 Welcome back. It's still the breakfast and plus TV Africa away from all of that. Now we're moving next to our next feature which is off the press and analysis of the front pages of major headlines this morning. And we have as our analysts for this morning G.D. Johnson, Senior Lecturer at Nigerian Institute of Journalism here in Lagos. He'll be joining us shortly to review all of the hot gist on topics on the day list this morning. Maureen, you have the first paper. All right. Well, I'll start with the Guardian newspaper. The Guardian newspaper leads with after eight years and 5.9 billion error on Nigeria Air. Ministers call itself 100% on failed carrier, MRO, airport concessions. You have details of that on page four pages four and five. That's their big story. Ministers call itself 100% on failed carriers, MRO, airport concessions. When you go down a bit, you have P.E.P.C., INEC, Tanubu APC kick against Attico's request for live telecast of proceedings. You have details of that on page three of the Guardian newspaper. Nigeria full of $32.5 billion oil project as NNPC eyes 1.8 million barrels per day in July. Details of that you get on the Guardian newspaper. And then failed Ijora Bridge. Residents blame shorted job lack of supervision. Details of that is on page eight of the Guardian newspaper. That's a much outtake from the Guardian. Away from the Guardian, I'll move on next to the Daily Independent News Paper with the lead story this morning. Ambaka's national chairman, no more faction in LP that's according to Aburi. Then just below the pictorial, the Nigerian Airlines to cry high interest rate insurance premium. With the writer, Airpeace expands $60 billion on aircraft maintenance in 2022. Above the mustard, all the stories making headlines this morning. FGMOS legal framework for presidential transition programs. Releases timetable for Tinibu Shatima's inauguration. Buhari confers highest national honor on Tinibu May 25. Corruption allegations like Magu Bawa must quit now. Phase probe panel CSO's tell federal government. All the stories are on the left-hand side of the Daily Independent Zampara governor on the probe for alleged 70 billionare fraud AFCC. NNPC spends 200 billionare in census preparations. Crack in G7 as Dogua, two other speakership aspirants, back a bus. Wike tackles Bayosa government over demolished property. And PEPC, that's the presidential election petition's quote, reserves ruling on Attico's request for live broadcast. AFDB, African Development Bank, approves $15 million loan for infra credit to boost capital. On the red strip below, manufacturers expended over 76.7 billionare on alternative power in the second quarter of 2022. You can find details on page 13. Those are all of the stories on the front page of the Daily Independent's newspaper. Okay, from the Daily Independent, we'll go to the Punch newspaper. And the Punch is leading with Tinibu's inauguration. Programs begin Thursday. And FG invites over 65 world leaders, the riders. Stay away from inauguration venue if you don't have business there. That's from the Secretary General of the Federation. And Buhari hands over transition documents to incoming president Thursday. NYSC at 50, Buhari grants 65 ex-coppers automatic employment scholarship. You have details of that on page 8. Two held over U.S. consulate official killing. Details of that is on page 7. Matawale diverted 70 billionare with 100 firms, EFCC alleges. Details of that is also on page 7 of the Punch newspaper. Oshun workers protest as a delegate begins payroll audits. Ha! You have details of that on the Punch newspaper. And on the masthead, above the masthead, you have federal allocation drops again as FG states share 655 billionare. Details is on page 17. Live broadcast threats to tribunal judges' lives. Tinibu's lawyer. Page 7 is where you find details of that. NNPCL begins court supply to Tangotir refinery next week. Details of that you find on page 24. That's the much to be taken from the headlines of the Punch. All right, the final paper we will review is the nature of these. The main story for this morning, FG, Niger Basin Authority partner on climate change adaptation fund environmental services are the stories of global temperatures will start to record level in five years. That's according to the WMO. Let's see if we can take one or two more so we can get back to G.D. Johnson. Nigeria loses 80 or 800,000 children yearly to malnutrition. That's according to the World Bank. 19 wrestlers arrived in Asia for 2023 African wrestling championship. Those are all of the stories on the nature news this morning. All right, so we've been joined by Mr. G.D. Johnson, senior lecturer Nigerian Institute of Journalism. He's joined us here from Lagos here. Good morning, Mr. G.D. Johnson. Good morning, everyone. Good morning, Justin. Good morning to you as well. It's a pleasure to be with you. Thank you for having me. Good to have you join us. So many interesting issues here on the headlines. But let's begin with one of the headlines on the punch newspaper. Above the masthead you have NNPCL begins crude supply to Dango Terrifying are in next week. Yes, that's good news if that is followed to the latter. That's good news. And we see the implication of that investment, one on the local economy too, on the supply chain of petroleum products across the land and bread of night. And also on the conversation on the removal of oil subsidy with respect to what romance brings in the crude. Now that we are having local production and from the capacity of what we know of the local production that we come from Dango Terrifying which will also be supplying other neighboring countries and then that will also enable us to generate foreign funding. So hopefully we see how it goes and how the implication, the overall implication, it is a work on development. So let's see probably that we also encourage other state government and other private individuals to make investment in the olaga sector because if we have the refinery, it has a ripple effect on the overall economy. Not only do we refine the products, there are also allied industries, apart from the refined product you get from crude oil, there are also allied industries that benefit from the bi-product when we talk about the petrochemical industry that benefit from it. So let's see and let's hope that indeed the refinery