 Welcome back. Time to look at what the papers have to say, the front page filled with very interesting juicy headlines. But before we do that, Merci, Ebopo is with us this morning. Merci will take us through the first paper. But Chris Cainewando is our guest. He's already standing by. Chris, good morning to you. Good morning. Thanks for having me this morning. All right. And of course, I'm not here alone. Merci Ebopo is with us. Merci. Very interesting headlines coming on the front pages this morning. Which one are we going to start with? Well, I'll start off with the leadership newspaper. And Chris, thank you so much for staying with us despite all odds. The leadership says insecurity may disenfranchise 11 million voters in southeast. Quite worrisome. That's a lot. And it's been stated categorically that if urgent action is not taken, then you might probably have 11 million voters are not being able to take part in the elections. Underneath collection of new 930,000 PVCs in shaky start, seated home orders, extolls exercise in Anabran, Enugu, Imo. But you know, the big question a lot of people are asking is these persons who are carrying out this action, are they not already declaring themselves, you know, the enemy of the state and enemy of the state because anything that truncates a democratic process or the election is really a threat, a big threat. And sure that get the PVCs would be charges, security agencies, and these are the riders underneath the caption. And hunger on employment as president, says article question would be how? And you find a firefighter nice move to vat to exclusive least, I take that again, move vat to exclusive least past state please bill. Well, another talks about federal government cancels COVID-19 tests for all travelers. Federal government cancels COVID-19 tests for all travelers. Does it really mean that you know, we're over with COVID and it's gone. World Cup Croatia Argentina locked on for the final sport. And 2023 vote only competent candidate, not an elder still Nigerians. And just before move away from the leadership newspaper, Tunibu, Shatimar in Kaduna ahead of Northwest campaign rally. These are some of the headlines very interesting on the leadership. Let's go to the nation newspaper. Five killed in attack on another INEC office in Southeast, like we said, the top training segment. Undukar Baigman is hypocritical stand, the grandstanding on public morality is a, I think it should be an opinion piece in the, in the nation newspaper. Very interesting. We embarking on the media war. No, he's the publisher of, of this day needs to brand the owner, of course, of arise TV. Well, the nation is said to belong to another family, you know, political family. Let's leave it at that. PDP crisis, wiki Okowa or Tom in airport drama. Governors in hiding seek 6.5 billion Naira project inaugurated in Makori leader that on the nation. Well, we have the daily trust newspaper. It talks about the ultimatum from the DSS. That's by DSS ultimatum. Petroleum scarcity persist in states. Product sells for 310 Naira in Kaduna, Kano, others. Cues ease in Lagos and Abuja. But you, you funded the cost of transportation. Still on the high marketer's sick price control deregulation. DSS begins secret operations. Travel guidelines. Federal government cancels COVID-19 tests and face max wearing. It's fine. Three iPop members killed in emo INEC office attack. And please invite NSITF MD Oval Forge NYSE certificates. Some interesting headlines this morning on the daily trust newspaper. All right. And the final one, the punch will go over that quickly. INEC PDP offices raised scores killed in Southeast Kaduna. You know, politicians sponsoring attacks on INEC offices. Censors or them a gunman. Soldiers clashed in a boy. Soldiers come communities. Attack villages, military invades, full attack at Kaduna. Local government errors. Traitors, artisans, civil servants flee. As gunmen enforcing, sit at home, invade the Bakliki. Market burnt. Some headlines on the front page. You look at more as we go on. But because of time, let's quickly bring in Chris Kander, one who is already standing by. Chris, we'll start with this situation in emo state. And the INEC office raised, we've looked at pictures and looked at that story already on our earlier segments. What are your thoughts on this? Because this is not just emo state. We're hearing that scores have been killed generally in the Southeast since some sort of seat at home was declared. Of course, you know about the whole back and forth between leading figures in IPOB about whether a seat at home is authentic or not. So what are your thoughts on this? I think it's now the receiving end of some of these attacks. The government of emo state, like the paper said, says politicians are sponsoring the attacks. It's a very sad narrative coming from my state of humor. We woke up yesterday to that bomb attack at INEC office and then later we saw some pictures of social media, some alleged perpetrators of that, also the killing of this man. That is quite unfortunate. This is just coming a few days after the chairman of INEC and INEC officials during a meeting with the cinema executive, cried out over the recent attack on their facilities and their offices. That was one in our state and there have been attacks in some part of Southeast. So that coming yesterday was a big shock again. But it only raises the question and also might be a kind of insight on what's going to happen in 2023. And I hope that our security agencies are on top of the game. The governor, my governor of Noho Pusa Thema, was took me to accuse politicians of being behind it. If he's aware of the politicians, why is he not naming them? That to me was very, very hasty. And the worst part to me is the fact that three days after some unknown people issued a five-day CTR2 directive in the Southeast, iPod came out to wash his hands off that directive and said that Nigeria's and Istana should go about their normal duties. That is an arrest then. But who are those behind this? And I don't want to believe that it is beyond the security agencies to be able to and be able to make sure that they fish them out, except they are telling us that they handicap and they don't know what to do or don't know how to do a party. These are no-goes. These are people living within these communities and within these states. And they attack and keep people at will and not being done about it. That means no-goes. I'll ask whether on the leadership, we still talk about this, but in another dimension, the fact that 11 million voters may