 You are still watching the program, if you've just joined us, it's the mid-week frenzy edition of the breakfast on Plastevia Africa and yes, it's time for us to take a look at the headlines and some of the national newspapers in the country and we are beginning with leadership newspaper and leadership leads with a head of inauguration, rents, property value search in Abuja and the writer there, estate developers, landlords, agents make risks business. They make risk business as a result of the inauguration. New lawmakers, political appointees, scramble for accommodation, cost of building materials, inflation blamed. That's the leading headline on the leadership newspaper. You go on top of that leading headline, you have a sub headline that says Agora policy tax president-elect on prudence fiscal responsibility. Agora is a private sector policy think tank and they have said that the president, the incoming president, you know, should be prudent as he takes over the mantle of leadership. And you go on top of the leadership newspaper, you have PMB reappoints Abike Debrey Erewar as Natcom Chairman and the second over there on the top of the leadership is Adamawarek in police custody and he says, I didn't collect bribe. Details of that is on page 15 of leadership newspaper. I think that's it for leadership newspapers. No, that's not it. You still have on the side something very serious they have to do with our sector. Editor, seek press freedom, safety for journalists. Page six is where you find details of that. Editors seeking press freedom, safety for journalists. You have a quorumado, reps, echoers, right UK government plead for clemency. You do remember that organ harvesting story and then we can declare public holiday as Tunibu visits rivers. That's on page eight. We'll move away from the leadership now. We'll go to nature news and nature news has very interesting stories as well. Concerns as charcoal business takes toll on Nigeria's forests, mangroves, state governments, agencies move to kerb tide. Traders blame environmental pollution others for engaging in trade. That is on page three of nature news. We also have a story but I will say hopeful. Sorry. So we'll move to negotiations. Expect cleaner, greener public transport system. We can't wait. Nigeria's gas reserves now eighth in global ranking. That's according to a report that came in. And then we have something sporty on the 17 Afghan law early dedicates our water teammates on page 21. The boys are doing us proud. That'll be it from nature news. I'm from the nature news. We'll move to the nation newspaper and the nation newspaper is leading with a dam or please squeeze detain wreck. INEC commissioners. You have the writers there. Unisa Ari gives self up at force headquarters says I have no regrets. He is still very bold. And on the side of that you have first batch of Nigerians expected from Sudan today. 1,350 arrived in Port Sudan. 5,500 taken out of Khartoum and house leadership meets ministerial agencies. So we're still on that figure. 5,500. Okay. So on top of the nation newspaper's headline you have 57.4 million BVNs linked to bank accounts. 7,500 under watch list. Is your name one of that list? Watch list. All right. So Obiyad meets making phone calls to Oedipal and that's on page 5 my UK airport experience. Obiyad meets making phone calls to Oedipal and then right of there my UK airport experience. And so you have beside that NSIA launches firm to deliver healthcare expansion plan that will be found on page 6 and then Zenith bank shareholders get 100.47 Naira dividend. You find that on page 11. And right at the bottom of the nation newspaper you find Jam releases UTME results. You also have driver who slammed bus into training Legos remanded does it for the nation newspaper. Okay. We move to the Guardian and the top story there is negotiations intense lobbying among contenders as national working community meets. That's page 6. That's talking about Senate presidency. That's what is giving the making them negotiate and lobby. We have another story. CBN places 7,552 account holders on BVN watch list. Well, my name cannot be there. Okay. Tinnaboo's 10.8 million dollars London mansion. Buying property under investigation risky lawyer say that will be found on page 2. Federal airport authority of Nigeria to demolish more illegal houses around airports nationwide. That is news on page 5 of the Guardian. Sudan crisis. Lawmaker summon O'Nyema. Dabiri Nema officials will see that on page 3. And then we have Fintry Hills arrest of fleeing at Damawa wreck two weeks after. And finally crisis rocks assembly as members impeach speaker. We touched that a little bit yesterday. So, okay. So those were the headlines on the Guardian newspaper today. Yes, and we have a guest to join us on off the press to take a look at some of these headlines in the person of Tunde Kola Wole. He is a legal practitioner here in Legos. Good morning, Tunde. Good morning How are you today? It's always a pleasure to have you. Let's go straight to the nation newspaper, which leads with a Damawa. A Damawa, please squeeze, detain, wreck, INEC commissioners. Let's start with that. What's your take on the fact that he has finally been caught or he's in the police custody been creased? Well, the two complicated stories about his arrest, we've heard from some court that the man willingly submitted himself to the police. On the other hand, the police are telling us that they trapped him and then were able to arrest him. Whichever is the case, there is immaterial disclosure in time. What is important is that the man, which is the police, and we also tell the police everything that we know and what road he played in the Deepaku that was the Damawa Govnoti election. Without making too much inclinations, one could say that what happens, it can be resolved, it has not been