 Welcome back to the breakfast here on Plos TV Africa. Now let's quickly get straight to the newspapers and see what stories we can share with you this morning. We're going to be joined by Mr. Tunde Kolaouli to of course have his thoughts on these papers out there. We'll start with the Daily Independent Newspapers this morning. It's going to be on your screen in just a few seconds. Yes. It says on the Daily Independent this morning. Okay, well, I think I have a different one. It says lubricants import hits five hundred million dollars, high maintenance costs by 300%. I think we have a wrong paper on the screen this morning. We're gonna have to fix that, but I'll keep it going. Also on the Daily... Oh, I beg your pardon. Actually, I'm the one who's making a mistake here. Still on the Daily Independent. Banks hedge against lending over assets quality concerns. COVID-19 scant inspectors Scotto Green Africa inaugural flight. Also anxiety intrigues in APC as a national convention date remains uncertain. You can't stop amendment of Constitution. PDP warns Buhari cautions him on warfare resources. Arrogant dictatorial remarks. That's also on the Daily Independent this morning. His position confirms his sectional president says Pandev. Also, EFCC goes after open or rather Ogun State Assembly. Police repel attack on station skilled 14 bandits in Binway. Federal government borrows. Okay. Second Niger Bridge will be ready next year, says Fashallah. And I think those are the ones that we can share this morning on the Daily Independent. Moving on now to the punch newspaper. States cry for cops. Bandits change. Strategies. Attacks schools en masse. 130 secondary schools in 130 secondary schools in Zamfarat deserted communities shot. 315 secondary schools in Keby lack security, says NUT chairman. Sheikh Gumi says no schools safe until governments negotiate with bandits. Above the headline on the punch, recapitalization. Insurance industry assets rise to 2.02 trillion Naira. Twitter usage. Sarah Psews-Buhari lie alleges federal government curtailing free speech. FG spent that's five billion dollars fighting poverty in five years. That's according to the minister. Media Beals. Buhari National Assembly attempting to criminalize journalism says ICPC. FG plans action as a vacity workers threatened crisis over staff schools. Power distributors get CBN loans to tackle funding problem. Also on the punch newspaper, NDLA arrests security agents selling drugs to undergraduate and cultists. AFCC demands Ogu Assembly financial records probes alleged fraud. Also Oshun Claire's 1,023 hectares for Koko Kasawa tomato cultivation. Police intensify search for super TV, CO's killers block accounts. Jam blames NIN requirement as revenue drops to 5.8 billion Naira. And lastly on the punch newspaper, APC fixes convention for October. Crisis in states persist. All right, moving on to the Daily Sun. Newspapers this morning. Second, Niger Bridge. 2022 completion date remains as the federal government. Capital market CP issuance hits 3.5 trillion Naira, a scarcity of IPOs persist. Buhari on the fire, a Fenfere, Pandef, NAF, Oaneze, MBF, and others attack president of a position on restructuring. Information he has responsible for his comments as the ACF and the PDP calls for restructuring, not synonymous with warfare. Also, Buhari Mitzengige and Gambari over insecurity in the southeast. Kegama says our boat sinking. Nigerian refugees in Niger, Chad and Cameroon, rises to 312,069. Also, security beef-up in Wari as Oluwawari's burial rights begin. Federal government, Lai Mohamed, sued over directive to broadcasters to stop using Twitter. And NDLE in NAB's law enforcement officer and six others for dealing in cocaine and others. Those are the stories of the Daily Sun this morning. We're going to quickly go to Mr. Tunde Kolaoli this morning. Thanks for joining us once again, sir. All right, let's start with the Serap, suing the Nigerian government and Lai Mohamed over its ban on Twitter and how it affects broadcasters. It's not the first time that we're seeing a lawsuit by Serap against the federal government. How do you think this one might turn out? Mr. Kolaoli, can you hear us? No, can you repeat that, Mr? I can't quite get it. Okay, I'm asking about the the story concerning Serap, suing the federal government and Lai Mohamed concerning its ban on Twitter in Nigeria. Well, I think that is their purpose to do a free speech is very, very circumcised, not just for the wedding of the society, but also for the democracy that we are practicing. And if you also look at all the conventions around the world, whether the United Nations Charter on People's Rights, the African Charter on Women and People's Rights, the West African Protocol, and the Air Force Protocol, and then the Nigeria Constitution. It provides for free speech. And you and I will remember what one American president said, that if you were to choose between a society without a government, but with a viable system for media industry, he would prefer to have a media industry, I mean a media society without a government. That is also important. Free speech is to all society. So when a government or a group of people decides to take away people's free speech, it shouldn't be tolerated, rather than engaging as FF courts in their public places to set two issues like this. I have a feeling, that's like we are fighting a battle of cases, that our courts will rule the people of Serap. When you look at those positions of the Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court, and the Federal Court in the past, it has always been in favor of free speech. For them more, and more importantly, we need to re-emphasize that the courts in them are even deleting a section of a politician's tweet, or of the president's tweet. It should not be equated and should not be synonymous with the rise of 200 million Nigerian people to have access to Twitter. For God's sake, we are no longer in the global age, but in the age of Napoleon Bonaparte of France, in which Napoleon was a satan, this state, I am this state. It is whatever I want that my citizens get. So I encourage Serap to pursue this logical conclusion. For the welfare and good governance of his society, without free speech, you can have free society. Okay, Mr. Calawale, on the punch newspaper, we're seeing very grim statistics regarding the security situation in Nigeria. It says states cry for cops and bandage change strategies. Talking about how bandits change strategies and attack schools, saying 130 schools in Zanfarat