 Welcome back to the breakfast on plus TV Africa is the techno file edition of the program and it's time for us to take a look at What's on the headlines of some national dailies? We begin with a punch newspaper this morning the punch newspaper this morning leads with to noble promises top decisions NLC demands new retirement age There you have a tunable promising that's President-elect that there will be top decisions taken even as he promised that Nigerians will be given living wage not minimum wage So we have some writers there liberal recommends 65 years Retirement age 40 years length of service and the second rider President-elect seeks understanding says heart decisions coming soon That's the headline the major headline on the patch newspaper and on top you have sub headlines which has Chris in giggies picture there and not fumes as in gigi condemns doctors Entitlement mentality The next sub headline there, please DSS. I neck joint panel invites suspended a dam our wreck and the third sub headline subsidy salary payment Unlikely after June says or Berserkie Salary payment unlikely after June says or Berserkie Okay, going down on still on the punch newspaper. You see a picture there of vehicles swimming Vehicles swimming as the road is floated motorist stranded as flood takes over Lagos Ibadan Express long bridge Going down from that picture. You see Sudan Egypt opens Border for stranded Nigerians you find the details of that story on page five You also have law less never ratings brutalized ogon man overpacking space you find details of that on pages four and five and Lastly on the punch newspaper. You see a Senate presidency. I've had your meets Buhari Defense ambition Well, that's it on the punch newspaper. Let's move to the nation newspaper and see what it's on the headline Well, the punch the nation newspaper leads with pay rise coming for health workers lecturers others pay rise Coming for health workers lecturers others on top of the headline you have the sub headlines which has a picture of The finance minister the minister for national planning and budget Nigerians Forex reserves lose $1.82 billion You also have on that newspaper the nation government officials suspended over alleged salary padding Details of that you find on page five Also on page five you find jam to release UTM e-results today so those who sat for jam or parents whose words of children sat for jam Who'd be very anxious today as the results come out? All right, let's move away from the nation newspaper to The daily trust which leads with I'll give you living wage to noble promises workers I'll give you living wage. That's coming from the president-elect in the wake of Workers Day, which took place yesterday And on top of that headline you have sub headlines Egypt opens borders for Nigerians fleeing Sudan You find that on page seven Kansas care Nigeria banned importation of indominidals you find details of that on page 14 and Dango take a mate over nine point two trillion era to plan African investments and Details of that will be found on page 19 of the daily trust and From the daily trust will move over to the Guardian newspaper The Guardian newspaper leads with workers demand better pay amid subsidy debt concerns and details of that will be on page six If you grab in the Guardian newspaper you go to page six for details of that headline and going down on the guidance The Guardian newspaper you have WHO raises a lot as High-risk season for meningitis others set in You have telecom operators reject proposed supervision of NITDA and you have faces of some popular people there Passoco Julia So yeah Passoco to you and two other stakeholders hail youth hustling spirits advocate innovation to curb unemployment and Right down there on the Guardian newspaper. I have NAVDAC Begins probe on safety of indominidals today says DG and New Emirate Council here to stay Gandhi Jay tells Kwan Kwan so all right, so Those are the headlines and Just as we do it on the breakfast won't just stop there. We'll be having our guest Join us to take a look at some of these headlines to find out the reasons behind them and Other deeper issues that can be taken from the headlines and we have as our guest to do that this morning on Tuesday Chris came down one dude is a member of the Chartered Institute of Abiturators in the UK But he is in Lagos at the moment as we speak Chris. Can they welcome to you? Good morning Good morning. Nice to have you this morning. Nice to see you. Good morning, Nigeria But you looking as if you're going for an arbitration this morning Chris. Are you going for an arbitration after this interview? Work has started. Yes, it is a public holiday. You must make it And any this morning, so I'm ready to roll All right, so let's let's just jump right into it Let's go to the punch newspaper where to noble promises top decisions and NLC demanding a new retirement age Let's start with that Well, yesterday was made the and the workers they and smacked as well as the across the globe if they set aside to Honour and celebrate workers Who on a daily basis? Try to make a living and also contribute to their own It makes your contribution to national wealth and so yesterday was our day and then Nigeria be a signatory to that Treaty also celebrated Celebrated in Nigeria across it at its eastest of the patient situation that's allowed the government to Also make promises and the government also make promises neighbors to continue to demand Better wages and welfare for Their workers. So so it was and then there are a lot of highlights just as right me pointed out by most of the national The president a letter promising that It's going to be a drug for workers when it takes over and I would hope is going to be that and that because As it is currently The take-home pay of workers cannot even take them to the post office of taking them home So with the minimum wage of about 30,000 Naira, which most states are not paying The 30,000 Naira in which month is just barely less than 50 dollars You've converted to dollars and that is what some people in in other countries on a daily more than what the end in other countries is so We're having that as we know which for a month for something as well that shows you the level of poverty in Nigeria and with a country with over 133 million Nigerians over most of us sixty to seventy percent of