completed. Under our law, it's a very, very serious impact. In fact, it is not too far away from prison. As Ryan and I do know that the prison car is very onerous, consequences under our law. Because what the man did is capable of transmitting these democracies, which we have been not trying very carefully since 1999. We will also not try and prejudice whatever the police might be looking at. Let us just say for now, he is in police net, and we are told some other persons are supposed to be invited. Let also that the police will be a thorough job and arrive at a bend that will make it as possible to pursue the man in the court of competent jurisdiction. And if he has no place to enter, to let him be. If he has some other accomplices too, then we expect that the police will start their drag net and then bring in all those people. Women, the court of women have aided and updated. Women have compiled with this work to do what they did. Because when you look at the notification of what happened, you want to believe that it is a physical product. One man will begin to do, or to embark on the course of action, which they let cut and back to him. He has given himself up, has been arrested, whichever it is. He's saying that he has no regrets. How do you respond to that coming from the man who's been in hiding, finally coming out, either being arrested or giving himself up? He's confident that he has no regret over his actions. Well, he knows that from the little that I read from the statement that we have made, he has said that he didn't collect blood from anybody to do what he did. He's also claiming that he has the responsibility to do what he has done. But when you look at his natural act, and I know that, you will agree with me that the red is the overall head of the high net office in Adelaus too. Additionally, he has a final responsibility, which is just to work out. This idea of bringing people from outside America, university, to further another, to come and do clinical and mental results and others, was something that is for my next chairman to give some credibility. I wouldn't know whether that has been incorporated into the regulations I guideline, which I make is to visually draft and give to all their functionaries, running elections. What regulations and other things are incite not to supplementary to the electoral act? The electoral act is the main thing. Other regulations that I like, though, is supplementary to the electoral act. And it is the supplementary thing, the regulations that I like, though, is also recognized by law. What we want is to take precedence over the other. First is the constitution, second is the electoral act, and the I like guidelines. And precedence, the other one that is integrated into the electoral act. I suspect that this work is relying on the constitution and not only relying on the electoral act, to a factor to make it clear that he is making, that he acted within the podium of his office. Because if this matter eventually goes to court, we have to interpret that and give their decision with regards to whether the man is within the podium of his office, or he has gone on the tourniquet of his own. Well, I'm just wondering how different is this case of Adamawa from what happened at the national scene? Because a lot of people who are talking against Adamawa is that he overstepped, he did what his children have done, which means they feel that the provisions in whether the electoral act or the constitution did not give him that power to announce the result, especially when the coalition had not finished. And if they are going to take this case to the court, what document are they going to use to judge the case? Because that same document, which we are hoping they're going to use to judge the case, also said transmission of results from the polling units should be done from the beavers to the IRF and all that. And it was jettisoned for whatever reason that they are giving to us. So if they prosecute him, what now happens at the national scene? What is the difference that gives this one a bad name and the other one a good name? Well, not like you said. The law is the prophecy of what is important to see, and most of all potential. Like I said, the constitution is the organic law. That is the government. The most important of all the laws are not followed by the electoral act. And of course, the INE group and the constitution comes into that. The beavers have to talk about, I'm not to show that the beavers are not incorporated and passed into the electoral act. It only says that elections can be constituted electronically. And you are now seeing that the electoral constitution of results is not necessarily through beavers anymore. And even when the law has no provisions for that, like the Yannis, Yama, and Abu Dhabi, the presidential elections are not allowed. They have to be a force major. A force major in the sense that if there are issues with the technology, like lack of internet, that we sometimes play everywhere, we go to our banks to do transactions, and the banks who say they have no internet have the order, they have to have other accounts. They have to wake and come back the following day, or whatever. That is a force major. I suspect that all the INE's in Abu Dhabi are relying on me that there will be a force major, which may be impossible for them to transmit the results to the beavers and then the electoral, any other electorate. For the Yadamawa issue, there wasn't an issue or not aware of any issue. It transitions the results to the beavers and the electorate. I think what has been that relationship was considered in certain places and what has been. And rather than way that all this should be properly handled and what has been, the former REC 28th of the year had the results, whichever way we look at it. I like as a body, at the federal level, who