 Thanks for staying with us on the breakfast and plus TV Africa. It's now time for off the press and we've invited the publisher Seek it news. Mr. Chris. I want to do good morning. Good morning. Thanks for being me. Thanks for being here Let's begin this morning with a daily independent newspaper The headline reads Nigeria's ports poor infrastructure clearing processes hurt trade facilitation above the headline Nigeria leads Africa ranks third in global crypto trading Nigeria at war and that's according to Baja Pamela calls for more funding for armed forces Below the headline on the daily independence gone men raise another police station in Abia state keel two cops police probes five police probes fire incidents at Ainec headquarters in Enugu 2023 We should badger denies nursing presidential ambition Kaduna government says despite NLC strike. It's all right size. It's workers Lime Mohammed here saying we've uncovered 476 online sites set up to fight federal government In security PDP governors call for devolution of more powers to states Insist on restructuring equity for all sections Ask Puhari to summon meeting of Nigeria police council inflation rates fell by zero point zero five percent in april EFCC grills ex quara governor Abdul Fattah Ahmed And we see a picture here on the front page of the daily independence of a PDP Governors here at that's meeting in all your state and those are the stories On the daily independence paper and on the punch news papers this morning Ainec myths security chiefs as burnt offices rise to 21 Meeting with the security agencies holds after wednesday's parley with resident electoral commissioners Also 2023 budget may rise commission plans to replace attacked facilities El Fai alleged sabotage as nlc strike grounds kaduna also this morning urban nation southwest governors by jaby amila others meet tinuble on sunday A 31 year old mechanic faces prosecution for alleged defilement of an 11 year old girl And also inflation drops marginally experts council federal government on security still this morning Cannabis will aid our industrial drive and boost igr reps spokesman says The vice president professor emu shimbajo disowns group pushing alleged 2023 presidential agenda And also our contest or shown PDP governor to govern ship a ticket in 2022 says ogumbi Um I think uh, well jusson strike stalls may not desiani wadume orders trial PDP governors back salvin counterparts demand state police and restructuring and also acquire ex governor Ahmed Faces efcc interrogations on alleged nine billion naira scam Some foreigners don't need an iron for steam registration says the ncc Those are the big stories on the punch newspapers this morning On the nation newspaper the headline reads lawans answer restructuring outburst upsets senators angry lawmakers to challenge senate presidents and executive session holds today Above the headline on the nation newspaper efcc detains ex quara governor over nine billion naira probe 17 killed in rivers delta abia plato benio attacks Inflation down to 18.12 percent Six vehicles burnt has gone men attack enogue inek office Ohio extolls okala at 70 Governors seeking state police restructuring now 23 billy perhems men call for power devolution bill ACF endorses ban on open grazing Labor shuts down kaduna Aviation real workers join strike elrify says it's sabotage Governors cushion nlc and igp deploys a special team Also on the nation newspaper tenor extension for uivc Minister anti-government 476 online sites running Below the headline on the nation newspaper Two billion dollars needed yearly to kits and forces says defense headquarters Also on the nation newspaper robberies suspect held All right, and out to the nindian tribune PDP governors to buhari send bill to national assembly for power devolution now Back restructuring ranching to end clashes 36 governors meet tomorrow over controversial executive order 10 and others Nigeria accounts for 75 percent of crime in the Gulf of Guinness as federal government and police station set up lays an abia inek office in enogue attacked Lecky deep seaport leger secures 629 million dollars loan to fund project And also long work hours increase death risk from heart disease and strokes as the who We can also see here kaduna labor in kaduna said rather labor shuts banks schools airports train station and government offices No retreat no surrender nlc president declares Also federal government hasn't covered 476 online sites set up to fight governments as uh, lie, mohammed Inflation rates dropped to 18.12 percent in april says the nbs And uh, fenniferous lamb sending president for opposing restructuring Ahmed ex quara governor in efcc net over nine billion naira diversion And also only nine percent of armed forces budget is spent on equipment says by the breamila Lastly acf supports ban on open grazing six amendments to article three of echoa's protocol All those are the big ones that we have on the Nigerian treaty in this morning also on Lastly on the guardian newspaper still the stories have seen you know another papers pdp governors calling for state police You know ranching and restructuring the story also in kaduna nlc vows to bring the state government to its knees Also can cushions Nigeria against fighting israel Evja recovers one billion dollars links bulk of grafts cases to fictitious firms Senate panel accuses lottery fund trust of seven billion naira fund or fraud Herders kill four persons abduct one in benway dangate a bridge supply gap with 4.5 mtpa expanded capacity Mr. I want to thanks for still being here We'll take a look at the headlines and some newspapers And we see that the pdp meeting that they had in or your state yesterday is you know generating a buzz with You know the the insistence for A devolution of power restructuring in the country and the fact that it took a stand with the 17 southern governors who had met last Tuesday Of course the apc has responded to this Basically saying it was disappointed with the pdp meeting and all the insults and name calling Your thoughts in this piece well the The outcome Of the name of the pdp governors in your state Foolish the pattern the um the recession of the 17 governors of southern nigeria last week in nasa back and the results that they came out practically