 Welcome back it is the Friday flex edition of the breakfast on plus TV Africa and it's time for us to look at the front pages of some national dailies what are on them this morning of the press and Chief Jida Johnson chief lecturer Nigerian instead of journalism is joining us from Lagos State this morning Chief Jida Johnson good morning to you when this is in everybody's chief because of you that everybody became a chef in Nigeria let me accept the the the chieftain's it is the pleasure to have them on this Friday we see after the salad break so we see back at the salad to them oh well yes work has begun let's look at the front pages of the of some national dailies this morning I will begin with the Guardian newspaper it begins with towards first 100 days in 30 days of honeymoon tinu boo sweeping reforms leave Nigerians poorer agitated it's a big story by the garden there you have to go to page pages four and five to get details of this big story but they have some high points of the first 30 days on the front page and I should take that so they begin with the fuel subsidy removal FX narrow floating handling of the National Assembly's leadership matter appointments of service chiefs and Mephiles arrest proposed vats on diesel 1,000 narrow charges on vehicle ownership EFCC bus removal new tariffs on electricity students loan scheme though there's an update on the electricity tariff thing but there you have it and then they ask the big question in bold capital letters but where are the palliatives where are the palliatives but where are the palliatives and a very very huge question mark there alright so moving on you have Catholic bishops kick reject bill for council on Christian education page three is where details of that can be found Abuja residents lament growing rate of al-majiri page nine is where they have their metro page where the details of this can be found Abuja residents lament growing rate of al-majiri so you have pictures of indigent kids they are the al-majiri's of Abuja I evoked a miracle spirit to win despite cashless policies says to new boo details of that is on page six environmentalist decry fresh oil spillage in rivers you have that on page 22 and obi tackles to new boo over long convoy asks him to lead by example details of that is on page seven so there you have it oh no right on top of the masthead you have soft drinks chewing gums toothpaste pose cancer risks and that's according to WHO it's a warning from WHO that soft drinks chewing gums toothpaste pose cancer risks and then you have beside it there issued names heat 101 million and that's 56.7% allocated to males from that 101 million as written here in front of the Guardian newspaper 56.7% has been allocated to males that's out of the 101 million means issued 56.7% of them are men alright so move forward to the nation newspaper and it leads with to new boo to governors be ready let's fix economy together the ride of their shatima aqua bio a bath governor celebrate it with president in Lagos so president in a book came home for the each celebration okay so above the masthead you have the luge of visitors forced Buhari to leave the aura says aid details of that some page five eat ground clash a delicacy account illogical so the senator and the governor are disagreeing on what actually transpired at the eat ground and salad a boom berg rates a liquid and go to Africa's richest and page five is very fine details of that an 11 die as truck ramps into bus on a Benin Lagos road and play six is where you have details of that very unfortunate incident that happened on the Benin Lagos road and right down here you have Ipman cautions against hike in petrol price NBF awaits families burial plan for 1984 Olympian boxer ok so we move from the nation newspaper to business day and business day is leading with the baby making rocket exploits Nigerian women it's their big story baby making rocket exploits Nigerian women above the masthead you have to nibu's next big move is fighting crude set and that's according to the Bank of America his next move is fighting crude theft the ride out to that narrow fair value seen at 680 narrow to the dollar ok so we move from business day to nature news and nature news is leading with a matter of car and the urges citizens to stop dumping refuse keep drainage is clear page three is we have details of that NEPC and pass emo cocoa farmers with seedlings to boost agricultural products export to beg your pardon a body government declares July 1st as sanitation day and implements movement ban page five is where that can be found casino state governor emphasizes agriculture as key to economic revival 4.3 million Nigerians in Borno Adamawa you'll be of severe hunger and that's according to UN 4.3 million Nigerians in Borno Adamawa you'll be in severe hunger well that's the much I'll be taken from the nature news so it's time for my analyst to join me chief Jida Johnson let's begin to talk here let's analyze this headlines this morning I think we should begin with that that's on the front page of the Guardian newspaper in 30 days of honey moon to nibu's stupid reforms leave Nigerians borough agitated and of course I read out the high points that the garden placed here on their front page of the first 30 days let's have you take on this well and is it mixed bag of feelings mixed bag of feelings in the sense that there are positives from the options of the precedent in terms of putting in place structure that can be built upon concerning going to economy or reviving the economy and see Nigerian collapse and at the same time there are negatives in terms of the immediate impact as on every Nigerian except the political class on every Nigerian the subsidy which led to the hike in the price of PMS has left a deep hole in the pockets of every Nigerian I've never seen anyone that has not complained it has also