 Okay, so it's time for us to take a look at some headlines on some national dailies. I do not forget that on off-the-press, Mr. Zikel-Nietok will be joining us to analyze the headlines. But we'll begin this morning with the punch newspaper. And the punch leads with PDP Labor Party kicks as U.S. Secretary of State calls to Nubu. The writer there, U.S. promises continued comprehensive security, economic cooperation. Articul LP Biret Blinken say phone call demoralizing, worrisome. Confusion as LP factions clash at tribunal. Right in front there, you will see a picture of one of the functional leaders, Alaba, being protected by the police as he's been manhandled by some ad-gribbed members of the party. You find details of that on page seven of the punch newspaper. On the masthead you have, I regret back in Tambuwal to become speaker. That's Bacabiamila. Details of that you find on page eight. I don't know why I find this funny. Details of that you find on page eight. Seven banks find one billion error for forex offenses about time. Page 23 is where you have details of that. Matawale urges EFCC to presidency officials and ministers. Details of that you find on page seven of the punch newspaper. Minister carpets resident doctors as strike grounds hospitals. You find details of that on page 22. And U.S. demands justice for slain consulate officials. Details of that is on page seven of the punch newspaper. That's much I'll be taking from the punch newspaper this morning. Away from the puncture. I'm over next to the daily independent newspaper. The lead story this morning, fear of impeachment reps kick as Bacabiamila adjourns plenary indefinitely. Right. Several writers there, but then above the masthead all the stories are also making headlines this morning. The rest and doctors are still in the news. Resident doctors strike. We've started negotiations as federal government. With the right that we've not been invited to any meeting. The doctors are quoted on that. Rising debt stock. Governors worried Nigeria may go on that. That's not a good news for us. Just below this pictorial here, LP supporters mob, functional chairman, a papa in court with two writers. I like refuses to provide 70% of electoral documents. That's according to the LP presidential candidate, Peter be a papa group plotting to invalidate LP victories nationwide. The party is saying on the red strip there, Buhari condemns killing of U.S. Embassy staff mayhem in Bene and Plateau States. Other stories as stakeholders condemn aviation agencies 40% revenue contribution to federation account. Federal government takes possession of second Niger bridge May the 20th says gas supply challenge to genco's responsible for power shortages. PDP talks tough or PDP talks tough over indiscriminate suspension of members. Next five years set to be hottest period ever. That's from the United Nations and presidential election. I mean, disbelief blinking cold. Tinibu. That's article saying those are all the stories we can find on the front page of the daily independent. I'm from the daily independent. We go to the Guardian newspaper, which leads with battle in states as 18 ministers lobby to Nibbuti retain portfolio from one government to another government. Okay, you find details of that on page six of the Guardian newspaper. I take on disbelief as U.S. Secretary calls to Nibbu pledges support for incoming government. Details of that is on page three of the Guardian newspaper. Doctors tried grounds activities at National Hospital. Page three is where you find that. Telcos give banks ultimatum on USSD debt as presidency steps in. You find details of that on page 24. PPC, INEC, or be resumed hostilities at tribunal, LP leaders fight over a chairmanship tussle. You find details of that on page six of the Guardian newspaper. And that's it for the Guardian. All right, the last paper we are reviewing this morning is the nation newspaper. The main story for this morning, expect institutional reforms, the Nibbu promise Nigerians, two writers, U.S. Secretary of State calls President-elect on phone, Kiyomo chides few men, or chides of few men, actiku for criticizing Blinken's actions, are just below the must head on the red strip, U.S. Buhari, condemn killing of embassy officials and policemen above the must head. Dr. Strike is all over the papers this morning. Hospitals paralyzed in Lagos, Abuja, Calabar, others on the Yubei are shown yet to join patients for evacuation. X method is prelate bank dies at 86, Acre de Lou, Bofis, Alashadura PGP agents, right? EFCC writes outgoing governors, Matawali beam searchlight on federal government agencies, INEC will be unwilling to pay exhibit certificate fee, therapy, faction chair, a papa beating up after class with a Bure group in court. And 90% of Siemens par equipment delivered says federal government, those are all of the stories on the front page of the nation newspaper, this first day morning. And we do have Izzy Kellenyei talk, public affairs analysts joining us from Aqaibam State. Good morning, Ms. Danyatuk. Good morning, it was a pleasure to be here. All right, so before we begin to talk about all the drama playing out on the political scene, all that we saw at the tribunal yesterday and everything, I want us to talk about this headline on the punch newspaper to lead with Seven Banks Find One Billion Naira for Forex Offenses. What's your take on this one? You know, I'm not sure that people would like to hear, well, let me say the banks would like to hear my opinion. You see, there are three bodies, institutions, agencies that I'm really trying to see where to rate them as to who are the number one as being the problem of Nigeria. We talk about the politician, the politician would never do anything without the civil servants with them. Because if you know how government works, you can't raise a memo, you can't do anything. And he starts with raising the memos and then goes up the line implementation without the civil servants. You can't, the processes and the procedures put the