the present administration. J.J. Lowe also appealed to well-meaning residents to desist from patronizing Okada operators in order to make the roads safe, hazard-free and motorable for all. Justice Saturday tragedy struck in Lagos when a truck crushed a rider of a commercial motorcycle and two passengers to death while riding in the direction prohibited by law, otherwise called one-way, on the Lagos-Badagre expressway. Lagos state governor, Babaji Desawalu also recently arrested some offending of Okada riders including a soldier while riding the flow of traffic against the flow of traffic along the Lagos-Badagre expressway which elicited mixed reactions from members of the public. Well, that's it on our Top Training Stories this morning. We'll go on a quick break to look at the weather and when we return we'll be seeing what the national dailies are saying this morning in Upper Press. Please stay with us.