 If state governors thought they were going to spend the palliative funds without giving a count, well they better think again because with all the gory stories and images emanating from different parts of the country on the palliative distribution, Serap has done exactly what most Nigerians would want done and that is a detailed account of spending of the funds. That's our first hot topic on the breakfast this morning as Serap joins us later on in the show. As the G20 summit ends in India, India's roadmap to economic growth and lessons for Nigeria is what we'll be looking at on the show this morning. We'll also be taking a look at the press where we take a look at some of the headlines that are made to the front pages of some national dailies. Our analysts will be joining us at that time on the show to dissect them one after the other. Good morning and welcome to the breakfast on PLOS TV Africa. I am Maureen Menon-Wazigwe. And I am Yamgul Aghaji, very good morning to you. It's a Monday morning and we're hoping that your mindset this morning is going to be a very positive one. That's what we do every Monday, it's mindset Monday. So what is your mindset right now? Are you thinking you're a failure? Are you thinking you're suffering more than everybody in the world? Are you thinking that everything is not working for you? So guess what scripture says, everything works together for good, for those who love God. So the first question you ask yourself is do you trust in a higher being than just you? And then do you put in as much effort as you need to put in to make things work for better for you? Indeed. You know yesterday was World Suicide Awareness Day and it all starts with the mind, isn't it? Someone who decides or thinks or believes that it's all over, ends it. But you see, no matter how bad it is, you are not facing the worst situation, all right? There's this story that we're telling us when we're growing up of someone who wanted to commit suicide. He had one banana left, so he took it up the tree with the rope and then he said, okay, let me just eat this banana and then end it all because I'm suffering too much. He went off the tree and then peeled the banana, threw the peel down, ate the banana and when he looked down, there was someone who was picking the peel and eating and just laughing and just saying, thank God that I have a banana peel that is not banana. And he was like, okay, I had a banana and I was thinking it was the worst. Someone is eating the peel and is feeling happy. So whatever situation you find yourself, there are people who are praying to get to that situation where you are and but you are there already and you're thinking all is over, but it's the mindset, tell yourself that everything will be all right. Last, last, everything will be all right, like we said. All right, it's time for us to give you the top trend in this morning and we'll begin with the story about, all right, they're scrolling it up for me and the Israeli intercepts, 399 pieces of improvised explosive devices was recovered by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. From one Asana Leke, 39-year-old, along the Mokwa Jeba Road on Thursday, September 7th, the suspect who said the explosives were handed to him at a park in Ibadon, your state is to be delivered to someone in Cardinal State has since alongside the exhibits being transferred to the military authorities in Niger State. NDLEA spokesperson Fermi Baba Fermi made the development known on Sunday and revealed that NDLEA operatives also intercepted consignments of Skank concealed in tomato paste and Metcalfemen hidden in used clothes meant for export to Dubai, the United States, the United Arab Emirates. A consignment of 556 grams of Canadian loud from Canada meant for one Tingji Adebayo in Ikerudu Lagos was also intercepted by the NDLEA officers of the directorate of operations and general investigation attached to courier firms. The Adebayo was not home when operatives visited his house at number 52 Aino Otoloyo Street, Ikerudu. He however directed his young brother to sign for the package on his behalf. All right so NDLEA working it's almost on a weekly basis you get a year of drugs yeah drugs and it's it's it's funny I don't not funny right it's uh it's scary the the amount of drugs that are in circulation drugs that should not be in circulation that I am circulation and I wonder how these drugs get into the country because most of them are not produced in the country I understand that there are some crude ones you know that people smoke smoke and get as high as anything you can think about but the ones that are being imported into the country how do they get through our borders how do they how do they cross into the country and abuse the way they are abused and I keep asking myself what is the reason for the abuse of drugs is it because will you will we also blame it on the fact that people have no jobs if you have no job how do you buy the drugs so if you have something and why is consuming of hard drugs the way to go yes you do not how is that a solution let's find the problem why people really take these drugs the way they do and if there's a solution in that regard we we try to to provide a solution because clamping down is good but if it is something that we can correct without even necessarily having to clamp down on because if you if I drink beer for instance because of a particular x y z reason then you remove the x y z reason I wouldn't need to buy the beer anymore so instead of destroying the cartons of you know I just thought yeah it's my it's about mindset I mean so many people have different reasons why they need to feel good at different point in time and because most times you find that the reason why they take this thing is because they want to feel high high from what and high for what yeah so it's a mindset