our people below poverty line based by the current The statistic released by the world bank. So it's a big problem for us then Added to that is the high unemployment rates that is the vast is all over Nigeria and where you see graduates We are pushing our graduates on a daily basis that does not We can hardly employ up to ten percent of what we produce our graduates on the denim so which is why you see In the country and that in the same house for an effect That's a security People getting into crime is because they have nothing to do. So That is the situation we find ourselves. So I hope that the coming government will be able to give up twist Promises and making life not only better for workers, but every Nigerian But I also in this is that came up just as right this mention the NLC saying that the retirement age for civil servants to be increased from sixty to sixty well Be able to do that. That means you have to and set a deal to the national as a whether they can send a bit to the national civil or skin to be an executive that is correctly Provision of the nineteen ninety-nine constitution as amended it is sixty years I meant five years service. That is what it is which other ones Chris talking about NLC demanding new retirement age and and comparing it with what happened in France The The government has just increased the ass to 65 65 years and they have been protest for over 19 weeks now in France where they say reduce it We don't want to don't increase any longer But yeah, I hope you guys saying that they wanted to increase at sixty. I think every man should Let's look at the performance of civil servants even as we seek for improvement of Their welfare. How would you rate civil servants in Nigeria Chris? And I just see who said one of its product is to a larger study But when you look at work in in most of the ministries and Staters federal and state you also see that a dignity of labor is there and commitment is not there go to most of our ministries We see that the offices are always empty Civil service most of them don't come to work at the end of it or they want to End their salary some come and instead of engaging going to work They do their own private in selling and buying and selling of things But I think that is a factor of one this evening and two in a betty for us to be able to pay The necessary wages that can keep them in the office so Onto able to do the need to continue to have the love civil servants civil service we have and Also, look at their welfare Also, the retirement period you see that most civil servants even those within the military When they retire they hardly gets their pension and that is also a big problem That brings a lot of corruption. That makes it possible for people when they are there to try as much as to steal and grab as much as they can So that because they know that when they retire They are Gratuities and pension may not be paid. That is the type of civil servants Or civil service we have in Nigeria and the health sector Chris Ngige Minister of Labor is saying that He's accusing them of Entitlement mentality Do you share his thoughts? You think our health workers have Been demanding too much or that they have not even been given enough attention as they should I don't know what to mean by Self-entitlement is a medical solution. No one was practicing how much was it and so why will I accuse anybody of it? These are professionals He has said several things in the past that he seemed to be singing a new tune because he had barely few days to live as a minister Which one of them is the where he's exactly the Bill being presented at the House of Representatives. We are medical practitioners has been to Christian for five years After the month of treatment graduated from school from traveling abroad that in this against a Constitution I'm reminded on three movements Movements association So nobody can stop anybody from moving forward if I decide to go anywhere after my graduation is not of your business We are not the one that trained me in school. So we are not gonna pay my fees Why should you stop me from moving out if you are providing the necessary environment? You can't even tell me to so That's bill. I personally think that it's just that Just those in the House of Representatives or those that present that we don't seem to have just safe Safe seeking for me Then we should also present bill that we stop them from sending their children abroad to school most of the children are brought That is why they don't give they don't get themselves consigned Which the welfare of Nigerians to end that is why you see a supreme on strike for one year and nobody's didn't a party if they are saying that they want to stop a graduate medical graduates From moving out after 25 years at least then we should stop them from she also present I will be that we stop them from seeking medical Attention abroad as they are doing Medical tourism. Yeah, you know Chris. I hear you what you're saying what you're saying is quite valid Especially with regards to their right to either staying or going but on the flip side. There are those who would also ask Who are those that would give back to Nigeria? If Nigeria trains you Some have said when you compare university education With with Nigeria and abroad you would find that it is actually relatively cheaper a lot cheaper to study here in Nigeria And so you get this education in Nigeria. You don't stay behind to give back and you agitate into leave Men who deny Niger did not train them their parents train them So send a Niger train to the deputy that the deputy a school fees It is only when you give scholarship that you can be able to search it If you give me scholarship Scholarship or state government scholarship to study in Nigeria that I cannot say okay in the course of that We have you know the Lord does what republic contract public contract is a contract artist Science field and delivered. So if you give me In the course of giving me scholarship you say I should sign that you sign that we are going to train But we didn't even after training you give a scholarship within the period of five years You remain in Nigeria to contribute to the development of my job with some of the on that contract there I'm part of that but that's my parents so far those going to farm those Trading selling tomatoes and everything so far