be decent franchise and that's on the probability. But the clause or the statement that follows afterwards is that the federal government needs to take an urgent action. Why does the federal government need to come to this one? We're talking about states that are sovereign and they have the state apparatus to ensure that everything is in place. The federal government controls security. They control the army. They control the police. They control the defense. They also control all the security agencies that deal with the issue of security. The state's practically no mess to nothing. The governor is more of a demdog. But I still have to blame our leaders and governors on the southeast. Mostly, you could see how, to the largest state, where protected the southwest is. And that is because the southwest leaders and governors are taking issue of security very, very seriously. And that is why they initiated the Amoteco security agent. Mostly, there were a last few weeks, there were a lot of kidnapping on the Lagos expressway. I'm sure you heard about that. So many people were picked up. But we did this. The governors of the state rose up to the occasion. I'm able to put some kind of joint patrol between Amoteco and the police. I was in your state, I was in Amoteco at the weekend. Let's say I would tell you that maybe after every three kilometers or five kilometers, you will see Amoteco security agents and also policemen manning that express. That has brought totality and has been able to make sure that that level of security along that route has been dealt with. I'm expecting the governors of the southeast to do this. But what I'm just doing that they're just going about blaming politicians and rest of them. Even the one or two that have come up with a bug which is a bonus thing. You see how the government of the state are using it. That security agents, those security agents should be fighting and arresting opposition leaders. That is all they are for. They are not doing what they're supposed to do. So on the leaders of the southeast rise up to education and make sure that they need this security in the court. We continue to have this. These people are perpetrating this violence, as I said. They are not invisible. They are not, they are known even within static communities. And given the necessary information, I'm sure our security agencies can deal with that. They're coming to about the issue of 11 million protesters in the country. I don't believe that. It was worse during the before the November election and the election was held in November without any kind of security challenges. And I'm sure that our security agencies know what to do. And so that the people of the south will be able to exercise their franchise on February 2020, January election. All right. Thank you very much. Let's go to the next news report. And of course, this particular one from Daily Trust makes an interesting read. We all heard the DSS coming up with its ultimatum last week, 48 hours. And from investigations by Daily Trust, they're saying the scarcity is possessed. People are even paying more now for the product. For instance, excuse me, in Cardona state and in Canada state, where they say the product sells for, that's petrol now, sells for 310 naira per liter. Though in some parts of Lagos, we've seen the Q's ease in the budget that the paper says the investigation has showed, but it persists. It's the DSS, finally, you know, showing Nigerians it's a toothless build up. What that news broke, I love to buy it, it is laughable. DSS, what we did about petroleum, is that their job? Is it the job of DSS to be running after all your marketers? We are not talking about the issue of security challenges in Nemo state and South East. What have the DSS done about it? I think they should focus more on issue of internal security. They are our secret police and I believe they have a lot on their table and they have a lot on their desk to run after petroleum or petroleum marketers. Despite the optimism that I was giving by DSS, the issue of petroleum scarcity is not just about it's not about force. How many people can you deploy? How many filling stations do we have in Nigeria? How many numbers of DSS officers do we have? I think they should focus on their core mandates. The issue, we know where the problem is coming from, everybody knows. It is marketers and the problem we are having is that NNPC imports over 90 percent of the petroleum product in Nigeria. So if there is scarcity, it is NNPC that needs to be blamed. The marketers have said that these of this, this importation, very central back also do the by making sure that dollars are make available to us. Give us a license to import most of these products instead of depending on NNPC. If anything happens to the NNPC importation or the value chain within the oil sector, definitely it affects us and that is a, don't forget this is also Christmas period. It's always come at this point in time. But the most important aspect is that we should be looking at why our refineries are not working. Despite all the promises made in 2020 that we are going to revive the refineries and build more, not a single refinery have been built. I think that area is where there is a difference. In case they are interested, we should be looking at how the money that was pumped into reviving our refineries we have spent. That I just run in after I'm just in shadows. To me, it doesn't make any sense. If they like, let them give us to work from now to 20 years. That's what will happen. They have no capacity to be able to make sure that this scarcity is redressed. We are praying that Dangute Petroleum will come on stream and we start pumping fuel in Nigeria. That in itself has the challenges of monopoly. That means that when Dangute sneezes, all of us will catch cold. Quite interesting analogy right there. The leadership, away from that, the leadership talks about the issue of vat and of course state policing, the decentralizing powers to the unit. That's according to the demand or appeal made by the Kaduna State, you know, Governor Nasser Eroufai, asking that the National Assembly should consider, you know, moving vats from the exclusive list. Right. Don't you think that we're ready? This is this particular issue. It's like a broken record. Yes, it is. Don't forget that we already won some cases in court over the issue of exclusivity of vats and he won at a high court. I know that some state like get the girls join that suit. I don't know where that suit is. I said whether I caught up with them or Supreme Court. And I think