 Amid the controversy trailing the planned purchase of foreign luxury vehicles by federal lawmaker's chairman of the Senate Committee on Services, Sunday Karimi says assembly members deserve it while insisting it has to be supplied by foreign car brand. Very good morning to you and thanks for joining us on the breakfast. My name is Nyam Gul Aghaji. We sincerely apologize for beginning a little bit late. Well we have so many things to discuss this morning but first of all having said good morning to you and reminding you that this is a Thursday and Thursday we think business in so many quarters. We may not be bringing you a topic directly dealing with business but we'd like to remind you that you need to know how to do a little bit of business not necessarily that which will take you from what you're doing right now because there's so many things that you can do with just a click of the button of a computer or your phone so there's so many things that if you don't know how to do you need to learn at this moment technology has given us the opportunity to have streams of incomes and to also have fun while doing a lot of things that we usually like to do so get up there try to do something try your hands at something there's so many other things that are selling apart from the thing that you're doing right now so if you are someone who is a teacher for instance and you have one or two hours there are things that you can do as well you can do some sales on the internet that you don't even need to leave the comforts of your house to do that so so many things that you can do to put money in your pocket and food on your table that's the basic thing that we need we need the basic things of life are just food shelter and clothing these are the three things that we need every other thing is just um i don't know how i'll call it it's just not necessities but just things that we want the things that we really need is to be able to feed ourselves to be able to find shelter and put our heads you know when we want to rest and then to cloth ourselves and if you can have these basic things then you know that you're a complete person every other thing is just luxury that you want for yourself and there are really ephemeral things that may not even last for long but what i'm saying is that you don't need to complain because there are so many opportunities out there and if you can't find them sometimes we help you find them so if you need help let us know well for today before we go into our top trending we'll just take a short break and we'll be back in a jiffy don't go away you're welcome back um we usually bring you some of the things that caught our attention in the course of 24 hours one of the biggest stories this morning uh on top trending and possibly all the newspapers that will carry is that the supreme court is scheduled to render its judgment today thursday october 26 2023 in the cases of lp and obi attiku and pdp versus aenec but okay uh bola metinobu shatima and apc recall that the presidential candidate of the people's democratic party attiku abubakar and the presidential candidate of the labor party pito b have large appeals challenged in the ruling of the presidential election petitions tribunal pept the supreme court on monday october 23 had its hearing into their appeals filed by the pdp presidential candidate and his lp counterpart challenging the ruling of the presidential election petition tribunal pept that upheld tinobu's electoral victory the judgment date was confirmed by all parties involved next is that uh the president bola akmei tinobu has approved the appointment of nine new resident electoral commissioners regs for the independent national electoral commission aenec for a term of five years each a statement released by presidential media aida during gilali says president buhari made the appointment by pass vested in him by section 154 subsection one of the constitution of the federal republic of nigeria 1999 amended and section six of the electoral act 2022 to make such appointments he gave names of the nominated commissioners as isa shaka a him a him a kni a two state resident electoral commissioner bami delie agbede a kitty state resident electoral commissioner jania damu belu gombi state resident electoral commissioner dr tayi elia su quara state dr bumi o moshi indemi lega state resident electoral commissioner al haji yaya belu nasa our state reg professor mohammed yalwa niger state reg dr anubum onua river state resident electoral commissioner abu baka fawadambo zamfara state he added that president tinobu expects the new appointees to abide by the highest standards of professional and ethical conduct in the discharge of their duties in accordance with his determination to facilitate the establishment of renew and sustainable standard of transparent fair and conflict free electoral conduct in nigeria also the state chapters of the nigeria labor congress and a trade union congress have expressed displeasure at the slow pace of implementing their memorandum of understanding it signed with the federal government to avert its planned nationwide strike the organized labor want that failure to implement the agreement before the october 30 deadline might leave them with no choice but to go on strike adding that they had commenced mobilization of their members across the country now on tuesday they were asked uh tuesday october 24 whether labor was satisfied with the implementation of the mo u the head of information and public affairs of the nlc benson upa said the government could do better and faster and that labor issued a statement a few days ago in expressing and expressing pleasure or displeasure rather with the minister of labor unemployment the national leadership of the nlc and tuc had on october 1 reached an agreement with the federal government to pay 35 000 naira to all federal workers beginning from september pending when a new national minimum wage would be signed into law the sole resolution provided that the wage award would be paid to the federal workers for six months while states were encouraged to extend the same benefit to their own workers this is what they are afraid the federal government is about to renail upon now meanwhile nigeria's minister of health professor ali pati has outlined the need for women to be vaccinated against the human papillom virus papillom virus and countering claims against the hpv vaccine on wednesday october 25 after a visit to the kuchingoro primary health care center in the company of the director of susan thompson buffet foundation professor senaid faseha party disclosed that his four daughters are vaccinated so there's no fear in the vaccination no controversy whatsoever he stated that the vaccine is