 Thank you for staying with us used to watching the breakfast on plus TV Africa and right now it's time to look at the global stories Making headlines in our national dailies and today we'll be starting with the punch the major headline on the punch It says TUC NUC NLC rather split as DSS one Labor against planned protests and the rider here is NLC to protest decision Unilaterity use the alleged vows to stay away from demonstration Another one says Agiro accuses DSS of blackmail agent who wants labor against plots to destabilize the nation Well, what do you think about this one? I thought labor unions were you know together? I think it's a divider rule thing that is happening right now that we're talking about this thing a long time Give the ultimate Yeah, a long time ago TUC didn't say anything a few days to their actual action And they're saying that labor took the decision unilaterally a lot of people will think that Something has gone on the ground or TUC to do what they're trying to do right now And that is not a very good name. This is like the last straw that would break the camel's back I'm not supporting demonstration, but if this demonstration doesn't happen, there's no strike nothing nothing Labor cannot raise their head anymore and say we are we are Agitating for this and that and people take them seriously even right now people are not taking them seriously And then they go and say, okay, you took this unilaterally and TUC off south It doesn't speak well of any of them. Yes, because TUC now looks like Why do you have to wait this long? You could have said something We we've been talking about this for the entire time and all of a sudden you are backing out a few days, too So it doesn't look well on TUC because I'm wondering What's the rationale behind it? When I saw the story on the social media a lot of people were saying ah money don't exchange hands So that's what everybody will be talking about and then so the the role of DSS now warning Laying what party against the strike. I understand that nobody wants, you know, a protest Even the security approaches do not want to protest, but when you're coming to say You know, it's going to destabilize the nation and according to Agere saying, you know, the DSS they're blackmailing them I think DSS is It presents as a very lazy institution a lot of times very lazy. They don't they don't do what they're supposed to do You know people who are trying to hijack it and cost mayhem. Why can't you stop them? Yes? Why don't you address them? Why don't you bring a case against them? Why don't you prevent them from doing what they are intending to do? They always come out with this propaganda and say we have doing we have intelligence that people want to Know intelligence It's propaganda all the time We know that yes, sometimes a protest a hijack that is why police are supposed to go with these people and They protest this is their right Fundamental human rights to say what they they're feeling Mm-hmm, and then you prevent them and say you have heard that or you have intelligence that so if you know This is why you're not coming out and making sure that everything you're you know Just being there to even give security to the people who are protesting But if you have intelligence then that means you can't use your that's a little bit of your redundancy It's a little bit of a gun dance. I'm going to propaganda Lazy very lazy because if you have this intelligence you will you know what to do Yeah, you know what to do you're not telling me that people cannot carry out their rights and Especially in in a government that doesn't even believe that protests are for real They're thinking that it's politically motivated and all that so what do you get DSS now being seen? As the whipping stick of the administration will not be talking about don't do this You are putting the the the nation into chaos and all that what have they said to the government that is not fulfilling The the the the promises made to the labor that is leading to the protest Nobody saying anything so another another headline here says the motor is grown as fuel capacity hits legos So this morning when in fact, I've been seeing cues in the gas stations Recently, but this morning when I was coming I couldn't believe the amount of cars that I was seeing it Yes, that and that was about you know five something before 6 a.m There were so many cars queuing up at the fuel station. I'm like wait. Is this capacity again? No, like not everything that is going on Well, well, we really say there's no scarcity. We know that there's a possibility that Some people are hoarding and all yeah, but there are a lot of factors that would lead to that marketers Know that the next time they go to buy it might be something else Then dola we were crying the other time that one week it added like 100 and something Now yesterday was one nine hold on as of that day that same day that was on Tuesday I was surprised to see that the market ended at about 1,008 something and I like in the morning It was 1,730. So we were saying there was an addition of 130 now in one week in one week, but look at one day almost a hundred now addition in one day So that means By the end the end of quarter one by the end of Q1 in Nigeria What would the dollar be? Ah I'm so nice because yesterday in the morning when we're talking about this it was 900 100 1900 in the evening it was more than that. I don't know Especially if you want to buy in bulk