 welcome to the breakfast and Awakness ofriminate here. Chris divorgated one rejoices this morning for of the press. Chris is good. To have you during us. Thank you so much. her birthday to you blessing. Thesecretive blessing in order to ju motherfucker. Disaster is known. Haft Cathedral. Master herd. Was the bás does barbarian?  constitution. We are all men of God. Yes. But Chris before we go into the papers is I believe that there's an ordinance that you may which I want to discard. Can you send them this way? These of you that voice-me to provide my mother's counsel They can talk me this way. It cannot come at a more time period than not happening because we need to say no naira, naira din amese so we must celebrate too. Chris, I mean it's so good to have you on the show, it's always a delight but let's quickly run through the papers this morning. We set up with the punch and of course you can predict what the headlines will be talking about this morning. And Matthew Lee finally bows to pressure, says ordinary notes illegal tender. CBN directs banks to accept and disbores old 1500 and 200 and redesigned bank notes. This obeying court order undermines rule of law, constitution and democracy. That's what the NBA president is quoted to say. And then you have the AGFC central bank of Nigeria governor. Don't need a bank of Nigeria governor. Don't need a bank of Nigeria governor. Don't need Buhari's directive to obey Supreme Court says the presidency. Now I mean it's a question that we have constantly raised as to whether we need if the Supreme Court is totally and if we say the Supreme Court is supreme and as the final court of the land then do we need another directive? Do we need the president? Do we need the CBN? You know whether as a person or as an organization to put a word as to the ruling of the Supreme Court. I can't wait to share your thoughts Chris Cain there. Federal government probes thefts in 1.1 billion dollars oil well. Nigerian to pay 1000 NIN fee for passports. I mean that's a lot of stress right there. Federal government shorts Lagos airport runway and diverts international flights. And just before we move away from that you say to the bull has no preferred candidate for national assembly leadership. That's according to the vice president vice president elect. I was going to say vice presidential candidate. Well he's elected out and that's it this morning on the punch. All right let's go over to the next papers and of course we'll look at. All right we'll look at the the the guardian up next. Buhari absolve self as CBN family obey Supreme Court. Before the CBN circular or president release was a excuse me shed. The presidency in court released a statement signed by Malam Garbache. Saying that the president Buhari had not told them not to obey the court. And the writers there say it all. Africa the first window caption Africa's energy crisis raises fresh health environmental concerns. 10th assembly leadership. I have no preferred candidates says Tinnable CBN debunks report of a mere fairly plotting against him. They actually put up a tweet with a with a stamp of fake news on that the nation is a headline. It put out a tweet and then put out a statement saying he was fake news. Bono Yabe risk acute food shortage World Bank alerts. Okay so those are some of the stories on the front page of the guardian roads. Viva remains LP candidate. Parties legal team clarifies election materials. We have nothing to hide INEC chair tells LP legal team. 60 lawyers stormed INEC office yesterday. Some members of the OB LP that OB that the LP legal team 60 of them. Maybe dwarfing the one that the one's representing the other candidates. Well let's quickly take a look at the daily trust newspaper. It talks about the old Naira note saying old Naira notes legal tender again. That's what the central bank of Nigeria has quoted to say. And then you find you have no reason not to comply with the Supreme Court judgment Buhari. Bank struggle to meet customers needs. And pensioners decry Naira scarcity say we're in pain. It's good news traders appeal as operators especially appeal as operators. Tunibu's election rejection of religious hatred sectarian politics. That's what the presidency is saying. Nigerians to pay 1000 era fee for NIN integration verification. And you also find fire destroys 100 shop stores in Kanu singer market. That's what we talked about on our top trending and national assembly leadership. I have not endorsed anyone says president elects. We have nothing to hide INEC chair tells OB's lawyers and seven states to watch ahead of the governorship polls. Why we're afraid residents are quoted to say and how to avert crisis. This is according to expat and CSOs well. Yes. So we'll take the nation very quickly before business day. Just a few from the paper. CBN OK is 1500 Naira old notes after Buhari's rebuke president. I never asked in BFLA Malami to flout Supreme Court judgment APC to decide. Zona zoning rather of national assembly offices after elections ADP NNPP ZLP others six others. And also Ligas runway shot for repairs. That's the mutual amount of international airport flights will not be affected. So we hear people called reserves judgment in a delicate suit to high energy cost affecting manufacturing