civil servants on the driving seat. So I'm asking myself to what extent are they not complicit in the situation we find ourselves in in Nigeria? And of course, the politicians, the civil servants and the banks, in my opinion, the banks are the biggest problem that we have in Nigeria. The banks are the safe heavens, the banks are the funding institutions, the banks are every single thing you can do anything without the banks. And if the banks wanted to cooperate with EFCC, they would tell you where the illicit funds are trapped. But you see, self-preservation is the first law of nature, they say, they need these monies, they need these deals for them to survive and declare the large profits that they make. And who are the owners of the banks? Will they be able to take, are they not government people largely? Will they be able to take decisions that will be against the policies of government? So we talk in terms of forex. Now, who are those making the forex available, the central bank? Now, what's the relationship between the central bank ownership, in quotes, and the commercial banks? Are these deals and dealings lost on the central bank? Are they not aware to what extent are they complicit? It's a very, very complicated web. Because we have come into a situation where state capture is the essence of public office holders and not service to the people. Where government doesn't really believe in what the constitution says, chapter 2, section 14, subsection 2b, that states that the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government. I think right now it's been changed to become the security and the welfare of myself and my family shall be the primary purpose of my finding myself in government. And I must make means of it before I leave. So I think that that story is one that Nigerians need to wake up and decide to take their nation in their hands. But waiting for the banks, the banks are just there for their profits. And the people that should sanction the banks are largely the people that are the owners of the banks. I'll tell you a little story and very quickly on that, one of my friends got into one of the organizations and was really, really, in fact, dug deep to see where the real corruption was and raised a memo and the day that she presented the memo and she discovered that everybody was very quiet. Why? Because the 18 companies that she brought up to be the companies that are soaking the whole establishment dry were owned by the directors. And here you are bringing those companies to the directors to sanction those companies. And eventually she had to resign and go back to leave the country. What am I saying? We need to wake up and smell the coffee and discover that we are giving yam to goat to keep and ask ourselves how do we come out of this? Yeah, how do we come out of it? Can we come out of it? Do you think we can never come out of it? Has it happened so institutionalized and deep? I am an incurable optimist in this nation, Nigeria. I've given my life for the past ten years, particularly to this country because this country has been too good to me. Nigeria has given me anything I needed wanted. So for me, it's payback time. Others may not feel that way but I believe that we will come out of it in my time. Now that we're talking about the bank, telcos have given banks ultimatum on USSD debt as presidency steps in. This is also one of the headlines on the Guardian newspaper. This, this tussle has been going on between the telcos and the banks. Now the presidency has stepped in. So how do you see the dynamics now? How do you see it tilting? You see, it's a cat and mouse, a Tom and Jerry play. These guys take, they just, they just, they just take advantage of our vulnerability, our being docile, our being very gullible and I believe that the relationship between the banks and the telcos is a game of interest. Who are the owners of the telcos? Who are the owners of the banks? Who are the people in government? Who are the big, the people on top? Who are the people behind? It's just, it's just a racket, it's just a game. They all know if Central Bank wants setting things up immediately, talking about the USSDs, they know what to do. But will they do it? That's the problem. So it still comes back to the regulation between the Central Bank. How about the NCC? Now, these things are just one day on a table and taking that hard political decision to say let the things be done right. And it's going to come when we have a chief executive, it's going to be hands on. Because by telling you about the legal responsibilities, you allow personal interests, which have not been able to take care of in the first instance, to be the driving essence in our decision taking mechanism. If Mr. President had called all his eight and said look, you see the red of my eye if you do not do the things the way I want it to be done. I want this issue of corruption off. If I catch you on it, you're going to, you give them that matching order, then you can give them free hand. But you give them free hand, you don't give them matching order and they go ahead and do what they want to do and they just suck in the country dry and you don't know what is going on. And you come up and say I've done my best at all times. I just think that God will give him life for him to just exit and God will help us to have a government on the 29th of this month or whatever God feels is the best thing for us to have. You know, that's an apt description of some of what's been going on. Yeah, just before we leave the Guardian, let's take care of their main story this morning, you know, the minister's lobby. And anyway, the battle in States has 18 ministers lobby to the butto return portfolio. How does that hit you, easy kill? You know, it's one of the things that just irritates me. What do these people take me take us for? We are the country where everything is on the wrong side on the decline. Who are the administrators of this system? The ministers after the president is the ministers. These guys have