 Welcome back to the breakfast here on plus TV Africa. Now let's go to off the press where we get to share major stories making headlines across Nigeria today. I'm starting with the punch newspapers. Let's see what stories that we can find here. The first one. There's obviously on Sunday board says Benet rejectable hasty extradition lawyers write Germany to stop moves Ben insisted on repatriation hearing to determine whether it goes guilty or not. He's a lawyer Legal team to file additional complaints with German embassy today on Igbo's arrest and protests rocky ebado go to new in London over activists arrest Police attack or your protesters Still on the punch this morning federal government implementing seven percent tax waiver on aircraft and spares says on Yema Despite aggressive revenue drive federal government suffers 1.4 trillion our shortfall also Nigeria lost 53.26 billion Nair to gas flaring in two months says the NNPC Sanction officers involved in 274.2 million dollars external loan losses says the Senate We can also see 49 years of waiting overgrown weeds impassable roads tell manbilla power project stories of dashed hopes and also Baptist considering ransom for To free abducted students says we're boxed He job wearing lady paraded Fake name parading fake name rather caught with four hundred and sixty-five kilograms of drugs and 13 kilos boss ramps into truck on legacy bar don't express way These are the stories on the punch we can share this morning on the nation newspaper the headline reads the COVID lights in infection rose by 77% in one week Recovery rates drops by 87% NCDC warns of deadly Delta variant Above the headlines on the nation newspaper two million young Nigerians to get UNICEF job training Residents protest over abandoned 22 billion Naira Akure Ado road projects Generator fume kills family of four inquire Nigeria UAE in talks over gold illegally ferried to Dubai Ben a republic yet to a reign agitator Igbo police disperse protesters in Ibadan or your government uncovers 41 ghost workers and the APC APC is saying why we opt for consensus option Below the headlines on the nation don't destroy Nigeria's image presidency cautions Dambazel slams Kuka Media not government political enemies says editors and lastly on the nation Maki and they talks tough on security now to the daily son Igbo who protest rocky baddum caught a new court ghania dams flays for the government's attempts to criminalize case Media not supporting terrorists as NGE cautions NBC over controversial anti-media policies nine die 16 injured on legacy baddum expressway accident And I'm back group in a terrible elections. I'm ready to win. Oh, go to Cuba is saying Also again gunmen strike in Bainway kill 43 Raised houses Bachi governor gives emir's marching orders over banditry Also return of looted artifacts. I don't Muslims back above been in to take custody And also shake up in IPO be a past act as broadcaster for not following rules These are the stories on the daily song newspapers on the daily trust insecurity Zamfara kebi Niger lead has gone men kill 1031 Nigerians in one month 390 kidnapped northwest north central top fatality Nigeria overwhelmed needs help that's according to retired colonel and a security expert here is saying how to reverse trend 2023 will field consensus candidates that's according to the APC kidnappers abducts six residents in a boujah federal government lost 54.1 billion naira in exchange rates on external loan That's according to the Senate also in the daily trust below the headlines small-skill farmers raise a limb over poor access to fertiliser By Elsa SSG's mother adopted gunmen kill three month old baby 12 others in Benway FG can sue 7% surcharge on aircraft spare pads Those are the stories we're looking at underneath trust this morning. All right. Good morning, mr. Zickel, yeah, I talk. Thank you so much for joining us Pleasure to be with you happy salad to all Muslim faith foods I was told that close TV Africa had sent a ram to me people was arrested along the way I'm sure it will soon be released. So thank you in advance You're welcome Good body. All right. Let's quickly start with the of course a story that makes the headlines across All the papers this morning and that is Sunday boho's case It says that Ben a Republic, you know, government has refused to of course comply with the Nigerian government's requests What's your response to all that is currently playing out? The very first thing is that We have failed to prioritize issues We've failed to have what I call emotional intelligence concerning our national concerns We brought in Namdi Kano. I don't know to what extent they thought they had scored a major Victory in Nigeria as far as governance is concerned immediately after that they went after Igboho and I do not know if they think they've scored another victory I don't know how they do the analysis and then by time you put all these things together The question is exactly what is the mindset of our people in government and at this time I would like to zero in on mr. President Exactly. What is his mindset number one when Namdi Kano was? Was brought back the way he was What was the feeling of the generality of Nigeria's not southeast and west Now they've gone after Igboho. What is the feeling? Then we had our jet shot down shot brought down Where is our priority? We have in one of the papers a thousand people killed over 390 on the kid now Exactly what is the national discourse? What is the mindset of mr. President? What's the priority of mr. President? Within weeks or months of operation. I pop was designated a Terrorist organization. I have no problem with that now compare the activities the modus operandi of I pop with that of the bandits and How do we juxtapose? Align the actions that we take as government I'm putting all this together Exactly where have we left right thinking Nigeria and north south east west I know there are a lot of tribal sentiment, but I also know that they are Nigerians who are thinking Nigeria I run one of the biggest groups in this country Nigeria first project and I serve as a DJ in that group I have my full any brethren. I have my Yoruba brethren and an epic I have everybody represented and when these people talk they talk as Nigerians I have seen an Igbo man comment in a very very very aggressive and unheard manner on the way that the children of the north Who are so called our margaris, you know are treated and those that are paraded in the village in the in the forest Because of what they call the tradition. I've