 Welcome to the breakfast in Plasti via Africa. It's time for off the press G.D. Johnson drawings a conversation It's good to have you join us G.D. Johnson. It's just beautiful Friday morning We take a look at the world An happy new month. Oh, yes, that's true first of April. I could have not put an April full stop for you So we didn't pull we didn't pull on the April full stop. It's fine We take a look at the leadership newspaper this morning and looking at the banner caption. It talks about 2023 Presidency Not in PDP aspirin Intentify plan to produce next president And that's what you find there boldly written Tambour Balas Sarah key Dane take consensus campaign to IBB in Mina Niger's unity and progress more important six says as military president That's the Ibrahim Babangida away from the banner caption allege 9.8 million dollars fraud caught freezes ex-nmpc GMD Yakuza count and you also find reps adjourn plenary over incessant killings It's also not a writer you find this morning and president Muhammad of Buhari backs Africa road builders award for infrastructure Interesting just as you have a lot of people complaining about a lot of trunk a roads across the country And even you know, Nigeria really not necessarily having a very smooth Road network troops killed 34 terrorists 45 orders die in Boko Haram e-swap clash This is what also you find there. We cannot complete a Jakuta plans before leaving in 2023 federal government is quoted to say we cannot complete the a Jakuta plant before leaving in 2023 The federal government is saying and blames failure on Russia Ukraine crisis That's something very interesting. Well, this is this are some of the headlines this morning on the leadership news people All right away from the leadership will move on next to the Nigerian Tribune The lead story is just a the putum Katlan sure integrity reps talk Tough, that's the lead story on the Nigerian Tribune. There are the stories that let's just see who can take some of them Just by the left column there and Ogun called killings now Buhari direct security agencies Then consensus arrangements are a key tambourine Bala meet with IBB patronage drops on Lagos Ibadon train route court freeze ex-NNPC GMD Andrea Kubu of 9.8 million dollars fraud charge Other stories like he told Plaza Lagos government LCC engaged stakeholders seek Understand then above the must-have on the Nigerian Tribune EFCC arrests 80 suspected internet fraud stars in Ibadon 40 in Enugu Bandits invade housing estate in Kaduna kidnapped customs officer son for all this There's a rider there. Let me see if I can take that traditional ruler three others kidnapped in Abuja Pastor son five others abducted In Kogi states into charity everywhere then just before we leave at the Nigerian Tribune just at the bottom right side of them the The front page Ramadan search for moon today. So turn tells Muslims those are the stories you can find on the front page of the Nigerian Tribune this Friday morning Well, we take a look at the punch newspaper a Looking at the front page of the punch you have a Kaduna rain of terror Terrorists kill seven soldiers and they have rains bombs on forest as boldly written and military gets approval to deploy super to Kano DSS, please comb forest National assembly threatened short down a PC lawmakers demand not sucking leaked memos reveal why feck rejected a mage's 3.7 billion our security Proposal of course following the request that we need to have CCTVs and security gadgets and equipment along but a lot of people had queried why we didn't have that at the Corruption level. Yes, why didn't we factor that into the plan and some people say don't forget that, you know, the the railway You know project has been completed by this government. It was something that was started But it's there no room to you know adjust and amend the entire process It just you know constantly push us to look at a second a certain narrative And then we don't want to be responsible for all that's going on But we move away from that's now another says or your gets the NAF base Macking they boost construction with 500 million our Ramadan look out for New Moon Friday the NS CIA tells Muslims And you also find mean sim linkage federal government threatens enforcement as deadline expires Now just before we move away from the punch newspaper cash-trap states grown Widen tax net and begins aggressive revenue generation and usually a country that is not very very You know viable with those a government is not very viable with revenue generation tax would always be it So when you begin to go down, I mean, it's just normal simple economics that the other way out of the window Or the struggle would be that you know The people would be heavily taxed and that tax and that's what's going on federal government to spend 2.3 trillion Presidential fund on Ligas about an expressway and three orders These are the headlines on the punch newspaper this morning the last paper We are reviewing this morning is the nation this paper the main story fears mount over 136 people on a tax Abuja Kaduna train What some writers there they can be Contacted says NRC Terrorists phone five hostages families Angry reps pass vote of no confidence and security chips police diffuse IED at train station Panic in FCT a Pooja Kaduna a Pooja Road Most stories on the nation newspaper just below the must-have there how 223 billion Naira US consulate in Lagos will lift Nigerians Okay, they data call rates to go up I think that's the fallout of the out and meeting as there's association of licensed telecom operators in Nigeria they had a brief and yesterday and we were told about them the shutdown of the Some of the stations in cogeast it and how it would affect some Neighboring state about nine of them also they talked about them how the price of a diesel You know has gone up to about over 700 and it is actually affecting Operations so all of that you can find on the nation newspaper. Oh, you taller upgrades college of education Elisha to university X NNPC GMD Yacobo clad of London nine point eight million dollars Wow 300 days rainfall to pound Legos This year messy Lagosian brace up gunman abduct customs official nine others in Kaduna state. These are the stories that let's