 As the raging effects of the fuel subsidy removal continues, the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria has said the federal government must break NNPC's monopoly on importation. We'll be looking at that on the program this morning. And also we'll be having off the press where we look at the headlines on the dailies. Very good morning to you and thanks for joining us. My name is Nyam Gul Agadji. It's another very, very wonderful midweek and we do hope that you're having a wonderful time. If you're monitoring what the traffic situation is like, to some it might be very, very good because the traffic is free in most areas in Lagos state. But it does not mean that you will have to overspeed because the roads are freer than they usually are. Go to last map page that is the traffic management agency of Lagos state. You will see a quotation or a quote rather that carefulness costs you nothing. Carelessness may cost you your life. So as you find the roads free enough for you to just, you know, have fun on them, just remember all the time that you need to be careful because for everything that you find good, there's also something bad attached to it unless you use it well enough. So a free road might be very good, might be fun for you, but if you don't use it well and carefully you might end up never using it again if you know what I mean. But let that not be your portion this morning or any other time. And then if you go to that page you will find that there was a truck that was stuck somewhere, probably when it was raining, it was stuck in the gutter somewhere in Merrill. And I do hope that it has been cleared at this time because it was posted one minute ago but it's also possible that inside that one minute the truck has been cleared because we know the ripple effects that one obstruction somewhere in Lagos can cause. It could start from Ojodubega for instance and it reaches the island because of one thing that has happened in Ojodubega, that's how Lagos is wired. So we do hope that that truck has been removed because if it hasn't then we may be in for a very tough ride in some areas in Lagos here. So you will also find that the Kula movement from Mobustik in words Kenu is appreciable up to Kenu but a slow moving traffic proceeding towards or in what Alhaji Lukman and swimming pool. Holandia way on roads at Djibadi okay to Jesus house is appreciable. Now sometimes when I read these things from last month I get to find out some areas in Lagos that I never knew existed. So we have Jesus house here in Lagos and we have Holandia way okay. A solo way movement from Jesus house to Kenu is good to connect NNPC roads by Mobustik movement from Kwakum inward and outward international airport down to Nako is good to go. And from 7 and 8 inwards Afarigo intersection is looking good for now. Inward Aswani is good to go movement from Aswani junction to Asafarigo intersection is still looking good but movements moving steadily towards 7 and 8 and all these things I'm giving you are under 10 minutes they were posted under 10 minutes ago. So that means at this time that we're giving you this report the movement is still good wherever you are from coming from to your place of work. If you live in Lagos you have to learn to move early enough because if you move early enough a lot of times the traffic is free enough for you to move. But if you move a little bit later than 7 o'clock for instance if you're supposed to be at your office at 9 o'clock there's a tendency you could be at your office at 11 o'clock or even beyond. So learn to move we are early risers in Lagos state and I do hope that you're one of them that arises early when you get back home sleep early as well so that you can rise up early. The weekend is there for you to enjoy yourself if you have to unwind. So weekdays do your best to do the needful if you're running your own business as well well it's the same thing rising up early will help you get to your shop but then you don't have to sign a time book so if you have to take your time well we can understand with you but for those people who have to sign a time book or clock in to any office you have to rise early enough. Sometimes if you're on afternoon duty you still have to move early because if you're on afternoon duty and you have to report at 2 o'clock and you want to move at 12 the traffic might be so bad that you get to your workplace at 4 o'clock or thereabouts and you know what happens when the work when the offices are closed at 4 o'clock. Well it's a Wednesday it's a midweek and a lot of people after work they will go to church they will go to mosque they will go to places that they worship because it's the middle of the week and all that but whatever you're doing remember to put our nation Nigeria in prayer because a lot of things could happen in the few days because like they say hungry man is an angry man and how much this fuel problem is biting people we can't really know until we have gone like two weeks three weeks and if a solution is not found we just don't know what will happen but in your prayers pray that a solution will be found and then the people will choose peace over any kind of emotion that they might have because of this. So when you want to surf the net or you want to go through whatever is happening you find some things on the internet. Senate approves President Chinobu's request to appoint 20 special advisors and if there's anything that we can give kudos to this present administration is the swiftness with which they are acting. Whether solutions are coming or not but at least addressing issues or talking about issues is one thing that Nigerians had been crying about in the past eight years you know labor will go on strike it will take government so many days to talk to them whatever group wants to go on strike will go on strike and it will take so many days and when the government finally talks with them it always ended in some way but this time Joesu went on strike and promptly they met with the president and they called up the strike even though the 21 days that they gave will soon expire before you know it is 21 days we don't know what will happen at the end of 21 days but at least the response to whatever their problem was was commendable so if the government has not done anything the fact that they're talking with the people is good enough for a lot of us so but every government needs a team to work with and now the president has sent a list to the national assembly for approval not a list rather but a request for him to be able to appoint 20 special advisors that will help him run his government pending when he will have the ministers and every other person that should constitute that cabinet of his but for now those special advisors are very key to this administration and the approval has been given let's see in the coming days what the appointments will look like we hear that no particular list was sent to the national assembly with the names of people who are supposed to handle what portfolio but at least we know that 24 will be selected from among Nigerians to do what they need to do to help this administration to grow or to really kick start the way it should kick start well this is our Nigeria we do hope that competence will be considered above any other thing right now we should even be talking about anything when people were crying about religious tendencies or religious biases they said it didn't matter when people were crying about