 Good morning. You're welcome to the breakfast on plus TV Africa. It's well Thursday is the fourth of this of January Can you imagine already in the fourth of January? The fourth of January 2024 and if you just join us for the first time here, well happy new year to you still I think I'm gonna be staying happy new year all of January. Okay. Yeah At least but at least the first week is happy new year. Yes, all of January also is good enough for happy new year Yeah, happy new year to you. My name is Neyam Gul Aghaji. My name is Roman Paul. So you're welcome We have a lot in store for you. Well, we'll be looking at how to grow money, right on trees money growing trees Well, we're going to see how we can do that today We'll also be looking at some top trending stories that cut our attention as well as Reviewing the papers on the national daily this morning. So you can see it's a lot on this breakfast bulletin and I'm excited. Are you ready? Yeah, yeah, so everybody would be interested But the first question that people ask in Nigeria is oh this first statement They make is that now which of better full-fits safe Well, you'll find out that it is easier than you you thought it was and you can save as low as 5,000 Naira and it really grows. Well, let me not talk like the expert He will be here joining us to tell us how money goes on trees But first of all, let's just go to top trending before we enter the actual one that we have Downfall viewers today. I like the fact that The governor of Lagos States arrested an army man who was riding his bike one way And it does cost a boss on social media. Everybody's talking about it and all that Yeah, but what interested me was that Like I saw it's a tweet from she was sunny this morning He was saying that a soldier was caught driving one way and the governor arrested him And it has triggered a conversation around how our national life is. Are we not driving on the one way? We not need to be arrested and brought back to cause to Take the right cost that we're supposed to and I'm also asking When everybody's talking about the fact that this arrest was a good one because he was riding one way Is anybody talking about the fact that bikes are banned? Roads, that's another thing. Sometimes we want to find a solution to our problems But we are not looking at the course of the problem. I lost me for some people and not others Why are we not talking about the fact that is criminal in Lagos to ride a bike? That's one second He disobeyed traffic laws and then even the vehicle that you're using to move around is actually legal in Lagos They I mean, I love the fact that they arrested him because it starts from the top When they get to see that even a military person can be arrested when they flout, you know The others of the state and that's good because now what that does is make sure that everyone sits up a Lot of people do this. You see people moving even on the BRT lanes as well You see people fine. I understand maybe for like emergency services. Maybe like You know, you have like you you understand it is an ambulance. Yes, exactly Yes, not just that you're just, you know, putting the sirens. Yeah. Yes So you see people just moving about and saying oh because you know, I have some back in or I have some protection I can definitely move one way and that is wrong. You at the top should also obey the laws Nobody's above the law right now in Nigeria. So I think it's a good way to go Yeah, but someone who will not always be on the road Nobody affects this kind of arrest. It's the governor who has done this and maybe the only one who can do this Before you hear of army and police fighting army and last-minute Somebody might want to enforce the law and others will think that you're impure to me How can you tell me what to do and these policemen and army men use these bikes for commercial purposes as well Have you not seen one? He was literally carrying a passenger Okay, let's move over to our top trending at first one It says recognize traditional worshippers Adele K tells federal government Oshun state governor Ademola Adele K has advised the federal government to recognize traditional religion and apportion to its adherence responsibilities The governor spoke on Wednesday at the government secretariat in a barrier venue of the new year traditional prayer session organized by the traditional worshippers Association of Oshun states at the prayer session the 2024 new year divine revelations of the ifa oracle were revealed Adele K who was represented by it at the Event by his deputy color ade we see charge their derent to be committed to their religion He also called on leaders of different faiths to tolerate one another in the interest of peace Adding that traditional religion had nothing to do with ritual killings or crime Speaking in Yoruba. He said if the federal government recognizes Islam and Christianity Nothing stops it from promoting traditional religion According to Adele we see the federal government should recognize practitioners and apportion to them Responsibilities it also pleaded for religious tolerance among people of different faiths said it should start from among leaders of all faith The Oluwa of Iwo Abdul Rashid at combi on Tuesday said royal fathers in the state Were in support of Adele K for a second term in office This was as the governor declared that his administration had reported success in all areas where opposition party members did not give him a chance to succeed Oluwan Adele K spoke in Oshugo at an inter-religious service held at the state secretariat at Bere So assured in the government and the state into the new year So what are your thoughts on this? I mean, I want to hear what you want to say. Yeah He was right when he said traditional religion has nothing to do with Because you find people who Deviating from what is taught even in Christianity and all that and they do some people their only prayer is for someone to die Kill them kill them die of a fire So Jesus taught us you find that it in Islam as well you find that in every religion It doesn't make that religion a Moderous religion. I support the fact that they should be recognized I don't support the fact that they should promote traditional religion. I'm not sure support