 On the breakfast, World British says greenhouse gas emissions and over exploitation of natural resources are the root problem and are causing a rise in global temperatures, drought and others. We all have further discussions on the impact and responses of climate change. Also on the breakfast, amid rising insecurity for my Defence Minister, Ty Danjima again has asked Nigerians to take up arms and defend themselves against terrorist attack. And don't forget, we'll also go through the front pages of today's national dillies and of course it will bring to you some analysis with our guest analysts of the press this morning. It's a beautiful Monday morning, we're back with the breakfast of past TV Africa, we can't wait to get into the thick of things and the conversations today. Mercedes is already looking like she had a very good weekend. I'm looking like I had a very good weekend myself too as well. I hope you did have a good weekend. My name is Kofi Bartels. And I am messable for many things, but joining us. Alright and of course the elections around the corner but the important issues of climate and environment are something we shouldn't keep our, take our eyes off, we'll be looking at that as we go on the programme today. But before we get into the thick of our conversations, let's look at what has been training the social space as we usually do every single morning on this programme. The Arab Emirates is a country that is close to the heart of Nigerians and most people talk about Dubai, right? Talk about Dubai. In fact Nigerians are so important to the economy of Dubai in terms of tourism, both pleasure and business that the Dubai you know, tourism they do a lot of marketing and advertising for Nigerians to go to that country. So it's very important for business, for pleasure, even presidential candidate Mercy has been living in Dubai for some years. Well, the latest is that what we hear is that the UAE is set to have imposed some sort of visa ban on Nigerians. There's a lady who is set to have been sent to jail for posting detained travelers out of Nepal. It's very worrisome. You can see her there. There's something on Twitter which was carried by one of the popular soft sell, let's say soft sell Twitter accounts, news accounts, Nigerian woman sentenced to 1A imprisonment in UAE for tweeting about how Nigerians were illegally detained at Dubai airport. And you can see a statement there, someone who knows her put out a statement as well. It's very, very worrying and very troubling. But we hear that the Dubai authorities or United Arab Emirates as a country have asked Nigerians to no longer apply to come to the country after imposing a total visa ban. This is the latest in the ongoing rift between Nigeria and this all important Middle East country. This Nigerian woman, her story was shared on Twitter and she posted about her deal at Dubai airport and how other Nigerians and herself had been sent to jail. Mercy, this is a very worrying time, a very worrying situation, very troubling development to see that a fellow human being who just put out a statement, something for people to be aware of what they're going through, was jailed just because of that. It doesn't sound good to the ear. And I cannot wait to hear what they will say to Abike Dabri on Twitter, to make the trending segment tomorrow. Well, you can almost predict what would actually happen. But I know how Nigerians have actually responded to what has happened, especially with the back and forth. You also came out at the time where the UAE is saying, hey, we no longer want Nigerians to come and all of that, the ban. And so people are saying, hey, what is all of this? If we fix our country, we have no business having Nigerians grappling. I remember that last week I had a conversation with someone who said, oh, have you ever been to Dubai? And so that's it. So Dubai feels like a place that you have to be in the world. And for whatever reason, they have been able to advertise that and made that very prominent. And so it feels like if you've never been to Dubai, then you're left out in all of the trouble. Seriously. So that's exactly what happens. Ah, you've not been to Dubai before? No, that's not the case. No, no, no. I'm just asking how people say, you know, it's like if you're not been to Dubai, it's like, don't tell anybody you know. But to be very honest, it is a question of when you are in Rome, you need to understand what happens in Rome. You need to understand the dynamics. Oh, I see. If you're in Rome too, as the Romans do. Exactly. So you need to understand the dynamics. And then I remember once upon a time, my grandmother used to tell tales and stories. You know, she'd say that she'd tell me a story of all sorts of stories with animals. And so you have, he'd say, the chicken, when you find it, it gets a particular place. The reason why it has one leg up is that it observes what's going on before it can take the next step. Oh, okay. It stands with one leg. Ah, I wish you could try and see. So that is observing and seeing what is going on here is watching everyone and trying to understand. So there's actually a law in the UAE, it's called the UAE Online, where it talks about posting online without a consent that would attract a fine of 500, I don't know if that's 500,000 dirhams. Yes. And that's it. So that's what it is. It's important. So the laws that, because you might be in Nigeria and it's a different thing entirely. The laws are different. We have countries that are different. I mean, as a country, countries of the world are sovereign and such to have different laws governing the activities. I remember once upon a time we talked about North Korea and how people are not expected to love if someone dies. I don't know what I was saying, does that really happen? I say, yes, it does. And if you live in that climate, you expect that to respect it because this is the law. So you have laws that actually govern every country and they might not be the same