 President Mohamed Buhari's plan to revive grazing routes meets strong opposition in southern Nigeria. Most states say the ban on open grazing remains. The union of telecommunications workers begins a three-day one-in-strike over led, low-working conditions. Google Council's social media app CroE from Play Store, after multiple complaints, will tell you why Nigerians are talking all about it. Welcome to the Breakfast on Plus TV, Africa. It's a very beautiful Tuesday morning, the 15th of June, 2021. I am Annette Felix. And I am Osawi Omar. Thanks for joining us this morning. It's back to work because our public holidays are over. Yes. The showline duration will be really, really easy today. Thanks for, of course, finding time to be a part of our program. And in case you didn't know, traffic on the streets at Terrible Lagos, you know how the morning rush usually is, especially being the day after a public holiday, people are rushing back to work. So the traffic really isn't smiling at all. Well, I think everyone should be used to situations like that by now. You know what to expect right after a public holiday. Everyone is back being busy. It feels like everybody in Lagos has a car. So there are so many vehicles on the road, bosses on the road. The public transportation system is not enough to cater for as many people as possible. So everybody, you know, needs to get a car. That's why there's so much traffic, besides the fact that there's so many people in Lagos. Well spoken. Moving on to our top trending story, Google deletes Adamo Gabba's Crowe from Play Store. And we know that after Twitter, you know, was banned in Nigeria, also suspended by the presidency, Adamo Gabba began to tweet, saying that, first of all, that it was insulting for a company, as he called it, Twitter, to interfere in the national politics of Nigeria and saying, if you were a government, that's a different matter. But this is a company, you have no right to interfere with our territorial integrity that was wrong, that was insulting to the presidency. We saw many other people, including that popular actor, saying it's not just a slap on the face of the president, but on all of us Nigerians. So he went on to say he has a new app on Play Store called Crowe, and the Nigerians should download Crowe, join Crowe now, support Nigeria, support apps that are built by Nigerians, for Nigerians. You know, people went on to download Crowe app, but the reviews have been unfavorable so much that Google deleted Crowe app from Play Store. I mean, take a look at your screen. What you're seeing are, you know, the logos of Crowe, pictures of Crowe app on the Play Store, but that doesn't exist anymore. It's all disappeared from Google Play Store because Google took it out. Now, reading through Google and their policies, they're saying that they remove applications that are perceived to have violated their policy, and, you know, people have been talking about it. Nigerians' concern, basically, is, first of all, the logo. I mean, when that logo comes on your screen again, you would say, when I first saw the logo of the Crowe app, this is even much better. There's another one that is so dark, and I said to myself, is this a social media blog, microbogging site, or is this... It just seems so dark and mystical, you know? It's like a... like a... Exactly, it looks so mystical, so dark. Why would a social media site be so dark? Such a dark theme. I didn't really understand where they were going, you know, what they were trying to achieve with app, but people have also criticized that, saying, you know, first of all, that the logo or the icon is... looks very bad, the dash, but looks fraudulent. People say the trademark looks like that of ISIS. Now, these are reviews placed in the app that I'm reading out, that the trademark looks like that of ISIS, and that people are suspecting that the app is from that side. They went on to ask Apple to take it down and send their rates and it's zero stars. Other people say, yeah, the same thing, that this app has been found to be used for recruitment purposes by terrorist organizations like Boko Haram and Eswap. They went on to say, Crowe steals your personal data, which developers turn in for fishing. It's harmful to your device. I had to do a factory reset, you know, when I installed Crowe. And other reviews say that the app keeps attacking people with pornographic advertisements and content. You know, so there's just a lot of bad reviews. Another one, which is even more disturbing, is people found out that Crowe basically copied and pasted the terms of condition from Spotify. And, you know, some other fact-checking platforms did their findings and found that Crowe copied and pasted the terms and conditions from Spotify. They never even did any edits. If you click on it, it takes you straight to Spotify's website. So it's just, it was a poorly developed, poorly, poorly developed application. Google's taking it down because it violates their policies. And they say until they make updates, until they make reviews before Crowe app can be found on Apple or Play Store for downloads again. Alright. So I hope I can squeeze in my thoughts with this one. You know, the first one would be on the logo. Yeah. So first of all, I'll start by saying, you know, that I personally, and this is my personal opinion, don't like to give certain people, because the time, my screen time, I don't like to give certain persons, you know, that much relevance to be, you know, talked about, you know, at length. All the while since, you know, the, you know, N-SARS, prior N-SARS and all of that, you know, he has, you know, popped his head up, you know, here and there, you know, even, you know, right from being a presidential candidate. Making controversial statements. Yeah, even before that, you know, he was a presidential candidate at some point. Right from, you know, that era, you know, I've just intentionally chose to not let, you know, certain characters feel my mental space, because I feel like they're total distractions and they're disrespectful to the cause that we, you know, should be on you with regards, you know, Nigeria. So there is that. About the logo. That's really left for whoever it is that was, you know, part of the development team and what they thought was going to be, you know, interesting. I don't know how it's pronounced. So that's how much I have taken and, you know, made sure. Cool way, I guess. That's how much I have made sure that it doesn't in any way enter my head. I don't want to know anything whatsoever about him, or about the app, or about, you know, any of these characters. You may mention of the other, you know, actor who I don't know his name either. I don't know either do I. You know, these are persons that I, you know, just don't want to care, you know, about, because they do not align in any way with, you know, the cause that we're on. Okay. The reviews that you read, really, I believe were intentionally done because Nigerians on social media, most of them on Twitter had, you know, seen that this was a total, you know, destruction and disrespect to everyone who was vocal during the Ansar's protest. And so when he began to have his own counter opinions for his own selfish reasons, agreeing that all the app disrespected, and that's the thing