 Welcome back to the breakfast and plus TV Africa. It's now time to take a look at the papers this morning. Let's begin with a daily independent. The headline reads, Bill Rutles with bandits, Buhari orders security agencies. So all ask security operatives to crush criminals. Undo doctors threaten mass resignation, proceed on strike. Also about the president, he says, shoots to order to shoot illegal AK-47 bearer still in force. iPop like a dot in a circle who would defeat them. Fighting corruption in democratic setting difficult. Buhari asks youth to behave themselves if they want jobs. Buhari's arise television interview deplorable, that's according to the PDP. Also on the daily independent newspaper, CBN set to launch digital currency. Buhari flags off $1.5 billion legos about the real line. After Twitter ban, FG joins Koo. Buhari wants autonomy for state judiciary legislature, Malami insists. Hedsman Q11 in fresh attacks on two Benway communities, several missing, a known number of women abducted. U.S. asks FG to reverse Twitter ban. Lastly, Wachukun now army spokesman, Musa, North East theater commander. The Nigerian Tribune comes next. After eight hours meeting, OBJ, Abdul Salami, Orni and Saltan others to meet Buhari. Afeniferia, Oanez and Digbo, ACF and NLC leaders in attendance. In security, our people are now afraid to visit their farms, says Fiami and Erufai. Buhari moves to resuscitate cattle roots and grazing reserves. The Kalez IPOB is like a dot in a circle. It has nowhere to go, tells governors to secure their states. PDP Afenifer, a fault of the president also. Restriction of Nigerians from reporting and disseminating information has no place in that democracy. The United States tells federal government. UNDO partners FAM commences a 5.5 billion hour LPG terminal. Catholic bishops want Sharia law removed from 1999 constitution. Again, suspected headsmen abduct four on Legos Ijebo de Rode kill 11 in Benway. We can also find on the Tribune this morning, Oya PDP, ex-deputy governor, Akambi, Babilala, others call for dissolution of party ex-go and recovered assets. Federal government opens bid over 2000 auctioneers apply. And finally, reps move to bar bank employees from operating foreign accounts. These are the big ones on the Nigerian Tribune this morning. On the pension newspaper, Buhari pushes rotation deal to APC. Oyegoo assists on zoning. Nobody should sit in Legos and decide power rotation. That's according to president. Local governments have been killed. Chairmen compromised, Buhari laments. CBN's digital currency will begin before 2022. That's according to the bankers committee. US placed Twitter ban, FG's threats of prosecution. CDS meets military chiefs prepares 70 generals for exit. Costs 36 members on list, proceed on annual leave June. Security ambassador Abdul Salami, Salta and others brainstorm meet Buhari today. Orhanese, others tackle president over threats of selfish dumb down. My directive to shoot criminals with AK-47 stands. That's according to Buhari. FG declares Monday holiday for democracy day, preaches peace. Federal government begins moves to sell looters seized assets. Army, police, NSCDC ensure forced in or shown over planned protest. Motorists, commuters grown as robbers take over Legos bridge. Power drunk DSS men, batter punchman, NUJ blows hot. And lastly on the pension newspaper, the president says we'll link Legos real line with Niger Republic. All right, then now on the Guardian. President Buhari, the federal government will reclaim grazing routes for headers. Security on high alert ahead of June 12 protests. A national assembly opposes scrapping of NYSE gets Buhari's commendation. Northern coalition seek suspension of a constitution review for referendum on Biafra. And also Africa needs 225 million more COVID-19 vaccines to meet coverage target. Presidency stands forces of Asunjon, Sultan and others into closed door Pali. And DSS operatives and policemen brutalized journalists in Abuja. All right, I think we're just going to go straight into it. Junaid Johnson, good morning once again. Thanks for joining us. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. It's a pleasure to be with you this morning. We will put money to review us all over the world. Thanks. Thanks for joining us. The story that caught my attention most is after eight hours of Asunjon of the Salamoni meeting they are going to meet Buhari today. So you have to take the meeting of this eminent Nigerian for the President to call the State Council meeting. There's a provision in the Constitution that provides that a body that includes an advisory body that includes all the key justices of the Federation or former head of states advise the President on the state of the nation. We shouldn't have gotten into this state before that meeting takes place and I think that it's under this President administration that we have had an other approach towards having that meeting. I hope that the President will take to the advice of this group that cuts across the length and breadth of Nigeria and design and personalities, traditional rulers and former head of states and president of the federal of the federal republic because this needs an intervention beyond divine intervention. There is the need for us to do things by ourselves to solve some of our problems. And