for me to go to school then after going to school I must stay here in Nigeria. It is my personal if I want to stay I stay Those that we say we say that I don't want to stay with no stay So nothing and as I said nothing stops any Nigerian based on the current constitution from moving to any part of the world You cannot do that except that was amended. Yeah, whatever they are doing is to turn on it Nigeria did not train them. It is only when you give me scholarship Study that you cannot detect how they move before now Don't forget the same minister the same minister said that we have more than enough doctors in this country Anybody that wants to go should go this same person. He said it The strike of the doctors. So what are we talking about? So? So we have more than enough as they said so but now the national the recent doctors have issued a two weeks Or to make a notice that they will soon go and strike government signed agreement with its doctors the government sign agreement with the labor union government sign agreement with none of them As you sorry none of the mail are being implemented and you see that people should don't go and strike additional Anybody that is a free country and it's a movement for everyone All right, well spoken Chris. Let's move on to daily trust which also leads with I'll give you a living wage tinibu promises walker of course the The aftermath of the celebration yesterday is expected that we have Almost all the headlines leading with this topic. So tinibu here promising living wage You've spoken very well in that regard, but let's go up to a subheading here which talks about indominuos Councils care, Nigeria bans importation of indominuos. I'm sure you saw that report that Revealed some content in some indomie produced in I think is it Korea somewhere and I'm sure it was after that that the Nigerian NAVDAC decided to also investigate the indominuos we have here. Let's have your take on this Yeah, it is. Um, actually it was Taiwan and Malaysia that burned the Indominuos Especially I think there are about 13 variants that in particular one in question. We have that one chicken to play ball Indominuos and they've heard that there are certain substances in it that contains elements the substance that causes cancer so for that It has been banned in Malaysia and Taiwan I think and so Nigeria is always taking some precaution precaution in trying to make sure that Uh, we don't have that here and so what I said stated also is that it's the process of testing um, those indomie Produced from today to see where necessary if they are that claim is suffocated Then they have to put a stop to it. One is impotential. I believe that we have noodles uh, you know the issue that without keeping a elite cycle of marketing Try to any product, you know in Nigeria. We have this day of once a product is popular That is become a generic name every other we have noodles You understand? So when people say indomie noodles, indomie noodles is a particular brand that we have several noodles in Nigeria. So In this case this one is talking about indomie noodles That is what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. So it's indomie specific so that people don't just start saying that oh not that can burn Noodles And that means ahead. You know the way we say it's like you want to take me now That's given any advantage. You know I say oh, I want to drink even when they are getting Pepsi Or it's Pepsi that you want to drink everything else. So that's it is indomie noodles and the What they not that can say that for now. I thought that for me I thought that that's indomie noodles is being produced locally in Nigeria now I'm hearing that they used to have some importation as well. So what they have stopped is the importation of Further importation of indomie noodles until they must have carried out all these tests and make sure that some of these conferences that have been That is not confirmed. That is what it is. Yeah, one thing that hit me when they Navdak said you are going to start testing Investigating it is that do we have to wait? Did we have to wait till now Well, no the news broke about less than a week ago. It's it broke about less than a week. I think it's about It was the cable online Platform that broke down. We just update several online publications at their mainstream Publications, so I don't think it's okay. But don't forget that this is not the first time in about a year or two We also remember that I saw this We'll have a look about indomie too at the point in some the complicate matter to say that some people want to demarcate it because of Leadership in the market But indomie as it is or something food they call themselves I also come out to issue a statement that It is not true and so but let us have And we'll be able to see the final result of what they have done just a precaution So if you have a child, I know more children that is They won't eat any of that. They won't eat them, but they won't eat up It's indomie every time so let us The indomie generation The indomie generation, right? Exactly They're different from our generation Yeah, just different from our own generation. They will prefer indomie before rice Even our lazy adults that is what they eat because they can't It's something you can do with indomie As quickly as possible that is all we eat but it's just some kind of breakfast for now All right, let's go to egypt Egypt has opened its borders for our people who are there who have been able to Well, who have been able to move from sudan? So we're hearing from the headlines that egypt has opened the borders for nigerians fleeing sudan Yes, nidgum came out with a treat yesterday that finally that egypt has opened is the border to alam nigerians And fleeing to sudan to come into the country so that they remember them to be Afflicted to nigeria. You know, it has been a problem for some time uh, because they left, um, they left Sudan and some of them got stuck In the desert, but what's coming this morning not yet verified is that One of the bosses and conveying the Evacuities put fire in the desert and don't know whether there was any injury and it come out not come out to Verify that or clarify that that is And so um, finally egypt At the point egypt was allowing Citizens of other countries to migrate to pass through their country but start of nigerians. We