performed woefully and they could as much as think of them coming back as what as reward or as punishment for Nigerians for being docile, for bringing them back. I think that the method of it should infuriate any well thinking and well meaning Nigerian. Eighteen of them, please count on your one hand. The ministers that you can say this have been the shining stars. This have been you know, the time of president Obasanjo, you could count people that you can say these are people that are patriotic. They are people that have an understanding of the essence of the office. They are like ground plates in round walls. They are nationals, biocondrial guerrillas. These are people the executions. Yeah, you could count on. You can tell me the stars in this administration. You guys are the ones in the media. Tell me maybe I don't know. Maybe I'll tell you that you come back. We're wondering just like you. We're wondering just like you because we don't see them. Alright, let's move from that to another headline on the Punch Newspaper, PDP Labour Party King as US Secretary of State calls to Nubu. Yeah, you know, that's another story that I want Nigerians to know that, you know, international diplomacy and interrelationship between countries. You need to understand how they operate. No country that gives you loan, gives you loan because they love you. None. It's either there is something they can get from you or there's business they can make with you. It's always about protecting their own personal interests. Now look at what happened to that, the British guy, the lady that was here. After the election, he said, oh, this was fantastic. This was wonderful. This was then about a month later, she said, oh, that was terrible. The question is what happened? Okay, now the Americans have just imposed visa ban on Nigerians because they believe that things were terribly done. And the next day, the Secretary of State is calling the man and they are aware of the court proceedings. They are aware that election does not end at the ballot box on election day and the results announced. It goes on to the tribunal. It does not end at the tribunal. It goes on to the appeal court. It does not end there for governorship and presidency. It ends at the supreme court. You know that the election that was held in Oshoom so many months back, it's only about within this past week that eventually the governor, Adelike could say, I'm sitting well. He could have been removed. Okay, so but I understand what you're talking about and all those things, but the fact is that Nigerians should know that Americans deal with us based on setting understandings. One of them is just, let there be stability. How can we have stability? And not necessarily justice or the rule of law. That concept of justice and the rule of law is up to us. And it's one of the reasons I am appealing to the supreme court to please, not just, no, no, not supreme court yet. The tribunal first. To please be open, be transparent, let everybody follow the processes because two things are possible. The first thing is that Tinnable is eventually declared the man to run the affairs of this country for the next four years. It's a possibility. But you see, there is, if you look at the votes, the votes tallies, just rough figures. Google had about eight million. Then between Labour Party and PDP, you know, they had about 12 million. That means the majority of Nigerians didn't vote for Tinnable. Number two, over 18 million Nigerians registered. It had about eight million which is about 10% of Nigerians endorsed him to be there. What that means, the prognosis of this is that if you have a, there is a large pool of people that are against him. But if the process is transparent, is open, and this will see how it's going, Nigerians are very believing. They are very trusting. They will say, okay, let it be, four years will not kill. But be transparent about it, be open about it. The problem will come when there is this abracadabra that comes out. There are too many people on the other side that are against the system that you need to manage this. I always talk about this emotional intelligence. The court need to show that, well, this guy might have been, but you see the process is this upon and as a result, Nigerians will understand. So for the way that article feels, I understand, but he should know better not to say he's demoralizing. He should know better to know that America will always throw the line of least resistance, and they will think in terms of stability of the region, even if it means, you know, bending the law and try to see how they can make sure it doesn't break, that they can bend it as much as possible. When the law was the court, our own institutions are transparent with the tribunal processes. Whatever results comes out, you know, let me end on this. If Jam says, I keep saying this, if Jam says, you must have six credits and English before you can get admission. If you like, get 20 credits. If you don't get English, you know, go get the admission. Okay. So I want the Supreme Court in this case to be very, very careful. Let's not begin to, you know, begin to talk so deeply about a case in court so that it doesn't become a subject. You know what I mean? But not I was still talking about the U.S. and their call to the president-elect. Let's also touch on this visa ban a little bit more. What's your take on the fact that they didn't make names or list the people that have, of course they said certain individuals. And as it's customary with them, they didn't name these certain individuals. Nidda did the U.K. when they mentioned, say, a month ago, a month to, yeah, I think a month ago that they were also looking at some people, they have about 5 to 10 persons on their watch list. Because now you're eager to see the names. Yeah, you answered the question that you asked, as is customary to them. So the mind is a little different. Mind is, you see, as long as you give these people visa ban, they don't have any problems. The thing that you will