if you check from the rhetoric coming from the President, they are from his interview or from his responses to questions or from statements from his administration. The issues that needed audience attention are not probably being addressed and also we will see that there is an incorrect approach towards solving this problem. The President, we elected the President, one of the news items you took, the President said he doesn't want to go against his Atone General. We elected the President, we did not elect the Atone General. So the President knows what is best for the nation. So I think that in this meeting today it will be Frank and the issues affecting Nigeria we will be treated. Okay, Mr. Jide Johnson, that statement he made regarding not wanting to contradict his Atone General, it is a story reflected on the Guardian newspaper and the rest saying, on the Guardian, for FG will reclaim grazing roads for herders. So basically in that interview, that 44-minute long interview with Pressman two days ago, the President said he had told the Atone General that he needed to go dig up the laws practiced during the first republic such that the grazing routes that were used during the first republic to move cows to several parts of the country would be used. Basically saying that he does not agree with the ban on open grazing by the 17 southern governors really. What is your thoughts regarding this? It would be very interesting if you could go back to the first republic. Then the issue of what we are talking about concerning the structure and the structure is already structured appropriately. We are operating a regional government then with each region having control over its own finances, having control over its own police, having control over a lot of it. It would be very interesting. So you should not be limited to headers. I think that once it comes to headers, the President thinking is different from when it comes to Nigeria. I'll be glad if you look into that and then we'll go back to that. In fact, we cancel 1999 constitution. I will go back to those laws to the 1963 constitution and then we will laugh all the agitations will be dealt with in terms of resource control, in terms of fiscal federalism, in terms of so many things that people that are clamoring for restructuring, that will address it. However, you can imagine if the President is really thinking for headers, if we see the dominant feature of his interview is headers, will they claim grazing route for headers? What about reclaiming the pyramids for farmers in the north? The granite pyramids for farmers in the north, the cuckoo warehouses for farmers in the south? Why must it be limited to those in animal husbandry? And what's the responsibility and what's the role of federal government in looking at people operating their private business? When is he going to do something for spare part dealers? When is he going to do something for people selling textiles in Okiani market in Lagos or the textile company in Ikeja? They are going to Ghana. They are importing textiles from India, from other parts of the world. What is he going to do for Ikeja industrial estate? What is he going to do concerning looking at the industrial estate? And he's thinking about headers, a law. Are headers the only owners of business enterprise in this country? Well, the President just had two years left in his administration. He just had two years. He won't be President forever. And if you ask that thing, that okay, my policies would be to affect some certain group of people. I think you should have an understanding that it's administration. Briefly, I want you to quickly also, you know, go back to the meeting, the Abbasan job, the Salami meeting. And what do you think they may have discussed in that meeting? It must have been the state. Look, you saw the President was in Lagos. You saw the security that was deployed in Lagos yesterday. If you deploy that level of security across board throughout the country, do you think we have the issue of insuggesting? Just deploy that level of security around the south east, Boko Haram axis. What do you think will have happened to the Boko Haram issue? Now, different agitations going on left, right, and center in the country, you will recall that the President, the former President said that students should not disintegrate. That there is a need to be worse off if we disintegrate, particularly for minority groups, than what it is now. And you could see that some of the leaders are looking at areas in which some of these problems, the issue of agitation for self-determination, the issue of state of insecurity in the country, these are issues that are of concern to eminent personalities and leaders in Nigeria. And I'm sure that to form the bulk of what they are going to discuss with the President. Whereas the President is concerned with 2023 election, talking about rotation will be left to APC. The President should not be interested in politics. The President should focus on governance. What should be the focus of it? That should be the focus of President. Now it should be on governance, how to live a lasting legacy, not to be troubled about whether there's rotation in APC or there's no rotation in APC, that someone will not sit down in Lagos to decide whether APC will decide. And who is