 Good morning and welcome to the breakfast. I am Maureen and Nyam Goli's here with me What we'll be taking a look at the newspaper headlines right away Nigerians are calling for the evacuation of Nigerians trapped in war-torn Sudan As Sudan has become the talk of the day and everybody is evacuating their people But Nigeria is still dragging its feet according to how people see it Yeah, we'll talk deeply later on that. Mental health is also an issue that we'll be taking a look at this morning Well, starting with the Guardian, the rise in poverty costs dumping Isim adoption They'll also be off the press That's just a teaser to tell you that there will be off the press We'll be talking about what the newspaper headlines are for the day We'll be looking at the major newspapers, Banj, David Frost, the Nature newspaper, The Nation and So many others and we'll be having a guest in the house that will be Helping us to look or have an insight to some of the headlines on the newspaper this morning Good morning. Once again, my name is Nyam Goli. Not Maureen, but Nomeziwe Okay, well Like we said, NLC is telling Buhari not to allow Nigerians in Sudan to die It's it's become a worrisome thing for a lot of people. We just saw the US evacuated their people And so many other countries have evacuated their own people. Oh, yeah, so many so many so many US has South Korea said it was sending military aircraft to evacuate citizens 25 of the citizens in Sudan they have just 25 their US has evacuated all of their diplomats there including their family members Saudi Arabia, you know said it had evacuated 91 Saudi citizens from Port Sudan to Jeddah Along with 66 nationals from several other friendly and broadly countries They helped other people and so I wonder why Nigeria has not been able to move its people People from there many have accused the Nigerian government of being dialled in and not Not moving in from a point of strength and Nigerian government keeps telling the people that they should stay indoors That's what the advice that giving the people who are in Sudan and another worrisome thing that happened is that one of the people who lives there in a trending video said that They are trying to enter Ethiopia. They're not never in Ethiopia and Every other citizen every citizen of any other country is being allowed into Ethiopia except Nigerians And so they're trying to see The governments now said that they're going they're trying to see what can be done about that So the question is why will they not allow? Yeah, that's what we're talking about Nigeria not Pushing this from a point of strength I Saw that report myself. I saw that video where Nigerian students there resorted to self-help and tasking themselves hundred dollars each and People from Sudan people from Lebanon people from Kenya were all allowed to pass through that cartoon through Ethiopia to exit But Nigerians were told to go back and apply for visa which some of them said they had already applied for three days earlier So why would Nigerians not be allowed to move out? And what does it take for Nigerian diplomats for? Foreign minister to call put a call through to Sudan and say let my people out. I just don't know why why Well, maybe bureaucratic bottlenecks. Maybe Whatever it is, but if other countries can't do it, we should be able to do it as well But now that we've seen that apart from the fact that it's it's it's a place Everybody's trying to run away from if other countries can have You know asylum or whatever you want to call it in the neighboring country and we can't that means our case is even more Urgent than any other country and then our people are still there. Our people are there from what I gather today There'll be blackout internet to be off the electricity will be off This is what we're talking about and our people are there the students are there the business Nigerian business people are there And so it is important that the Nigerian government moves quickly This is not one of those times and we've seen that happen repeatedly Haven't we when there are such crises where Nigerians need to be evacuated? Yes, you find all these stories about Well, Nigerians see them as excuses that shouldn't be because we should have been proactive Yeah, in making sure that as other nations are moving their people out Nigeria should be among the first countries to move her people out of such situations But here we are although we we from last night. We we heard that that's from Garba Shehu Representing the federal government that from between last night and today Nigerians would be evacuated safely from Sudan. So we hope to see that happen Fortunately today, we'll be speaking with Nehma An official of Nehma who would give us updates on what's happening Have our people been evacuated from last night. If not, how soon should they come out today? So we have answers to that later won't be interviewing an official of Nehma Okay, we also have I don't know what I would out say the news is gladdening news or Sad news because it almost stayed the Commissioner of Police, you know where he has ordered the prompt an orderly room trial of Six police officers. These police officers were seeing assaulting Civilians using knives which are not part of the weapons that the police are expected to use and you know Okay, I'm glad on the one hand that