still did want to be blamed for not just what happened during the presidential election, but also what we saw in the Yadamawa during the presidential election. Too many times we sent the Yadamawa breath and Nigerians in the Pega and Nora as they are in between Abu Dhabi. The readiness to transmit the results to beavers and other electorate means. And they were sure that they were prepared. In fact, before the electorate was passed, part of the living that we sent in, for example, didn't want to incorporate an electronic transition of results and electronic voting into the electorate was that they fear that in certain parts of the country, at certain times, it might be difficult to transmit results either to beavers or to upload this into the server. And it's not like that. Because of the peculiarity of our situation, lack of electricity in certain places, lack of internet, inadequate internet coverage in some others, can give them the manpower. I give you an example. So many officials who have set and studied the responsibility of transmitting some of the results to beavers, didn't actually know how to operate that machine. You know, so he's the man who doesn't know how to operate a machine that and all that. If you have not been given adequate training, one has to operate it. And if you have been given training, and it's not smart enough to know how to use those things, because it is a technology carry, it doesn't have the technological power there. Some of these things are really difficult to insist that they should be done when there is a false material like that. So one much is given, much is also expected. I make a doubt for you, you have to be careful that we mention whether the government of this region, they have also been given adequate resources in terms of learning, in terms of manpower. Almost everything that is requested for were made up very quickly. So to one much is given, much is also expected. All the excuses and nonsense that we have to mention, what's not to have a reason. In fact, when you are using technology, you are supposed to have some back of them there, so that when one fails to, you quickly switch over to the second one, so that you know the disappointment with what you want to do. So we will wait and let the cost decide the face of both the wreck and also we will see the current imagine making. We will get to the performance of the INEC in the context of the election. Okay, so it just shows INEC was not 100% prepared because if the people who are supposed to know that couldn't operate the machines. But let's move on from election matters to another very interesting one. First batch of Nigerians is expected from Sudan today, so many days after today. 1,350 arrived in Port Sudan and 5,500 taken out of Khotum house leadership meets ministries, agencies. So we are expecting the first batch of our evacuees from Sudan only today in Nigeria. What are your comments on that? Well, for me, it's good that the first batch are coming in, but on a scale speaking, like most of us speaking, nothing within two other countries in the evacuation of Nigerian citizens in Sudan. Look at the 60 manai and with the American government, the British government, the German government, the Japanese government quickly evacuated their citizens and now others. Whereas we are in Africa and we have a better advantage to get the evacuation of our people. There has been a very long historical relationship between Sudan and Nigeria. In the past, when there were no flights and water routes, people used to take from Nigeria to Sudan and then to make up to participate in the arch in less arch and then the main arch and norah. So for them, Nigeria has one of the biggest embassies in Sudan. So at the time, the panel of Northern Nigeria used to have some of the most disease in Sudan. You also know that Sudan has one of the world's largest movement in the past within its soil. And if you also look at the number of Nigerian students who are set up in school in Sudan, about 10,000 of them, this will tell you the historical relationship between Nigeria and Sudan. So one would have the expectation that the federal government, who have a better communication, who have a better rapport with the Sudanese authority, so that within 48 hours, like these other countries are able to do, they will be able to evacuate our citizens. But rather, we hire their party and then take them to Egypt. Yeah, Egypt, again, delays as they put in and allow them to come because they were said to not allow them to come. That didn't happen because of other country and norah. The people, I mean, the refugees, people who were running away from war and not expected to have their visa, they just fell through. The content, the disguise, the apprehension, the hostilities that we as Nigeria have always get from people and from countries that we have been always, that we have always been highly and well disposed of. I suspect that the Egyptian people also don't trust our citizens. The thing that if they easily come in there, they might not leave. And if they don't leave, they may begin to create more efficiency and engage in a criminality in their country. If the women want that to happen. Yes, Tunde, the fallout of the way our officials handle the evacuation of people from Sudan has led to lawmakers summoning on them. That's the Foreign Affairs Minister and the Honourable Abike Dabir-e-Rewa and NIMA officials to come and explain to them. But that's on the one hand, because we also have part of the headlines where President Mohamed Abu-Hari has reappointed Honourable Abike Dabir-e-Rewa has not come chairman. Can you comment on this as you blend them? Well, by and large, I think that Abike Dabir-e-Rewa is, in a way, not done too badly as chairman of the agency that he has. Actually, so far, he hasn't had any serious conduct with regards to the