was intended with What the pdp girls also came out yesterday um part of those 10 Resolutions were raised by the southern governors practically all the same thing that pdp girls came up with um, so, um There's not much and nothing in what the heads And they can be better real school instead of that Yes, uh evolution of power The need for us to listen the issue of security likes so Don't forget that the thing of last week by the southern governors who are the partisans It has both the apc and the pdp governors last year out of avga in attendance and all of them Endows that mnike, so um, that's more of the The only age In what happened in is that now you also have pd governors from north So what you're having is a situation where if you put into context the outcome of them is Every almost every governments from all parts or all sessions of the country Moving together There are the pdp governors that have governors from Um from school states from vouchers states and so on that states in the in the north in attendance and then that so uh make our lips i'll tell you that um What it seems to be on the same plate on the same page on this on the way forward and um Better talking about the reaction. I don't want to go into that. Um, because You expect people Political parties will always make statements even if it doesn't make sense. I just want to talk And um, that's just for me We are staying and um, the some of us that are very very germane Taking into consideration maybe get us out of the current situation and ourselves All right, um, let's uh, we'll probably come back to this it appears in all the papers this morning But let's go to kaduna now and uh, you know share your thoughts on the nlc Five-day warning strike and of course the events from yesterday Yes, um, the one strike, um By nlc kaduna Especially When they still got This is about 4 000 to 5 000 works. I've always seen um, every five is a very very intelligence and Very coherent and governor In some of the things he does or says, um He he knows is your and the in where the shoot pitches and um, we cannot force Workers on On an employer That the problem I have with him is that lack of empathy that is What is lacking? I say that A certain position that you take and you take certain things into consideration Not because it is Is it jc correct or that in the essence of it is right? But at times it takes certain things to consideration and that is part of what he is doing with the Insecurity Yeah, I say oh, I'm not going to talk to bandit. Oh, but if I have opportunity I'm going to leave plays and key depends on rest of them That's not the mark of Yes, he said that probably 80 percent of the Of revenue Is being used in salaries and the monument of interest of them Need to or not to Talk about issues. I agree with you. I think that's too much. I wish to hand the situation rather than be What's about it? They did discuss with LC TUC and other laborizations. They arrived at the reasonable Um Stand on issues like this. Well, he called the above but they're also showing him that yes You may be the government also We are the speakers and the representative of the workers and yesterday Cardenas they practically paralyzed the airport the train station don't forget um Most of the movement from abuja to cardona in a train because of a lot of insecurity between Cardona and abuja expressway So if that a train station is People are supposed to look in security on that. So apart from what I think that a good sense reveals Yes, then let's also understand that we're having a training economy that most of this has rather struggling to survive But that does not take away the need for the state government also shows a lot of empathy By the time you have about five thousand people into the labor matters like that For every fork. Are you dismissed? I care that I have about 14 dance on them Surviving to go those things to see the size and level of empathy on the part of the governor Other just he just to weigh the baby with that water So very high between now and in a few days what you cannot miss I wonder I don't know who will shift grounds here Because nlc has insisted that it will carry on with their strike One in strike for the next five days and then escalate this if the government does nothing But yesterday L5 tweeted that this was a sponsored campaign to sabotage his government and that he would not shift grounds You know saying that he's not going to Be altered the right sizing of the state civil service will not be altered by the nlc's campaign of economic and social sabotage And you know, like I already said trains power You know everything granted to the whole trinidad and caduna state So we'll just wait and see how it turns out in caduna state And moving on now, you know, I need to ask how safe it is, you know to You know Prepare for the elections that we're expecting in 2023 And that's because we continue to see iNEC offices being burnt in the country and police officers at police stations as well The dating dependent says gone men raise another police station in abbey accused to call Also another iNEC office in enogu state six vehicles also burnt as gone men attack enogu office in Enogu iNEC office What do you think about these This you know spate of arson in the country? Yeah, from what we're learning that counts 21 iNEC offices have been burnt or destroyed especially within the south south east area and The rate as a couple without of the police the rate as you are going In my head out that in 2023 We may find our self-industrial that the worst it is and we had in 2018. Don't forget that in 2015 general election uh Was pwned at the point because of insecurity We had former president to add that he'd be given some few weeks to be able to sort out the use in the north east And then the election was spawned for Somewhere for years away and um before you could be able to get iNEC to conduct a lesson in some parts of Not those that were the documents were recovered in enogu state But at the rate which we are going now the level of austerity is on the on the high It's top most and that to me is going to be a serious and then iNEC to We can see um It already We are trying to see iNEC is doing seems to do to good to Come to vote We might have issues on the south side in