I'm not in support of the fact that government should promote any religion. They should recognize them give them their rights let them let them flourish at the way they want to and So long as it's within the ambits of the law But not the government promoting it and in this way also I feel it's totally wrong and a waste of resources for the government to be sponsoring people going on pilgrimage It's a fit thing. God is everywhere if you want to go on pilgrimage to Israel To make me come it should be your choice and your ability to do so Otherwise God can do what you tell him anywhere So a portion a good number of a good amount of money in our budget for pilgrimage of people who Can worship the same gods wherever they are. I think it's a waste of resources So government should recognize them let them go if you want they want to go monitor them the way that you should be Monitored but not spend money on them. I think it's a way. Yeah, I think as a government We need to Realize that we have to be independent of religion the same way you have to be independent of tribe and ethnicity You should be independent of religion because at the end of the day You don't want to have a sect of people Following you because they say oh you're Muslim or you're Christian or a traditional worshiper or because you're evil That's the reason why you know, I would support your government No, that shouldn't be it and even as a people we need to just I think religion does a lot To us religion has kind of suppressed us for a long time And you see people saying oh I can't be friends with you because you you don't practice the same faith that I practice And that should be wrong for instance My father is a Christian my parents are pastors But guess what? The my father has a lot of Muslim friends. Those are the people like he calls friends Do you understand even for me as well going into uni and I think that because I studied in the UK You have a lot of people you have people who are Muslims Buddhist as well And then you're not going to say because you don't practice the same faith that I practice that means I'm not going to be a friend now But here is where it gets even more interesting. Are you going to say because you are Muslim? I would not do business with you. I would not take your money Yeah, you understand or you're saying oh, okay. I need to use for instance I need to use a phone and I need data or I need the same card I like to say the MD of so so so telecommunications companies Muslim so therefore is Christian So therefore because he doesn't practice the same thing that I do I would not go in to understand So how do we peak and choose this thing now as you said? I do not I would not tell the government to promote traditional, you know worshipping. I mean just stay out of it Be independent of this if you need to bring them into office. That's fine Oh, doll people can be skeptical about this because they're like your traditional worshipper Hmm, I don't know if you put something on my seats today, you know this kind of things But I think that's what the sensitization comes in some people actually worship if I and they even say it in technology The most times technology are made of numbers and if I is made of numbers like I've researched this thing Yeah, well, if you're from a community like I come from, you know the potency of traditional worship and they the real essence of traditional worship Whoever is a seer a diviner in the traditional religion does not soil his hands with blood So, but we've been led to think that traditional worship killing killing people That's the way even the whites that brought up religion the looks at a lot of things that we were doing and they just say This one is fetish. This one is wrong. This one is Backward this one is evil and they just blanketed everything and said everything black Funny enough, you know talking about nollywood if you even watch, you know, this is nollywood movies You see that the people who actually sold their hands with blood they get Percussion for they get they have to dance to the music. They face the consequences, right? So Regardless, I mean like we said the government should be independent of that and make sure that you know Every religion should be respected. Yes, sanity Islam traditional religion. Those are the three major ones and Recognize them. I support that but don't go promoting them. You this is the good religion And because that's what I understand why that you give them money to fund these and that and that no No, let them do what they need to do, right? But remove your hands and let's not give religion so much Attention that we will now have two constitutions Places where religion is dictating the kind of laws that should be kept when the Constitution is dictating something else For instance, shall we have law in the north? We talked some names NSCDC Rescues societal woman who jumped into river in Oshun That's the next story the Nigerian security and civil defense Corps NSCDC Oshun State Command said on Wednesday Rescued a middle-aged woman who jumped into the Bordeaux for Oshun River in a suicide beat in Oshubu a statement by the Oshun NSCDC spokesperson a SC a delicate candy said officers of the NSCDC command pulled the woman out of the river on Tuesday after receiving a Distress call that someone had jumped into the river according to a dedicated search and rescue team of the command received a distress call from a member of the Public in less than 10 minutes officers were at the scene to rescue the victim the victim a middle-aged woman was resuscitated and later taken to the hospital for medical attention The statement revealed that the victim after becoming conscious explained that she came from Eradmiji to Oshubu to commit suicide by jumping into the Oshun River the PR or said the woman added that she decided to end her life because she was feeling fire burning in her Body and the only way to quench the fire was to jump into Oshun River I did a case at the state LSE DC command and Agbo last Sunday Commended the second rescue team for being responsive and bringing to bear that training in disaster management I did a care also explained that Agbo la and joined residents to take care of their mental health adding that his men