that I don't understand how. So eventually I have to, so this is the thing, I have to accept that we live in a world where everybody doesn't have to share the same opinion. And I have to accept that there's some opinions that would just be totally insane. But you have to accept that, well, that's that person's personal opinion. And so when people, just like the, you know, the actress's husband supporting the ban on Twitter, when persons, you know, that you would expect would be learned, you would expect would have, you know, a very, very broad sense of things across the world. Decide to take a side that just, you know, just doesn't make sense to you. You have to accept that, yes, that's their personal opinion and they have the right to take that stand. When people, you know, look at the issues surrounding it, you know, Twitter and all that has happened with concerning under government accounts or Boris account, and that is what they are able to deduce from the whole story and say, oh, you disrespected the president and all of that. I don't know how they come up with these things, but I've gotten to realize that it's for their own personal interest. And so where, you know, it takes me off is really because I see people who will willingly sacrifice whatever it is, sacrifice their country, sacrifice their democracy, sacrifice whatever it is for their own personal interests. And that's, you know, the group that these people fall into. It doesn't matter what it meant for Nigeria, it doesn't matter what it meant for our democracy, it doesn't matter what it meant for our freedom of speech. Left to him, it can go and burn as long as his own app is successful. And so I can't feel bad or give these people that level of, this is the longest conversation I've had about these characters ever in my whole life, including the times when he tweeted, whatever he tweeted, including the times when, you know, even now that the app has been deleted. Another point is, these actions are taken by Google, taken by Twitter, taken by Facebook, whatever organization in the world, when there's reactions from, you know, a group of people, I don't think that they would have taken it down if there weren't people who went to drop those bad reviews on the app. I don't think that they would have noticed it if those people, if Nigerians didn't go on there and drop those bad reviews and talk about, you know, how it links people to Boko Haram and ISIS. Exactly, because there's thousands and thousands of apps on there. There's so many of them and, you know, they continue to rate it as defined on the app. There was no way to rate it lower than zero. Those people would have done that. But that's what happens when people decide to take action and say this doesn't align with the cause of justice and fairness and what, you know, what we should be looking for as a people. And that's exactly the same thing that happened with the president's tweet. Not because anybody didn't like his face or didn't like his handle, but because they realized and they saw that there was something wrong, fundamentally wrong with that tweet. And so they reported it. And the app then took action when there's, you know, the level reported. And I've said this before that anybody who doesn't, and anybody who found Namdi Kanu or any other person on the app to be posting things that they did it like, they have that right and, you know, the space to report. And as long as you report and there's, you know, hundreds, dozens of people reporting a particular account, just try it on any app. You get a response and the app will eventually take action. So this is the longest that I've spoken about. Crow, crowy. Okay, so just something else I need to point out here. Twitter deleted a tweet of President Mohammed Buhari. Adam Ogaba defended the president and said Twitter was wrong to have done that. Let's boycott Twitter, right? Now Google has taken out Crowy, Adam Ogaba's app from Play Store. And I'll run it and say, oh, we're going to, why does Google have to interfere in our personal matters? We're going to boycott Google. He's saying, oh, we're going to make updates to the app so that Google, it's just funny. Now moving on now to our next top trending story. We know former minister of finance, Kimya Doshu, she's launched, she has a foundation, the Dash Me Foundation. So on Sunday they launched a, it thrifts for charity initiative of that foundation. It's called the Dash Me Store. So basically they're saying that they're going to aggregate donations and working with other NGOs and charity groups in Nigeria. Aggregate donations from there, put them together into the Dash Me Store and make sure that all donations are given to the actual beneficiaries. At the launch of the Dash Me Store on Sunday, Eminem personalities like Vice President Professor Yimio Shirajo was there. He spoke, you know, talking about how he's always known Kimya Doshu to be a philanthropist, someone who has the interests of the people at heart. And that's how she was minister of finance. There was lots of budget allocations for, you know, social and humanitarian issues. And just basically praising her work for, you know, the great things she's doing, trying to help the less privileged in Nigeria. Yeah, you know, he also made mention that it's the first, you know, if it's kind in Nigeria, it was wrong. You know, there's been, you know, many other platforms very similar, maybe not on the scale that she's, you know, done it, but there's been many other platforms where people donate their old clothes, you know, donate money, donate food stuff, and then they give it to the less privileged in the country. So I have a friend, Olamide, I believe, who has also done something similar, you know, and set up his own platform where you can donate anything you're not using or donate funds, donate food stuff, you know, and they give it to less privileged. It's not the first one. And, you know, so best of luck to, you know, spend our own food drive or our own, you know, that should be closed, you know, whatever it is, drive. I don't want, you know, to, I don't want it to take away the conversation or distract Nigerians from the conversation, you know, concerning what we're currently dealing with in the country. And, you know, let's keep our focus on the fact that there's still Nigerians dying and still being kidnapped and, you know, there's still very, very unsafe to travel across the country. And, as the president, I believe, should, you know, remain focused on, you know, you can show up at events and give your own small, you know, pretty speech, but don't forget that what's most important is the fact that when 59 Nigerians die, you can't turn your eye, you know, you turn your face the other way, not like it doesn't matter. There's a 59 Nigerian lives. There's a 59 Nigerian families. There's a 59 Nigerian human beings that will never come back to Earth again because security failed them. And that should continue to remain our focus if we are truly dealing with a government that understands its responsibility of protecting lives and property of Nigerians. So, I'm not going to be distracted. Best of luck to, you know, the Dashby clothes or Dashby items drive and whatnot. Alright, let's take a break here, return to see what the papers are saying this morning.