affected them a lot of small and medium enterprises yes that use to learn their business there's no doubt that if the the the vat is also added to that of diesel is also going to affect some major SMEs as a major businesses and if care is not taken we'll lose about 25 to 50 percent of some of our small and medium scale enterprise because the there's no way they could cover the money they are making to cover for their running cost the book of what everybody's earning now is going on on running costs is for you to survive so if government on his own is complaining that it lacks phone he does not have the required resources and then his taxes is imposing and levies on the citizen left-right and center then what happens to the citizen we will get their own money from when when one the the the size of the civil servant will constitute less than 70 percent of them tau walking force in Nigeria that state local government of Fidra have not been increased and then you also consider that them there are no politics because the key rider to guiding guidance and story is that we are the politics there are no politics to cushion the effect of this economic economic as you don't forget that we are coming from the last administration with double-digit with double-digit double-digit inflation and at the same time from the cashless policy which has actually made a lot of Niger to be cashless in the sense that we're using money to buy money at a particular point in time for you to you know how much amount of money Niger are using to to buy in order for them to survive so invariably there must be as fast and some of these policies were concerned the argument of some of us is very simple and the president should have put in his economic team in place and they should have been the television to look at the the pros and the cons the direct implication and the future implication of all of this of all of this policy statement that is making through his speeches and his declaration without having a clear understanding of the story state of the economy the dust in which a lot of Nigerians have found themselves and what are the state she did Johnson's big mean action was to sacrifice to sacrifice sacrifice and we hope that your leadership by example those that are asking us to sacrifice be themselves will also sacrifice themselves either by cutting the cost of governance and showing example to Nigerians that okay well it's no longer business as you are you are asking you to sacrifice you also will make sacrifices on our own part however I look at the company of the president like some have pointed out and some have tried to explain and justify and then you look at the convoy of the Senate president which I saw the first day was leaving his office in Abuja and then you go and look at the convoys of the governor and the convoys of the speaker then you understand that well are we ready to have the needed steps in order to renew the hope of Nigerians in government because a lot of Nigerians have lost complete open government a lot of Nigerians have lost complete open our leaders because we believe that well they are not working in our own interest that I was working in the own self-interest so if you look at floating of forex without having and without having your your monetary team are you with me you see your monetary team what we have is an acting capacity central bank of not and the rest of it so some of these policies are important they are they are necessary however it's about the timing it's about implementation and it's about the president being in the hurry to address all situations sometimes and slow and steady when the race is not how quick you start your journey that determines how it end well so my my counselor my advice is very simple and let us have a thorough overview with the economy team not in narrow not in narrow you know sometimes you are saying that the presidential advisory committee and I said that does not exist in the constitution what is this in the position is the federal executive council is the national economic council any other any other thing outside of that is illegal and we should point it out from the from the onset it's important indeed we should point out any form of legality from the onset otherwise it becomes normal because because what we did what they will what did a lot of people deal with worries to patronizing and not to bring him to check and to that betonism he took a lot of wrong steps thinking that it was working in the right direction and after it yes we start matching our feats blaming ourselves how do we get ourselves there the most important I think Nigerians cried out a lot you know during that administration but the question is did he listen did he give a damn about what Nigerians are crying about anyway and then there was something you talked about you know the convoys of these political officers Nigerian politicians are known to be very extravagant some of them may even be able to afford these on their own without being in office right now but I guess for me the issue with what they were displaying all those the entourage the long you know line of vehicles that follows them around this time they should consider they should be sensitive to the psyche of Nigerians at this point in time that Nigerians are going through this very trying parrot they should not be seen to be disconnected from the realities on ground you understand and so to that effect they should be very mindful of what they display they should be very mindful of their extravagance even if they could have been able to afford it with that taxpayers money right well for the optics like you said for the optics they need to do something and for for for for for for the people you also need to take some actions that will not make Nigerians to be like the guy can put it so simply a lot of Nigerians are agreed yes a