which, you know, what is obtainable in your society. So you're supposed to observe what the law is in the UAE. Yes. You're supposed to understand. I think that it's important that before you take a trip to another country, you should actually try to find out what are the do's and don'ts, what laws govern the activities. So you expect a BKW to come out and say, well, you're on your own. You need to break the law of the alarm. I really don't know. But if you look at it, everyone in Nigeria is reacting differently because, I mean, there's really nothing restricting us. There's no penalty. There's no, you know, judgment, there's no restriction. We also remember how, you know, Twitter was banned and now Nigerians reacted. So there's nothing attached to all of that. And we understand the issue of implementation. So it's a big one. So if you are in this part of the climate and then you understand, you'll say, why should someone, because they make a post. And if you look at it, it's inhuman. What does she do? Does she commit any crime? But there's just a law that does not allow you to post something without... Somebody would call it a harmless post. Yes. Yes. If you look at it, she was complaining about a plight. And when these issues that she stated really true, yes, they were really true. But what does the law in UAE talks about posting without consent? And that's what it is. It's quite unfortunate. Yes. Yes. It's quite unfortunate. I'll just cap that up by saying, you know, the ignorance of the law is not an excuse. Of course. But you ask yourself, okay, these kinds of laws where you want people to take permission before they post, I mean, and you detain them on account of that, you know, it's harsh. It's harsh. Nigerians have been through a lot, you know, mostly because people would know the government will stand up for them. You know, and I do hope that the authorities can work the diplomatic back channels to ensure that this issue is sorted out as quickly as possible. This ban on its own as a whole is something that they need to look into. I do remember that the aviation stakeholders, especially owners of airlines, like Air Peace have complained about the treatment of Nigerian, you know, airlines, especially airlines like Air Peace that travel to other parts of the world where they're not given the commensurate and the same treatment that the Nigerian hospitality and Nigerian government accommodates and gives to these international airlines from other countries. The Nigerian airlines don't get the same treatment, you know, and the arbitrary, you know, ban and lifting of ban and the withdrawal of airline services and all that. I think the country needs to have a strong foreign policy. If Nigeria has a strong foreign policy, all right, with respectable, that the command respect, you know, from these countries, I think things would change for the better. Remember we talked about Qatar and how they had to act as a president to change, you know, his itinerary because to having the walk up and then people said, oh, they vaccine to apply again for visa, you know, that that trending store. Yeah, you know, maybe if you were some other countries like South Africa, maybe I don't know by definitely United States, they wouldn't ever try that. Remember when, you know, Queen Elizabeth blessed memory was being laid to rest. It was it was clear that the Americans were treated differently. I mean, President Joe Biden, when he visited that country, he was not put in the same bus, you know, like all the other presidents, he was given his own motorcade. And I think when it comes to world affairs, you know, even in Africa, Nigeria really, really stands out as a strong country. So as a strong country, you have a strong foreign policy that will command respect and would determine how people treat you. You know, but we have to move on to our next, our next trending story. All right. So on the next trending story, it's something that a lot of people have reacted differently. A truck driven or a truck was driven by a Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, that's last official that caused an accident while driving against traffic in Ikejara, that's in Lagos. And that happened on Saturday. And see, it wasn't at the same time I was at that particular location. No, but it was unfortunate before, you know, I got to that particular here. You know, the thing is, and the thing is, is that it's called the anti-one way, right? Oh my God, you know, it's an entire funny, telling funny story. But I'm told we are directors. It turns we have a truck up. So let's just listen to that road tape and we're back. Anti-one way, taking one way. See, anti-one way. Anti-one way, last man, taking one way. No, they are hit our bus, see, and they are anti-one way. They hit our staff bus, see our staff bus, see our staff bus. The eaters, the radiator is gone now. Nigeria. Oh well. It's just a typical example of what people would say. That's what actually transpired. So you have a vehicle that was driven. I mean, I don't really like it how some people report some, some medium prints, medium report that, you know, so it was an official was driving. No, you have to say the way it is. Anti-one way. That's it, you see, that's anti-one way. So it means that anti-one way, last man, drove against traffic, put an eye running. How do you explain, that's what you call, if you're looking for an example of an eye running, that's what it is. Look at that, look at that, look at that. Look at that. It's quite unfortunate to see that the officials, government officials, the government officers, the people who, you know, should be protecting the law, you know, keeping the law and the law breakers. Look at that, anti-one way, boldly written in front. And when he smashed someone's vehicle, you know. I'm waiting to hear what the last more officials would say about this, how they're gonna deal with those who are concerned. I hope that the rumors that are flying around, even before I