seen an Igbo man say it's not fair These are Nigerians they deserve to go back to school like our children in the southeast I've also seen a man from the north a full any person be very angry with the way the Devastation in Nigeria Delta there are still Nigerians that think Nigeria so my question is mr. President What is the real? Mindset of these Nigerians that think like Nigeria when will you give us a nation? Interesting and Anyway, we'll be looking at this issue in detail later on on the show and the Daily Trust newspaper There's a story that reveals you know What Nigerians many would say is shocking others who say doesn't come as a surprise that? 1031 Nigerians were killed in one month in Zamfara, Kirby and Niger State with 390 others kidnapped My miss. I talked. How do you see the story? It's it's Infuriating it's not setting It I wish I could find the words to use We were in this country when one American Was captured and How the American government? bent over backwards undertook an operation and rescued that one person one Then in one month we are having over 1000 Nigerians killed And it's like oh, we are going for consensus and for an ex-presidency Oh, I should be zone to the east and west and northern south. Oh, it's about politics And I don't blame these people honestly, sincerely, I Think that a dog will always back a cat will always meow It is an unintelligent person that will expect a dog to meow I will be angry with a cat that refuses to back These people should be known for who they are. They are political entrepreneurs The act of governance is really not on their plate at all And for us I stop blaming politicians that are in power because they came into power not to serve us They came into power for as an enterprise. That's why they sold their houses They are more gauged ourselves to the devil for them to be able to get to power and we collected their money from them We collected the rice we call it. I saw a video in a from Ghana where this politician brought a truck load of no items I think we said no please take the items back. We don't want give us jobs Are you going to give me this to eat every day for the next four years? No, you are not So please tell me how you are going to create jobs for me I don't want I don't want these things again if Ghanaians that we call, you know, you know There's this body language where the Nigerian sees himself as more sophisticated More endowed more cerebral more aware more Than than the average Ghanaian and here Ghanaians are teaching us lessons in governance and Do rightness the time has come when the youth of this country to wake up and discover that their country their future Have been completely this concept of leaders of tomorrow. I've said it youth are not leaders of tomorrow Children are leaders of tomorrow youth are leaders of today At 21 I had my first degree you call me leader of tomorrow 23 had my master's leader of tomorrow at 30 25 I married at 31 I had my three children At 37 I became the first Nigerian to get a firstly for shelter in this country And you call me leader of tomorrow doesn't make sense now the youth age has been moved to 45 They are gradually moving into 50 because they are not moving the age Youth age bracket higher and higher because the youth are not standing up those to wake up and see their country You know not violence. No, no, nobody should lose a soul. So bottom line is this how do we feel that in one month? 1000 Nigerians are killed Well in the same period 390 others are waiting for their parents to sell their house Shut down their businesses do everything humanly possible Destroy their lives terminate their lives to get ransom to pay him. Also. They are on the slaughter plate already and Nigerian leaders so-called Can see talk about 2023 and politics Wow, please fellow Nigerians and look at what's happening national assembly for the shame. I dare them. I double dare them This is not violence. No, no, no, let them not pass that electronic transmission of results Look at a PC a PC says everybody's coming home. They're getting larger. They are defecting good for you But why are you afraid if this a fact why we are afraid to go on? What is what is what is you know seen globally as best practice electronic? now for the man who came from NCC and Said that NCC coverage is 52% I wait for our senators to bring him back or her lawyers whether they set up you to bring him back I'm putting to justify that because if he misled this in the country He cannot it cannot be said on that carpet Something has to be done to that man who ought to know and came to the Senate and said that the 2g3g corporate on Nigeria is about 50% when as a two three years back They the NCC they had said was about 75% All right, miss. I am talk in the budget in the last budget There was about 15 billion provision for you know the extra capacity to expand net These discussions we go talk about telling you time has come we can't sit on the fence again. I won't All right, miss. I am talker. Let's still talking about the Senate as a story on the On the punch this morning that talks about sanctioning officers involved in 274.2 million dollars external loan Losses is from the Senate and I'll share what it says it says During the examination of note 51 and appendix to note 52 It was observed that there was a total exchange loss difference of 278.2 million dollars as about 54.1 billion Naira Reported by the office of the accountant general of the Federation in the document provided But this could not be found in the debt management office document So it seems like some funds may be missing here or there or or you know documentation might be a problem I'm not sure which it is but a Senate is asking for sanctions for those responsible They should not ask for sanctions of those responsible They should ask for criminal proceedings prosecution Not sanctions. What is sanction? I don't understand. Maybe I'm not a lawyer. So maybe that's a technical time I don't know, but I think that Anybody that is part of the fraud system if mr. President is serious I mean, it's never too late to do the right thing right now I personally had lost my my hope long ago on this question of integrity on fighting corruption But I think that I want to be pleasantly surprised and I will not mind if it starts today When you hear this amount of money, it is mind-boggling And yet we cannot have basics my brother. I'm in a quibble Acquired woman is one of the richest state in this country and I'm telling you I mean, I will not come on national television