 As the World Annual Vaccine Week is observed this year, with the theme the big catch-up, the World Health Organization is working with countries across the globe to raise awareness of the value of vaccines with the aim of bringing the programme back on track so that more people can be protected from vaccine-preventable diseases. We will be analysing that on the breakfast this morning and also we will be joined by our guest to make sense of the headlines in the newspapers this morning. Good morning to you and welcome to the breakfast this Wednesday morning. My name is Nyam Gul. Good morning. I am Maureen. My name is Igui. Today we're going to be looking at a lot of things. The status of Nigeria's healthcare system is going to be part of the discussion and we hope to have so many guests that we'll not so many guests but relevant guests to discuss this with us. You know that today or a few days ago there was a we met World Malaria Day. It has passed but the world is rejoicing that we are now having a malaria vaccine and this year's theme was time to deliver zero malaria, invest, innovate, implement. But the focus for this year was actually on the last eye which is implementation. And we do hope that that implementation will be done well and people will adhere to all the instructions that are given by the health experts and all that. Oh yes and it is important that we consider how to get rid of malaria especially being one of the most hit by that pandemic. I'm not excited that this vaccine is coming from abroad. Yeah that's I was going to talk about that because the people who are even really serious about eradicating malaria from planet Earth if it is possible are the people who may not even have this malaria worrying them the way it worries us in tropical Africa. Nigeria loses from what I saw in a report 300,000 people every year to this. 92 million people suffer it every year 300,000 die from it every year. So this is something that Nigeria should have before now found something to fix. Yeah and you gave the statistics 619,000 malaria deaths in 2021 alone. 247 million new cases of malaria in 2021 alone and 95% of all malaria cases are in African region in the WHO African region. So it is a worrisome thing that it is more prevalent here but you know there was a time that the WHO and the Ministry of Health were giving free mosquito nets to families and I had a very very annoying experience where I went to a particular village and every family got these free nets maybe sometimes two maybe sometimes three and guess what they were using it for they were using it to plant vegetables and you can plant vegetables put the net around the vegetable so that birds will not come and eat it or they or chicken will not come and destroy it that's what they were using it for something that was given to you to save your life so I don't know the level of orientation we can give to our people before they know that this thing is for their own good. Yeah that's that's one orientation is key and also I do remember some time ago I was told by a good lady old lady that there was a time when governments were involved in fumigation regular fumigation of the gutters but I was during the colonial era when the colonial masters left those administrators the white administrators it all stopped after a while and so you ask why did it stop? Well when the opportunity was in our hands to do the right thing then we I don't know should we be colonized again well god forbid but can't we just rise above what we are doing now? Well we are sad just like everybody in the broadcast world in the in our kind of world that we lost a legend in the person of Peter and our horror. Though he died at 88, well we still miss him because even at that time I'm sure he was still very very important to us talking to us advising us giving us pointers where we needed them and he is perhaps one of the most recognized African journalist. Oh yes. He died in London well may his soul rest in peace. Amen. We knew him as Peter Pan as well because he had a very wonderful column that he was writing he died in London on Monday and very handsome man yeah yeah he was he was okay we also have another trending story we've just we are entering as our trending stories an actor died after 12 cosmetic surgeries procedures 12 cosmetic surgery procedures and Vonn Colucci 22 died wanting to look like someone else yeah and he spent 220,000 dollars on those surgeries 12 of them to play K-pop star Jimin for a US streaming network. Okay who is to blame in this case now is it the people who wanted him to play this part and look like him like the person he was playing his part or himself accepting to do that who is to blame now why would you do 12 by the way 220,000 dollars is like 160 million Naira that's what I was thinking you know the tragic thing is that there are many people over there who have even done more surgeries than he's done I mean there are those who wanted to be like Ken and and and was the name of the other doll yeah Bobby Bobby and they've done so many life-altering surgeries to look like this kind these characters and they've survived so it's unfortunate what has happened to him I don't know who to blame seriously in Yamgol but the rate of cosmetic surgeries these days is alarming it's alarming it's alarming I hear in lecky well maybe that's not it but you know women are doing the Brazilian but yeah it's it's so much and and after a while a lot of them come out to say that it was not what it because sometimes they have side effects that are not good enough I just wonder why people cannot be satisfied with what their natural body is and try to look for other natural ways to enhance them if they must enhance them because they are exercises for for for instance but people are not ready to hit the gym or to do the specific exercises to give them what they want they just want the easy way go get some things pumped into your body and that's the I don't know when will we start developing that confidence that we need in our bodies you know when I see those stories of such surgeries okay well everyone is entitled to how they want to look and how they want to feel and what channels they think they should take to feel that way they will say is their body and so is their choice I wouldn't go that route and it is sad when you see blacks doing that especially Nigerians because we are naturally endowed most Nigerians most black women have that natural endowment you know to be covicious and all of that so I don't know it's it's only those who have done it that can explain it worries me it worries me and then not only maybe but lifting the rate of of bleaching even all with all the side effects that we know because yes for a time you might look very beautiful but it comes a time where you will spend more money trying to maintain that than than what you spend to get to that point you you let me not even say you are speechless whatever is doing well you know you are entitled to your your own opinion about yourself and about what beauty is how to define beauty and all that but you know there is always someone for someone like there's someone who will adore you just the way you are yeah but how many people understand that well well maybe we should get them to understand okay well it's still the breakfast and we're hoping that wherever you are you're preparing to have a wonderful day and we're hoping that wonderful day will give everybody the peace of mind because when you smile it translates into making so many other people around you smile and they say when you start your day with a smile the day is likely to end with a smile so try and have that smile today