 Welcome back to the breakfast on PLOS TV Africa. It's now time to take a look at the stories making headlines across Nigeria on off the press and let's begin with the daily trust newspaper. It says federal government loses billions in port revenue over stalled boat service contracts. NPA fails to engage new firms after Intel's role. Authority has no capacity to provide service. The matter is in court, says MPA, and findings show that at least 58 billion naira was lost in 12 months. State assemblies will block FIRS move to amend that law, accurated vows. Gone men kill three policemen in Onitsha. Said police van on fire. Buhari directs incorporation of NNPs is limited. Constitutes board. 2023. North wouldn't play second fiddle. That's according to the NEF. Students shot dead. Travellers abducted in Imo. Bandits kill 11 in Sokotokebi. What's town planners should do to stop flooding in cities and towns? Right now to the punch newspapers. Valiad attacks by states. A joke comment. Masari on the fire. Akiri Dulu says FIRS planned amendment dead on arrival. It says VAT collection battle test for Nigeria's democracy. Legos tells Katsina governor. And also free money has made states lazy. Pandef replies Masari on his comments. More states will support us to kill FIRS planned amendment. Akiri Dulu also is speaking. Also on the punch. Continuation of strike by doctors contemptuous says Ngigei. Nigerian politicians in one party says Oni as it begins seven day seclusion. NDLE arrests pregnant women and fake soldier. Stop Canada Australia bound drugs. Mirubot forum carpets at Buja hospitals over Milafia's death. And also federal government may bow on vaccinated Nigerians from government facilities. Assembly speaker fumes as government storm Kogi church service. Kill guard, kidnap ex provost pastor and worshipper. And a few others customers scam banks with fake visas and tickets for Forex. North has the votes won't accept second position in 2023 says any F. And Nigeria's monthly trade in Bitcoin rises to $44 million. I think that's how we'll stop on the punch. On the Guardian newspaper manufacturers demand for Forex. Nears $2 billion amid scarcity and weak Naira. Middle class Nigerian shop for stable dollar as FX crisis continues. Naira in moment of decision trades at $570 Naira to a dollar. 11 bandits killed three victims rescued in Kogi state. Resident doctors continue strike appeal against court ruling. Don't rubbish yourself in 2023 PGF DG advices Jonathan. 2023 to know what is our southern capone in APC says Akiri Dulu. And lastly on the Guardian gone men on the rampage in southeast. Kill three policemen, touch INEC office, disperse pelik political meeting. Okay, Sims there are more updates on that story regarding the death of three policemen and the touching of an INEC office. And the writers say police intensify efforts to arrest suspected killers of policemen in Nonichah. Cots shuts down as email shuts down email as lawyers protest killing of spokesman. 26 security officials, 11 others killed by non state actors in two weeks. Right now moving to the daily independent. Manufacturers grown shut down production lines. And that's with regards a forex scarcity. Worried dollar makes change for 700 by December. Say forex situation has become a major driver of inflation. May cause job losses, higher poverty and increased insecurity. Diplomats assault in Nigeria shies away from joining issues with Indonesia. And also telcos may taper off 3G 4G deployment as 5G race begins. Also on the daily independent. Gunmen attack political meeting threatened to stop 2023 poll in Inugu. Wari directs incorporation of NNPC limited appoints a rarrometh board chairman. Midwbelg forum alleges foul play in May Laffia's death. And also southern governor's position may after PDP, I'm not sure what this is, it doesn't make, well, okay may alter, beg your pardon. The governor's position may alter PDP's zoning arrangement. We've moved out election materials before Inugu office fires as INEC. That's all we will take on the daily independent. Good morning Mr Kola Wali, thanks for joining us once again. Good morning my brother. Good morning. Thanks for having me. All right. We'll probably should start with the death of Obadiah May Laffia from our deputy governor of the CDN. Honest has become when I heard about his death. It was a shocking experience for me. I felt highly rattled and worried. I was also confused. Here is a man of the best of us. PhD I think from this. Work for Cambridge and being a deputy governor of the CDN at work in African Development Bank. That is a man who will be very useful to us as a nation in finding solutions to the economic crisis that we have in our hands. For him to die is kind of a chip deck. He believes in all of us as a people. And then when you marry a death, with the death of the encounter machine, with the death of Dr Genoedd Muhammad, and some of these other very critical criticism of government, you begin to wonder what is happening. Will this be some of the worst circumstances that has led to their death? Because sometimes in some other clans, people don't need to put their guns in your head before they kill you. Sometimes pressures are measured on you. The security agencies will arrest you. They will block your sources of income. They will restrict your movement. And by the time they pile all sorts of pressures on you, the possibilities are to develop the high blood pressure, and then you have the heart attack, and then you die. Often now too, nobody has given us any development with regard to the killing of Genoedd's brother. My fear is that, and I pray, that what we have in our hands with regards to the death of some of these government critics is not a safe terrorism that is at play. But let's keep our fingers crossed. Let's see what the outside report will reveal, and let's see these opportunities to share our condolence to the families of Dr Melafia. The people of Saddam Khadunah are not a progressive