they were asked to maintain status group and we're waiting for the judgment. It has been said time and time and number that the issue of vats should be a bit decentralized. The way I'm managing the government is saying about it and collecting tax exclusively on certain issues and certain products does not give room for the kind of system that we're supposed to have. You come to Lagos, you collect almost 60 to 70% of vats from Lagos. Are you not distributed among 35 other states and even states that are not, you collect alcoholic vats from states like Lagos, Reapers and other states that allow alcohol and the states that refuse and say that they don't, especially in the North, that refuse alcohol that whenever they see vehicles moving with beer into the North, they arrest those vehicles, break the bottles, damage everything. They end up also collecting vats from those alcoholic products to me. It doesn't make any sense. So the case is already in court and I hope that the Supreme Court should as quickly as possible be able to give a judgment on that so that we can have some level of, I don't know how to put it, so that we can have some kind of a judgment that we stand the test of time. We are still able to collect the vats and if they have to remit to the federal government, they remit certain percentage to federal government. The way it is, it is not looking good and you know that most of the states that are really struggling, based on the fact that they are not making enough from the IGR, even the oil that they depend on going to Abuja every month to collect returns is not looking good. We are not exporting as much as we are. The pipelines are being vandalized on a daily basis. We are using at least about 100,000 paris of crude oil to oil tap every day. Those are areas that the federal government will be looking at and trying to see how to nick that in the post so that we can be able to make more from sales of oil and other products that we should be looking at, we are looking at talking about the culture, we are looking at other minerals and the rest of them. But the issue about as it is, is multi-tied to the federal government and that is also what we are talking about and location, where the federal government has about 51% and in living about, increased about maybe about 40 or so percent to 36th and FCT. That in itself is not what in food to federalism. There is no way the Niger system can be able to survive on that and that is why you see that the government is not looking at the local government in Nigeria. All right Chris, thank you very much Abto. We have some more time, was about to round it off. But let's look at a few more stories. I mean, the situation in the PDP is really, really a serious one. The drama between what we hear is Okowa and Wike avoiding themselves in the Makode airport, where they both went to campaign. The nation puts it this way on its front page. PDP crisis, Wike Okowa, Ottoman airport drama. I've read a bit of that story and it seems that the gentlemen were in the airport at the same time. Wike was going there to commission some projects, I think, for the better state governor who is a part of the G5 group of governors and Okowa was there as part of the PDP campaign trail. These are both members of the same party, history well documented. It's reported that Ifai Okowa reportedly avoided Wike at the airport in Makode, the Benway state capital. The PDP drama is going to new heights. This is just one of the scenarios that we've been seeing. Your thoughts on what's been playing out so far? I believe we tend to sort it out. It's politics. One day is two not a day when it comes to politics and it's, you'll be shocked that we didn't inform us, you'll be surprised by what we have. Wike have said that it's not PDP. I don't know the issue with that thing. That his only issue is the national chairman of the party and that he's going to converse for the PDP but he's silent on who to vote for, doing the presidential election. So he's passionate for directing on that. And let's say that I have the answer. What happened in Makode in 60 parts of politics, as I said, Okowa was his name. Governor Tom was at the airport to receive Wike and Okowa landed, and the metric Okowa, they spoke and Niku landed and they drove off. They didn't wait for Niku to land. Niku landed and they moved to their campaign. But to me, this is just because I'm tuned from the PDP and I hope that they can see we have barely less than 80 days to the presidential election and the earlier they put their house together, they put their house together. The better for them. I've always said that APC is more vulnerable than it was in 2050. And if PDP or people part three were able to put their house together Chris, I've been told that we have to go but just quickly and in a second, it has to do with COVID-19 and the fact that the federal government has cancelled all the travel guidelines, no max wearing. That's on the daily trust by the way. Do you think that what's done with COVID, COVID has disappeared globally? I wonder why this is taking too long. Let's say I've traveled to several parts of Europe in the past few months and the issue of COVID is a long term issue. They don't ask you to put on mask, you enter a airplane, or wash your hands, and you don't do that. It's just one country, not one country. One or two other countries have been to the past few months. It's Nigeria that will still try to do if you get into there, but you see somebody setting a no-smacks of $109 and selling to you at $500 just before you enter and rest of them. But it's good that this in itself will boost tourism and the vibration industry that is particularly on its near. So there's no big deal with it. I don't think that COVID is long gone. It's only in China that they are having issues. And you see the protests going on in China where they are even trying to put on some restrictions. People are very mentally protesting against it. So it's a welcome development that is up at you. All right, Chris, thank you so much for your time. And we look forward to having you again next week. And of course, I wish you a fantastic day. Thank you very much and have a nice day ahead. All right, that's about what you can take with that segment on the breakfast. That's still ahead. We'll be looking, of course, at Google who has released the list of most secure words on the search engine in Nigeria and around the world. It's quite interesting findings. We'll have someone from Google West Africa on the program to talk about it with us in a few seconds. Stay with us.