lot look for example I become for that as the reality there's no need for anybody to clear and because the amount of money I've spent on buying food commuting from home to office as as as colorful so where is it going to come from I have a budget I don't have access to getting loans like federal government or state government to fund to fund to fund my lifestyle and I hope this administration will stop that in getting loan to fund the lifestyle of public office holders and they're using lune to justify that we are building infrastructure and then we don't even know the value from the loans we have collected and the limit was attached to those funds so it is it is very very important a lot of Nigerians are happy to all you just need to do is just to sit down in trees discuss with your friend what do people discuss among themselves in the last one month with respect to the policies of the government they're enthusiastic on one hand but the accent there is a lot of pains a lot of pain just be the question yeah the question the big question is where are the poly tips okay so let's move on from that very headline to the one right on top of it soft drinks chewing gums to paste post cancer risks WHO is warning now when you see this kind of warning you want I've been toothpaste habit we should go back with you go back to nature and thank God we have stories in nature we should go back to nature I use them to instick I used to instick I used to instick which the WHO and a big pharmaceutical company condemned and then well in reality we have suffered to take and you have applied the one for us in the statuettes you have used Baku jebu and the rest of it then I cannot show you that you know that works much in preventing your your tooth from the king so it's important they pointed it out that all of these things have his own implication on the gun the toothpaste the chloride the way we the way we apply the chloride now they are seeing it was genetic I hope that they provided and clarity on this particular matter identifying which particular product or which particular component of this of these things we are talking about which particular component you see this element in all in chewing gum in toothpaste and the rest of it once you check you see the imprudence please avoid it I have to provide this clarification yeah it is important to guide the people in order for them not to come up with sweeping generalization and then it in effect affects the market of some of these products that are still useful and still useful and then good for human consumption so it's important that is done otherwise everybody will just go with it the beauty you have said that so so and so we need to answer the statute stop using toothpaste whereas there are some that are very very very good so yeah I hope they provide that clarity well the garden this morning is loaded with so many headlines that a wuzzy of talking have been talked about Catholic bishops kick reject bill for council on Christian education as far as I'm concerned there's no need for that and there is a secular state there's no state religion it's just that a lot of we are we are we are country of contradictions and a lot of religious contraption this situation whereby the secular states and then you have the state sponsoring to really to religion only for pilgrimage that's the those that go to hatch in Mecca and those that are going to Jerusalem I don't know when they will start sponsoring people going to the different mountains in Nigeria and the different question has a reason question as I reason why government is even doing that why is government sponsoring people for pilgrimage that is one of the things that religion is a personal decision is your personal life start it's your personal decision with your God's station will be sponsoring you in fulfilling whatever requirements of your religion that's why I've said that I hope the issue understand that we don't only have two religions in Nigeria there are multiple religions and I guess a secular state so there's no state religion so there's no basis for somebody to sit down to educate people on what and what should be the practice of a particular field the adherence of that state know how to practice it you know how to regulate it you recall what happened I think earlier this week or last week where somebody was told to dead in Shokutu as a result of being hearts of committing blasphemy and at the end of the day some of the things we had is that okay there was differences differences so when you look at the region are you going to the doctrine of the Pentecostal is different from that of Catholic that of Catholic is different from Agnican that of Agnican is different from Methodist that of Methodist that's why you have denominations so there are there are billions in the various denominations so are you going to harmonize it with one body regulating that in Nigeria I'm sure somebody just want to create an empire for himself create an empire for himself and look for opportunity to siphon public fund because they will create an agency you put money there they will employ they will appoint a general and then public funds will be devoted there and you have created an empire for some people to start making money at the piest of every other Nigerian so they are not interested in regulating anything and as far as the Christian faith is concerned there's no regulation the regulation is by the Holy Spirit and your religion is your personal devotion to God it is personal everybody has an encounter with God when it comes to that so nobody can I believe that nobody can determine that so I just think that as a waste of time is a waste of public resource and somebody sitting somewhere was just trying to be funny I think that that's also in response to there's a council there's an Islamic Council on Education and so I think