will start its operation and it will be a challenge for the government that has not been able to do anything personally. Our refineries will worry about what we have got. Yeah, the bi-products, there have been lots of questions about the bi-products that we should have been benefiting from all of this while, especially because we do export the crude and then questions have been, what about the bi-products? Why are we always talking about fuel and diesel alone? And then another question that is being raised about the Angotay refinery is and you have said that it will eventually be selling to neighboring countries. Does that mean that we will be able to have enough for national consumption from this refinery, either to the little that NNPC gives? The challenge is that we don't have actual figure from NNPC with respect to local consumption because of the issue of subsidy or no subsidy and the case of round-tripping or no round-tripping. But when you have a private investor investing, putting that you tend to have records, there will be some measure of accountability, for the first time we will be able to know what we consume locally and if what Angotay is pumping into the Nigerian market is factored in, we have a clear picture of whether there is shortfall or whether there is need for us to supplement what Angotay is doing. But at least we have taken a decisive step in the sense that it's not 100% of the petroleum products we've been consuming over the years that have started consuming now. At least we have a decisive percentage coming from the local market and that itself we see was a lot of foreign exchange because we see a lot of foreign exchange. We also reduce the burden which subsidy has placed on our economy and then we will be able to receive wastages in government because nobody actually knows the actual number or the actual amount of petroleum products we consume locally because when you begin to band the figures you begin to wonder do we actually consume this amount of barrels in Delhi because somehow, because government is subsidizing it there's a lot of undercorrect that goes on with this particular sector. There's no transparency in this sector. There's no doubt about that. We have super institutions, not even super institutions, institutions that are bigger than the state. One is the NNPC, which nobody knows any account of NNPC. They said they have privatized NNPC. Nobody knows. There's no measure of transparency. The second one is central bank. You saw what central bank did with the Naira and then if you look at the way we have had access to currency in the last one, two months and compared to the hardship we suffered December, January and February, we begin to wonder sometimes we're wrong because you can't even see the new currency. It's the old currency that is in circulation. So we have this amount of currency in circulation. Why we put it at central bank? The same thing applies to the oil and gas sector. We have this oil in a bundle and then you don't need the rocket science to set up a refinery. But for more than 40 years, our refineries have been moribund. They've been degraded. They've not been in operations. But we're now seeing a private investor coming in in less than 15 years and he's been able to put that into operation. So all we need to do is to hope and pray that this would be a game changer. And another thing is the fact that we may not end up buying fuel at the cost that we are being told we may end up buying it when subsidy gets removed. Since the cost of importing fuel would be out of the way. The bottom line is that there is competition. Once you bring that competition, the market forces will determine the prices you pay. But the situation whereby it's government that is importing the fuel not giving it to dealers, distributors to distributes and then we also add the land cost. We add all the manas of cost that we put in place and at the end of the day, the bonding is bearable by the refiner, by the refiner, by the refiner-consumer both. Let's hope for the best because if you grew up, if you belong to my generation, you understand that in Nigeria we have, you can decide to buy in the 70s, in the 80s, we have super, we have premium. People used to call their premium metal spirit, their super metal spirit, you know, different grades. In fact, you have the oil you used to service your car. You know you have different grades of oil, inching oil to service your car. It's the same way we have difference of grade of petroleum products in Nigeria. And you wonder how did we get here? How did we find ourselves in this situation, in these circumstances where we have one of the best crude oil in the world, which is bread crude. One of the best. All right, Gide, let's look at all the stories. We'll move on to the Daily Independence Newspaper. The LP story or Leadership Crisis is their main focus for today. It is captioned this way. I'm back as national chairman. No more faction in LP. I'm sure you have been following the development over time. How do you react with this story? Well, once a court of arduous decision take over a matter, there's an appeal. And once that appeal is on to that, it's dispensed. We go back to the status quo and say, which means that a bullet is still the chairman of, because there was another body, a federal court in Abuja. So spending a bullet, which gives a paper the right to leadership of the party, as well as acting chairman as deputy national chairman. However, it's gone on appeal. And because it's gone on appeal to appeal the judgment of the federal high court of Abuja. And they have been caught as soon in this field. So what you wait is until that particular case is still dispensed. Abruz is the chairman now by that judgment. Prior to that judgment, based on the judgment of their appeal, because of the suspension, a pappa will be the acting chairman but based on the appeal court judgment, because a breeder appeared before it. So now based on that pronouncement by the appeal court, the vacated that is the chairman, but that I'm not brought on hand to the inquiry facing labor because the matter is still in court. There's a final ruling on this final ruling. These previous functions will be laid, they will not claim to the leadership of the party based on judicial precedent. A court of higher jurisdiction, which is the appeal court as soon on