 It's the breakfast and plus TV Africa time for off the press We will take you through the pages of the national dailies and we have Chris Cain in one do who joins the conversation this morning Chris is good to have you join us Money thanks for having me. All right. Thank you so much and I set up with the leadership newspaper and The attention would be on the banner caption looking at the header. He says fuel subsidy Federal government states head for showdown over FAA C remittances and that's what you find government Suspend plans to remove subsidy labor insist on protest and federal government kickstart one million car auto gas conversion in March Presidency wait till 2027 Dr. See tell South East and Jen school software investment shortfall over this course load rejection Hanifa Kano revokes private school license and Bokina Faso desperate echo sanctions army strikes in the fault West African country And just before we move away from the leadership court issues arrest warrant on desiani Alison Madwike conflicting court orders seven lawyers to face disciplinary Panel and EFCC rearrange funny coyote orders for money laundering. That's it on the leadership this morning Would have thought having seen him move from the PDP back today PC Well wonders shall never end we go over to the punch in his paper this morning with the following headlines on the front page of that paper The big one there Labor set for protest federal government subsidy a suspend subsidy removal NBA warns government and the following writers no going back on protests We observe the seat in new twist says labor removal suicidal now a federal government section political for 2023 election says NBA. That's an interesting one. You hardly see the NBA Making such statements Subsidy removal timing wrong says minister law and begs union Okay So we move up to the top of the front page of the punch newspaper with this headline FG probes online banks of a breach of Customers data privacy that can be found on page 29 of the punch Autogas federal government to convert 200,000 vehicles plans 580 refueling centers, I wonder what Nigerians will think about such a promise Court issues warrant for days at his arrest over failed extradition federal federal government local currency debts to hit 44 trillion Naira in 2022 says report Another one here, of course coalition stumps PDP APC Secret's demands southern president German now since 2022 you to me registration rejects repentant cheats apology. It's interesting businessman failing station attendant shot dead as gunman's Tom on dough community and Fun kicks as customs controller breaches airport security seizes gate Forcibly some interagency rivalry there Robbing my fans as we speak another one villages flee as Ogomornak three others burned to death We have man jailed for four a point six millionaire mistakenly paid into his account spare parts dealer for internet fraud and wait to 2027 doxy a tail southeast sells a tickoo for 2023 presidency those are stories coming on the front page of the punch in his paper We'll just quickly run through the daily trust newspaper this morning federal government backtracks and retains Petrol subsidy that's the banner caption on the daily trust and you have three riders the first says 2022 budget amendment to cover payments beyond June build refineries of permanent solution expat tells government and Shelf protest law and tells labor and that's what you find this morning away from that Hanifa, I will sign death warrant of killer gandu J's quarter to say a line with Chakai and On public execution Isha Buhari's quoted kind of government revokes private school license Biola denied proper medical attention family replies Abdu Salami and Nigeria has world's highest number of out-of-school children Unicef is quoted on all of that Explosion rocks church in Tabar. That's the much we can take on the daily trust newspaper Let's move over to the Guardian and we have some interesting stories Mercy federal government sets aside PIA to pay 4.6 trillion Naira on field subsidy is the major headline there on the front page of the Guardian newspaper with very interesting writers Six amendment of 2022 budget. That's a federal government NLC not going back on 2000 or January 27 nationwide protests join Labor rallies fall and no urges Nigerians Laowan begs labor to shelf Thursday protests says it's no longer necessary Why TUC is opting out of protests? APC Lord's suspension of any fairer falls decision NBA federal government's suspension and election strategy and Autogas policy on course says silver those are the writers to that headline We stay with the Guardian newspaper on top of the front page. You have the following headlines SA and six others may be sanctioned over conflict in orders And what's happened is that the NBA has launched did launch an inquiry Into these issues and found these SA and and six other lawyers guilty of Influencing the judges to give the wrong decisions CSO storm APC PDP headquarters demand Southern president in 2023 we'll see how that plays out NAVDAC holds registration of alcohol in sachet a glass bottle is below 200 Milliliters and Deerey Saks Monic others as abducted commissioner regains freedom We earlier earlier said it at the abductors were saying they wouldn't release a commissioner Until one of the their father was released and it's good to know his back home With his family at the bottom of the front page of the punch newspaper We have the following headlines caught issues fresh summons for days on his arrest and prosecution that story Details is found I found rather on page 34. Oh, good Monarch for AIDS assassinated set ablaze really worrying one day and At the bottom of the front page of the Guardian newspaper Why southeast should wait for another five years by Attico committee that story can be found on page eight? Well, we just had straight to sharing your thoughts Chris Cain day one do This morning Let's have you show your thoughts on some of the stories and the big one is the fact that the federal government Set aside the PIA. That's the petroleum industrial act and To pay 4.6 trillion of fuel subsidy well Good one good news But for me and we are postponing the evil day Whether we like it or not Because at