element in this country with whom we have come to it to give us a better Nigeria. OK, Mr Kola Walee. One of the stories that have made the rounds across the paper is a security situation in the southeast. This one says, government attack political meeting threatened to stop 2023 polling in Eunguil. We saw that story on the daily independence. And also, when we look at the punch list paper, the story is also there as well. But we played a video earlier on the breakfast this morning showing that disruption of a political meeting. The news is saying that these people are probably members of the IPOB, but we don't have that in good authority. But what really is your commentary regarding what's happening in southeastern Nigeria at the moment, regarding how far iPops seem to be going and the violence in that region? Well, it will be presumptuous to say that it is an iPop. There are also some non-state actors in the country today who are feeling the impact of the injustice that the APC, the PDP, and the entire ruling class have inflicted on all of us. To the rest of my knowledge, iPop has never owned up to any of the killings that are taking place in the southeast. We have only been making guesses, assumptions, and they're presuming that these things are coming from iPops. And even if it is coming from iPops, the violence be guessed as violence. Nobody has monopoly on violence. When you vow that you are going to deal with them in the language that they understand, when you say they are a mere dust in the circle, when you say, look, deal with them ruthlessly, and that's coming from very high quarters of knowledge. You should respect the reaction from the people that are dealing with in a very ruthless manner. I have said this time without number that security people have no solution to what is happening in the southeast, or if it is even the iPop that is behind it. They have no solution to that compared. Military solution, security solution, killings and many of innocent people in the southeast will not be a solution. We have tried that in the past. You remember when there was a crisis in the Niger Delta? All the astronauts of the Nigerian military were deployed to the Niger Delta. Were they able to subdue the ractag army that was assembled by Tampolo, that was assembled by Sari Tokubo? The answer is no. Simply because one war is won in the heart of man. It is not a weapon that you carry that determines whether you win a war or struggle. It is your determination to be free, your determination to liberate yourself, it is your determination to send those to injustice. Look at what has happened in Afghanistan. Americans who are there, the Europeans who are there, the Russians who are there, and the ractag Taliban army defeated the American army and sent them packing in body bags and all that. It is for this issue that they look, let's find a solution, a political solution to what is happening in the southeast. Let's know what the grievances of the Igbo's are, the iPops are and all the others in the southeast. Let's bring them to the land table and we will be more or better if we organize a referendum in the southeast and find all the world of Nigeria to determine what direction home and people want to be associated with. Other than destroy them, I mean describing them as a dust in the circle. Application of sledgehammer to what is happening in the southeast will not be a solution. And they send it out with our numbers. I've also already seen in the newspaper that look, the people in the house ask their new grievances that we should address and that we should not use a sledgehammer to kill a mosquito. I've also said this that the security people are clear not to be giving the executive arm of government the right advice. Why do I say this? When crisis or when special degenerate to the level which is degenerating like it is in the southeast today, the security men are only the first casualities. When the crisis begins to arrive and disintegrate, this is the army, this is the police, this is the project that will force this into grace and they will be the one person that will be here. And that is the reason why you see now that the police men are being killed and what have you. They don't have the courage to advise the executive arm of government on the need to apply on the need to use the human means to solve the problem in the southeast. All right, Mr Akola Wale, let's move away from the southeast and then talk a little on the value-added tax controversy which has continued. Cassina State Governor has come on the criticism from Roti Merkeridolulu and a few others, including the Lagos State Governor concerning his views on value-added tax. Where do you see this going? Does the FIRS also seek help from the National Assembly? How do you see this playing out? Yes. The FIRS move is surprising to me simply because you don't change the rules in the middle of the game. Now that the court has made the ruling and the ruling is not in your favour, you are now rushing to the National Assembly to take care for the FIRS, the Soul Collector of VAT. That won't work. Nobody is going to and VAT has taken place because you are simply changing the rules in the middle of the game. Injustice is the gas so VAT has been going on for too long and thank God for Governor Wauke who has had the courage to approach the court and that is a stupid way to have this discussion. The court has ruled in the table. They will not slide on the federal government on the FIRS to pay the rulings of the court and allow the state to collect VAT and then they pay a percentage so the federal government also the federal and the revenue. Look at what is happening in a place like Lagos for example or the facilities in Lagos virtually all the tribes in Nigeria are here. Then you also go to a place virtually all the tribes are there and then the facilities there are being run down. The federal government is just giving a special contract like a book there and figure out how