the matter until the Supreme Court gives the contrary. For now, according to the determination of the case, Abuja will still be the national chairman of the labor party. And I think that beyond going to courts, I think that these previous functions can come together and harmonize their third Nigerian Labor Party is an outfit of the Nigerian Labor Congress. I think the leadership of the party, the leadership of the party, the National Committee of the Party and the leadership of Nigerian Labor Congress should come out and work out a solution out of court solution to solve this particular in the blue and the party come forward because the foundation for democracy is the party system. And nothing to propel that, then you cannot be democratic side. All right, Jide Johnson, I'm just hang on that we'll take a quick break. It's still the breakfast stand-up of the press segment. We'll be right back after this quick break here. Do join us again. Welcome back. It's still off the press and we still have Mr. Jide Johnson here with our senior lecturer and Nigerian Institute of Journalism. He's joining us from Lagos. Mr. Jide Johnson. Yes. It's a pleasure to be with you. Thank you. So let's move on now and go to the Guardian newspaper. The Guardian newspaper has an editorial but it's their major headline here. After eight years and 5.9 billion era on Nigeria air, ministers call itself 100% on failed career, MRO, airport concessions. Please talk to us about this. Is it not the minister that went to one of the Middle East countries for them to design the logo? The logo that I'll give to my students that they'll design for free or something we should have done in national competition on. And then I think they explained it close to about 65 million. How much? I can't recall. The humongous figure they used to design the logo. And then after designing the logo, the promise that the airline will start different dates are pronounced with respect to it. You spend 5.8 billion and then there's no national career and then you are giving yourself 100%. One of the most charlatan minister we have in the last eight years is the minister of aviation. In the second term of Boris administration, aviation used to be under transportation. Then he was a junior minister with Amity as the substantive minister. But when Buhari one second term was made a substantive minister and became full minister of aviation and what do we have to show for it? It's from one mistake or the other. 5.8 and you are scoring yourself 5.9. If you have explained this amount of money, if you look at the amount and I said it, I said it over time and I have it on record, it's in the public domain that by the time Buhari's administration will be true the kind of corruption we will see will be unimaginable. You look at 5.9 billion spent on Nigeria you recall 1.2 billion used to purchase 12 fire trucks for the airport and then there is a particular story in which the National Population Commission said they spent 200 billion on preparation on preparation for the population sensor. The way these people talk about how they spend money and how they give themselves code card Nigerians have even lost their sensitivity with respect to what is right what is normal and what is abnormal. They just thought that they can just use the platform of the media to just throw kind of figures to justify and validate their financial recklessness because I don't know how how these people sleep. We call it the cost of the week. The Minister of Education said that something that did not is backward in education given one excuses or the other and for the very first time we had Minister from the north and then his Minister of Education for the entire duration of Buhari's administration and there was nothing he could do about it. Well that's what they have to issue for it because the bottom line is we have not held them accountable let me tell you we have not held them accountable we have seen the situation whereby the watchdog has become the priest dog. When media organization begin to organize a ward they begin to organize a ward and reward people that they should hold accountable when the watchdog becomes the pet dog when the watchdog becomes the priest dog the laptop this is the kind of stories you begin to see in the newspaper justifying failure rewarding failure because I don't know 5.9 billion for which carrier and if that's the way it is and other private operators they will be out of business they should be out of business many carriers are started with 2-3 aircraft and for running the aircraft with a private investment mentality they have grown over the years but Nigeria national carrier we don't have and somebody will sit in one place and call himself 100% he is a minister from the state of he is a minister he is a minister from the state of the president so he is from Kasila so we can get him GD still on the Gadyan from 8 completely the Jorah Bridge Jorah Lokwa Bridge is actually making headlines the Gadyan aptly captioned this way failed Jorah Bridge residents blame sure the job lack of supervision there's also talk of vandalism and all of that I just want to get your quick response to that I was fortunate to go to that side when it was constructed I my father was an engineer from the design of the bridge I'm not an engineer but from the design of the bridge and from the materials used for that you know that eventuality is just a matter of time is just a matter of time so in the residence the residents are the greatest intelligence God gives to man his observation that's why as a kid you learn to put food in your mouth and not in your nose because you absorb people around you putting food in their mouth so the best people that can give us an eyewitness account of what happened and then you know the curious strategist in the industry is what we got the eyewitness account so they are giving us an eyewitness account of what really transpired because it goes on daily basis when that bridge was being constructed and whether it was supervised or not supervised in other climes those the engineers that were involved in the construction of that bridge and the engineers from the ministry that were meant to supervise that bridge that signed up on that project they will lose their license they will lose their license but what do we see? they will get more jobs they will not lose their