the end of it all realize the fact that if we have done what we ought to do Wonder be where we are today When the federal government or this current TPC government was campaigning in 2014 2015 Was the elation part of the promises they made to me just like you are going to revive the Refinaries and they're going to be new ones. This is seven years into that administration losing good Refinery have been used even the one that we have That will pump billions and billions of mirror into every day for Maintenance nothing has been maintained and that has been the issue. That is where we find our set here Because practically would be both almost hundred percent of our petroleum from Across the globe Ninjas is to be the only country in the world that produces good oil in large quantity But end up importing petroleum products and that is where the problem is and that is the issues are state so Good enough the government have listened to labor. They are listening to all Nigerians that is need not to remove the oil subsidy or the petroleum sourcing whatever we call it But we are still postponing the input they because what I would like it or not We continue to go this route on to we do the need On to we decide to do the right thing on to decide to make sure that our refineries are working on to we stop Important petroleum products will continue to find ourselves. It's not now. What is the government trying to do? I just tried to call me to the back door and If the belief is that they are talking about danguteo danguteo refineries come up. Danguteo itself came out just said really with that by September that the refinery would be Without producing and what the government has done instead of investing in the ones in refineries with her They have gone to take up shares with danguteo in danguteo refineries I said that is the solution to the problem I have always said we are only trying to create a monopoly if danguteo decide refinery Almost during the September. Yes, we might have the capacity to be able to refine enough But we are also putting our faith in the hands of the Of one man who decided wanted to increase the prices of coal and that's not what we can do about it We are very sensitive not that sectors where certain organizations have a monopoly on certain products Services at any given point in time. They just increase prices and there's nothing we can do about it But I still believe and I repeat myself that what we're doing is just put on it Don't forget that the PIA has been signed into law by the president and some people already thinking that that is the way to go The PIA is a bill that took the national assembly close to 20 years to get together and onto the president side but with the retention of the Oil subsidy again that puts another kind of a small nascent to the works I don't know how the PIA is going to be implemented now because we are supposed to be talking about the regulation of the Petroleum and oil sector. I don't know that how that is But good enough the government has a series name and the Minister of Finance and that of the Minister of State for Petroleum and gas is it has said that to be more problematic to remove Saucy and the president is against the removal of Saucy. So let's see how that pans out and we see how it goes Thank you, Mr. Wadu The the the national president of the Nigeria bar association Luminiak Bata has said that this reversal or U-turn by the federal government is simply an election Strategy, do you agree with that? Yes, I tend to agree with the president of MBA and So many others that have come to speak on that. I think it's more political than economic As far as I'm concerned, it's more political than economic We just have few months to the election and my personal belief is that the federal government We're the current government of the PC. We don't want to do anything that we should see shooting itself by the foot but if you if you look at it from Other angles you come to realize that this had been but I remember vividly during the campaign in 2014 before the election where the president at Chatham have Said there's nothing like oil subsidy. I'm sure you remember that he president said it a chapter has long done They want us those into that he wants to see he want to see and he wants to be convinced because what's the question What are you going to do? But he said that it's not like all your subsidy that those that are the PDP government We are the city Nigerians talking about all that is not like some That was what he said But he came into office and he said that and so those are some The number of lies that this government to Nigeria's in 2015 So many so many of the promises they mentioned I'm sure none most of them are not And so I totally agree with the MBA president that this is more political If they can have their way definitely they would have removed the substance don't forget that the time that has been put It's supposed to be this subsidy supposed to end in June and July by July 232 Nigerians who are not going to enjoy that's best because of the trend from labor and so many women in Nigeria and people like you are nine And the minister of finance was telling us this That the refineries are going to be revived. They're going to be are going to be more What are you going to do within the less than one year? I couldn't be seven years. I go to be the finalist within one year before you leave office I go to turn around the Refineries within one year before you leave office. Okay, I don't believe me So what we'll leave that story that story from now because we're going to look at it in depth at some point and move on to other stories will stay with the Vanguard or the Guardian newspaper and the headline the civil side organization is also carrying some other papers Storming the headquarters of the two major political parties, you know, usually hear that you usually would hear Oh, they went to one, you know the headquarters of one party But this time they went to the headquarters of the two major political parties Demanding for a southern president come 2023 What what I trust on this will will something like this work, you know civil society Organizations and the politicians really care when these groups make these demands