you're seeing prices like 3,000 because there's none in circulation So you can only buy the little that you see and if you have to buy in bulk you have to pay The same DSS EFCC and all that they are going after the people the feel are hoarding the money British and all that the other day we saw that a politician Arrested or police arrested a Maid that they said was working for them was just employed three days later. She stole $58,000 and I was asking myself How did that man have $58,000 in the first place and Someone who was in employed three days will have access to $58,000 in my mind It was like yes It was just that was the only one that was just littered all around Yes, the real one might still be in that house How how are these people going scot-free and then you're going to the people who are using these as a lively They are beyond the challenge everywhere in the world. It's just that the regulation is different. Yeah But in Nigeria is not the same thing So why don't look about look at the regulation do what you need to do and all that you and I don't have access to mint Naira for instance, but you go to parties. There are people who have this So where they're getting them from you go to the PO as now you find PO as very close to ATM machines Like where we are working right now. There's a pure as close to ATM machines You won't find cash in the ATM, but you find it with the purest operator. What is going on? So we're sabotaging ourselves and all that DSS and the approach is not to arrest people Think of why these people are doing this thing and arrest that thing Trucks of food will be arrested. You are not asking why they're doing this You're not asking where that person will get the next meal or what he has invested. You arrest them and you distribute the Audio audio foods to people Anyways, there's another headline that might just you know, give so called to people It says Senate rejects electricity tariff high probes two trillion Naira soft TVs Well, we thank God Thank God for small messes, but I think it is now it's not going to work because when they the discourse of Whoever is in charge say where we want to up the tariff There's always a cry federal government will say don't do this don't do that But you find out that the unit measure has gone up without anybody just knowing it's same thing with the Service providers, you know, you have your all these service providers. Yes They will tell you that we want to increase our prices They will be outcry that you will not hear and then the next thing you find out that they They the 10 gigabyte that you are using for two weeks Yes, not one straw like three And then you just suck it out from so I mean They are going to say it in principle, but these people will still increase it trust me So if your house was loading a hundred thousand a month, you'll find that that hundred thousand will be finishing on the 15th I'm all with everything that's happening right now I don't know what I don't wait 90 are going to Where are we headed? I want to be headed Revolution some people will tell you that please I want to come down from this bus because It's it's crazy. We say it on this show all the time that it is we are going somewhere that we may not be able to To control there will be a revolution, but let it be the revolution for something better Yeah, not a revolution where people will be angry and how people are protesting in Lagos You know you're in Niger in Kaduna everywhere This is just because they have not come together because there might be a time when everybody will just go on the streets and We wouldn't be happy about it All right, let's move over to the next page So well the headline here we're looking at the Guardian now and the major headline says Customs 5 trillion narrow targets retains trade high sins price crisis So I still talking about the same thing that's happening in Nigeria. What do you expect when customs? the move their Custom duties had different prizes in the course of One week or so or is it two days the movie 12 times something like yeah, I think they even increase their prices Twice in one day or twice in four days something like that had like 12 times that it was increased and all that so How do you do business? How do you plan for tomorrow? So I buy my goods today and I'm spending a hundred dollars and there's no assurance that the next time is going to be even 120 So I'll be selling those goods Hoping that if it is going to be two hundred dollars, I can still meet up. Otherwise the business will fold up so How are we going to blame the people who are trying to do what they're trying to do? And you're calling people who are keeping things as hodas people who are hoarding the things You did not talk about it the people who hooded palliatives or anything else you're talking about farmers and Traders that are doing what they think is best for them so that their businesses can stay afloat Once you give a target to somebody that's the problem people now buy don't buy cars in Nigeria You know they go to Benna Republic by the cars drive them back into Nigeria And that's what you're seeing you know smuggling happening a lot because a lot of people cannot even afford the the amount that customs goods This cause I mean and I'm not here to promote smuggling But I'm just saying because we you have to think of the root cause of the matter You have to think of the why why are people doing this but when when the country seems so hard when the