would pay close attention to all the rivers in the state To prevent people from jumping into them to commit suicide Have a lot of questions. I mean my first question is how do you feel fire in your body and you have to Yeah, it could just be maybe she was Paranoid or something or maybe something was just happening in her. I don't know I think she's feeling the Nigerian situation right maybe Some of this a lot of these people who say they want to commute suicide will tell you they're indebted to a lot of people Here that's the form of fire, you know all around you. You don't feel comfortable anymore People who are conversing even if you're they're not calling your name is a CV this you they're talking about You're looking at me. They've seen me. They're talking about me. Yeah So that also goes to tell us that mental health issues should be taken more seriously Because when we face some kind of conditions, it really impacts on our mental health But we don't take it seriously here when you go to a psychiatric hospital or just visit a shrink There's that stigma. Ah, this one done the colo The society looks at you differently and the most difficult thing in life is trying to convince people who already think you are mad You're not because anything you do it even makes you look Yes, that's what is happening. So Government cannot be in every river every point so what I will comment them I mean in 10 in 10 minutes they were able to get there and resource data. So that's like what if she had not come for suicide tourism She left She left her village came to a show but to commit suicide that's Wow, so what if she hadn't come to this state center the state capital to commit the suicide where NSE DC would yes, what if it was in a small river in the village? I wouldn't have been NSE DC there that had the training and what if the NSE DC did not have that Particular training that because not everybody in as an NSE DC can swim. I'm sure but then I think you should be a criteria So they did well. I commend them so much But since they cannot be everywhere, we should be looking at the reasons people are committing suicide suicide used to be a strange thing If you see on social media in those days when you see someone saying I want to kill myself The people who will tell you I can't give you my knife I can give you a rope and all that and make fun of it will be more because we knew that it was a joke But now someone just as much as says I'm tired just that and you are scared like somebody reach out to that person That's that's the reality of the time. Just so we we have a clear suicide is not an option You only fail when you decide not to get back up. So no matter what is going on in your life I understand that you know the economy might be a bit tough at the moment But just look at the silver lining There is light at the end of the tunnel and no you should not end your life and just in case You know, you're going through anything. Please see a therapist We really don't talk about therapy here in Nigeria a lot But we should and if you need to see anyone if you need to speak to anyone, please see a therapist also Take care of your mental health. We cannot stress this enough here on the breakfast and here on plus TV We are rooting for you and we know that you know, you can your life is your life is promising That's just what I can say your life is promising. So please suicide is not an option See somebody speak to someone and you know, just have your family and friends around you that can really support you at this time But yes, let's go to another story and this says Boko Haram attacks born is Chibok local government kills 12 Now 12 people have been killed with two others injured in a fresh Boko Haram attack on Katamawa community in Chibok local government area of Burnu state Chibok local government area is 125 kilometers from Midigori the Burnu state capital It is a southern Borneo local government whose communities have been devastated by terrorism in the past 14 years with many adductions by the Boko Haram insurgents the Borneo state police command confirmed the attack to a Television on Wednesday saying that the attack happened on Monday evening According to the police public relations officer Nahum Dassau Two others were injured when the gunmen drove into the community with high love spans and motorcycles in large numbers Shooting sporadically though he did not provide Further details of the attack reports from residents indicates that the terrorists stormed the community armed with rifles shooting at Monas the terrorists stormed The community of Katamawa around 5 p.m. On Monday during the New Year's celebration heavily armed with AK-47 rifles came on motorcycles and high love spans and open fire on Monas Returning from Katamawa. They also reportedly later attacked another Chisha community near Shikair and killed three people and adopted a long lady burning houses and looting their foodstuffs Monday's incident come about a month after four electric towers along the Midigary Damaturi highway Were destroyed by terrorists 11 months after the power was restored to Midigary after a similar attack in 2021 Over the last two years Jihadists have carried out attacks beyond their strongholds in not is Borneo states the heart of the country's 14 year long Islamic militant conflict they have increasingly targeted farmers Loggers herders and fishermen accusing them of spying and passing information to the military and militia fighting them in 2020 Boko Haram killed 76 farmers from Zabahmari in nearby Kusugbe village a massacre that set a new standard of brutality According attacks from militants in not is Nigeria have seized at ease rather Since the height of the conflict when fighters held towns and large swaths of territory However, they still raid rural areas hit military bases and ambush convoys the insurgents in crisis has killed 40,000 people and displaced around 2 million from their homes and the not is since it erupted in 2009 according to the United Nations This is really sad I'm wondering how come we're still going through this over and over again and in the same cheap up Yes, that's where the girls were abducted. That's where we heard the first incident of Abduction that that really took us by