 Today on the breakfast, the Central Bank of Nigeria has launched a domestic card scheme called Africa will look at what this means for business transactions in Africa's biggest account. Also on the breakfast, we will talk sports on the programme this morning with a look at Super Falcon Squad for the Revolution Cup in Mexico, the FA Cup match between master and his apprentice. I'm sure you get to find out. Plus, a look at the latest from Nigeria's professional football league. And enough of the press, we bring you in-depth analysis of today's major needs paper headlines all ahead on the breakfast. Great to be back, it's a beautiful Friday morning reaching live from our studios on Victoria Island Lagos by the name is Kofi Bartels. And I am Messi Boko, it's good to have you join us this morning. Alright, Messi, why are we so cold, I don't understand. I mean it's a beautiful morning. Yes, of course it's a beautiful morning but we can't ignore the fact that you know the queues have not. I was going to ask you brother, did you see any on your way to work this morning? Of course, I mean even before six o'clock so as early as five, sometimes you begin to ask yourself does it really have to be like this? Queues quite lengthy and you know when you have all of these lengthy queues because these filling stations are on the road then they also you know take part of the road and so I mean the roads are not very broad so narrow roads and all of that. Yes indeed. Moving and navigating your way just you know driving becomes very difficult. Yes indeed, I mean it's sort of the same thing as well I mean legal state government through the minister of the commissioner for transportation had some things to say about this some time ago where they said you know petro stations in legal state can't sell or dispense fuel to the public before 9 a.m. and after 4 p.m. But I mean yeah that thing helped for some time but we're seeing that they have had to you know be a bit soft on and relax this thing on the stations. We need to buy fuel early and so on one major road which I use to get to work messy you have to battle to get through that road. You know you have about let me see about maybe six petro stations on a single road you know and then it begins to make you wonder you know yes government is trying to you know restrict the period between where people can buy fuel you know petrol on major roads but in terms of the planet in terms of the the the master plan of legal state how do you have six or eight petro stations on one road in Lagos I'm talking about Avaloa road in Iqoi you know if you come in from the third million bridge axis you see at least about two before you get to Kefi junction you cross Kefi junction you see total three you see mobile four they love them about about six if not more you know so we're going to look at a top training segment the first one but it shows that the government is complicit when it comes to you know some of these failures we're talking about is it is it collapsed buildings we've been talking about I saw I saw I mean I ran down this morning or yesterday I just got tired I you know tired of talking about fires at Palugo market messy you know you're tired again you're not tired of talking about collapsed buildings in Lagos you know we're all tired so at some point the government needs to be called out as well because they are the ones who give approval for some of these things and they also have to monitor as well but let's let's go over to Palugo market to look at what what transpired there indeed like I said it's it's another one that we have to talk about a market fire fires that are the popular Palugo market in Lagos island area of Lagos state the fire started out of one of the popular market buildings if you look at this building you would know that you know if you're familiar with the market you know this building it started at that that particular popular building on Thursday the cost of the fire could not be ascertained at the time we were putting our report together but but operatives of the Lagos emergency agency I could see also the fire service they arrived at the scene and they responded to a distress call concerning the fire incident and they go to the scene I saw the videos and pictures of the fire service trucks and in emergency workers the permanent section of the Lagos state emergency agency of the Lagos state um yes yes emergency agency La Sema La Sema he is a Dr. Olufemi Dami Lola okay Osaini Tolu um he released the report title situation report on the fire outbreak at the Broad Street uh Broad Street Lagos Island he said the agency responded to a distress calls concerning the fire incident involving some shops on the ground uh floor of a three-store building quoting that statement it says quote the cause of the fire cannot be ascertained as no casualty was involved um is what they they said all right there were two fire service trucks Lagos state fire service trucks um two LRU fire trucks and also we hear the police uh were there at the time to work together subdued inferno um it is it is silent of course this is happening three months after the last fire at the same Malungu market with several goods worth millions of Naira lost up in flames just like that so just like you have mentioned that uh you talked about whether or not we're not tired about fire incidents talking about fire incident uh in Lagos fire incident in Nigeria I mean because if we're not talking about Lagos state then we'll probably be talking about you know another state maybe Anambra, Emo somewhere fire would there will be an outbreak and uh it's really tiring to be very honest that's the word but you know you begin to ask yourself despite all of the fire incidents that we have recorded in Lagos uh in Lagos state and the markets and this is just three months when there's also fire incidents in the Balogun market very popular one of that one