economy? Has the dwindling downturn? Sometimes people are pushed to the wall. I know that there are people who are criminals Yes, we agree, but if there are a hundred people doing smuggling now There's a possibility at least 40 went into it because of other reasons that were not Motivated by just being a criminal mind So if you can address that that means it's 40 percent less of the problems you have at our borders Now you want to buy a car a car that should cost you like three million Naira. You come to Nigeria You find out that with the exercise duties everything that you need to pay that car is costing you like seven million Naira You go to Kotonu. You do whatever you need to do like ten and drive back All you need to do is Is this a good thing to say Breve little bit of the cost the same customs and then pass with your car It's not good. It's not telling Well of our country in Nigeria and business will keep folding and dwindling like you're saying Anyways, another headline here says Singapore gave Governor 30 billion Naira itch to address food shortage Where is the 30 billion Naira? Where is the food because I mean prices? Have you gone to the market lately? Prizes are ridicule us No, in fact, I had an appointment with my new technician yesterday And he was just telling me how much the cost of foil paper foil paper is like the most useless thing in the world Really like you only just use it to wrap food and that's it. I want to use it. You're not using it again For all people that used to be about two three thousand now cause twelve thousand Naira Twelve but one of the most useless things in the world that seemed essential as well Because when you want to preserve your food in the fridge and all of that, but that's how much it is From three to twelve like things are crazy So if you're saying that, you know, 30 billion Naira was allocated to, you know, each governor For food shortage, you know, just to ensure that there's food supply and all of that Where is the 30 billion for each state? And why are we still seeing a Shortage in food supply? I know they know that this money is not going to be used for the people Now when you give people money like the World Bank will give you money or let's say, yes For SDGs or whatever they give you a template. They give you things to achieve They give you a target. This is what you are going to put this into and all that Or the person collecting this money brings a proposal that this is XYZ I'm going to do but people protested a few days and then you call the governors for a meeting The inflation and the food crisis is getting out of hand take 30 billion to do what with it Now governors will come and say like I saw The other governor now distributing. It was it a governor distributing 10 kg bags of rice And they were like is it 5,000 or so in a state? How many people are going to get it? How many days are they going to eat it? Let's say family of three That is mother father and one child, which is very rare in Nigeria Yeah, so family of three 10 kg of rice. How many days will they eat that 10 kg of rice? Where will the season come from where will the oil come from so other things to cook with You're just giving them 30 billion without giving them a template of things that they need to achieve Yeah, I'm not sure that template is there because nobody has said it All we hear is that governors and the president they had a meeting to discuss what? Planting season has started. This is rain raining right now. Planting season has started What are you doing? Definitely to make sure that in the next three months because there are crops that can mature in the next three months Three months, you have not done anything about it. And then you're just giving 30 billion. They will finish it Yeah, I feel like it was just money that exchange hands. They will finish it. That is all and Then do some palliatives buy some spaghetti and give to some people and that is all noodles That's the end. Maybe they'll add small Gary and then they will have they will have receipts for all those things That is the ridiculous They will have one Derrick of Gary one noodle one these put it in a small bag and then give Like the other I don't even think it's everyone in the community that would even get that It's not about everyone if a politician will go to a community to campaign and it gives one log of bread to an entire Two-story Building like everybody You didn't see that on social media. They used it. The boys now used it and began to play like football It's insulting for a person of that standing to bring bread one loaf of bread for a pool compound Even a family can you really and it was still voted in Wow? Interesting you are still at least it was still voted in let me quote it because that's what we know anyways I mean, we just hope that At least food because that's the basic you you have to eat even before you can put clothes on your back You have to eat before you can even think of shelter put is what sustains you and so if there's like, you know You a shortage of food supply Nigeria that is quite alarming because that's like the first thing that needs to be sorted out As soon as possible. So I hope that the government, you know, is doing something about this It seems like they are clueless, but we just hope that it's miraculously let them ask some of us who are farmers We'll tell them what Alright, we'll go on a short break one return. We'll be looking at our first hot topic. So please stay with us