and go carrying placards and over equity and fair play Where it's coming to play and if you look at the trend since 1990 It's on to Civilia Rule as you say without you've seen the trend that there's no kind of Gentleman agreement that the president should rotate between the north and the south and the south had it between during the days of 1999 before your idea came in but unfortunately Yeah, I don't see how she's ten year which led to Collegiate and taking over from him who's also a satana then best president worry Have been office. I'm going to this every year is going to eight years. And it's from the north and is believed that that gentleman agreement She should be a dear to Unrespected and that the president should go back to To the south but let me put this in context that there is not where in the Constitution that it was written that The presidency must rotate between the north and south. I think we should get that very very clear It is within the political parties to be able to agree on the What they need to do Or whatever political parties, but there's nothing what has certainly constitution is equity distribution of the resources and offices In the Constitution I think within In the second schedule of the chapter of the Constitution but It is the right of the those protesting accent for the president in the presence should be moved to the south Don't forget that some governors will be not also also totally agree with this But it's going to be a battle of feet within the political parties. It depends on where the political parties are going to zone there They are presidential Seeds I come 2023 It was also a factor of what is currently don't forget the APC in the next few I think it's a bit of there But it's going to hold his conversion where it's going to explain his national and it has already said that We have a large amount of the party that party from one certain session of the country They're not automatically the presidential ticket goes to the other Part of the country but because I believe that it will be more of negotiation Discussion are not just about protest politics is about to give and say all the gladiators in the device they would you meet and Interact with all that ideas of no one's Session of the country can elect a president is not possible the not alone cannot elect the president of anger Neither we decided on the president We only go to any Any candidate that is well-favoured or voted for by people from the north and south But let me take the beat for that and them by Occlusion the state make ready to achieve a level demo remote the pricey Yes, there who is the chief campaigner or article about we are he said that This is the South East should give Opportunity to be the president that is going to be president of one for for one time four years Then it would be the turn of the South East and the question asked myself Why don't article weeks for the studies to get it for four years then after that take a hand over to him That is issue, but I think we should be debating based on issues and not just this kind of sentiment. We are used to this There are so many Promises have been made in the past and remain that we are Chris one do let's move away from that topic now and look at the issue of Hanifa the young kid that was killed. I mean kidnapped and then she was killed by The proprietor of a school. I mean there's a connection with the proprietor of the school and the fact that the Kanu state government is revoked License of private schools. Some people are asking that. What's the connection? Why do you revoke the license of private schools and what difference does he make? With the issue of security in Nigeria Well, the issue of Hanifa is very very sad. It's a very sad Very sad one if I feel kidnapped and killed by A teacher after they were receiving ransom, but that is just one of these There's another one trending that most people have been talking about and which I think we should focus our attention is Another eight year old girl has been found to have been student. I've been found to have been kidnapped In Kaduna and she was killed despite the fact that her parents paid Three million Naira ransom. I'm sure you must have been reading that about a few days ago And that means is a trend that seems to be happening now and Gov only to comment as quickly as possible to be able to make sure that we protect our children We put it this to them that we handle back to school and Where are people just waking up and kidnapping them and getting them killed back to the question? I think the decision by Kaduna can stay can stay government on Invoking the licenses of all Private school in the state is coming be his tip for me because we are in the midst of a new term Schools doesn't zoom in general. I would have think that what they should have done is face-to-face evaluation of schools Private schools then From there, you cannot be able to bet you say that you report by revoking the licenses of all the Private schools what you are saying in the sense that all the children in those schools should go back home and stay Depending when you are going to finish your evaluation and the resume. That is not the way to go You cannot pray with the baby with the bat where bat water That to me is not the way to go the first of all most things that deal with the issue as state What has been the problem people if these government schools are working and working efficiently as it's opposed But it's because of the total collapse of the public schools that make a parent send their children to private schools And that is only alternative they have so for me That's to me is history. I think I want to look at it from the political that is just Government is just trying to be politically correct. But in trying to do that They're not getting it right. There's no need to be broken down It should be school by school business They should look at the schools and then try to have an evolution of the various private schools Thank you very much the one do sorry to interrupt you there Interesting, you know, they take you have on this, but we want to look at another story We stay with the Vanga newspaper and they have reminded us or informed us about a move by VM the Nigeria