are not allowed And because they are saying that some of them don't have value per person Basic value paper for somebody that they don't even work If I have a paper and they have a passport and my house wasn't provided at times We don't even need to start looking for it to just run out of their house for safety So this is not the time for all this and this is a egypt They said they're from nigeria. A lot of them what you need to do is just Measure that they follow the path to the airport where they'll be query down to their country Don't allow them into the towns or into the country into the city. And that is what I saw. I think uh, uh, diplomatic Talks relationship to prepare probably our new home and uh, um, the minister of foreign affairs And they allowed them into the why why why do you think chris? Why do you think nigeria because they also experience similar thing in isiopia? Why do you think nigerians keep experiencing this? Well, uh, well, it is uh one is this one our people have to pay very Quite full and talk The way some of our Citizens behave in this most of these countries give so much So and that is a factor and that is why we say, you know, with my place My village, you know, go we need to stay there say What it means that once one finger touches a red or It sells the other fingers Most of our people don't behave in the way our manner that we would Some of them behave and do certain things that very very meek out to the Um to the laws of those lands. So they are very very skeptical That is one two is the fact that we have a very light Largest population of black people in the world. So most people that are not even nigerians When they travel abroad and when they commit crimes, uh, and we did that to Um to nigerians. So and also our people have a work breaking the law. So most often they are not This happens then totally then my personal opinion which we have also Little of this country The jealous nigerian the jealous of the plus those who with the fles never had the fles The jealous of the big time that's why we go to start up a card They say that we are running after their women start killing us and They cannot But that is just on the flip side. Yeah, but the fact that most often they are not These countries are best skeptical because of the kind of news they have I think what we need to do we should do a lot of And also one of our It's not only in utopia Dubai for a long time bad nigerians from coming to their country We have had issues in south africa. We have had issues so many even gana on every country at the point We're having issues gana just gana. That's few years ago. They were gana Gana a few years ago that we are shouting gana must gana must now Yes It's it's it's really very um It's a very sad development But let's move on especially since today is our technophile tuesday to this sub topic here Headline here telecom operations operators reject proposed supervision by nitda What do you make of that? Why did you reject in the supervision? Well, uh, I think the They might have their reason but we have to know that we have a regulatory but already ncc is the regulatory body. So all this unnecessary Uh, what you call me do some interloper in thought I'm not the necessary if you have any problem Um, the right place to go to is um ncc and this is a very very wonderful job at that. So, um, I don't know why ntat or whatever they want to get in for that but that's going to be working in the process They have any reservation about that It's just like passing in broadcasting as a journalist. I know that they have the mpc. Who is the regulatory body? And for that they also have a high band and other to do have any you also have our own unions So for me is anything consigning teleconcept A ncc should be in charge and I think I don't think they will be able to approach that And but let us also in the course since we're talking it Let us use this opportunity to also um salute an icon in the personal Mike adinuga or blow who turned 70 You know, we all know how you revolutionize the gsm industry in nteria, especially Especially when the big so-called big two they are saying that a second building was necessary. He came in and Was able to bring the barrier. So momentum and so many other my experience that making us happy through their entrepreneurship And also the breadth of experience So finally before we go, let's look at this One from the who which has which issued a lot as high risk season for meningitis others set in Yeah, that's a Um, nice one. Don't forget that we have we're in the rainy season and also from that. We should also want Nigerians I think the name and then see I've been wanting that serious rainfall May not in my area. Yes. There's so much to install that some Houses we are looks we are damaged and some of them and this is just the beginning You know most often than not when we are one about this issue of parade. I just don't take it seriously I know that you will take government is simply send out one year lot that people living in areas like Very poor and the rest of them should try to move into the upland and when I hear that Say people should move upland. So they should leave their house where they're going to. So it's a problem But there's serious a lot about um, that we're going to have serious running across Nigeria and even lightning Yes, lightning. Yes lightning too And so we should be careful but the issue of meningitis I think we should think that seriously just as we really wonder about malaria You know last week we spoke about malaria We said that over 200,000 people died from malaria on a yearly basis in Nigeria So there are so many diseases that Niger has a person to and children drop before You know how much we play with we spent on kovit And Such money I believe that we spend their time turning to other Areas of health so that medians can have the best of health So in this period Thank you so much Chris kende one do for your time It's always very interesting when we have you as our guest taking a look at off the press Kende one do is a member chartered institute of arbitrators in the uk But he is joining us or he joined us here in Lagos, Nigeria. Thank you so much Chris. We'll see you again on tuesday Thank you very much Well, you're still watching the breakfast on plus tv africa. 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