 Governors of Southern Nigeria ban open grazing in all 17 states following meeting in Asaba. An independent journalist publishes his investigation into the killing of Mio Bong Umoran and why it seems authorities are helping the major suspect escape justice. Manchester City become English Premier League thanks to Leicester City's bidding of Manchester United yesterday. It's World Facilities Management Day with the theme standing tall beyond the pandemic. We'll be discussing the importance of keeping your facilities in top shape. Good morning and welcome to the Breakfast here on PLOS TV Africa. It's another very beautiful bright Wednesday morning and I was having a conversation this morning about why we're having shorter nights and longer days. It's as bright as early as 6.10. What's going on? No, really. I remember my surprise stepping out of the house and asking why? Yeah, I think it's that period. It's that period of the year where the nights are shorter, the days are longer. Well, good morning once again. I am Usaugi Ogboa. And I am Annette Felixen. Congratulations to all the fans of Manchester City. You guys have now made it to the final, basically champions now. And I remember talking to a friend this morning about it, about how Chelsea, you know, the whole thing that happened over the weekend, how Chelsea, you know, basically lost. And he said I was very surprised into him. I was like, let's focus on the good news, which is Manchester City winning. Well, yeah, they won the league for, you know, the 2020-2021 season. Congratulations to them. I really don't care about them that much. I'm mostly concerned about Manchester United losing yesterday to Leicester City. I understand that, you know, very likely the coach wanted to save players for the Liverpool game, which for him is a bigger game. The Liverpool game was postponed after fans, you know, stomped the pitch and, you know, disrupted that game. But Manchester City have had a very, very good run this season. Yes. They've been able to keep it together all through the season. They've been able to maintain the tempo, you know, taking it off Liverpool. First, you know, when the season started, there was a lot of speculation about who will make the top four this season, who will eventually get to win. At first, of course, there was expectations that maybe Liverpool would be able to keep it going and win it for another season, but it didn't turn out that way. So congratulations to, you know, the citizens as they are popularly called. And of course, for every other person who's struggling to make it into the top four, I wish you good luck. Yes. So we just showed a video there of a Man City coach, Pep Guardiola. He's been speaking about how excited he is, you know, saying this is a relief for them. It's a massive achievement for the club. We know how he's basically been winning since, you know, 2016 domestic matches and all of that. So yes, looking forward to how he runs with Manchester United, right? We know Man City is now about 10 points ahead of Manu right now. So yes, all the sports detail there. Catch up with us at Plus TV Africa on all our social media platforms for the updates. Absolutely. I'm really also, you know, as a Manchester United fan, open that, you know, we were able to maintain that second position. Losing yesterday didn't feel good. And, you know, mostly, you know, just for bragging, right? So because it's, you know, pretty much confirmed that, you know, Manu, Manchester City will, you know, be in the Champions League. Well, you know, you know, you can be first. That's better than second. Yes, it is. But, you know, let's see what next. You can always, you know. Let's see what next. Go higher. It's been a good run for both, you know, for everybody who's on the top four right now. It's been a pretty good, interesting run. Arsenal have had a really, really very, very embarrassing season. But, you know, for Manchester United, hopefully, you know, they, I know, I'm very, very confident that they will maintain that second position until the end of the season. Just a couple of games left, two or three games left until the end of the season. So, you know, with all the, you know, humility in me, I'll take congratulations once again to Manchester City. Hopefully next season, Ole Gunnar Socia would be able to do better and maybe win the league. But, of course, Chelsea and Manchester City still have a chance. And this is where Papagodoula's, you know, might be able to do it, you know, make it a double this season. Even though he gets to win the Champions League on the 29th. So Chelsea and Manchester City are in the Champions League finals. Everyone is, you know, fingers crossed waiting for the 29 to see how that plays out. If they get to win the Champions League, then it's a double for him this season. If not, then Chelsea gets to win also something really, really big this season. That is the Champions League. So, you know, I'm hoping, while he's got to be able to, you know, speak a little bit about this and about the success of the English Premier League, the success of English teams basically in World Football for 2021. And, you know, there's that argument once again about which is the biggest league and the best league in the world. There's going to be the English, the German, the Spanish, the Italian League. And every time, you know, it always seems to be the English League. What would you say? Also, regarding our top trending, we know that Ramadan in fasting continues. And the sort of Sokoto announced yesterday, Saad Abubaka, about the sighting of the moon. He mentioned yesterday that, you know, if the moon wasn't sighted on Tuesday 13th, that fasting will continue to Wednesday. And, you know, the moon was not sighted. And that means that, you know, it would become under what would happen on Thursday and that would be on the 13th of May 2021. So, yes, well done to everyone fasting. Keep it up. You're doing fantastic. And just a few more hours before it's Id El Fitri. So this one I really don't know so much about. So when they talk about sighting of the moon, is there really a moon that is seen today? So I wish we had, you know, someone who is a Muslim faithful to do all the explaining. I know that what happens is that they use the Muslim calendar and they have to sight the moon. And I feel, I want to believe that's a physical moon because you see Muslim faithfuls in Saudi Arabia, you know, bringing out their chairs and looking through their telescope. You know, yes, they do that. And they want to, I think they call it the, they use different observatories in Saudi Arabia to see if the moon is out. You know, it's basically using the moon, the Muslim calendar. It's all almost related to astrology, so to speak. You know, but like they said, the moon was not sighted on Tuesday. And that means if the moon had been sighted on Tuesday, that means Id had begun on Wednesday the 12th. But since