ethnicity they said it didn't matter so right now nothing should matter except competence except their ability to do what you have been asked to do what you have been chosen to do and we do hope that they're going to be patriotic Nigerians who will think about Nigeria above everything else when it is said that interest is what overrides everything in politics our Nigerian politicians a lot of them don't think about the interest of the country they think about personal interest and that way where a lot of them get it wrong so a a pdp person could think about the interest of Nigeria taking a different route from what the apc should take and the sdp the same thing labor party the same thing and all other parties might have their own roots but these interests that they have should always always come together when it's talking about national interest it's just different routes that political parties should take to get to the national interest that is the main thing that is the final thing when you think about personal interest then it puts us in the jam that we find ourselves no ideology no no no no no personal integrity nothing so long as the money is coming so long as you still remain relevant and all that you don't care you don't even care about legacy you don't care about what the people will say when you die today we still celebrate their wallow wars the aziki ways and all the people who fought for our independence and made sure Nigeria stabilized somewhat until we have this democracy that we have now we've had it from 1999 so the labor of our heroes past must not go in vain let's always remember that another thing we we can see is a union lack confirms students killing condolences with family we heard that unfortunate news that a student was shot in a union lack a union lack student was killed and some people were still thinking whether it was true or false well the school authority authority has said that it happened and the condoled with the family and we too our hearts go to the family of the the said student that was killed we do hope that they will have the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss okay they the student was shot by robbers that's what we're hearing and whether it's robbers whether they are killers whether they it's a cult whether it was a stray bullet whatever it is he's dead and because he's dead the family will be very broken we we hope that they will be strong enough to take that when you when you we know how difficult it is if you've ever had a ward go to school we know how difficult it is even for the rich and mighty to train your child in school and then your child is in school and then the life is caught shot all the dreams are caught shot the dreams of the child himself and the dreams of the family that sent that child to school we do know that some of them them hustle by himself that's the word that we like in nigeria to send themselves to school to train themselves in school so all that effort will go to waste give a thing like this happens god will protect us we do hope that the family like i said can bear that loss and may his soul rest in peace now efcc arrange two bankers for two million naira theft efcc arrange two bankers for two million naira theft i don't even know what to say about that one so you take your money to the bank the people from the bank stealing the money okay sometimes this stuff comes from the fact that some people have accounts with the with the banks and they die and then they sit on the money and some people share it we've heard stories like this as well but that is not the main issue that i'd like to talk about in this kind of thing that i've mentioned it's the fact that a lot of people have accounts that they don't let their families know whatever they use this money to do that they don't want their wives or their husbands to know or anybody in the family to know it beats me hollow and then when you die there's not nobody that can come to claim that money because you didn't let anybody know you might have a nex of kin written there you might have some a few people written there as people who could come but you never even informed these people and then the banks on their own will sit on the money and not contact or make any attempt to contact the family or whoever was given as the next of kin or someone who should be asked in case of any unfortunate happenings so if you have an asset you need to have someone who can who knows about it someone you can confide in that i have this in fact why wouldn't you trust your wife or your husband or your children or if you don't have any of these ones why wouldn't you have at least one friend that you can trust or why can't you have a charity organization that you will will all this money to when you die because we see that a lot from the west especially millionaires multi-millionaires willing all their money to charity so that when they die they the money continues to work for humanity why can't you do that if you cannot show your family that this is what i have where i have so this is a very worrisome trend people in Nigeria do not even want to ride wheels but even if you don't want to ride a wheel it it will still happen whatever happens will still happen but right now the story is about two bankers that are reigned for 20 million narrow theft well we do hope they're not politicians as well because we've heard also where people that were supposed to be prosecuted are not prosecuted they are even asked by the relevant of the authority to stay action and not prosecute them well we're not mentioning names right now but whoever commits a crime should be prosecuted the laws are there for prosecution and nobody should cut corners we should start seeing punishment for the bad that is done in a society we should also start seeing reward for doing good we remember a story not too long ago of a friend who who came to the studio and and we're interviewing him he recently won an award when they were giving not not an award well he was conferred with a national a national honor and that was because he found money big money he returned the money we saw another woman at the airport who did the same thing and she returned the money there's still good people in nigeria but we should get to see when people do wrong they get punished no matter how high they are when people do right they get commended not necessarily to give them money or anything else or to give them honors but let's just recognize the fact that if you do good people are seeing and we're helping you to pray to god that your life will be better i might not be able to give you a millionaire because you did something really good but i might be able to say god bless that person that is something good enough so have you ever given someone who is really hungry money to feed or food to feed have you ever done that do you know the kind of satisfaction that comes with that so when someone does right and you commend the person there's a tendency that person will do even better next time so let's learn that in nigeria as well so these people have been arranged that okay they stole 20 million naira okay let's see how that goes but that those will be the top trending that we've had there are so many other stories that we have that we could not just that we could bring to you but right now we'll just take a short break and see what the weather is right now and we hope that it will help you to plan your day when you see what the weather is stay with us