came to Lagos, that they picked up Begurus to be in last month, it's not true, you know. Because people who are trained and people who are properly equipped, you know, for their job, are not meant to behave like this. You know, it's not, it's uncalled for. It's a shame, it's a funny one. We've had a good laugh. And the kudos to whoever filmed this, you know, but merci, we see several times when the police officials drive against traffic. For no just, they don't have any reason, you know. Is it police? Is it VIPs? We keep hearing that the government has announced that all police escorts should be drawn from VIPs. But we both know that is not true. That is just that old wives fable. That is what you call super story. Should we sing the song for them? No time. You know, so it's just capturing how upside down things are, you know, in this country. You see, this is a mug. It's meant to be like this. But Nigeria, the mug is like this. You know what I'm saying? You practically, you practically just... You know what I'm saying? I don't know what you just did wrong. I finished my coffee already. I finished my coffee already. I couldn't even... Yeah, don't try it because you might just spill the coffee. That was so quickly now. Yeah, so you see police officers all the time, merci, all the time, driving against traffic. Police, let's leave LASMA out of this. That's the Legal State Traffic Management Agency Authority. You see police officers driving against traffic all the time. Military officers in convoy, all right? Most times they are escorting a VIP who probably does not even have a government position. It's probably just one big boy somewhere who has money to hire them. You know, in parts of the Niger Delta where I worked for several years, you know what they do? They escort them expatriates. These expatriates who work in oil and gas sector. Probably people who do not even have qualifications that you have. You know what they do? When they're driving against traffic, they take out their whip, cane, or belt and they start flogging people out of the way. They could smash your car, side mirror. And this is the evidence of dysfunctional society. Things are not right. And the people who are meant to be protecting the law. Are the ones breaking the law? Breaking the law. Now, quickly, just before you come in with the next top trending, it reminds me of the lyrics of Fela, you know, very legendary Fela. And I say, teach me nonsense. That's exactly what it is. And just as we're also talking about the fact that you have the anti-womb, where we also need to understand what the BRT lane is meant for, why it was created. Another question, you know, that we should be asking is, do you have the bus? You know, so that particular bus, the staff bus, what business were you actually doing on that particular bus? I don't know, I'm just asking, do you think that you're supposed to be on that bus? So we live, it feels like we're a lawless society where we have a lot of laws. And funnily, it's that when you leave, you move outside of this country. You find out that Nigerians are very law abiding. Nigerians outside of Nigeria are law abiding. And so, when Nigerians are in Nigeria, they're lawless. So what exactly could be the problem? I'm sure it would be a conversation that you know, Kofi would like to have some other time Kofi and I would like to have. Yes, indeed. And of course, he crashed into a staff. So it's a chaotic situation. But let's move on, Mercy. This next one, it's a bitter story, but has a funny aspect to it because- Funny? It has little funny aspect to it. Yeah, it has funny, because yesterday I analyzed it with my wife. You know, and she was livid. And I think a lot of women who hear this story also go crazy and go mad about it. So picture this. A video came out circulating on social media of a man sitting at the back of what looked like a pickup truck holding scissors and cutting, slapping and cutting the top, a lady wearing like a singlet kind of top. All right? And cutting it and cutting it and like stripping her naked. What happened? We had to dig deeper to realize that this was, you can see it there. Senior lecturer, Mercy. Senior lecturer, this not assistant lecturer or trainee, senior lecturer at the Federal University, Lafayette, National State. His name is Dr. Fred Ayokai. All right? You can see the girl there who is cutting her top with scissors. There's another video of them beating up this girl in her apartment. All right? They said this girl, you know, I mean, so the video was when it was going, wow, this man do such a thing. And he's a genius. He was stripped her naked, left her on the road. But we now saw the other video where the girl he was, you know, brutalizing her, and you know, and he was abusing, was beating his daughter. All right? Now, what happened? This girl saw that the daughter of this lecturer had her boyfriend's number on her phone and was chatting with the boyfriend. So she, with some friends, she accosted the lecturer's daughter and they beat her up, you know. So if you watch the first video, you have to watch the first video to understand the second video. Kofi, I've seen all the video. You've seen it, right? You see how they're beating her. Delete the number. Delete the number. Delete the number, you know, and it was a bit funny to me because I read the story and so the boy's name is IG. And so I was telling my wife that, you know, I sure will be disappointed when we see the IG, they're fighting over. And so she was angry just as I was when we saw the second video of the lecturer being what he did. Very, very, very utterly condemnable. But she grew more angry, and I don't know if it's maybe a lady thing, grew more angry when she saw the first video, but she grew more angry when she saw the first video, you know. And said, why would you go fighting with your fellow woman over a man, you know? And then she was worried, okay, is it that the, this is just, as they came back from Asu Strike, is what they