says a man. That's the manufacturing or manufacturers association of Nigeria. Well we just quickly run through the business day and just take one or two. Then we have Chris Kennedy wanted to share his thoughts and on the business day you find. The cash chaos crunches farmers. OK. Buhari is 13 trillion or 13 million aggregate jobs on the threat. And then INEX budget for beavers surpasses market cost by 30 percent. Nigeria's biggest drug market six relief from FX pain. INEX grants labor party access to inspect election materials. Now this is some of the headlines we find this morning on the business day. All right. Chris Kennedy want to over to you. Thanks again for a time. Let's start off with this sort of some confusing situation where Nigerians have been saying. Look president Buhari give an order give a marching order to the CBN to obey the Supreme Court ruling. And yesterday the Supreme Court the presidency coming out not the president but the presidency coming out. See Mr. president has never said to to me a failure or a book a Malami essay and the attorney general the minister of justice don't obey the Supreme Court. So we are not part of it which was surprising to some people. I don't know if you can understand the surprise of many. But the rest is history the CBN has located. What are your thoughts? We thank God the nightmare is over because this is just a nightmare not just ordinary. And for the records the CBN don't need the directives of the president to implement the decision of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is the primary call of the land and immediately it makes a decision. It takes a decision so shall it be. And that's what it's supposed to be. So waiting for the president to give a directive to the central bank to me is just like an affront of the judgment. Judgment of the Supreme Court. With this taking close to about 10 days point of 11 days of their process. This judgment was issued by the Supreme Court. You expected that the executive of which the central bank is part of also obeyed. But is you know close enough that it was just few minutes or an hour after the president has issued that statement. That the central bank of Nigeria on this one came out to issue the statement that it has become illegal. So it's so obvious that where this decision is coming from. It's not that of the central bank but that of the president. Don't forget the president in his address. All the ones talking about this issue have said I directed the central bank. I directed the central bank. Only not to defer that it is he's the one issuing the order. So at times I just want to say let's do this to make it less prosecuting. Yes he had a program to me a policy which is good. But it's so obvious that implementation was his problem. And if you don't know where you're going to go back to where you're coming from. But instead of going back to where he was coming from. He continued going to journey of no return. He just a journey where he does not even have a destination. So let's I have said it that the president what he did or what he didn't do is tantamount to what he has always done. And this is not the first time we have seen instances where the president has disobeyed to pre-court judgments. On several as we saw what happened with Azazaki. We saw what happened with Dasuki. We saw what happened with Nandekano. And everybody kept quiet. So now that he has to he's affecting the governors. Now all of them are not shouting how the president is now being. What of the ones that have been here in the past. But good reasoning have come to sustain here. And then we will see what we have come from today. But what I hope I continue to access. Do you know how many Nigerians have died because of this policy. It's just that we don't keep data in this country. That keep it that you be shocked by the number of people that they affected, poverty, death. Of people that even died from health related issues because they could not because if you go to the. But that was yesterday. You remember what happened at the party which was in Kanosu. Where the pregnant woman died because the government pay the money. They said it was at the wedding but there are lots on today. They will not go to treatment. The pregnant woman died. So that is part of the problem with this. But I hope this wouldn't, I don't know. I hope this would happen again. We have to, 31st of this year, face up the old Naira notes. And that is what it is. And I hope that the bank will start setting out this money as soon as possible. Well, Chris, let's move away from that and look at the punch newspaper this morning. I'd like you to react on this. How do you feel about the fact that Nigerians are expected to pay a thousand Naira. For verification of the NIN. Now, I want you to also think about the fact that, you know, this body is actually a government agency. And so when you say verification, does it mean that there's some sort of fraud? What's the essence of the verification and why should Nigerians be paying a thousand Naira. To me that is double taxation as well as some concern. Because if you realise that some, even when the initial one was done and they said, when the telecom company was saying that you have to verify your number, you have