just leave It had that so we can bring in them Jada Johnson to analyze some of the issues on the front pages Jada Johnson is good to have you join us once again this beautiful Friday morning It's a very first day in the month of April and we say happy new month to you And do very much and then It's a pleasure to be with you So there we go Let's take a look at the punch newspaper this morning. We start with the punch. She talks about terror terrorists killed seven soldiers and the NAF rains bombs on the forest so there's been this attack Shortly after this incident you also have saying that the military has finally got an approval to deploy the super Tucano, that's the jet and the DSS and please so it feels like this There's some sort of efforts and we're hoping to see that maybe, you know, this killings and attacks would actually reduce We are shot on memory night We are shot on memory night Yeah, you recall when there was this attack last year and then there was guns tending and that them some super cop and super Even like I recall that the inspector general police and some top military brass. This is a that acts when there was This terrorist attack along cardinal. It was on the road. Then it was vehicles that were that It disrupted regular movement We know this actually we have said it over time if anything she will affect cardinal and could affect taboo judge the whole of Nigeria is not safe And that's the reality and we've been paying the service to it particularly from government living in safe denier from governments and all the critical infrastructure of our security are based in cardinal And abuja is our capital where you have your political architecture your the the centerpiece of of your of your public administration yet those two could That those corridors are not safe and you're not seeing president direct I'm sure if you do a content analysis of our programs in the last in the last only year And if you do a content analysis of this report and I can't recall the number of directives the president has given With respect to security agencies doing their job. Once you have appointed Once you have appointed head of security agencies They are required to do their job. They don't need for that directly from the president to do their job It's like your producer giving a directive or your md giving a directive to come to studio today to To present these programs or for the producers to work on this program So it's the elation of duty in in civilized crime. What has happened? We'll have even made the president to resign or we'll have even made some people to willingly resign from the office Because they are filled to do what they are elected to do and they are filled to do what they have been appointed to do So deployment do we need to tell the air force to to comb or the dss to comb that corridor I just can't understand. I just can't understand Well, you have a systemic failure and people live with it And then some will come and give us film see excuses ridiculous excuses now sitting and insulting as About though we have asked this to do this to do that to do that. It's unfortunate It's unfortunate that you have a situation where about More than 300 Nigerians could not be accounted for Even the Nigerian recuperation in this age and time does not have the manifest of the people that enter The the real system despite the investment the huge investment that was made into this and despite this president administration Using this real system as one of the cardinal achievements They have done when you talk about the achievement Oh, they have not done. You said to go and look at the infrastructure. We have it look at the real Look at this. Look at that. It's unfortunate. It's rather unfortunate It's unfortunate that we lose seven soldiers And then we lose many Nigerians before the air force will think of what to do and the dss will think of what Well, but we we found out that they are already in the forest and they are comb You know combing the forest and uh, they have actually made Messi you remember somebody some people comb the forest before That same forest just combed before Why they combing it again? This year dressed it and no use come All right, uh, gd johnson. Let's move on although almost all the papers are carried in security as a Dermain You know just like just in just like the graph that is a gas of rep. I recall a program We are and we are talking about insecurity here on friday morning when I said that I challenge the senate president That is from yobi state to travel from abuja to yobi state Without if I'm telling you about this what I could it could travel And we are challenging speaker. I said the speaker is from my state That I require the speaker of as of rep To travel from abuja down to lake us and I asked when was the last time they travel by road from any member of the as of rep from Abuja to their various Federal constituency how many so all these ones they are being just grand standing Grand standing for the moment Playing to the gallery playing the off street for the moment and once another story comes up and this issue is gone They continue with business as as as is your the consul plenary because of what happened Justine all right You you you you you really seem very unpleased this morning with you know some of the stories on the head This is because the because the life of a nigerian Is what the life of every nigerian and it seems as if The people we have elected And the people they have appointed don't care much about us That's the reality Now you see you see the way we deploy now the security that should be meant for every nigerian You deploy it for few nigerians that are elected that are meant to now the president is coming Look at the security apart Architecture around the president look at the one around the as of rep look at the one around the governors Look at the ones around well-meaning nigerians Now you deploy security You see the way state resources are being used to protect the few that are elected by the majority Why the majority is left at the mercy of the few That are fit from the state and then what is upon the star grand standing? Is it it's annoying All right, jr. Johnson. Let's also look at the leadership newspaper My question