that that was done okay because there's an Islamic Council on Islamic Education you must also do something in respect to that but Paul said those are compared themselves to other people Paul said they are fools that's even you you are not meant to compare your life to your experience to other people experiences everybody has no race to run so basically religion is a personal decision still has no business and I have said if this matter is taken to the Supreme Court the Supreme Court will nullify whatever outcome you have concern in this because yeah there is a Christian Association of Nigeria in a way so one would have thought that any other thing anything that has to do with the faith collectively they would go through can the world you know I've told you that people are looking for ways to create an empire and have access to public fund there will be a DG they have the council members will be entitled to some allowances if you have a share car whether they're on cover it will just be 10 so when you see all of these things where multiplicity of agencies are being created it's not about the contribution it's about creating many empire it's about creating estates for people through which they can make money out of the nation that's just that's just that's usually use this classic Michael Jackson song all I want to see they don't really care about us they don't they don't really care really care about us when you impose too much tax burden on the people it has a ripple effect it deepens it deepens the hole in their pocket it it it reduces their standard of living it makes the cost of living to be hard so all of this put together tells you about the thinking and the mentality of those that are in public coffees as far as they are concerned I have said it all those that are taking decision for us when was the last time they use them had money to buy fuel unless less when was the last time they use their hand money a party with the senate president has been in government since 1999 the president has been in government since 1999 directly or indirectly the the secretary to the federal government who is the engine room and George Haku man has been in government since 1990 has never left government for one day so for quarter of century and the majority of them with this except this year that we have you read the item over in the late in the national assembly and because of the tsunami that happened with the election usually majority of the members in the as of us and in the in the in the in the in the for this since 1999 so the speaker of Lucas details of assembly has been there since 2003 so we've been formed in their lifestyle they are far away from reality when they enter public bosses when the days when they live in houses that have no light when do they have to think about whether there's light or no light because they have to party generator if you don't party generator somebody will receive query but at home and then in the office that the house of the speaker the house of the Jesus and his house of this public officer does not have all of this so they are far away from reality and I recommend in 2013 I recommend that for my all of my students to read the book my vision by my tomb by my tomb the ruler of Dubai where he spoke about a lot of things where he does not use convoy where does not use any security to move to move around because the people knew that they are working in their own interest that's what he said I'm trying to paraphrase what he said you know to be doing new yeah what you say the people knew that they are working in their own interest so why does he need why doesn't need why doesn't need to all the convoys and like we said when we opened a during campaign they moved within the midst of the people yeah but after campaign then secure we did not kill them when they were campaigning to secure power from all now after they have gotten power from us that's where we want to kill them that's when the security shields them from the people they are actually promised to serve and is the best of is it the vestiges of military military administration that's it mentality there's the need for those that we have elected into public office to make the people to feel what it is for them to serve them you see because there's this mentality you see security is shielding them you know it was the mentality that was brought from military administration and it's still been perpetuated in our democratic society it doesn't just make any sense how would you have a democratic elected president and then you are carry big guns when we see the president of America we don't see God when we see the prime minister of Great Britain we don't see God well the Nigerian was just jogging she was just jogging on her own one money we all saw it in trended in in Amsterdam and the prime minister and the prime minister of of of of Oland was walking to his office and then the lady was really self free with with the prime minister that is my prime minister that's the level with which you must be democracy that's the signal you said that you're actually working in the in the interest of the people you're not signing the signal that you have become an improv what we have witnessed over the years in with our democracies that those who have elected have become improv so I've said that they should address them as his Excellency address them as his Imperial Majesty because they do yeah that's the way you should address them don't address them as his Excellency no no no it's Imperial we have replaced absolute monarchy with democratically elected imperialist that's the reality except except under your government chairman you can assess we push you back exactly under the government elected by the people to solve the people you can assess the security will push you back yes it's very oppressive leaders very self-serving very oppressive