do for all of them to sit up is to tell them that their families will be removed. Their children will remove from school. They can easily just go, if ban them in America, their families are there. They just move to Dubai and have family vacation. And then the family goes back to US demand, comes back to Nigeria. They can meet in France. They can meet anywhere, do you understand me? But when you tell them that your properties will go, your families will trace them, immediate family, your wife and your children, let's start from there. They will have to leave the country. The moment you do that, so there will be sanity. Because they can't afford to remove. America is like the status symbol for the families of the rich. So their families are there. You say the man can go, no problem. They have the money. They will move the country somewhere in the coast of Spain and they are good. Everybody goes back and they come back here. All right, daily independent newspaper. Two stories that are really trending. Rebs, Kika, Bajabiamila, John's Plenary, indefinitely and LP supporters, mob fashion chairman, a papa in quotes. Let's take them side by side. I'll tell you, the first one is Bajabiamila is smart. He is deploying what I always call emotional intelligence in the sense that he wants a situation where you come and indicate publicly who you are supporting. And they know that that would be a terrible trap because why was he not deploying that all along when they are voting for bills? Let us know those who have thrown out the bills that had to do with the women and everything. No. But now, it's like he wants to an indirect form of, I'm trying to get the word if I remember, I'll bring it up. Where you put the people on the spot to show that they are against the party, okay? And to show that they don't want to do what Mr. President said they should do. Now this guy said, no, no, no, we want, if they allow the plenary to go, it's easy to impeach them and change the law and let it be open secret ballot. We are all openly balloting, but secretly doing that. So you don't know who I stood for or even voice votes, let the years and the nays and any of those things. But he wants everybody to know who you voted for and the people don't like that. As a result, to make sure that there's no room for them to get together and impeach him, he adjoins the party indefinitely. So I think as soon as he's able to get his act together, he can bring them back, or he can even bring them back at the last day when nothing can be done again. Then that of a papa, I think that the relations of that man should please, if they love him, tell him to trade cautiously. People are hurting. People are unhappy. People are really, people are developing high blood pressure. Let the process in the court just give people the means to ventilate their frustrations. For this man to go and say we draw the case from court. He has no idea there is my wife and this guy had a program on trauma healing. People are traumatized. Nigerians are traumatized, and it could get to a point of insanity where somebody out of look at what happened in the aircraft, in the aircraft, gunman like that. You don't know what's going on. So I don't know what game the man is playing. I think that that guy should trade cautiously. And this issue of the obedient family, the Peter Albee movement and all those things is something that involves the youth. And the youth right now need to be handled with some level of caution. So this guy coming out is risking his life. And I just want to call on his family to tell that guy to trade cautiously. I don't think I want, and again he's embarrassing himself. Look at what happened the other day. You go to court. Look for a way to sit down if you must sit down. No, I must sit down here. No, I am the jail. It's like, it's so childish that I really can't understand what man's game is. So they say he's paid. Even when you are paid, even you must steal. Once you drop all the oil in your body and let people know that you're stealing the meat from the pot. That guy should get good advice as to telling him what to do. Alright, let's also talk about how this is taking attention from the case in the court at the tribunal. Because right now, it appears to be a very good distraction from the case that we are looking at or should be looking at. Let me ask you, who will want to have that distraction? Is it Labour Party or the opposition that feel that Labour Party actually do have a case and they are worried that that case must not go on. And as a result, Nigerian system, rather than build your own counter-defense, you rather try to scatter the opposition. People are matching, are protesting instead of you allowing them to protest or giving them reason why that should not be you. Now saying some hoodlums there to go and infiltrate them and create a confusion so that it will seem as if those people are not coherent. I think that it's an opposition game and I think it's absolutely unnecessary. I want to call on the courts, the judges, the lawyers to just know that Nigerians are watching. Let the eyes be on the ball. This issue of distraction is cheap it's ingenious. It just doesn't show people who have depth of thought. There are better ways to get into these issues and address them. There are better things to do and gain the confidence of well meaning Nigerians are in the far majority that are wanting to distract with some of these antiques. Very, very soon this matter will be laid to rest and I want to see where Mr Papa will go next and his relevance. What's the name of it during the election? Thank you so much Mr Ezekiel Nyaituk for your time. It's always fun having you talk to us about these issues that we see on our headlines. Do have a great day and see you next Thursday. Thank you. Ezekiel Nyaituk has joined us. She's a public affairs analyst. Look at some of the headlines on the national dailies. It is entrepreneurial on the Thursday on the breakfast and we'll be back to take a look at our very first hot topic.