APC? APC is made up of its members. APC is made up of its constitution. It's very interesting. We could see that they brought up the gloves, fighting, talking about 2023, but then I'm focusing on governance. My advice and my appeal to the President is to have to focus on governance and leave politics for those that are interested in 2023 presidential election or gubernatorial election. It's not going to contest any election come 2023. It should be concerned more about his legacy, how he's going to preserve his own legacy, other than talking about... All right, Mr. Jideh Johnson, tomorrow is June 12th. It's a very significant day for Nigeria. It's the day of the June 12, 1993 election that was judged as the freest and fairest ever in the country's history. It's also the day that the President has declared to be Democracy Day. And on the Guardian newspaper, the headline reads that security is on high alert ahead of June 12th protests. So we're seeing that there's likely to be protests in some parts of the country. And the federal government has deployed soldiers, the police, to prepare for a hitch-free Democracy Day celebration, asking security agencies to enforce roadblocks, stop and search in major cities to prevent mass actions. They're saying that Euroban nation agitators, Biafra agitators, they intend to hold rallies. Other people in Lagos also plan to hold rallies. So it seems like a heated polity ahead of June 12th a day. Really, let's talk about the significance of tomorrow and if there's any need for these protests that are planned across the country. The problem that I have is the fit mentality that we have in this Democratic experience. We against them. And then to also note that we are in a civilian administration, not in democracy, because if you are in democracy, you don't bring about soldiers stopping people from protesting. And you don't see protest as a mutiny. When I listened to the interview of the President, I was shocked and I fear for my nation. In the interpretation that was given to N.S.S. protest, N.S.S. protest by the President, it was people that want to remove him from government. In democracy, majority will always have their way, the minority will have their say. Now part of having your say in democracy, even under the Constitution, in terms of freedom of expression, is the right of self-expression, is the right to protest, not vandalization or to destroy property. Now the way security agencies have been mobilized is not different to the way security agencies have always been mobilized. While we were young, under military regime, and in Unilab then, when we used to protest for June 12th or to protest on the easier increase in pump prices or petroleum products or to protest on improving the welfare of Nigerians. So the way they mobilized security agencies, you would think that problem in a military regime and not in a democracy. If indeed you value June 12th, if there were no protest, if there were no democratic protest, anti-military protest, the present democratic experience that the President is enjoying, he will not enjoy it because in the first instance, the home before the Republic. So people protested against anti-democratic government, they protested against dictatorial tendencies of government, and that's why we are experiencing the democracy we are having today. No matter how hard they try to stop people from protesting or from people from agitation, from agitation, you can't stop agitation, it's just a matter of time. People will make demands for their rights, we make a demand for what they want their society to be. So mobilizing soldiers, doing freaks, searches, doing stop and search, stopping people from going about their normal business, even a democracy, which a day you come to a big democracy day and you are trying to bring military into picture, shows that you don't have democratic anti-cidemy, and I want to appeal to Nigerians and I want to appeal to those that want to go about the protest tomorrow, be peaceful about it, be vigilant about it, and we are still looking at the issue of answers, there's no end, we got an ink name to why, nobody can now deny the fact that allegedly, because in Mutni, once there is a Mutni, you use military to quell Mutni, you use military to quell Mutni, and we heard from the President in his own statement that I was told that those boys that were protesting at the gate, they want to remove me from government, if people want to remove the President from government, you don't have to let him get on the office as a rock, that you could take the intelligence of our security agencies, you could take the interpretation to give, they give to basic human rights of freedom of expression, or the right to make a demand from your government in a democracy which is government of the people, by the people and for the people. So in democracy, it is centered around the people, it is the people that determines the type and style of governance, and in that type of democracy, some security agencies have given intelligence to the President that when people gather to protest, they want to remove him from government. So why, Jeanne Johnson, help us understand, you know why that is, is it because somebody may have painted a wrong picture to the President, or that's simply the way they chose to color it, so that you