to handle the influence of people into some of these places. How do they do it? When VAT comes in you take all of the VAT and then you put it in an inequitable manner and then leave this people this country and this state to be deteriorated. It will do and when people like Masari begin to touch the way they are talking and Nena Zababa a Merch begin to touch the way they are talking it means that they know that they are perpetrating injustice and they want to order to the unmerited advantage that they have over the rest of the country and when they also speak the way a mannau the speech they are believing that they have the monopoly of a violence that they can only drive a rough shot over the rest of us as a nation. That is not going to hold it is not population it is like I also said earlier it is not the weapon that you carry that will make you subdu the other sides of Nigeria if the other sides of Nigeria say look, we are not going to take any of this there is nothing you can do what is the population of this when you compare with the Arab the Arab people who surround them as they are having their millions being able to subdu the 8 million is the least that they have been fighting over the ages they know that they are not and people like Mas Ali and Baba Mershu stop provoking and stalking the fire of war and abusing the drama of war that they are abusing with regards to all the unmerited advantage that the section of the country has been getting over the years look at the petroleum industry 30% of what you earn is going to be used to start projecting for oil in another region that is not even 90 to be able to produce oil because we have not been able to find anyone in commercial quantities and we are making more than 30% so we are projecting for oil you didn't think we are making 30% to clean up Ogonilan to clean up all the places where oil has polluted and all that I am convinced that the south the state governor and then the southern states will win this war with regards to vast if you say you don't want alcohol sold in your area then don't take the money the fact that comes from alcohol the headline on the daily independence is about forex scarcity and it's talking about how this is affecting manufacturers and some of them are shutting down their production line and that people are worried that by December Naira to the dollar will be about 700 Naira to 1000 Naira to the dollar I want us to analyse this vis-a-vis what the CBN governor has said about Abochee FX and platforms that he says are trading in illegal FX where do you think the problem might be coming from is it from these people who are publishing rates that are seen on the black market or do you think the federal government and the CBN should have had a tighter group of the situation before it deteriorates this way Eunice Lewis speaking is very very shocking to me the people who are doing this Abochee FX and Naira what do they do they merely publish the rates at the CBN self funding thing and what is available in the open or the so-called popular black market what is wrong with that the CBN has in the past been making money correctly available to some of these DGCs to sign in the open market we have not been able to control that either in fact it can be described as a legalised as a normal business for anybody to do in this context so what are you to use and cry part of the challenges that we have with funding exchange in this country is coming directly from the CBN the list that they have the insiders in there the directors we have located to their friends to their companies and all that who will take it to the black market and sell it and make money at exorbitant rates without doing anything to the member for my name of Kano Sanufi has raised this issue before so people don't do anything all that they do is to apply to the CBN for forex and the forex is made available to them and then after some time when the price have gone up they take it to the black market and sell and become millennia overnight that is the area that the CBN should be looking at and not evoking effort furthermore here is a country that is not producing MSM all the industries are shut down oil is no longer selling in the international market if you know what to produce and you sell internationally that will bring you funding exchange what is Nigeria selling internationally now? nothing we are virtually importing everything to be included to speak and we expect the Naira to be strong more importantly it would have cared to me that it is producing itself when present moment was the military head of state between 1963 and 1985 and all that this was how the Naira collapsed because it doesn't have cared to me that he understands how to manage my economy my father was a casualty of what happened at that period in time he was doing very good business with Italians, Germans and all that in the area of textile and building materials the funding was destroyed and Naira collapsed at that period at that time and all that because the funding partner that my father used to deal with he refused to deal with him anymore because it was difficult to transfer money to those funding partners because the funding machine was not available in the country and there are all sorts of restrictions in that area I think we will have to wrap up here thank you very much for your analysis as always on Mondays and we wish you a very interesting week ahead thank you thanks for having me we are in serious trouble go and write it down and Naira will feel like the Zimbabwe dollar it will feel like the former Ghana city in which you need millions of Naira to buy organic tomatoes alright that's what we will be wrapping up we will take a short break and when we come back we will be telling you things that happened on this day in history many years ago going back to the year 2003 in the Maldives and I am going back to the year 2007 in the US where there was a massive protest against racial injustice stay with us