thing why is hard drugs the only reason or the only means of feeling high for you when others could look for other ways of feeling good so it's it's and then the peddlers themselves have become quite creative I mean in toothpaste I mean a tomato paste tomato paste everything you're putting in cream people apply on the noodles package of noodles baby dolls and different things and when you hear some of the ingenious means through which the peddlers drugs you'd say these people are so I mean they had channeled such thoughts such imagination such urnages into creating more positive things they probably would be better off yeah like I wonder how someone will spend all night doing yahoo when that same all night could be used to mine bitcoin which is legal so why are you spending it on the negative bitcoin well bitcoin cryptocurrency a lot of them trade in the night because the countries that really do the business the time difference is you know it falls in the night for us here so a lot of people who do that are night crawlers yes I just reminded me of the three boys three brothers that were sentenced in turkey to eleven thousand something something years H over they're into cryptocurrency 11,000 something something years I don't know how I don't know how they do their own cryptocurrency but as far as I know even though it's not the mainstream thing it is still legal it may not be acceptable by some government like Nigeria was trying to guard against it because they said monitoring and supervision and all that is needed and they have not had those kind of things that will make them monitor the people well but it doesn't make it illegal like the yahoo that we know because there are countries that you can still use cryptocurrency to pay for some services yeah so if that is that can be done why are you using your night hours eight hours ten hours in the night just to do crime the same hours that you can use to do something legal and there are some other things that you can do apart from cryptocurrency on the internet and you're using it for the wrong reasons and for those who are needing or who feel they need to take hard drugs to feel high please think of other means of getting high just be happy just be happy yes I mean if they think getting high is a thing obviously is a thing for it to be so lucrative that means so many people believe they need to get high so but if you're one of those who feel you need to get high look for more healthy ways healthier ways of getting high I mean you know a bottle of palm wine but you know it's it's also uh even though we're saying this but it's also wrong to think that if you get drunk because that's not what she's saying if you get drunk your sorrows will go away they will be waiting for you at the end of being sober so any moment of sobriety that you have you go back from wine red wine white wine so think of ways yeah they get you to you know just for relaxation you know social drinkers there are social drinkers who drink to just relax and just to friends and just relax after I had this job not to get drunk you don't have to get drunk to be happy you don't have to get high to be happy you don't need to forget reality to be happy because guess what when that high fades off reality is waiting for you so there's no escape from reality so why delude yourself with hard drugs it's just it doesn't make sense it's really delusion yeah one of the greatest things is that happiness is a choice so if you chose to be happy you wouldn't need all these things that you think will make you uh high why would you even be high to impress somebody to do one of the two things and the funny thing is uh one of the reasons I don't drink alcohol is the fact that I knew from from childhood or at least I felt from childhood that I might be someone in the the public eye maybe a musician maybe a footballer just things that I was doing and all that and I said if I have to do any of these things I have to be with my clay eyes let me own whatever I do let me be responsible for any action I take on stage or anywhere for unfortunately these are some of the things that make people drink you don't want to be with your clay eyes you just want to do things and get the results no matter how you got there you are on tv I'm doing it with clay eyes yes I'm doing it although I also I drink alcohol I don't drink alcohol but I drink alcohol I love that wine yeah I like pomewine I'm saying it live on national television I like pomewine yeah and so you know so please avoid I avoid hydrox I hope you won't bury yourself inside me but another story is also that uh the deputy um cbn governor Aisha Ahmed has been arrested by the dss you remember that uh the central bank governor has been arrested or had been arrested uh before now she is the deputy is arrested over a late fraudulent acquisition of shares in Polaris bank and Titan bank or it used to be Union bank dss spokesman Peter Afunaya told channel television on Sunday that he could not confirm or deny that Ahmed is in their custody or has been invited for questioning and I wonder how that is that you the spokesman cannot say that meanwhile according to reports making the rounds Aisha is also being interrogated on how 300 million dollars was raised by Titan bank to complete the acquisition of Union bank in 2022 now speaking on the development Afunaya stated that in the cause of any investigation people can be invited for questioning and those invitations are carried out within the ambit of the law and this comes roughly two months after the secret service arrested Ahmed's former boss the suspended governor of the central bank of Nigeria Gavin MFLA and initially charged him with possession of firearms before later being charged with a 6.9 billion Naira fraud now these things are happening and we do not even know what it is because they are the CBN