to do this, some of these telecom companies also collected money. I know one telecom company that after trying it on my own according to how to go to the telecom company. And I think I was charged 2500 Naira for them to be able to verify that and I paid. There are instances where people are going to use it for passport for using and resting and they had to pay again. Now, why should I be paying for the verification of my NIN. And that is the problem with what they say about this country. People just come up with policies and look at ways of spotting Nigeria. I have been here of the school of thought that all our so-called, what do you call it now? Identical should be collapsed into one. Why would I have separate passport, separate driver license. This thing, if you want, what is it now? NIN, you go to, for BVL, for bank, they call it this. Why not in most countries, in practically all countries, everything is collapsed into one. And that is how they get a good database because if anything happens, or whatever it is, you commit a crime, you are traceable. But here, we want you to have identification. If you go to the FIRS and even if you lost what you got now, the revenue, they will say you should, also what you want to give, that does not work. But to me, this is highly unacceptable. Why should I be paying 1,000 NIN for verification now? At the point where I said that, what is it for international, what they call it now? It has a time frame. Yes, that can be really bad. You don't ask me, you don't come and tell me that I have to pay again for 1,000 NIN for verification of the NIN. For what? What is it for that? I tell the relevant minister in Charger, who should I be the minister of finance, as also the minister of communication and digital economy to be able to come out and verify that. But to me, that is very, very unacceptable. And this is just taking ideas for a ride. All right, Chris, thank you very much. Let's go on to some other stories. On the front page of the nation, the paper tells us that the Government of Lagos State has received an endorsement of six political parties, ADP, NNPP and ZLP. NNPP is the party of Rabi Musa Kwankoso. Nine, nine, nine. Okay, the paper says six. You say nine. 364 thus. ADP, NNPP. Sorry, sorry, I apologise. Six others, that makes it nine. Truly, truly that's the case. So what are your thoughts on this? Do you think this will have any reflection on the elections result, government election results come Saturday or Sunday? I don't think, I don't know. I better read that. You have to go back and what these two parties, what was their numbers at the last presidential election and national assembly election in Lagos. So if you go and look at and calculate all their numbers, the votes they got, that will tell you whether they have, they didn't have any impact on the election coming up. So there's not a wrong endorsement. The thing that the government is doing we're fine, it's all well and good. But I've always known that most of these political parties don't have any interest in contesting. They just bear the name. All they are interested in is trading away their tickets when it comes to election like this. It's only serious minded parties that the one I'm even surprised about is the NMEP, right? Because now for me as far as we're concerned, only for basic major parties in Nigeria which is the APC, BDP, Labour Party and NMEP. All the other ones since to be flowing. But there's nothing wrong in it that whether this is going to bring a level of votes, more votes for the candidates of APC. I don't know how that is going, but I really doubt it. But as we say, I say that the dynamics of this election may be different from what we saw at the presidential election. There may be some kind of changes in the political assay. And I think that most of the political parties are going to participate in the governors, sitting governors in most of these days who fight to the last blood of their blood to make sure that people really come out and vote for them. But let's see how this pans out. My own challenge is a society area because it's the issue of security. And I hope that the security agents are doing what they need to do. You saw what came out yesterday. We had the Nijami House to come out to debone a story that was written and published by the newspaper, one newspaper. The nation referred and online. We had the military's accusation of backing one political party or political candidate with the fact that it was even said that the governor of Central Bank has released about five hundred million narrations of the particular government candidate it may cost. Nijami came out to debone that the Central Bank also came out to debone by this system of politics and politicians had their way. But I just hope that the elections were held on the 25th of March when I didn't vote it right. Their results were not transmitted especially with the data of presidential election and I think it's coming out to tell us now that over one hundred and seventy thousand polling results have been transmitted and have been produced. And I ask, what happened? Why didn't you do that before? Because of the results. But let's see what happens. I think that some sort of something needs to be said maybe by the NUJ or