bar association if you would recall sometime last last year and all of us were facing the judiciary with the conflicting court judgments emanating from different parts of the country on political matters Including the one in River State regarding which is a condos and you had one popping up in cross river state And another one popping up somewhere in the northern part of the country and remember that the The honorable the Attorney General the Federation need call, you know, the the state Attorney General or noted the states Chief justices to to his office to say what's going on here? And I think some other things have happened and we've all moved on But the judiciary and the issues that people complain about still remain now What what's it take on this story from the the Guardian is super San six others or six other lawyers may be sanctioned over conflicting orders the The president of the Nigeria bar association. That's on the front page of the Guardian is super He was said to have hosted a press conference To address stakeholders on some issue and one of the reporters there reminded him That they had set up a committee to look into the roles of lawyers in the issuance of Conflicting orders by some judges. So it was that's what's happening to that committee and them The NBA president replied hinting that a senior advocate of Nigeria and six other lawyers Have a Belief to have aided judges You know influenced them in the issuance of conflicting orders might soon face the legal practitioners disciplinary Cancel what's it take on this Well, I believe that they for us to get it right in our judiciary assets as it's where the bar and bench to rise up to the occasion It's the is so Annoying when you see some of these issues Rise now within this judiciary because we have all listened to this guy as the last hope of the common man But is it is that what it is present some months back? We saw judges that were someone by NJC and and On the issue of completing judgments that we are keeping By some of these judges at the end of it or what came out of it. Yes, we heard that from my good to Salaries are good I've always believed that we should move on with the sledgehammer and anybody And that's a judge or As a lawyer should be so sanctioned the Niger bar session has its disciplinary Committee which from time to time Look at the conduct of lawyers as it were and I believe is based on that Some of these people that we have been mentioned by the president of the association that some of them And I think that's the right way to go There's a lot going on within the lot of lot within our judiciary and that's in this A lot of things because if we don't get it right within the judiciary there. We are in trouble You see every day we are judges know that they don't have a right Or what we call jurisdiction in in law they don't have the jurisdiction Once you don't have a jurisdiction on a particular case, then you cannot entertain it But you see judges know that they don't have any jurisdiction on those cases going ahead to entertain students you also see Judges within the same round also give me convicted once a judge of Giving a judgment on a particular issue the next thing to do is to take it to the higher court If you want to in terms of appeal, you don't go to another court of the same jurisdiction to be able to start with and that is what has Me helped me so NGC as well as the Social That everybody or anybody that's fine wanting is well discipline on issues like this Finally in in just a minute you can you give us your thoughts on the fact that the Nash the federal High Court has had to Again Issue a warrant on order for the arrest of days and the Alice and Maddoke. There's a second time The judge in the first matter at a high court in Abuja Was is dead he has passed on this that first order was really was made in 2018 till today. She has not been able to be brought back into the country to face charges And and this is a fresh order. So what are your thoughts on this in one minute, sir? Yes, and just to add to that one as well, they are concerned about Diplomatic passports of the Dominican Republic which grants her that immunity. I mean makes her immune to any arrests However, including the Interpol It is not just to grant them Put out an extradition order it is how to make sure that she's extradited from where she is Where she's now she's in London. She's in Cameroon, Ireland or Dominican Ireland or wherever it is Another of the court is an order and it is What that order has been given then it is there for the police So the order has been made it is now left for the Niger police They put two years with Interpol to make sure that we've been put to measure that Desirney Alice in Madrid is about to convert the parties that with the countries She's residing for between Nigeria. That is what we need to take up the diplomatic I think it's good beyond just ordering that we should maybe look at the diplomatic angle when if we have an extradition Agreement with a country where she's saying where she's saying then that is possible But if you don't have it then it is impossible for you to extract it from wherever she is So we should be looking at those extradition other weather and idea have a balada extradition Agreement with the country where she if it's here we do them that will be tender in Wherever she is and then that be made possible, but if you don't then all well and we should that's no We appreciate your time. We have to move on. Thank you very much for a timing for joining us this morning Chris came day and one is what who I call a de-tribalized Nigerian With those names from different parts of the country Chris came day one who he's a chartered mediator and consulator. He's been a guest analyst on of the press Mercy Well, thank you so much Chris for being part of the conversation We look forward to having more of you on Tuesdays and that's it We will come back with the papers tomorrow and as always we would always have a guest who joins the conversation Let's get back with the men conversation I mean we're going to come back with the men conversation at eight o'clock Well, we look straight at what's happening in the West African region weekbook in a facile experiencing another