would think that we probably would have learned one or two stop lessons to be precise and what exactly we're doing with you know all of the mistakes so it's okay to spend fire incident over time what have we done to ensure that we don't have a repeat so it feels like let's just you know continue to be ready for you know fire incidents our governance is not just about getting elected and sitting back it's it's it's a serious business and it's an issue of governance it's a governance issue to be very precise as much as yes I would not entirely say the people do not have a role to play it's a combination of both and if you want to look at in percentage then you begin to say 70 percent governors 30 percent the people well you know governor should lead the way that's why you have government in place so it's uh it's unfortunate but it feels like this is what's going to happen every other time maybe we should just sit back relax and get ready for another fire incident for 2023 maybe the next one would happen in 20 you know in February probably will happen in March we never can tell when the next fire incident will happen but this is not the sound as the prophet of doom it's because we're not learning anything we're not doing anything after every experience what are we doing to ensure that we don't have a repeat of it and that's what people would say you know uh being proactive so how proactive are we being in the fight against fire now I also you know looking at this particular reports there were also those who were victims of this it's a good thing that no life was lost but people have lost good good properties have been lost I mean a lot of persons have lost their their properties in January at this time where you know it's difficult so how do you even explain all of this now one of the consents that you know the victim of this fire incident was talking about was that it's also difficult for people everywhere looks too choked we need to decongest so even if you call the firefighter to come let me just take a look at this building we're also here that prayers happen every Thursday what kind of prayers are we having do we sit back to educate us and look at that look at the wires I mean use your if you've never been here then you never understand I've been here you would want to pray to just get out of it you know so it's just a disaster waiting to happen that's what it is so what exactly is the essence of having a government it's not okay to contest an election and every election year just like this one where you are saying oh vote me back I'll do x yz and I'll do all of that life is becoming very difficult for people it feels like we have gone back to the stone age where we had no government and no control and so look just just take a look at this it's quite unfortunate and there's no way we're not going to have another fire incident in Balungu market until we sit back yes it was okay that you had you know responds the there was a combination of efforts from the the the last smart firefighters and what have you you know to put out the fire but how do you explain these it's it's it's it's really unfortunate and we can't continue like this my point is what can we do to stop the fire so yes there's a miniature of information in every state an orientation the firefighters do not just exist for fighting fire they also exist because they can also ensure that this fire does not happen in the first place so where is the place of education informing the people we need to know what do we do to prevent this fire and the situation already doesn't look like fire is not going to happen so if you say if it's an arson what have we done to ensure that that doesn't happen so we're in circle we'll continue to go through the cycle and we're going to have another fire incident I'm not a prophet of doom I'm not even a prophet but it's what's going to happen because if you look at the pattern and our behavior you can predict what the outcome will be and really we can't continue like this so yes this is a wake up call to the lego state government this is a wake up call to Nigeria this is a wake up call to everybody we have to you know all hands must be on deck we have to put our acts together to ensure that we can't continue to do the same thing and expect that there'll be a different result right there should there are some practices there are some things that we should do we should be hearing messages in different languages behaviors this markets and all of the prayers that you have on Thursday when you gather you also should begin to educate yourself on what to do and what not to do and looking at the structure entirely it's not even encouraging there would be you know past soldier and what have you so that that's exactly what we're dealing with and it's not pleasant but we need to move away from that we hope that we learn our lessons but before we go on I was just waiting for you to land so I could say a few things after my intro and I I think it's you know pointed out to something earlier which is the fact that on our world for instance you have this traffic situation right because you have so many petrol stations and if anything goes busts you know they will be sealed off but somebody somewhere in the government office gave approval for for this these petrol stations to be cited and that's where you know government now becomes complicit in in some of these things you know in terms of regulatory regulations the the the last time we talked about the g rando cultural center or center for your back culture and arts or history and I mentioned something about you know Lagos island the central business district of Lagos a CBT each time mercy I go to um there's a good market uh each time I go there I feel sad I feel sad because I I try to imagine what the place was like in in maybe the 80s for instance okay maybe the 70s and you realize that that is the central business