by somebody about some of these stories floated by the papers especially the papers that have some affinity with a candidate or two a number of them out there in order to ensure that there's some sort of sanity within the polity especially as far as the ethics of journalism are concerned. Yeah, that's why personally if I'm if I'm in charge of TV stations although some radio stations as a professional there are certain papers that I will not review I will not review, I will not ask to be reviewed based on politics maybe after politics because as most of our colleagues have become instance politicians like their way, their manners and the truth and ethics to out of the window to dogs just to be able to please their political godfathers ownership and rest of them so when it's a certain there are certain needs to pass to pick up in the money and you say that their editorial policies has changed and they're basically all out not only even television stations radio stations that are owned by politicians radio stations that are owned by politicians and they use that the smarts in most of their politicians what they've learned in the past 10-20 years is that they've known the power of the media and most of them invest in media for whatever reason so that they can use it when it comes to their politics and they use it effectively so some of these editorias and I was thinking and I've been thinking that you know that just few days ago the NBC issued a warning to all TV stations radio stations, broadcast stations one of them issued for politics that they should be very careful although that's I totally disagree with them on that there is no reason for anybody to threaten any broadcast station if you have any issue then you go to the relevant authority which is born or if you go to take them to court rather than just issue a threat every time and trying to sanction people with 5 million 10 million error but it is obvious as I said that some of our colleagues have taken a stand and that in itself is not ethical at all which will be as neutral as possible but it is not only Nigeria you remember that CNN is pro-democrats and Fox is pro-publican in the United States of America since not only yet they don't make theirs glaring but our own people here the way they go about it doesn't sound real ok, I like us to also look at another paper there is still the punch where the president Elec says he has no preferred candidate for the national assembly leadership I like to ask you if you think that this is a statement of truth or it's just a mere statement let's say I'm sure you said you didn't believe it man you said you believed that kind that's what he said he laughed at me you know they have been having some meetings they have been having some meetings yesterday also yes, my politician he said not today is your birthday my politician will tell you not that today is your birthday your birthday is that story to me he will say today is your birthday he said we don't know and he will show you everything say in the time when you are born can ho only so how can he say that it doesn't happen, he has a candidate, the doctors doesn't want to say anything, they are already sharing the offices, and that is where it's gone. The fact is that there are going to be a lot of realignment within the national assembly because now that the president is coming from the southwest, it's obvious that the house of representative speaker will not come from the south, but Javier Milag will not return to the speaker of the house that is busy. Then also from the north, I doubt if the Senate president will be assigned to the north, being that the vice president is also coming from the north, probably has to come to the south, I don't know which part of the south is coming to the south. But it is time, it's high time, high powered, political going on and the rest of them. But for anybody to tell you that it's not interested, it doesn't, it's not interested in who will be coming, won't you remember the first time of President Muammar Dubuari, we are surakiri out of no, and give him serious problem with the first four years as a Senate president, so definitely I don't believe him, but that is the way they talk. I think we can also remember the battle to make sure Femi Bacha, Bia Mila was made the speaker of the house. The first is part one and then part two. Alright, so basically you say Mexico can't take that to the bank, all these politicians are saying, no pun intended, no pun intended. But it's not even taking to the bank, they will just say, don't even see me as a bank, make nothing and go there, this will be yours bank. Alright, Chris, thank you so much for your time. We have to say goodbye to you now. We'll be reaching out to you so we can continue the celebration of the air. But we're coming down to Saturday. Happy birthday. Yes, yes. Happy birthday to you. Thank you so much. We took place in the months of March, so happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. This much. Alright, Chris, thank you. Chris Kedewano is a chartered arbitrator, UK trade chartered arbitrator. He's been a guest on off the price. So we'll take a break when we come back. We have more discussions. Definitely. 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