former boss is still in custody can I just pause to that is the face of money look at that is the face of money she's looking good they're swimming money I mean yeah but she's been swimming in money you don't have to be fraudulent to to look money as it is but this is not saying that we are very sure that the accusations are correct but this is the news it's making the rounds that she's been arrested even though DSS is saying they do not know whether she's in custody or not I wonder how someone will brazenly say that a spokesperson of an organization doesn't know if someone has been invited or is in their custody what are they waiting for before they give us this information if you just say she's not there she's not there if you say she's there she's there why are you keeping it from us but you know first of all the government in MFLA was arrested detained because of possession of firearms and suddenly they they didn't find any need to use that as a case against him and now we're talking about fraud of so many millions yeah it became you know that in MFLA situation is one that was really really in my opinion badly handled because it became so clear that this is which haunt because of you know the narrow redesign that affected certain people during the elections and all of that because MFLA really did have cases to answer to Nigerians he had answers questions to give to us answers to give to us because we had lots of questions to ask him about some of the policies that were taken under him during his tenure and especially with regards to the narrow redesign which made Nigerians suffer many lost their lives as a result of the the way it was implemented and so to not charge him with possession illegal possession of firearms a man of his caliber you know was as far as some of us were concerned it bungled the chance to get this man to actually answer questions tough questions about his tenure in office and so I guess I wasn't the only one I'm sure and the outcry against such mishandling of such a high-profile case must have been the reason why they came up with the latest charge against him which is fraud so at the time that they held him for a charge that was not supposed to be was that even right was that even legal because this thing it's he was let's say innocent of of the charges that were leveled against him at the first instance and now you're just saying okay we found another one so just stay in detention and in the in the first place if someone is in office and is is making policies best you can do is remove him it's not a crime to bring a policy no matter how bad that policy might be just remove him if you know longer comfortable and bring better policies from someone else or bring someone else who will bring better policies and all that so he redesigned the Naira it was his right to do so but Nigerians suffered yes but you can't jail him for that kind of a thing at least in interaction with with some lawyers who got to know that you can't jail him for those kind of policies except something that he really committed if this fraudulent case is really proven then it was bad you can you can you can you can put him in jail because of that you can prosecute him because of that but not for the policies that he made that maybe some people didn't find comfortable yeah it wasn't handled smoothly which was right so initially that it was beginning to look like a yes because of the illegal ways in which the process took place and this DSS sorry to say but DSS lately has been has been very unprofessional if you ask me yeah okay every after before every landmark happening in Nigeria you'll find them we have information that some people want to do this want to do that I mean if you have if you have evidences just go ahead and get those people who are trying to foment trouble prosecute them and do what you need to do but here like Browner boy will say you go explain tyre yeah such announcements or pronouncements from them oftentimes appear to be with the motive of creating some sort of tension yeah because the propaganda exactly if you had such an information about something that serious people would expect that they should go ahead and apprehend those who are posing such threats to the public instead of throwing it out there and making people panic and wonder where is this going to happen where's it's going to come from and so going forward we hope that they will do something about the way they operate security security is one very turning issue that a lot of the information that security people know they don't give it to the public because it will cost like you said panic and panic in a polity panic in a community is not good there are some things that you try to avoid and too much information given to the people it's not very it's not being security conscious and being professional about it if you ask me so yes just do the needful if you if you have to apprehend somebody hold him in custody or do one or two things or warn him personally that we know that you're going to do this stop giving us the information that will make us fear rather than just survive and do our thing the way we need to do it all right so you're still watching the breakfast on plus TV Africa remember that we're taking a look at syrup syrup has given the state governor's ultimatum to give details of the spending of the palliative money they've gotten we'll also be taking a look at the g20 that just ended you know on the 10th of this month want to find out how it's impacting or can impact Nigeria Africa and of course India's global relations how has it impacted it so you want to stay and see the total package they'll have for you today right now we'll take a short break and come back without the press what are those stories that made it to the front pages of some national dailies you're about to find out in a moment say with us