came to do. You know, as they came back from Asu Strike. You know, like, why would, and then I said, maybe we'll see the guy there fighting over. You might be disappointed. His name is IG. IG. IG. So she was beating her. She beat her seriously. But Kofi. But, you know, I mean it was, I just hope that girl is okay because when they went back through exact revenge on her, sorry, Masi, they beat her in an ear. I saw that. So when she hit the loavers, loaver blades. I'm not sure I saw that part. Oh man. But this is- That's the story. So I see, you know, I understand, you know, where you're coming from and from your explanation, it can be very hilarious, but to be, but it's really saddening. It's really saddening how our society and values, let's not begin to sound that, you know, Nigeria should be an exception for what's happening in, you know, across the world because someone will say, come on, these things happen even outside of Nigeria. I know that if you want to look at it, first of all, we have a way of life, even though it has not been incorporated and a lot of people do not accept that. And so one would say that Nigeria as a country has, we live in a communal space, some sort of communal living. And that's why then it would be easy for you to reprimand the Netherlands if I find your child acting out of order. I would probably just try to correct and say. That's it, that's Africa, that's the natural of all. Yes, that's the kind of, you know, culture and country that I grew up in and I understand. It's also, you know, surprising the kind of country, you know, the way I don't understand. It was so difficult for them to tell anyone that your parents, that you had a boyfriend, not to even talk about the fact that your parents would now go with you to beat up someone. Someone who beat you because of your, of a man. So I'm just not deciding. And it's not even anyone, it's even an electorate. So I started asking myself, what a generation. We are deteriorating. But have you told about it, Missy, this way, that the parent may look for his own way to deal with the child later. But to hear that someone laid a hand on his child. Missy, I know some parents who are, I'm not justifying it. Coffee, you feel that? But I'm just, I'm just to answer your question, you know, just to represent your point that why would the parents not even, you know, look at the fact that the daughter is having a relationship with a man. I know some parents who, if a teacher just does a slither, there's a finger on their child. They will go to the school and attempt to burn it down. Coffee, we don't live in a jungle. And even though we know that- So parents sometimes, the instinct, the first instinct is- No, but that's enough. You beat my child. You beat my child. So it's not even a case of, we understand that these things will probably happen amongst girls. And these things will probably happen amongst, you know, teenage children. I'm looking at them. I can't, I could probably say they're young adults. Okay, so it's no more girl fights. So that's what I'm saying. No, I'm just saying that these things are normal. One would actually not expect. You would say that typical of a Nigerian or an African parent would say, you know what, go back and beat that girl up. I would allow- So someone would say- But I'm saying- Someone would say it's normal. Is it no more girl fights? Like, lady. I don't know if it's normal because I don't see myself. I've never seen myself. You know, and that's- You would say it's normal. Because I think that, you know, at the end of the day, if you look at the culture from all of the experiences and things that have happened over time, you would say that these things actually happen, right? With younger people, young adults, teenage people. I saw someone saying it somewhere. But how, how then? My concern is that, yes, I understand that somebody touch your daughter. She's somebody you call mother with. So that little girl, beat you, I am crying. Go and beat her back a bit. Beat her back, you know? That's what I'm saying. Because someone would say it in case that the parent has to step in. So I'm already thinking from the dimension that once upon a time, it was almost impossible for you. You have to hide and be very discreet about, you know, any relationship you're having with the opposite sex. And not to be, you know, very comfortable that your parent and an elite. I mean, he's a lecturer. You should know better. Taking the laws into his hand is not it. And if you feel that your child has been harassed, that's why I say we don't live in a jungle. That's why we have the government. That's why we have the system. As much as we say that a lot of people have described this country as a, they say, oh, it's a banana republic. Anything goes, anything happens. But you see, we also have a path and a role to play in ensuring that this is not a banana republic. When you have, you know, struck, you can't wake up and say, the police will not do anything. Go lodge a complaint. If you think that that's a threat. But I feel very disappointed. It's totally disappointing and very bizarre and embarrassing. Yes, so some more information. He's been arrested, of course, with a daughter. You know, I followed a legal, you know, block where they said, you know, you could face up to 20 years because you have attempted murder. You should really beat her up and kidnapping as far as a lot of other things. And what I heard was that even the person with the phone was filming everything is unaccomplished by law. Why not? So next time, if someone, you know, slaps you, you go report to the police. Don't take the law into your hands. It's unfortunate. And I hope that he faces a full penalty. But please, please, let's stop fighting over men. It's not worth it. I don't know why you're feeling so great with that. I hope you can see the picture of the guy tomorrow. We have to go. We have to go. We definitely have to go. Yes, we'll be right back after this break. Stay with us.