storm and till now they can still work into that place take the people they want kill the people they want and all that and We're just telling ourselves lies The governor of a northern state has come out to say that militants or bandits or whatever In charge of almost 60 villages So if they are in charge of these villages collecting tax and all that how would you tell me that they're not occupying these Villages do they have to build houses there is In where I live the president doesn't live there, but he I'm being influenced by him wherever he is So whoever is ruling a place is the one who is in charge, right? So if you're in charge you're occupying that place Why are we not even deploying enough military personnel into these places? You know what when I was much younger? I watched this movie blood diamond Where they're like there's this banditry and all of that and then they start to take over these communities And even the little children they recruit them You know giving them guns and stuff and then you know They're forcing people to start Mining out the diamonds and and everything and this this feels like that all over again like Mining and they're doing all of these things and why is the government not doing enough and Protecting the lives of Nigerians. These are Nigerian citizens They're making us to be people human lives They're making us to believe what a lot of people are saying that the people who should be proactive are Involved in whatever is happening here. Yes, because how do you explain to me and American was abducted in Nigeria? People came from America Which means there is available intelligence that they can use whether they want to collaborate with another country or another Expert organization or so, but there is available intelligence. Why are they not using it? For instance the plateau we heard that there was there were distress calls a lot of them over 27 in a few hours people still had a field day for 48 hours to operate in More than one local government and you say is because there's no intelligence. There is intelligence Somebody even a call calling me and saying We're where they're unknown gunmen here or they are bandits here and they're coming here They're killing us. That is already intelligence. I think because I mean in America for instance You call you down 9-1-1 draw the drone that killed, you know sent citizens. Where is it? They they they they even the people involved that killed very many innocent citizens. Where was that drone? Why couldn't it have been deployed where where where were the army people the police the Whether it's responsible for 48 hours. Do you know what this tells me? I feel like when they don't act on this Intelligence and all of that that they have you're giving power to these people. They already have power They are now writing letters to yes, so it's almost like the government cannot do anything So after I win would the government come and save you they will not so we can do whatever we want with your life And that's not even the right way to go because the moment you start to give You know how they say you don't negotiate with terrorists because in a way when you do that you're giving the terrorists more power Yeah, you can't give the terrorist power You can't give bandits power because guess what one day they will come for you It is growing a short story when I started out as a broadcast that it was the time Cultists came into the studio and said we must announce a list of people who were who they felt Uncomfortable within their villages. These are people who were wanted by the police and all that and they published their names So they came with names of chiefs and all that and said these are the people you must announce The saving grace was that there was no light and our generator was back First time I was clapping for Power-holding taking their life and we don't have it like so we're not transmitting and They didn't recognize us because we were you know, there's a difference between the person you hear on radio And the person actually see they didn't believe those were the people who were supposed to announce it So we told them to go and come back at nine o'clock in the morning They came very early at five when we're just opening the station then and you guess what when they came back at nine o'clock They came with a local government Germans car But at that time our GM had already brought the policeman they came there arrested these people took them They didn't enter behind the counter at all They didn't spend five minutes in the police station and they were billed Wow Not even officially because then there are no books that will say these people were held by the police and they were In five minutes they were out of that place in a local government Chairman's car a sitting Chairman's car of the same local government where the chiefs were saying these are the terrorists Terrorizing this place and there were people dying Give them the car to go to a police station or a radio station to to ionize whatever was their issue Then who will talk for you the so that's why we can't believe the rumors that you know their politicians funding all of this Terrorists well Let them bring out that list that it you all all the time They tell us if we tell you the least Nigeria will burn let it burn. That's a burn. Give us the least Well, we don't want I'd rather burn, but I mean give us the list They will not prosecute the people. It's not there's one thing of bringing there's one thing to bring the list out There's another thing to take action in it Let's start naming and shaming them and then if the prosecution will follow let it follow Let's know them that these are the people who are making Nigeria what it is And then maybe the shame that they will have to come back and stand In front of us and say vote for me will be so much that I would We'd them out of the party and then that that now sets a tone to even other people to come You're like because I saw that they've named and shamed this person. I don't want that to happen to me So I have to go into office and deliver. No, these people have insolation Against shame Let's just take this break and when we return we'll look at the papers and the papers also are loaded. Don't go away