 On the breakfast what seems like a joke has become a reality as Nigerians complain as fuel scarcity bites hard. It is just two days to the APC primaries in Oshun State and the Ralfa Reba Shola Group and the Goyga Oyetola Group are battling for who would own the party in the state. We'll be looking at the national dailies as usual and the top trending stories right here on the breakfast on Plus TV Africa as a bomber package ahead. Very good morning to you. Welcome to the Plus to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. It's an interesting day and lots to talk about right here on the breakfast. My name is Kofi Bartel. So alongside Messi, we'll be taking you through the discussions starting with the top trending stories. Of course, we have our new super analysis and two very important subjects that we'll be discussing with our guest analysts on the program today. You're very welcome. Let's start things with a look at the top trending stories around Nigeria. A lot of lots of issues generating reactions and we bring those issues of social media and of the mainstream media to you right here. I'm looking at the different sides and also taking a pause or checking the pause of what the people are saying. One that God lot people talking was Lassa Fever infecting 358 people and said to have killed 59 persons across 19 states of the Federation. This coming from the Nigeria Center for Disease Control. We've been used to the NCDC given statistics and figures of COVID-19 infections in the country. But the NCDC is more than just that. And whilst they've been giving Nigerians the figures of infections and even deaths from COVID-19, we've had also them doing their work for other infectious diseases as well. 59 lives claimed since the beginning of 2022 is it's really, really warring, a warring statistic. And the NCDC is putting this information out so that people can be aware of Lassa Fever and so that people can also take steps to protect themselves. Thus this disease has been on over the years in the country. It's a deadly disease. It's gotten from the rat and a lot needs to be done to wipe Lassa Fever out of Nigeria. Well a situation report was released on Wednesday by the Center once again saying 358 persons had been infected with a 59 confirmed deaths. This is across 19 states as we said, but also 65 local government areas of the country. The report said that seven new health care workers had been infected in Bauchi and in those states. So we can see that the impact on this is not just on the public, but also on those who are taking care of the infected people being the health care workers. And we certainly do hope that more will be done to protect the health care workers. We have some new health care workers infected in Bauchi and in those states I need to correct that. But it was also revealed by the NCDC that in the sixth week of the year the number of new confirmed cases increased from 58 in week five to in week five 2020 to 77 cases. That's what they're saying. It's really, really worrying and the NCDC is saying that the national Lassa Fever multi-partner and multi-sectoral national emergency coordination center has been activated to coordinate response activities at all costs. So this to them now is a national emergency. This to them is an emergency and I think all of us need to treat it as such if we have 59 lives being claimed since the beginning of the year, that's really worrying. So if the NCDC is now activating its emergency response mechanisms across the federation, I mean the rest of us need to take it seriously. And one of the issues that have been used or has been used as being responsible for this Lassa Fever and the infestation of rats is sanitation. So we need to make sure that our environments are kept clean and sanitized. That's very important. Now this is another bizarre word. It sent a lot of, sent a lot of tongues wagging yesterday a street beggar in Abuja being found with cash. That's 500,000-dollar cash. That's 0.5 million-dollar. We need to correct that 0.5 million-dollar, 500,000-dollar cash and 100 US dollars as well. All right 100 US dollars. So that 100 US dollars translates to about 57,000-dollar. So that could be said to be a total of 557,000-dollar. You can see the money right there. She's from Kaduna State. Her name is Hadiza Ibrahim and she has been begging on the streets of Wuse and Meitama in Abuja for the past 10 years. The information was revealed by the Director of Social Welfare Services at the Social Development Sectariat, the Social Development Sectariat of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, Hadiza Ibrahim. She's 48 years old. She hails from Kaduna State and she's been begging on the streets of Abuja for the past 10 years. But I don't know why a picture of her was taken and she was told to hold up the money and all that. I don't know what the issue is because we've checked the pause of Nigerians, reactions of Nigerians across social media. And some are saying the money is hers. She had worked a household for the money back then. Then why should she be arrested? But the Director of the Social Welfare Services at that sectarian Malam, Sani Ammar, is saying that she wasn't arrested because of the money. They never knew she had such an amount of money on her. But when they arrested, they picked her up and I'm not comfortable with the word arrest. But when they picked her, Hadiza Ibrahim up, they saw that they discovered that she had that amount of money. And what he's saying is because the way the papers are put to them, they don't give the right picture. It's not that they are arresting her, but they are trying to probably clear the beggars of the streets and they do this from time to time. And what the gentleman head of that agency is saying is that when the operatives and the staff of that agency pick up the beggars from the streets, try and maybe get them back to where they came from, they have to stretch them so that they will be sure there's nothing on them to harm