is what do you make of the excuse that the federal government is giving because it's more of More of an excuse here saying we cannot complete the jakuta planned before leaving in 2023 and that's because of The russian ukraine crisis No, it's that the russian ukraine started started in 2015 when they came to power or started in 2019 when they had their second term Russian ukraine crisis not alone up to four months Yet they are using that as an excuse It's unfortunate that um, we are found out seven the situation Um, which you have I don't know the cause for this. I knew about a jacuta jacuta So I was a young boy So I was a kid not even a young boy So I was the kid that we keep talking about a jacuta three complex that if we complete this you bring about a turnaround in the Nigerian industrial sector It will bring about a turnaround in our economy. We don't have to depend on Important steel and other things that will require to To turn around our economy to change our over dependence on oil and diversify the economy to other critical areas so any serious government Over the years and it has been a failure of government and I think you have been in the midst of the conspiracy between the west And the and the east that's between Russia then USSR And the western world you recall that when the first attempt was made Nigeria was Working with Russia in that case as we employ russians to come and view that infrastructure for us then and then All right, I was him to be having some audio each there with um gd johnson Or try and reconnect him in just a bit But when we get him I would want him to talk about other issues That are trending or making headlines on this morning today is april the first popularly tagged April 4 some people are asking who exactly is fooling who or the lucky toe Plus are we opening today? Welcome back gd johnson. I was just saying about Today's april fools they are All right, fine So I want you to talk about them the lucky toe plazary opening as legos government lcc engage Stakeholders seek understanding. It's on the tribune newspaper. So just react to that. It is april the first justin Justin you have gone through that tool. What's the essence of that tool? I'm asking what's the essence of that tool? What's the essence that's the question we need to ask Does this have economic sense does this have Infrastructure as a why do you put all on those two now? I'm a taxpayer. I pay taxes to government Government is meant to provide me with critical infrastructure For that will help me to make more money so as I can pay more taxes now having paid taxes now Government has used the taxes they collected for me to construct road and government is pulling me on the road I've said this over time over and over and over again What's the essence of those two the koi tool and the leki tool was the essence of it Now if you if you are used to that axis you discover that the removal of collection of Tool on that as people free that environment with the traffic we used to experience the traffic As reduced considerably and then you ask yourself. What is the logic behind that tool once you are approaching Once you get to zuban by the way and you are approaching the toll the The the delays are up to They are up to 12 And then once you exit from that and you are approaching like if it's one gate Then the delay comes back to two So you ask yourself. What is the logic? Who is fooling who who is making money? Who are those who? And then you recall that before fashola left Fashola said because it was said a leg of state borrowed money to construct that tool Fashola said that he has completely paid the leki concession company So who and then this government? I don't know who is advising them from strategic point of view And then the day they think that they will come up with restoring the tool was apri First apri full day. They are just making a fool of themselves because the people have the job Let's not stay so much on that because we will actually dive into it much later on the show today But let's talk about them other stuff that Are trending I wanted to also react concerning the ogre, you know coach rivalry that's been on for quite some time right now and The president Muhammad Buhari is directing security agents to you know handle it What are your thoughts concerning what's happening in open state in recent times? It's so it's also a trivial newspaper Yeah, well, you see the issue of court is in the none of her to affects every every partner of our country is just All you need to do is for you to just go on the street Go to some streets across because you know from a biggie I did get to show more to show more to far the far the To barriga barriga to baghada So And the rest of it you have this Call to a body because the media it becomes much more prominent in open state But the question I keep asking is We are what are the security agencies in the state? What are they doing? And how does the governor justify? Um, how does the governor justify the security votes and the local government chairman justify the security votes they collect on monthly basis? and don't also forget that um We recall that in ugun state the previous government bought 100 000 there was 100 000 AK-47 that was discovered in the amory of the state government and ask yourself this question Are they fighting war in ugun state now and then don't also divulge this court war What do you have seen in ugun state will replicate the circle in almost all the state in nigeria? Because the political is the political tough war. It's it's rooted in politics It is rooted in the control of power control of power within the community control of power within the state I will control power come 2023 political power so beyond what you are seeing on the surface They are deeper deeper deeper roots um behind this behind this behind this Court war and then you require agencies of government to do what they are supposed to do Because it's is all directive you have been receiving directive to deal with cardinal crisis Directive to deal with all in ugun state to get directive for us to call I require directiveness to come on set for this program Wajide Johnson we look at another head. I talked about the president being awarded He backs the