activities of that agency. My suspicion is that there wasn't a synergy between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and also the agency that Abike Dabir-e-Rewa had. Most times, rather than work as a team, these agencies begin to rival themselves, they begin to contest among themselves. Not just as a guy who is going to get the job done, but also who is going to take the credit at the end of the day. And when two LFs are fighting, it's usually the guys that suffer. Most times, in a grand people that suffer, when different agencies of government begin to rival themselves as a guy what is to be done, and needs to be in a very, very strict manner. But if I was a Monomaluwari, I wouldn't have appointed Abike Dabir-e-Rewa. Why do I say that? Some of the appointment that the President is making today, in a way, will tie them behind the incoming President, because the appointment that Abike Dabir-e-Rewa is going to be for another ten or four years. That is to say, if the incoming President and incoming government are not even pleased with the review at work, and they're not pleased with their strategies at work, they cannot remove it, they cannot do anything about it. If they have to do, they might be falling into the same trap which they fell into with the Kermos NNPC, an argument, who has gone to court now, and the court has said it should be paid billions of Naira for the showdown manner which was removed as the Kermos NNPC. It is just a few days to go. The President should have waited for the incoming government to begin to make some of these appointments and Naira, so that the hands of the incoming government will not decide, and there's no negation of that coming, for staffers and for agencies that they might not be too comfortable with. Okay. Well, thank you, Tinder. Let's move from that to the Guardian newspaper. And a very interesting story is there about the crisis rocking the Abya State House of Assembly as members in Peach Speaker. They moved out of their assembly in Nigeria as not lead up to the Nigerian people's expectations. Most of them have become a robust camp for the governor at the state level, and here at the federal level, they've become a robust camp for the President. Take the famous, for example now, those who wanted to become famous presidents, and wanted to become famous presidents, other political officers, are now going to then become a president, to lobby him, to be appointed, or to step into those issues. So if he was the one that did not do that, and he made it possible for them to become famous presidents and speakers of other places, how would they be able to offer their independence when eventually the government takes up the same thing for the state? The governor decides who become the speaker, and who doesn't hold any principle of the state, and he respects the state of assembly. He collects that in a key state, not too long ago, the president governor in the key state had his own candidate for the speaker sheet, and then the house gone governor, Kaya Gepa, also wanted his own lawyer list to occupy the post of the speaker of the key state of assembly. When the incumbent governor went and appointed, and then got his man sworn in, Kaya Gepa and me sworn into action, and I think the speaker was removed, and Kaya Gepa and me's candidate was eventually made the speaker of the key assembly. If you look at what is happening in the state that we are talking about also, two issues may be responsible. It could be that the governor of that state is not uncomfortable with the speaker of the other assembly, or the members of the other assembly are not comfortable with the performance of the speaker. So the extent that some of the people in the inspector, they will be getting, in terms of positions, in terms of the money, in terms of other package items also, if they think they are not getting it, they are not. The challenge is what they will be able to remove the speaker, to pay the will for somebody else, who might be willing to dance to their tune and get them whatever they wanted. But I suspect that it is not impossible that the governor will have a hand in this. And if he doesn't have, if the other assembly decides to assert himself, and the governor feels that he is going to do his judgment, the possibility is that the governor will still go ahead, in the future, and remove the speaker, and impose his will in the candidate. We collect also what happened in the process, that the other assembly, in order that the governor may not have a driver, competitor, or people who claim him and not. The other assembly will shut down for years, and the governor will be able to maintain and remove the roof of the other assembly, so that the lawmaker has no place to sit and hold meetings, and not to show that they still have that, or whether that the building has been reduced. So these are some of the issues that we have been contending with, because in the return to this republic in 1999, we just pray that the legislators will know that they are also the separation of power between the executive, the legislator, and then the judiciary, and also to his or her leader, the governor, to be the first president of the republic. They are also to be some separation of power between you two, and these are the organs of the state, as I have mentioned. All right. Okay. That would be the much we can take on this segment of the show today. I would like to say thank you to you for coming on the show and giving insight to some of the headlines. Thank you, Tinde. We'll be taking a break now to come back. Yes, so we'll be taking a look at the cost of insurgency and banditry in Nigeria. You want to stay with us as we take a look at the impact of banditry in this country. We have a very interesting guest that you want to listen to. Stay with us as we take this break and return on the breakfast.