 Thanks for staying with us. Very sorry that we're starting the paper review a little bit late. We are unfortunately not joined by our expected guests for the paper review, so we're going to go it alone this morning. And we do hope that you have the time to just listen to the headlines and know what is happening around the country. So we are going to begin this morning with the business NG. Business NG deals with business of course. And the headline, the leading headline here is that rising food prices stop poor Nigerians from suffering. IMF to federal government stop poor Nigerians from suffering. I'm just wondering the same IMF that has been giving us policies that a lot of people feel are the ones that are causing Nigerians to feel what they're feeling right now. The inflation is rising. The dollar is rising. The Naira is crashing and so many other things. People feel that the IMF should not be so much a part of our lives as they are right now. We should not be thinking about all the suggestions that IMF is giving us because some of them don't work in a country like Nigeria. But they are saying that federal government is causing suffering so they should stop it. We do hope that as the federal government is taking all other advice from them they will also take this one and do something for the benefit of Nigerians. We have a smaller headline, the top left corner that says food security. Federal government signs 995 million pounds deal to create aggregate mechanization two hops in 774 local government areas. Well, I also like that one, the sound of that one. We do hope that that money will get to where it should get to. The mechanized farming will be something that the people even in the villages, especially in the villages will have. So let's say people that are agrarian, they produce rice or they produce yams or cassava or grains of any sort and this mechanized farming is such that the farmers in those locations get to use these implements and see what can be done. There will be a lot of food in this Nigeria if it is done religiously. Ramadan, price of watermelon surges by 53% in Kanu. I've always said this, that people sometimes take advantage of whatever is happening and exploit the people. So sometimes it's not the government, it's just us being wicked to ourselves and all that. Because we know that the Muslims usually break fast with fruits and all that. The oranges, the watermelon, the fruits that they are likely to use just searched up like that. No, nothing like maybe it is because where we buy the fruits or the dollar has gone up or something, it just went up because Ramadan is here. So I don't know how we do this but if we are people who like to say we like God, you go to church all the time, you go to the mosque all the time, we shouldn't be doing some of these things that we do. We know that the country is hard, we know that there is inflation, we know that there are a lot of things but not 100% can be blamed on the government. We can blame ourselves as well. So please, if you are a seller, make your profit but be considerate because you are not the only one suffering, you are not the only one who is going through what we are going through. Don't add to the problems of brothers and sisters because they want to stay religious, they want to do good by God according to what they believe and then you want to exploit them and like we would say, you want to kill them. Don't do that. Whatever you are selling, be considerate. CBN lacks liquidity to support Naira as derivative deals over when FX reserves. Okay, that's according to the EU. Remember they are doing some audit, there are some investigations and all that so the EU is saying that the CBN lacks liquidity to support Naira as derivative deals over when FX reserves. Okay, well we still have some other headlines on the business NG. CFCC are in three former access bank staff for stealing 16 million Naira. 16 million Naira. Okay, we have again terrorist kidnappers calls and fresh kaduna attacks. We dealt with that in the top trending issues so we know what that is. Atticu denies dumping PDP, tackles Tinubu. That's another headline. So it's been going round that he has dropped PDP and now he's saying he has not. Ninghi resigns as chairman of Northern Senators Forum. You know he's embroiled in this brohaha in the Senate where he said that some projects in the budget do not have, some monies in the budget do not have projects or location where the project will be executed. And he said that 25 million, about 25 million, 5 trillion rather, of the budget fund have projects, they have locations so they can identify the reason for which that money was budgeted. But 3 trillion according to him, he could not or he and his people that investigated these or looked into the budget could not find the project to which this money is tied and the location where any project can be executed with 3 trillion Naira. So we're hoping that even though he has been suspended there will still be an investigation into that and find out why this is. We remember that this same budget, we've had a situation where somebody said in the budget an extra zero was added when it was not supposed to be an extra, there was not supposed to be an extra zero or something. And instead of money being in billions, it was in millions and all that. We've heard things like that. So there's a possibility that there could be a mistake. It's not a very serious case that there is, well it is serious if there's a mistake and the budget is passed with a mistake but it's not something that does not happen or has never happened before. So he has been suspended now for 3 months and because he said that, but like I said earlier on I do not support what he was saying about marginalization of a particular section of our country and all that. People or states need money according to the needs that they have. We should be thinking about developing the