the east, in the west, in the north, and every other part of the country, not to me, is a very big problem. Why we need to do this in the back? The problem is because the police are not able to do that, and not to me is a big challenge. The police are not able to protect the police station, and they are the ones that are able to protect the police, the relation, the job of the army, or the navy, or the job of the police. We're having a bit of a challenge here, clearly, if you could please hold on for a minute. We're having a bit of a challenge here, but quickly before we wrap up, we know a story that the federal government has uncovered 476 online publications that are turning out to fake news to fight the government ahead of the election. We know the Minister of Information and Culture said this in a boujah yesterday, saying that they're tracing this basically, saying that the President, President Muhammad Buhari's mental status is unbalanced, basically. What do you think about it? We know that when it's close to the election period, we're going to see things like this fake news coming up here and there, but 476 have been discovered at this time, Mr. Andu. Sorry, I didn't hear you well. The back from your hands were very bad. Okay, can you hear me now? I don't know where it's from. So the feedback is very bad. I don't know what happened. Can you hear me now, Mr. Andu? So we need to check the network within your hands. I didn't hear you very well. So we need to... We're also struggling with getting to hear you also this morning. Can you hear anything that we're saying clearly? All right, I think we may have lost him. That's poor network this morning because of the weather. I'm not sure. Or there's elements trying to sabotage our program. And talking about the story, I really want to know where the source is because the story here, you know, this is like Mohammed speaking, that the 476 fake sites that are turning in false information about the president saying President Buhari is mentally unstable and that he can't... Mentally unstable, but... What did you just say? The president is not mentally stable. Is that what is used there? Mentally unstable. Mentally unstable. That's the word that like Mohammed said. Mentally unstable. You're talking about his mental status and that the president can barely recognize his own family members, you know. So they're basically saying they want to help. Yes, go online. That's the story. Oh, okay. Okay. Sorry. Like Mohammed is saying those are some of the stories. No, those are not my words. No, no. I'm saying, okay, those are the type. Okay. I'm sorry. I thought you meant like Mohammed said... Yes. That the president is... No, like Mohammed said these are the stories they're saying online. You understand? Like Mohammed... See, this is a quote by like Mohammed. He said, the latest which I found ridiculous is one which said days ago that he had mentioned that when President Mohammed Buhari was in the UK last time, he was advised to step down because he could not even recognize members of his own family. And that I wonder why people will go so far, you know, and, you know, to make the fake news go viral. So this is the first time I am seeing or encountering news like this. As I'm saying, I wonder what their sources are because I haven't seen any of this fake news online. And I'm online. I haven't seen talking about his mental status and... I've come across stuff like that. Mostly on Twitter, there's people who have said, you know, that the president is, you know, health-wise, even obviously at some point, you know, had said that the president needs to go for a check or should do a... I remember she said that. But there's also people who once in a while will tweet stuff like that, you know, but it's not stuff that shouldn't be, you know, that we must take seriously or, you know, we should stop the country from moving forward. There's always going to be some of all these, you know, things on the side. There's always going to be people who create the error. Obviously, if it's fake news, we know how that affects the state and country. Yeah, but I think we also should... That's why, you know, it's not left for us to be able to discern the source of our information. Exactly what I said. Yes. So if you see a repeatable, or supposedly a repeatable media organization putting out stories like that, you know, and maybe you should, but if it's just some random name from some part of the country, some random person that nobody knows who the person is, then those type of things, we should be smart enough to say, oh, please. Yes. Yes, guys. Ladies and gentlemen, if you see any information online, you need to actually ask yourself, what's the source of this information? Is this a repeatable media name, a media brand? If it's not, even sometimes when there's a repeatable media brand, you still have to ask yourself questions as to the authenticity of the information you read online, especially on platforms like Twitter, Facebook, those platforms really are, you know, breeding grounds, so to speak. And when they are proven to be false, you know, a lot of times those media outfits, you know, would retract and apologize and stuff like that, but it's not every random tweet, you know, that like Mohammed should be taken seriously. Anybody can tweet anything whatsoever, as long as, you know, it is not, you know, threatening. The fact they're saying they are online sites here. 476 is even poor, you know. There should be more if we have been serious. It's a 200 million population. There should be more people who are, you know, social media active, and so you should expect in 200 million people that there should be, you know, more than 400, you know, people who go to it in fake stories. There's so much of it, you know, in the country these days. And once again, all the things shouldn't be, shouldn't distract the government from moving forward. Those, you know, I've just seen all those things as, you know, excuses, you know, every now and then that people use for anyway. In addition to all the challenges that we inherited from the... We'll go on a short break when we come back. We'll let you know what happened today in history. It's the 18th of May, and I'm going back to the year 2012. We'll be right back.