prompt action is being taken But on the other hand, I'm sad that it even had to come up at all Because these are people that we need to run to and if you cannot run to them And they are the ones that are assaulting you then what hope do we have it's really a pathetic thing Yeah, it is it is something to worry about because as you have said they are to secure us But as we have seen police in a way have ordered the prompt orderly room trial of these people And these are the kind of actions we want to see deterrent actions when these people are promptly dealt with Promptly punished then it will serve as deterrent to trigger happy military officers or police officers to behave themselves Especially when they are around civilians unarmed Civilians you cannot be unarmed and then be afraid when you see a military personnel or a Policeman who should be your friend as we are told you Lisa your friend Friendship maybe has a different definition because of the things that have been going on and then it was also Very hard-wrenching when we saw photographs of a woman sitting with a 15 month old baby And the only the reason is that a stray bullet from an nscdc Operative got to the child 15 months old baby How do you do that how many how many months ago we're still asking the federal government Or they were still asking the federal government to arm them so that they can carry out their duties Well now they are armed and then people are dying You know, I saw that picture Nyam go and and you know, when you look at it and look at the face of the woman She wasn't crying. She was sitting on the floor holding her baby dead baby Bathed in the baby's blood and what you could just see is a woman in shock She's still processing in fact, she's not been able to process it as at that time The picture came out and it is so saddening. We shouldn't be here We shouldn't be we shouldn't be at this point. We thought we've seen it all with regards to recklessness Well good enough because that kind of a person may go into depression and we don't know what is happening Today is mindset Monday And we also are going to be talking with a mental health expert who will be talking to us about the need To do some of the things that we just neglect as Nigerians and all that and we do hope that Everybody everybody will get involved in you know, trying to check their mental health and not only your own Trying to be your brother's keeper as it is your neighbor be a neighbor to your neighbor because sometimes you There was there was this um There's this one that is going on on social media. A lot of people have posted it. I don't know where they copied it But someone said you better You better check on me now because one day you might take your call or your phone to call me and you discover I'm dead. It's a paraphrase. So but it's good to check on the people that you know People that you love call them every once in a while check on them Give them assurances and all that because you never know what is going on through any mind Just be nice with somebody So when the expert comes and to talk on mental health, maybe she will give us more pointers on what we need to do and The benefits of these mental health checks. Oh, yeah. Well, you see in Nigeria today We understand that about 60 million people are having mental illnesses And that's one in poor Nigerians because you're talking about 206 million people So you're looking at about 50 to 60 million Nigerians having mental health I think that's even a nice a nice A nice way to put it in Nigeria. How many people in Lagos are really Really free of mental problems experts even say that everybody has some kind of percentage Of mental issues. It's just that so many people don't get it triggered In their lifetime or triggered enough to make them Want to go for checkups and all that We make it a point in Nigeria even general health Anytime you're going to a hospital or to visit a doctor It has to be a critical condition before you go there and that shouldn't be no The thing is in Nigeria when you up until recently when mental health mental health became a thing Perhaps because of social media Um in Nigeria when you mention anything that has to do with mental health You were seen as well Yabba left comes to mind That's pretty quite nice. Yabba left comes to mind and Nigerians fear that stigmatization that comes from Being said to have visited Yabba left, you know, psychiatric home And it really ought not to be and I think that myth is being demystified Nigerians are beginning to feel more comfortable talking about mental health today and it is good that We're taking a look at it because even as I'm looking at you now in Yango, who knows Especially since you're a resident Lagos Was it not Nasir Erefa? The governor of Kaduna said that said anyone living in fact that all legosians Who go through all the hours we go through in traffic on a daily? I've already been to hell. Well, I don't But you can say Need to check their mental health state, but not been to hell Okay. Well, and if we don't go to the facility, let's try to make ourselves happy happy enough to Decide to stay alive and to stay positive in life. We'll just take a short break now when we return we'll do We'll look at the newspaper And see what the headlines are and have in kota area join us to discuss the headlines. Stay with us