entire Nigeria not just a section and all that. So if there are places, for instance, we hear that the root network in the north is better than that of the south. So if more money, for instance, is voted for a better root network in the south in the 2024 budget, the northerners shouldn't cry that because this is done the northerners should also have the same amount of money when they don't need it. That's the operative word, need it. I'm not saying that is what happened but we should stop this perceived marginalization that we cry about all the time just because something is done to one person should not mean that it must be done to you and for you. We also have another headline here, Nigeria, US dollar bond hit by selloffs. So that's the final headline we're taking from the business NG. We are going to Nature News right now. Nature News leads with the headline, Lagos government seeks 126 billion Naira to save coastal communities from erosion, ocean surge. Woo's federal government, private sector support. Okay, this is a laudable one. There are communities that buy the ocean and erosion might just chop off everything that the owners land. So if they do this is good and we hope that the federal government is going to assist and make sure that happens. Okay, we also have another headline. Green program, Nigeria signs 995 million pounds agreement with Brazil, Dutch bank. Okay, so they have signed that agreement for the program, Green program. Alake advocates use of mineral equity against foreign loans. That is Delia Alake talking now. He advocates use of mineral equity against foreign loans. And then climate change, population growth, threat to food production. That is according to Abdul Razak. Climate change, population growth, threat to food production. Okay, I don't know how I will join that. I don't know how he said that, why he said that. But we do know that climate change could affect it. For instance, in a place where you think that in June you are going to make a rice plot. You find out that in January there's so much rain that that same place is flooded. It means that for that year you may not be able to plant or you do not even know how to time it. You go and plant at the time when there will be flood, when there was not supposed to be flood because of climate change and it affects the farmers. We cannot predict, I'm talking we, you know, like I am a part of them, you know, farmers cannot predict the weather anymore, the seasons anymore. There was a time when you could categorically say that in September this is the kind of crop that you are going to plant in a particular place because you know the amount of rainfall that you are likely to have in September. In August there's going to be August break, so you can do XYZ so that when the rains return it will not affect the crop and all that. But now it's difficult to predict and that is a worrisome thing. So it will affect food production. But population with the right mechanization of farming, I'm not sure population will be a big problem like that. It's always a problem where you have too many mouths to feed but we can always find a way around it. It's because our agriculture is not mechanized. That's why we even talk about food nowadays. We are not more populated than America. We are not more populated than India. They are not dying of hunger. We are not more populated than China. They are not dying of hunger because the population involved in agriculture may not be so much as much as we have in Nigeria but they are mechanized farmers and so because of that they produce more and they are using technology and we don't use all those in Nigeria. So we should have everything about what we do to agriculture and with agriculture and then food security will not be a problem at all in Nigeria. That's what I think. Nigeria must feed itself and export, says Tinubu. Yeah, we've been saying this for a long time so the only way to go is to do the needful when it comes to agriculture. We have been talking about mechanized farming all this while and the use of technology. Try to deploy a lot of funds to that. Let's see how it works. Dr. Mobareola replaces Jamo as Nimasa Diji, a former member of the executive panel in Lagos. It's now the Nimasa Director General. We have that news as well. It's also on Nature News. Oyo joins Lagos, banned use of styrofoam parks. Okay, we got that yesterday as well. Oyo is now part of the states that have banned styrofoam. In Lagos it has been banned so when you're going to an eatery, whether it's an eatery or a roadside vendor that we call Mamaput, you cannot find styrofoam anymore but you still find plastic containers and all that. We know the many of these plastic containers as well. The only difference, like Ruma said yesterday, is that while there are scavengers that go around picking these plastic containers if they are discarded, nobody ever talks about the styrofoam. They always leave it there. So if there's going to be any recycling, it is going to be off the plastic and not styrofoam. That's why it is such a serious issue to ban styrofoam. So if it is causing health hazard and then it's causing environmental hazards, then it's the way to go. I do hope that all other states will do the same but we also have to be very aggressive about our orientation of the people, the health benefits of not using styrofoam and the dangers of using styrofoam. People should know. And then alternative methods, alternative things to use instead of styrofoam because not everybody can go to a roadside vendor and say because a lot of people eat from the roadside vendor whether we like it or not, we're going with your suit and you're taking from a mama put. I've seen a lot of people like that. Suit and tie, they are stopping by. Some in their cars, they're stopping by to get some rice from a bar and gari reminds you of something else. Okay, what about people do this? And if there are