leaders politics is this is the seed mentality that is created and all that grade those seed mentality they are getting vote for it and they want to perpetuate those seed mentality now there's a particular story they said the president former president left the aura because he said he left the aura because of what the number of visitors the leader of visitors that come to visit him you know they are not sick after that he has come back to reality to see his people and people are coming to see him now he ran away from the aura to another place God will help those that are there presently well let's just touch on this issue on main issued means heat 101 million 101 million and 56.7% of that is allocated to to the males are we seeing the situation where men are indeed more than women as against the popular narrative that men as castes and women are just all over the place looking for men no well if you check if you check the statistics of the vote registered voter to the registered voter we check the statistics of the registered voter look at the the demography of it and then if you also look at some basic statistics you discover the last sense of we had me with a modern female and so it's not is not surprising that you are seeing that that that particular situation and do also forget that even the younger generation are not even interested in marrying so basically we are not we are not populating the society again there's a particular story just related to this that is i can't recall the percentage but is i think the number of people that are 40 have never been married i think about the united states of america that figure was provided people that have been 40 years that have never been married across across across the gender so it's clear from this well from what we are seeing that there are more men than women but women make society better we need more we need more women all right uh you were listening to jidda johnson chief lecturer and jiren institute of journalism who's joined me on off the press to analyze some headlines on some of the national newspapers we just had a glitch there i don't know if he's back jidda johnson are you back okay so it's good to have you back jidda johnson so before we had that glitch you were talking about how we need more women right and so let's move on with that and um connected with the headline on business day which says baby making racket exploits nigerian women well um it's a global problem it's a global problem in the sense that child trafficking and human trafficking and then the the the human organ market it's it's it's it's very very very very very very valuable and we link this particular story to a particular guide I was arrested in Ukraine because of this week with an 11 month old baby it's an 11 month old baby over the years we've seen so many stories relating to this cash for play when it comes to human trafficking and then I can record a particular a particular story sometime where these persons will get a lot of young babies impregnated and the babies will be taken away from them and then these babies are used for it's there's there's a lot of things that that is just like the abortion market in united states of america and the fight over abortion or non-apportion but what today is the fittest for and the rest of it you know if you know what really goes on in the the pharmaceutical company if you know what goes on in the the edge sector with human organ we we had it may not even be busy we'll record that of a former deputy silly president serving a tail time in in in great Britain today because of organ organ harvesting and the rest of it so and if there's no market for it exactly there won't be a demand we are the markets and then when that of the criminal broke out I asked this question it was just one of the doctors that raised the flag how many have gone under the current if it does not exist in what does not exist in a society you won't see when we talk about drugs too when they say that okay and so amount of drugs have insist and going to to buy going to these and you know there's that penalty if you are caught in those cases the question I had is that what are they going to do specifically there's no market for it then there won't be the need for them some people to push so there's a market as a global market for babies for human organ and it's not limited this week I saw a video does this week I saw a video on social media of a woman who was saying that she's repented now of her evil ways and she's been dealing in sale of babies and she said she sold over 30 babies and each child she sold for 500 000 nara over 30 babies that she sold she sold three out of no she sold four out of her five babies her own personal kids she sold four out of them and then she sold about 30 children there is for those that are christian they will know there's a god that does to pull the practice staff worship is called mulek so he's the one that consumes the blood of a baby and you have them across the length and breadth there are some some things have been termed as conspiracy theories but if you begin to dig deeper and then begin to dig deeper and the quest for power is is not limited to Nigeria so as far as I'm concerned if you follow NAPTIP and all these agencies on human trafficking and whatever if you listen to what has been done you'll be you'll be shocked that these horrible horrendous things are happening and then begin to question we are we are the conscience what has happened to the conscience of man why is man like this to to to to be engaging to be again I think that government agencies needs to see true most first light into this and those that have been arrested should be prosecuted some of the challenges you have is in the prosecution of this of these people even when they are prosecuted how quickly do you get judgment to dispense with that