to cast to get our my own state But I'm telling you that if I'm to use Acquired woman as a yardstick on what poverty is doing to the average Nigeria then I feel awful about what is probably happening into setting setting states setting areas that don't have one Of what we have and yet in size. They are three times Who we are so even to use our state as a yardstick then I believe for this country and people are moving money in billions and trillions in drops Public funds and using public trust that they took an oath to defend the Senate should go beyond Sanction the people they should bring this report out, you know in the last budget in a five months I did something for what I brought up the auditor general's report put it in public Everybody to see and men did it go I don't know what direction to call it and that time has come all the leaders you call yourself elitist or elites and elitist Go to your state dig up the budget get the auditor general's real budget Make it public to the people because government must start to be accountable and the time to start was yesterday Next best time is today Okay, so I'm talking about 2023 elections. We've heard the APC speak. They're saying that regarding the presidential elections They will not let individual Ambitions to supersede or derail the Buhari administration and that instead they will seek a consensus candidate This is a story that we've seen on the punch newspaper as well Insisting that it will seek a consensus candidate What do you say to this because regarding twin-twin threat APC? There's been lots of allegations by the PDP that you know, there's a Buhari 3rd term agenda No, it's not it's not worry that Agenda worry will not as much as contemplate a third term agenda unless you're talking in terms of You know a rule by in by proxy, but in terms of him. You see Nigerians pray daily for God to give him good health to exit on a bliss of glory if He gets to this stage of his life and He knows what his health was like before he became president He knows what nearly hit him while he was president But many people including myself Went out of our way to pray for God to keep him alive To to help him to to to to complete not just complete but to finish strong He should not take the grace of God for granted. He should not that is my honest advice to him So I don't think that he's having any third term agenda. I think that APC lack strategic planning Strategic management of their affairs. They have hinged on one man. Oh, he's integrity He's integrity and suddenly they are discovering that the man is exiting the stage and they had no fallback plan As soon as the man started his second term If why is this thing to have done was to gradually move from his integrated to our party from his Integrity to our party by time he's gone halfway. The attention is focused on our party. We are doing this We are doing that our party our party and people are starting to come to a PC So I nearly said a DC a DC is actually by the way the party that I'm in right now And they are doing well, but let's not go there people would be coming to a PC because of the party That is wisdom But they've not been able to do that and suddenly they are discovering that wow the man is leaving field and then Have you noticed that in the electoral bill amendment that part to try to make direct primaries to be compulsory It's one of the areas giving them that you know headache because they want to go on consensus, you know, not just indirect They want to do consensus because you can do direct. You can do indirect you can do consensus It's allowed in party money, you know, not manifestos in party. How can I forget? Whatever it is, you know Constitutions, so I think that a PC is Everybody like I said earlier they claim that people are coming to the party in drugs question number one Is it because the party is doing so well? That everybody wants to run it Well, this is a house that is collapsing and the same man wants to run into a collapsing house There must be something we will interrogate and when they look at it and discover that if they had to go for direct primaries They are going to completely demystify themselves because the numbers just won't add up on the other hand There will be nothing not central figure to hold them together The day that the president leaves office trust me is on his way to to his place in the honor to take up his cows and everything All right, so a PC. They are neither here nor there the same We need is a third force, which is a credible alternative and I'm very happy with the management of a man a DC Who are stepping into this gap and then creating governance that is based on cerebral content and not because of size of pocket Finally I Think we can squeeze your thoughts in on the Baptist students The report on the point says a Baptist Considering ransom to free the abducted students. It also says they are boxed in I guess in a tie spot, you know also quickly and if you can in the just a minute share your thoughts on You know how long this has taken and you know, it doesn't seem like the government has the answers The government would have the answer based on their priority. Do they care? Do they care could they be bothered look at Leah Sharibu a Woman that Mr. President would have made a statement on Now I'm calling her a woman now. I'm calling her a woman because what else you call a mother of? We're told one or two children, right? Does he really care? Do they really care? I feel pain. I want to imagine I can't even don't want to know as much as imagine The mindset of the parents of these children and the ruthlessness the heartlessness of these Terrorists that we have refused to call them. So The parents are selling their houses. They are shutting down their businesses. They are doing everything possible I just want to appeal to these Terrorists I I I Beseech you by the message of God have mercy on these people on this on this poor parents They don't have the money you want. They don't have they've sold your houses. They've sold all they have They've sold your life what they want to all their life. They've sold these are poor people trying to make ends meet I want to appeal to you have mercy on them. I beg you All right Zazika I talk. Thank you so much as always for joining us and sharing your thoughts with us. We wish you a very interesting day ahead Thank you, and we pray that that Ram is released pretty soon Thank you Okay, let's take a break here and we'll return with today in history and we're back to the end 1995 we'll be back