award of africa road builders Award for infrastructure Wonderful award agencies Award is in the eyes of those that giving the award How many people can travel by road in nigeria? The head travel is too mess How many people then deal with him and they said and how many who there's this particular story that say that Passenger there's a drop in people using to really be from the coast to the bottom. There's a drop That people are that there's a drop in the passenger. So how many people use the cardinal abu jaril? So those that are giving the award. They are just giving themselves. They are playing your street. Let them give on the illusion And let them live under that under that under that delusion Just like the just like the western just like the noble price Peace people did by giving obama an award on on global award on noble peace price Yet obama was part and parcel of those that if we get bigger that cost crisis across the globe I'm not he is he's not have two people is when he talk about what I just laughed There's one award. He's called them Most valuable player world footballer of the year. There was one in 2002 Ronaldo was The most valuable player of the tournament Was the go keeper And that was the only two tournaments that Ronaldo Dalima played and then when they were award the most The the the most valuable player of the year Ronaldo that was not the most valuable player of the tournament became the most valuable player of the world Yet he was not the most valuable player of the tournament and that was the only competition he played in 2002 Korea Japan 2002 World Cup Boliva can was made the MVP of the tournament and the MVP Of the tournament was not the four footballer of the year and the player that was not the MVP So the award they are giving to Let them continue with their work continue. That's what I'll say No, but what is anybody can Um, jidya johnson. What is really why why don't we have I mean if we look at the entire country Uh, you look at the road network Not entirely anything to write home about why is it that we have not been able to have a handle of At least the road infrastructure in Nigeria You know, I traveled to akura So I this year and I came back and I spent a lot of thousands with my car As an average Nigerian that travel they would tell you what is spending maintaining their car And we have said it Nigerian when people conceive the idea of cars They never imagine they have the road as terrible as Nigerian They never imagine that they have the road as terrible as Nigerian road So when people are giving themselves a word for road construction, I just ask them do they use the road? They don't use the road now the president will come to ligos and he wants to go to any other place You would you you will use topper to go to those places and then you take the advance vehicle to go and meet him And we have seen people too but they did themselves to the presidential candidate and they are from the southwest They are not using they are not using cars to travel throughout the southwest They are using helicopter and people are crazy about it when about it When someone has not become president you should helicopter when it becomes president What would they use so they are not conscious They are not aware and I've said it it is because our political leaders don't make use of this infrastructure They would rather the speaker will fly from Abuja to Lagos The senate president will fly from from from Abuja to Yubi or will fly to wherever he wants to go So they don't have they don't have an understanding they don't have first and experience of what an average Nigerian Goes through as a result of that. They are disconnected So there is a disconnection between the reality of an average Nigerian and the reality of Nigeria with those that are willing us All right, Gideon said we don't have much than that But let's just finally talk about and the NIN same linkage on the punch newspaper The federal government is threatening enforcement as a deadline expires Well, the one of the argument is that they will be able to crisp Tries and contact and other different ideas and then be able to fight the insecurity now Since those that have registered How many of you three and then when you choose and you arrest you call them repentant repentant them repentant book warram then come and play to the gallery in liberally bandits and Book warram as terrorists by liberally them as insurgents and that's what we are seeing We are seeing as leaders are being killed Our citizens are being killed. We have seen situations where barracks have been attacked We have seen situations where big deformations have been attacked. There is no way that is safe and Government is threatening those ones that you have arrested those ones that you have linked What have we done with it as far as i'm concerned in public administration And in democracy government does not use threat government uses Persuasion and persuasion and enforcement of your law and then once you do that enforcement You allow your institutions to take its its course not by use sentiment. They have repented I have asked what is the yardstick what do you use to measure so repentance of somebody? I don't know when it comes to security So let's I have linked mine. I'm sure majority of the people have linked theirs. I will see what happens to it But one thing that I just want to add to it is that you could see that They said the call rates will go up The data rate will go up because the price of visu has gone up and when that goes when that goes up What happens to other sector of the economy? We are in For a good time not for a rough time god. We have right here. Thank you very much Thank you so much. G.D. Johnson indeed god bless Nigeria and Nigerians G.D. Johnson is the chief lecturer at Nigerian Institute of Journalism He joined us to talk about them all of them that the issues on the front page Of various and dailies this morning. We call it off the present That's as much as we can take once again. Thank you so much, JJ It's a pleasure to be with you, Justin and messing Have a wonderful weekend. I'm sure you and Jenna said I intend to All right, that's off the press for this week. 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