look at broad street anywhere where the british colonized if you hear broad street broad street is the financial center a number of african capitals when you go there you see they have broad street broad street is supposed to be a sort of a hub you know so buildings that were used for financial services banks insurance companies government buildings have been turned into markets Lagos island has become the haven of aggro and all the corporate entities have run to victoria island where we are which is not meant to be a business district it's residential area look at the houses around you they've run to leki which is also meant to be a residential area so you have skyscrapers popping up on victoria island and and and then what we're saying is that the the government of Lagos it needs to restore Lagos island to its its lost glory that's the central business district of Lagos you know and and he talked about the place being choked you go to the balogong market today you can't even make a phone call because of the way it's choked we look at akbonbon bridge which is something we're all suffering from now because that is a bleach one the second bridge linking the mainland to the island so if you're not going to use the third balloon bridge use the akbonbon bridge today it's being renovated or repaired at the end of the day it's being repaired because of a fire incident that affected the bridge why because people are selling them may say i had opportunities before the fire i think after the fire control to go through that route and their markets people built shops under the flyover choked and stuck together you know um government needs to also consider really not just you know buying trains and all that but also building markets also building markets it's very important the final thing i want to say because it's very important is that the reason we're seeing these things continue we know it's because there there's money to be made see all the shops that you're seeing that choked huh merci you see all those all those buildings we saw they collect money from them they they make it money goes to government through you know aggro or some other kind of a tax collectors and that's what they're not doing anything now they need to invest money in building proper markets get this people out to a proper place and restore lego salad that's all i'll say on this well um so just quickly another one it's also not very uh fantastic to talk about that would be the word but uh i also find that as an irony but it's also interesting uh it's the fact that lego state police command had a rain three women for engaging in a public fight that resulted in one of them sustaining injury around the ocean the area of uh lego states okay so um apparently these ladies were they are quite young and uh probably when they were rained and caught the charge was read that the defendant on january they were found on the 22nd to be precise of january 2023 around 12 30 p.m on uh you know imam streets or shoddy in legos that's in ekeja magistrate district uh they said that they engage in a serious public fight thereby committing an offense that is contrary and punishable on the section 54 of the criminal laws of lego state of niger of 2015 and afterwards uh you know the defendant pleaded guilty the defendant pleaded not guilty that's it uh to the charge three ladies these ladies are in the uh you know let's say 24 25 and all of that so yeah let's say uh meet 20s that would be the word meet 20s they were eventually granted uh bill in the sum of 50 000 error each with two shorties uh the case was adjoined till february 2023 the thought to be precise just for mention and that's what it is so i i find it i i i find that i'm in maths i'm in maths shukura and jumeoke said to fight uh it's interesting that uh the one i didn't one of them must have been the one who was injured so they also arranged the one who was injured before court for what you know is the one who was injured should be the one who it should be is a victim right so i'll be in i'm curious to know why they i'm not a lawyer now yeah yeah but but i mean if if maybe there's a fight and someone wounds you the person who injures you you had a victim so you should be in the hospital not before you caught you know while the person the people who did the injuring should be the ones answering but if the person who was injured also injured the others then that's fine or if it was a you know because collateral damage yeah yeah because so what what what we hear um three men were engaged in like you said a public fight and one of them sustained an injury in oshodi you know osholi is where you can see a lot of these rough people i don't know if they are part of those uh but if one of them was injured why did they make her go to court now and she also been charged or accused of something but you know it is the fact that they were fighting you you didn't get the part that it's one of them was injured right so so the point is the fact that all of them were you know involved in a fight which is against the law yeah if you look at the criminal code in league this is against it but for me what's actually screaming in my ears and making me you know wonder and almost laugh at the same point is that wait wait why don't we have a lot of people in prison fighting every because do you know the fight that goes on on on the streets of league you know you remember the so you probably know i i need to cite an example for you so if you get to patronize uh public transport you see a lot for instance the kuru kui those white bosses that's what they call them kuru kui yes especially the island i mean what you have on the main land is quite different from what you have on the island so no it's not like that so these bosses are just you know they are very pathetic and what have you and you probably those are the mini mini buses the mini buses and so on the way