safe for girls and it would serve as lifelong prevention against the disease he said the focus is to make the this voluntarily or to make this vaccine get to the people and for them to get it voluntarily and there are not enough vaccines and those who choose not to receive are making a mistake for their children because they're exposing them to the risk of having those diseases remember we have done a few programs on this vaccine we hope people will take advantage of this and not have to cry tomorrow because it prevents you from having the kind of disease that ordinarily you would have i think cervical cancer or that so if you are supposed to or you are in the age bracket that you are supposed to get this vaccine please do find time to go and get it and if it's for your child make sure that your child gets it probably from nine years to 25 or 30 or something you fall under that age bracket that you need to get this vaccine so find out the age bracket and if you do fall under this age bracket try to get the vaccine it's free and if you miss it now because it's not so much available there are limited number of these vaccines that can be given to people so if you miss it now you might be missing it for this lifetime and that will not be good enough tomorrow. Also a former militant leader Asari Dokubo has lamented over president Bola Tinubu's recent appointments. Asari said this while reacting to controversial islamic cleric Sheikh Gumi's call for Newsome Weekend to be removed as FCT minister addressing this in the video which has gone viral the former militant leader stated that Abuja was built with oil money from northern regions and he also said that it was built on the premise of no man's land. He went on to lament about other appointments by president Bola Tinubu claiming that it is one sided and makes Lagos look like the only state in the country. Asari who claimed that he campaigned for Tinubu because of his past achievements did not really like the fact that these appointments have been made. Remember that in the past Asari Dokubo had really been the vanguard talking for the president and remember the other time he was saying that nobody dares to oppose the president. Now he also even talked about the fact that when people try to claim that Lagos state is in no man's land it is actually a euro bar land and it should not be claimed by anybody and now Sheikh Gumi said that Wike shouldn't be or shouldn't have been the minister of the FCT because of maybe his religion or maybe where he comes from and northern elders have disowned Gumi regarding the statement that she made. He made rather not that he is no longer a northerner but they said they distanced themselves from what Gumi said because it is not a general opinion of everybody. So now Asari Dokubo is saying that Abuja is supposed to be in no man's land just like some people were calling Lagos a no man's land because it used to be federal capital for Nigeria and everybody was welcomed in Lagos and now Asari Dokubo is saying Abuja is supposed to be in no man's land that is why it was built. Yes every federal government every capital of a country is supposed to be like a no man's land if you know what that means so you know he's not very happy and he's saying that most of the appointments are coming from Lagos or Euro bar land because I'm not sure all the people that were appointed are coming from Lagos they may be Euro bar people they may be people who have worked in Lagos but hey Lagos welcomes a lot of people coming from other parts of Euro bar land or other parts of the country so Asari is not comfortable about that maybe he wanted an appointment as well or more appointment to his people or for his people but whatever it is he has cried out that he does not like what is happening right now regarding the appointments. Well I've seen appointments coming from the southeast from the south south from the southwest from from the northeast west and everywhere maybe he just has particular appointments that he felt that shouldn't have gone to particular axes of the country whatever is his arguments are well let's wait and see what the people so appointed will do because what we look for in Nigeria what we should be looking for in Nigeria is actually competence but how far can we take that confidence when we find that there's also a constitutional provision for what do they call it now for everybody to be carried along there's that provision like that federal character they call it yeah federal character that's what the name that they give to it so if any ethnic group or any geopolitical zone perceives that they are being left out then that provision will be invoked by whoever wants to bring up an argument but that's what Asari Dokubo has said and if there is anything to go by then whoever is in charge of appointing whoever should take note that some people are watching but some people will just laugh over it and say well this is what we saw and this is what you get but we have absolute trust in whoever is at the helm of affairs that he knows what he's doing and if tomorrow we wake up to find out that the dollar is one one Naira to one dollar we wouldn't care where by the people who are in charge of the economy are from we will just be happy that the dollar and Naira are the same right now something a country like Kenya Kenyan Shilling one Kenyan Shilling is 509 Naira so it is bigger and stronger than the Naira and I felt it was a shame when I discovered that and for the fact that we've been told that Nigeria and Angola currencies are the worst performing currencies in Africa right now it really is a shame for all of us so we don't care where anybody comes from but let's see that in the next maybe two months before Christmas we'll start seeing things happening I just spoke to a friend last night and the friend was telling me that this friend is a businessman who sells a lot of things and then he was telling me that the prices of things have gone up almost double within two weeks and it is not even close to Christmas yet well it is close but it's still all to almost 60 days away and things are happening like this what if it enters November what if it enters December can we still be proud of a a chicken lap on our plate or something we don't know we just want Nigeria to work wherever whoever is coming from will not matter if at the end of the day we turn around the economy we turn around the the fortunes of Nigeria and Nigerians and then we begin to see the Nigeria that was proud enough to call itself the giant of Africa well we'll take a short break from here and then when we return we hope to be joined by our analysts that will be helping us look at the papers and talk more on the headlines on the front pages stay with us