particular case because you don't make example you don't make example of bad behavior you continue to reinforce such behavior in society people are making money through this means either through for spiritual purposes or for medical for medical purposes you you recall that some of the things some people said is that they use the plane of apported babies to do vaccines and the rest of it some have time it to be conspiracy theories left right and center but we may never know what is there yeah well this business thing has made this their big story and by the time you look at the details of this headline you find that some of the people who buy children are women who are looking for male children isn't that's very um shocking well I have to look I've told um I've told those that care to listen it okay the wife of the president is a woman whoever knows the wife of the president I cannot show you as asses month of Asurabdan whoever knew the president whoever knew Turai under Bwari under Yadua he's just checking it out so I keep telling people whether milk time or uh uh in the family of the wife of the president today the wife of the president is the prime child so it's not a function of gender it's just whatever God gives to you you you yourself make the best of it make the best make the best wouldn't be proud to be the parents of the wife of the president or the wife of the governor of of um of legal state or the wife of the the wife of the speaker of the federal as of rep or the wife of the senate to the senate president who would want to be so it's it's not a function it's not a function of gender it's a function of how you train your children and what you make them to become sadly this mindset sadly this mindset is just sort of come to stay in our own climb because I'll sort of mind you are really most people do not care much about whether you have a male or a female child what they need is a healthy child that you have children they have children or that you have a child that's if they want to have a child if you have all girls if you have three girls I used to tell my friend there are two girls I said you know what you have three sons are still waiting for you because some people are going to get married to your daughter so if you have two sons I've said it my daughter in law I'll remove the in law it becomes my daughter I relate with ah just like my daughter so it's an addition so if you have girls know that there's three addition boys that are becoming your son very soon and if you have boys there are three girls that are soon to become your own daughter so this thing is just a function of mentality and education and orientation for people to see the larger picture if you see the larger picture you'll not worry about the the sex or the gender of your child when you give birth and in this era of um uh global discourse on what should be the gender whether gender is biological or whether gender is psychological we never know what we want to go there let's not even touch that that is just one matter I hope we do not get to start talking about in Nigeria I just hope we never get to that okay so let's look at this um story right on top of the masthead of business day Tunibu's next big move is fighting crude theft and that's coming from the bank of America okay those like we said earlier the market there's no market so you said the next big at bank of America is there not the next big move that should have been the first big move before the removal of the subsidy who are those making Nigeria and try who are those that have made money from this country illegally I think that that should have been the first step it should be the very first move yeah it's actually have been the very first not inflicting pain on we at the lower hand at the at the base of the value chain the people at the top of the value chain making the money you didn't deal with them it is those that are the lowest above the value chain that have been there so it's it's either you are putting the cat before the horse is that a good so that's that's just my take who are those we need Nigerians need questions we want people to be prosecuted we want people for example there was a budgetary allocation for the month of June and there was no money for the month of June who are those that siphoned because the removal of subsidy should start from July 1st from tomorrow who are those that catch the money like monkey like like snake like all those that are swallowing money remember those times and under under buried and they said so who are those that swallowed the money the budgetary allocation for the month of June they don't want to be made example of this money this money is it said when you want to deal with crime following the money every crime as a tree and the easiest trade in any crime is to follow the money so we have single treasury account we have single treasury account we have accounts through which government makes can't you trace the money who are those collecting the money who are those collecting the money are not delivering the services for the people all right well thank you so much Chief Jide Johnson I think we should leave it here one of the price has been so amazing having you as always to analyze the point pages of our national dealies my my my consultant told me that in following the money now that you can't follow bitcoin now you can see ask a son so I was as I was talking about following the money passed me a note that said you can't follow bitcoin so well those that will track it will track it we will get against you also to the post exactly exactly thank you thank you thank you Chief Jide Johnson Chief Lecturer and I join his staff journalism has joined us this morning and of the press we'll take a breakdown come back with a hot topic you want to know what the discussion is about self-testing kit for HIV stay with us