you find out that some people you know some guys who stand on the road i'm sure these are the people you call the agmerians but what they do is is stop the stop these bosses and then they're asking for uh should i even begin to yeah you get a dramatize it for us i have seen a situation where the bus the driver of a mini bus right the the person who's on steering he packed the bus came out he got that remove his shirt so i mean i'm wondering where the Nigerian police was why because a lot of people should be if that's a crime then we haven't been acting properly yeah we also need to wonder where they were when those uh agleros at um where is that part of legacy those ones that were fighting under one bridge remember i don't remember that of course yeah it was over and the police stood by the video the picture people put on on twitter you know they stood by watching them you know they brought our cutlassies they brought out bottles to fight themselves you know brought out wooden buttons and all that to fight themselves and the police were in the picture standing by you know they should they should go after those ones first let the women you know rest a bit they should go after those ones those are the main ones those ones they stop public peace more you know than these women but um you know in some parts of the world they they use sort of like exercise some discretion in policing to say okay some of these things may not need to waste time or the resources of state you know to uh to take it to court because we'll just look at the way of settling it amicably and then we ask you guys go so i'm wondering if this fight between these three women was one that could not have been settled you know in the police station or out of court but anyway we have to move on the last one we'll touch on very quickly uh it may make you laugh but this is a true story and it's not a new story as far as you know some of the training stories we've been talking about are concerned when the national assembly or a court declares an important person a person of national importance or public interest the vip wanted and we've had the inspector of police been declared wanted before customs had been summoned by the national assembly this time the speaker of the house of representatives uh right honorable family by jabbi amila is threatened an arrest warrant against uh god in imefili and the central bank of nigeria governor and of course uh mds of of banks and that's what he's saying he's threatened to which an arrest warrant uh against the central bank governor and the md of any bank managing director that is uh who first honored the invitation of the house in respect of the deadline for the face out of the old nara notes one thousand five nine and 200 don't forget to end family or when the house of reps invited the cb and governor he was said to be abroad uh turning to his health you know and uh they sent uh one of his um eight so his deputies lady from the central bank initially the uh reps resisted it but later um they accepted and listened to her so uh but abey amila has had to issue this threat because the man has been back and he's been you know making appearances here and there uh he's been to see president buahari i think twice at asorok villa um so they're wondering why he has not come to see them uh he issued the threat at on Thursday at the plenary uh while reacting to a letter uh from imefili it's a second letter is written to them in front of the house of its inability or his inability to honor the invitation uh to appear before the ad hoc committee set up by the house to interface with the um central bank of nature over this this issue um so he's everywhere but he's saying i can't i can't i can't come see you that's uh that's what we see so on the other hand uh if you look at the excuse i mean he's giving an excuse should he be valid should he be honored what are the circumstances surrounding uh you know the fact that you can be available to answer right have we had incidences of where people have not responded i mean it's not like he totally ignored i'm not holding brief for you know godwin imefili right here but the on the other hand it's what nidia's are talking about is a threat from bajabi amila is he a police officer what exactly is the crime what is familiar what is imefili afraid of i mean because at the end of the day you and abuja you've seen the president twice you first went there with an with a delegation after that you went to see the president on your own then you you you've held meetings for instance the mpc all right you then address the press and you said there's no going back the distance from the cbn to the three arm zone is not quite far if you know abuja all right so what's the problem you know he's giving reasons he says i can't appear we know the reasons but how will he take to go to the house this is the house of representatives it's it's it's it's it's um it's like on the entire nigerian you know because the house of representatives if you look at the senate in the house uh even closest to the people no so but so i think this is this is the representatives of of the nigerian people have said come and answer some questions on behalf of nigerians so this is a very dicey issue and uh some people have started painting out a picture that you won't want to begin to classify that as conspiracy but we're really out of time and that's because we have to you know move on to the next segment which is uh off the press we call it off the press and i guess it's already on standby we need to go i'm sure we would have more time to talk about you know whether or not a mephiline do we still have time for a mephiline to answer all we know that it's on the 31st the old notes will no longer be valid right well we take a break when we return we time for us to go through our papers this morning we call it off the press gd johnson is on standby he joins us