themselves or the staff of the agency. And that's what they did. Some have expressed surprises that a street beggar can have such an amount of money on them while some have said, hey, it's nothing surprising because Amish has been begging over 10 years or about a decade in that part of Abuja, which is an affluent show neighborhood. You look, I will say too, look at Meitama. You have a rich people living there. It's not a surprise that people have really been never lent to her to help her. The agency here is saying that she doesn't have any mental issues. She's able to, you know, the suffer between right and wrong. She's able to find her way around. But she just has social, what he calls a social issues. You know, she has to adjust, re-adjust it socially. And that's what they're seeing, they're trying to help her. He said the money is safe. They are not going to touch the money, but they try to re-adjust her socially so that she can understand that she doesn't need to beg and that she can use the money that she gets from the begging to start a business for herself. What she says is she goes back to a village each time she makes up to get some money. And when the money is finished in the village, she comes back to Abuja. So that's a quite a bizarre one there. But hey, all we can do is we can have to keep on being our brother's keeper and we'll leave the rest to God. And it's another bizarre one. I think a couple of days ago on this segment, right here on the breakfast, we took a trending story. Not necessarily a trending story because it's been on for some years, but it was something that got people talking in Bolivia, where the head of the union, the workers union, set himself ablaze. Well, very sad scenes coming in a Jauh estate area of Nigeria, some call it mild drama, but a driver, a commercial driver, a bus driver, set himself ablaze on fire to prevent himself from being arrested by officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency, LASMA. You know, they wanted to impound his vehicle and he was arrested for allegedly validating state traffic rules. Now, those who were there, the eyewitnesses said that while the driver was trying to see how he could remedy the situation by begging the traffic officers, one of them possibly took over the steering wheel from him. And, you know, the driver, noticing what was about to happen to him, grabbed a jerican filled with petrol that was in the bus and emptied the content on himself and he was said to have brought out a lighter from his pocket and set himself ablaze. This is really sad. Now, the witnesses also say they had the driver, you know, saying it was better to die than to live and watch his only means of livelihood taken from him. On seeing what was happening to their colleagues, other drivers around there who were sympathetic to that guy, conversions started pelting the LASMA officials with stones. Now, soon the drivers were joined by what we call Agbeiro or area boys. These are street urchins to attack the LASMA officials and it was quite a scene there. They tried to put the fire out, you know, or the burning man and unfortunately the damage done on him was colossal. They had to rush him to a hospital and we hear that as of press time, you know, the LASMA officials could not respond to the inquiries. Really bizarre, really sad one affecting that gentleman there, but it simply shows the extent to which the situation of harassment of drivers, even though they're breaking the traffic rules, has gotten to in Lagos and other parts of Nigeria. The government needs to do something about that. Finally, this is a touching story. It's one of the stories that will touch the core of your heart, really. It happened somewhere in in Port Hacot River State in a part of Port Hacot called Rumi Buu. I know Rumi Buu quite well because I've stayed in Port Hacot for some years. This is an alumni of the University of Jaws who found his mate. His mate is he's made from the university, mentally unstable. It's touching, really. So some alumni of the University of Jaws located their mate, Hilary Mina Bellam, who became mentally unstable on the eve of his master's degree defense. Hilary Mina Bellam became mentally unstable on the eve of his master's degree defense. The alumni have since taken him to the psychiatric hospital, which is still at that Rumi Buu, interestingly enough. So it's quite touching, really sad, and he's expected to recover as he follows the doctor's directions. This was shared on Instagram. You can see him there. They had to take the clothes off him and take him to the hospital. It's touching, but this shows how human beings can get for the alumnus of this school going all the way. Look at him hugging his student, his mate there, going all the way to look for him and to help him. I think this is an example that everyone should emulate, an example that everyone should emulate. It's really touching, really touching indeed, and it brings tears to the eyes of many. It's a teary story. Hopefully we pray, we hope that Hilary will recover from the situation and we'll get better. The comments by Nigerians on social media, not just Nigerians from all around the world, one person said, this made tears to drop from my eyes. Humanity at its finest, I pray he recovers and does well in life. Kudos and big respect to his fellow alumnus who took out their time to check upon him and make sure that they could take care of him. Another person of having no throwing stones at government online, saying what the government doesn't and cannot do for its citizens. This is what citizens are having to do for themselves and it's really touching, really touching. Wow, you can't have enough of such feel-good stories. In time, a nation where such stories are hard to come by. Good to see. It's still the breakfast right here on Plus TV Africa. Ezekiel and I took his public affairs analyst. He'll be joining us as we look at the stories from the pages of the National Dailies of Next on The Breakfast. Stay with us.