he wasn't sighted on Tuesday, Id will now become on Thursday, May 13th. So is that the moon like delaying or? You would have to ask your Muslim friends to do Muslim explaining. The Muslims use the lunar calendar. So that's where it all comes from. But does the moon decide, I'm tired today, I'll probably come out tomorrow. But you know, this also, this is another thing. You know, for Nigeria, there's meant to be public holidays Wednesday and Thursday. So today actually is a public holiday. So a lot of people are going to walk this morning. That reminds me why there wasn't any traffic on the way to work this morning. Yes, yes. So even though the Muslim, the Id, or Wednesday and Thursday had been declared as, you know, public holidays to celebrate Id, but we know that the moon wasn't sighted on Tuesday. That means that fasting will continue today. So even though they had said Wednesday, Thursday, public holiday, we obviously know that this would be a repetition of what happened in about 2015 when the moon wasn't sighted, when they thought it would be. And that means that Friday would automatically definitely become a public holiday as well. So it has to be declared a public holiday by the Nigerian government. If not, then people are expected to be at work on Friday. No, because it's supposed to be a public holiday because it's a celebration, you know, of the end of a fasting period. So just the way you have the Christian holiday, like New Year, or Christmas. No, I'm just saying, so those days, you know, are kind of fixed. You know, it's going to be on the 24th and 25th. You know, it's going to be on the 31st and the 1st, you know. So this one now, there's been a little glitch here. The moon wasn't sighted. It's not a glitch. My Muslim friends went back today for it's not a glitch. Well, but the government had already projected that it was going to be sighted. I'm not sure people have been mocking the government on social media saying the government had already seen the moon ahead of time. Exactly. So does the Ministry of Interior now have to put out another statement saying the public holiday will be Thursday and Friday, or will be Wednesday all the way to Friday? Well, everybody just knew that it definitely would be Thursday and Friday. And if it wasn't sighted today, so people should be at work today? Yes. That's what I'm saying. It's like already like a chip day. So they have Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. You want to change religious? Unfortunately, we don't get to experience public holidays. Yeah, we don't. There are lots of professions who don't get to experience public holidays as a journalist for one, like when people are celebrating Christmas and actually out there on the field saying, Oh, it's Christmas Day. People are celebrating Christmas. We're here on the streets to find out how you're enjoying your day. Well, we're working. The only holidays you get are when you go and leave. And you'll get lots of calls in one week. Some of the things we're going to be talking about today is quickly run through them. Of course, the story in Yobong-Umaran is not over. There has been more revelations. There's been more of these conversations. Journalist David Hoondane, who will be joining us today, did, of course, a very, very exclusive, did a very fantastic job. Digging further into, you know, the cause of her death, you know, and the days surrounding her death. And of course, other people that might be connected to it. And it has opened a can of worms, if it can be described as that, with regards to police force in Makuaibong State and other people that might be connected to the suspect, Frank Atman. I think that's his name. And so it's one of the things that we're going to be talking about this morning on the program. So don't miss that conversation. So you can get to, if you haven't seen the article and, you know, you want to catch up on the investigations into her death, but of course, investigations around her death, then you should, you know, wait for that interview. My challenge really with all of this is, and it's one thing that I've always had an issue with, a lot of times we have laws. We have laws, we have acts. You know, there's a police act, there's, you know, criminal justice, you know, law on some of all of that. But why do we always need to wait for, you know, public outcry for some of these things to just work? If the person has been found, you know, to be guilty, he has been, okay, well, he hasn't got caught yet. But if some of these investigations have been carried out, first of all, the crime scenes, one of the things that I'm going to be asking David, the crime scene, of course, has been contaminated. And it's one of the issues that we also have with our policing system. The place where our body was allegedly found has already been contaminated with people walking in to take pictures and make videos and stuff like that. So you can't even use that in court anymore. So there is that. And then the conversation about, you know, the possibility of other shallow graves where other people, you know, may have been killed and buried also, that's also a part of this conversation, you know, in a crime scene that has been contaminated. There is that. So what exactly makes this investigation so slow? I mean, what exactly are we waiting for, you know, with the police, you know, to, you know, take, you know, him to court, to charge him with murder, to charge him with manslaughter, whatever it is. Why do we need to wait for all of this, you know, public, you know, push before some of these things are done? It should be a seamless process. It should be a, you know, this is, you know, what you have found. This is the evidence against you. This is your court data. And in case, you know, it just goes on. But we need to wait for people like David Hunde and other, you know, private investigators and journalists to continue to dig, dig, dig, dig until there is, you know, this kind of warmth that is open. Now it robs off on many people in the police force. Now it also creates a huge speculation about human trafficking and, of course, harvesting of body parts and some of all of that, which makes it, you know, a whole lot worse. The expectation from this investigation now, the expectation from what, you know, David Hunde has been able to put out now would be that the idea of police, the commission of police in that state, will be on their feet to look deeper into this case, to not just push it away as an unfortunate incident where a girl was murdered, but to look deeper into it. So do we expect that some of that will play out or are we just going to, you know, you know, focus on other things that go in Nigeria and sweep that under the rug until next time, you know, it's trending on Twitter. Definitely. Important questions we need to ask. But yes, we'll get into the meat of that conversation after Off the Press. Do stay with us.