alternatives, let the people know and advocate that people start to use this. So maybe there are paper bags. Paper bags will decay when you throw them away. Maybe they are going to be using leaves or anything. I don't know when we're growing up. We're buying rice from leaves or in leaves. Okay, so that's it from the Nature News. We go to Punch Newspaper right now. Punch Newspaper says, Ranking Senators Get 17 Billion Naira Constituency Votes Ninghi Suspended. Okay. The writers are, Senators Got 500 Million Naira Votes Each, Says Jari Bey. Ninghi Resigns As Northern Caucus Chair. Okbaya Misei's 500 Million Naira for Constituency Projects Allege Some Lawmakers Plotting Acquabio's Removal. Okay, now Jari Bey, Agam Jari Bey is the Senator Representing Ogoja Or Cross River North, Northern Senatorial District. And so he said that Senators Got 500 Million Naira Votes Constituency, Okay, just vote. 500 Million Naira. That this amount was for senior Senators And Ranking Senators, Ordinary Senators like he who is a new person in the Senate Did not get 500 Million. And so where was this 500 Million budgeted? Where did it come from? Maybe it came from the floating Trillion Naira that Ninghi was talking about and all that But now Ninghi has been suspended. He has been shot off. His mic has been offed. Like they say, off your mic. So they have succeeded to off his mic and all that. So they got 500 Million Naira Votes. For what? What are they going to use that money for? Well, Army Bus Illegal Gun Factory in Delta Arrest 8 people. Well, they should serve a sentence by being producers of guns for the Army instead. So let them confine them, give them the materials. Let them produce the guns for the Army. Let them serve their sentence. Even if it's 20 years, they should not just waste that talent. They are now using it negatively. Let them be made to use it positively so that the Army will not need to import guns. I'm just saying. But sometimes things like that are more beneficial than being negative. So if they are going to serve a sentence, let them serve the sentence producing guns for the Army so that we can tackle banditry. Ayeda Tewa declares Governor Bid gets reps 18 lawmakers not. That is the governor of Ando state who took the reins after the demise of Akeridolu. He's now indicating interest in running for governorship. And he has already had 18 lawmakers not. So they have backed him for that. Well, then police grill Prime Boy over petition by Mobart's wife. We'll see how that pans out. I don't know. Sometimes we should just keep politics aside and do what we should do. If they went to a morning house, as it were, and threw some jibes at each other, that was really wrong. Tinibu Six Ramadan prayers. Jigawa slashes working hours. Okay. Federal government probes. 107 vassities over a fake degree. Then abductions, reps tackle NSA, IG deploys squads in Kaduna, Kano. Those are other headlines on the punch. We move to the Guardian newspaper right now. The Guardian newspaper leads with a story we've seen in punch. Budget padding. We are all culpable. That's what Jerry Weiss said. 500 million dollars. Awards to ranking senators on settle. Exposed national assemblies rot. Okay. Now Nigerians lament rising airfares as experts blame exchange rate. It is no longer news. Court strikes out suit-seeking Igbo's exit from Nigeria. Revival. Revival of night patrol as prelude to reforming the police. Okay. That's a suggestion there that was made. Bandits capture another 30 as IGP visits Kaduna. All right. Nigeria's freefall, lean budget, Hubble Nigerians, Nigerian mission abroad. There's also another headline. World Trade Organization inaugurates $1.2 million facility to boost food safety in Nigeria. Well, this money is coming in. Okay. Where is it going when it comes in? Well, those are the headlines from the newspapers. We had Guardian, The Punch, Nature News, Business, NG. Those are the newspapers that we got for today, and we've just given you what the headlines are. Do well to read up on all the stories, because if you get informed, it means that you have a broader mind, and you can contribute more meaningfully to the development of Nigeria. There are things that you can see, and you know that you alone can prevent those things from happening. Or you alone can facilitate the things to happen. Or you can be part of the group that will do the needful for those things to either happen or not happen for the benefit of Nigerians. When you go to the social media as well, you will see very trending issues, especially an issue like a woman who made a mistake in her life. When you go to the social media as well, you will see very trending issues, especially an issue like a woman who made a review on something and tomato precisely. And now she is in a legal battle that is almost overwhelming her. And how do you fight a company that has so much billions that has vowed that over their dead body that they are going to fight this and they are asking for even compensation? I've seen a lot of times where even big companies that produce drinks or some other things, we find insects in maybe a bottle of coca cola. And then when someone does a review and says, this is what I saw, is either they will apologize to the person or withdraw all the things that could give them that kind of a bad name or investigate at least. But now I don't know what part of these things I've mentioned was done, except that there's litigation against the woman. Maybe what she said was right. Maybe what she said was not right. We do not know. Now I'm sure the evidence is gone, but it has to be words of mouth. We are going to be banking on. Whatever happens, we hope that the truth will be unveiled and then there will be peace everywhere. And that's the much we can take on our paper review and we'll take a short break. And when we return, we're going to hopefully be joined by our guests for the hot topic. Stay with us.