job they will be promoted on the job for supervising absolute nonsense absolute now you put the life of people in danger you waste government resources and at the same time you have nothing to sue for it and then somebody will put and commission that project and then they will release that project as one of the achievements of government Mr. Ajida Johnson, you actually did not buy the narrative that it is as a result of vandalism you believe it is because it was a shoddy job not properly done you see there is not that there is any process to buy it when you do proper projects for people to own the project is important so when people own the project they won't be vandalism there is not that we have cases of vandalism concerning that however there are security agencies in that area do you have a local government chairman in that area in that local government you have a DPU for that particular area you have a DSS attached to the local government you have an DDC attached to the local government in that particular area have you heard those people accountable how do you think they are accountable how do you justify the security force how do you justify the security force for you if you can secure the life and property of the people as well as the critical infrastructure of government the thing is that why do you have patrol vehicles for security agencies why do we why do we make sure that we don't look into the vote that governors for their security vote that should put to question the security vote of the governor of Lagos state to put to question whoever the commander of that area you have military formation that has to support that particular area that is the command there is also an AIG for that area then you have police commissioner these are people that we have entrusted with responsibility to secure life and property so if these things go wrong all of them should be accountable for the idea because you know old people accountable it is very very early in human nature to want to do evil to want to destroy and circumvent the process however that is why we have law and order if there is no law there will be order the essence of law, officers is to maintain order now you have a disorder what do you go back to the law what does the law says okay the law says anyone that is caught destroying public infrastructure should go to jail then since that is the law then you begin to look at the law officers today ensure that there is compliance to that law look at the ways to look at these things alright let's move on to the next headline it's 10 days to destroying of president elect and punch headlines leading with tinubu's inauguration here programs begin thirsty edgy invites over 65 world leaders respond to this please well we want there is a particular other story that the government is looking at coming up with the legal framework it's not everything you sign law for you are against your own memory now the office of the SGF how did you do the transition in the past what do you need to do you come up with a comprehensive program and then you have you have you have a white paper on it and then you get it and then everybody knows that this is this is the program order of program for transition when we have transition well the transition will take place no doubt about that and everything should be put in place for the transition to take place because you have a president elect as declared behind me until there is a contrite decision by the by the courts it's it's still the president the president elect so government is a continuum it must it must it must continue I hope the majority of the African leaders will come no doubt about that but the foreign leaders with what happened in Anambra and the various security challenges that we have I'm not to show others from other developed countries will likely come but hopefully I think that they should come to support us just like we have a president went to the coalition of the queen and there is no doubt that it will be nice for the prime minister of Great Britain also to reciprocate that gesture and president has traveled he has traveled in the last one year more than he has ever traveled on the ice army in his in his entire administration in his tenor so I hope all of these all of these leaders will come around to support Nigeria including doing a transition to another government so it is a welcome development but on the program the office of the secretary general should with an order and then he said this and then we have a format for doing this and there seems to be impact and forth with respect to what to do what not to do. Another thing about the story is the conferment of national award and I think I just started that by conferring that on your and people raise the question why do you confer an award on somebody that has not even performed a job where they said the award is conferred on them so as the ice national award so that they can they can it will be to be to be it will support them to work on this to be a challenge to them. The other aspect which I look at it is that well you can confer that award after probably after after the court have ruled on the mat and then there is no certificate with respect to with respect to that particular election there is not every issue has been dispensed by the judiciary the winner is declared finally and then you confer that award on the actual winner of the election if is the president elected that is eventually declared as a winner then there are what stands with them and if there is a contrary that means that you have given an award to one person and they give an award to one person I don't know about in Nigeria you know we have a way of doing we have a way of doing things is very very very unique and fundamental to the perspective with which our leaders look at things. Well thank you so much Mr. Jida Janssen for your time and insight always a pleasure to have you join us to discuss the headlines on the national dailies. Thank you. Thank you very much for having me. Have a wonderful weekend. You too. I love your company. Oh thank you. Thank you. Well Mr. Jida Janssen senior lecturer at Nigerian institute joined us on the press this morning. It is the Friday flex edition of the breakfast. We'll be back to take a look at the very first hot topic and the only hot topic we'll be having today on Friday. Stay with us.