know, protesting can be called. That's the interpretation, that's the intelligence that was given to the President, that's the intelligence, that's the intelligence that was given to the President because somebody be protest, and as well, that's wrong intelligence. In actual sense, the youth are protesting for better welfare, for police, you are protesting for government to address the insecurity issue in the country, you are protesting for good governance, you are even helping the government to set agenda for the government in governance, not to bring about an end to the government. Instead of government to tap into the intelligence and the resource of the youth, we set soldiers after them and is based on the intelligence that we have, because any society, any government will not tolerate mutiny, any government will not tolerate mutiny. And in case if it's interpreted as mutiny, what do you think would be the reaction of security agencies as far as I'm concerned, what are those that are advising our President they are doing a lot of the service to this station. If the focus of the agenda of the Federation is on greasing wood, and not about bringing about an instant blow, or now we can deal with Kibna Pass, or now we can deal with Bandits, or now we can deal with insurgents, then you know what type of advice are people surrounding the President given to the President. Okay, Mr. Jedeh Johnson, I want us to wrap up with this news about the economy, and still the President yesterday said that he plans to link the Lagos rail line with Nigeria Republic, and his explanation here is that this would, this is me quoting him now saying, this vital line establishes an end to end logistic supply chain in railway transport, that this would make sure that goods are transported freely from Appapaport, going all the way straight to Nigeria Republic, that this would basically help Nigeria's economy in terms of import and export. How do you see it connecting the rail lines to Nigeria Republic? Are we connecting, if you are bringing West Africa up, so if you are connecting to Nigeria Republic, why not Lagos to Ghana? Now when you have Lagos to Ghana, you go through Republic of Banner, you go through Togo, you go, then you get to Ghana, or are we connecting from Calabas to Cameroon to build a hub? If you see the justification the President provided for the Nigeria Republic rail line is so myopic, so myopic and so primordial that because there are relatives in Nigeria Republic, because there are houses and can't always Nigeria Republic, that's why we are doing the railway to those places. Why can't we do it to Republic of Banner? Why can't we do it to, why can't ecolos come together and do railway network up? We are connecting that to Nigeria Republic. It has not gotten to some states in Nigeria, we are connecting it to Nigeria Republic. I don't buy that idea, I'm not in support of that idea. I think we should integrate Nigeria first, and if you want to do railway to Nigeria Republic, what's the economic value of Nigeria Republic? Compare the economic value of Nigeria Republic with the economic value of Ghana to Nigeria. Let's look at it in terms of comparative advantage. What economic value, what goods and service are imported from Nigeria Republic? What bilateral relationship do we have in terms of trading with Nigeria Republic compared to Ghana? I think we should be thinking of doing the railway from Nigeria to Ghana, and not from Nigeria to Nigeria Republic. All right, Judy Johnson, thank you very much. We are happy to be here this morning. Thank you so much for starting our Friday for us, and we wish you a great day ahead. Thank you. All right. Always great to see Mr. Judy Johnson all fired up, ready to, you know, just analyze the papers and make sense of, you know, what the newspapers are saying. We can release strong points, you know, some of the things that he also mentioned. Yes, really, I was definitely going to ask, what would Nigeria stand to gain from a Nigeria to Nigeria Republic rail line? And he basically unbounded that to say, we have much more to gain, I beg your pardon, from other West African neighbors. And I feel that really should be our focus. What do we stand to gain? Because any nation should be able to take decisions that is in its national interest, not to say we have cousins and first cousins in Nigeria Republic. Let the Nigerian government take care of those in Niger. We'll take care of the ones here. That's what the focus should be. Besides, you know, the economic benefits, you know, with other neighboring countries, that will, you know, be a lot more beneficial to Nigeria. Shouldn't we be spending every single penny on Nigeria and, you know, build infrastructure in Nigeria than bothering about, you know, Niger Republic. So there's a lot of things that just don't, you know, make sense. Just don't add up, you know, somehow, some way. But somehow, you know, there's good to be some excuse for it, you know, that people try to force you to believe is right or is true and all of that. Well, all right. I don't know. Short break, we'll be back. What happened on this day in history? I'm going back to the year 1955. Tell you one of the worst sporting disasters ever. And I'm going to year 2010 to tell you about when South Africa made history in sports in Africa.