state and deserted communities shot 315 secondary schools in Kebi Lak security and Shigumi here advocating for that negotiation with bandits, saying that until that is done, no school would be safe. What do you think about these, you know, insecurity challenges regarding schools in the north, and how do you tie that to that biniyori school abduction in Kebi state where five were released and one, you know, one was killed over the weekend? kidnapped us, you have the easy access that you do have to ask for. By now, we know the modus operandi of those two auto schools. So kidnapped and killed. And if we know the modus operandi, we also have been able to, to, to, to prepare flu friends to, to, to contact them. For times without number, we wait until this incident upon and then begin to shed crocodile tears over the taking away of these children. And the truth of the matter also is that what is happening to the schools in the north has very, very serious implications for the stability of the country. You are now will remember that an organization like, I mean, Bukwara have said that they don't want any Western education in northern Nigeria. So this may be one of the ways that means by which those who don't want Western education in northern Nigeria want to achieve it. Because each time children go to school and the guests kidnapped, by the time they are recovered and the school resumes, you'll never be able to find the full confidence of the children who are schooling in those schools or in those places. Some will be too afraid or traumatized to go back to school. Some parents will withdraw their children because, I mean, for the safety of their lives and their mother. And for that reason, we should, we should put in place almost a perfect by security proof condition for our children to be able to go to school very, very safely. With regards to the high level of insecurity all over the country, these are certainly treated as injuries. And I will give you one very, very critical example. I have said it, I mean, I have certified two layers of insecurity in the country. I have talked about the Opan Banditry and also the Rudder Banditry. The kidnappers, Boko Haram, Fulanias, and Gaten. When you look at the roots of all these two different levels of banditry and all that, you can almost face it with the Nigerian politicians. They are in a way irresponsible for it. Take the hypothetical example of your state. What is, what happened in your state very recently. Here is a young man like Maki Day became conflict. Immediately he came in there. He started so well and none of all started expressing him. But we'll see what is happening in your state now. Maki Day, in a way, has turned your state, or taken your state back to the era of the media day to day in which the hoodlums and privates are meant to take over the society. And he brought him life. They keep terrorizing and keeping the same people. Just last week, two children, you know, said children, somebody else's sons were murdered in both the night. Well, how is that, how is that, you said the governor is taking it back. How is that the governor's fault? I said you are taking your path to the era of the media day to day. I'm asking, you know, how exactly is he sponsoring, is he behind any of these hoodlums that you have mentioned? Why do I say this? You will recollect that I have been emphasizing that you cannot be a politician of note in the country today without a private army. And what we usually do is to combat any of these unions into their private army, give them protection, empower them financially, and arm them to the teeth to be able to cause me harm. We are revered and so desired. We have seen it happen when the PPP has their convention in the old state with soft people transition AK-47 in the protein life. We also, like I said last week, how in protein life people were carrying AK-47 to kill other people's children. And after that happened, the children who were killed, the relations of those children took their country to the governor's office. That tells you, and with the press conference, that some of the parents of these children have given that they know that the relation with these things are coming from. In fact, the president said that they can identify those who killed their children and that the governor is culpable with those killings. But what excuse the governor has, he said those boys are convoys. Even if people are convoys, the law does not give anybody the power to go and take people's life without taking them to the due control of the legal authority law. In addition to that, if you don't mind, when the governor was going to form a multiple, the news he got in the game is that most of the people that constitute a third party of the group is a multiple. Why is political thought and see the number of children that the multiple in your state have killed since that organization started? He then organized a carnival, he organized a party. Just kind of hold on. These figures that you've mentioned, or these reports, I'm not sure if we can verify some of all these things and I'm not just in your state also, but I hope that maybe we'll come up in a different discussion some of the time and we can look closer at some of all these things. I want us to look at something that might be a positive story in the news this morning and that is the second Niger bridge. The government has said that by 2022 it will be completed according to their projections. Is that something that Nigerians should be excited about or celebrate? Well, it should be something to be excited about, but it is also a shame and blight on the Nigerian nation. Look at the number of years that we have had just one single bridge across the Niger. By now, in my humble opinion, we should have not less than four bridges across the Niger for easy movement of the people, groups and services, but low and behold, we have never paid attention to the second Niger, I mean to putting more bridges across the Niger. When we do know that the town-like condition, the town-like in the way and the town-like upper are very, very important, very, very important, a business hub and the word creation center for the Nigerian state. The impression one gives is that some people still want to consume it to punish the evil people for the Piafra war that was fought long ago, whereas that ought not to be the case. If you say there is no vanguished and no vehicle, then you will have forgotten the path and properly rehabilitated people in that section of the country. You will be able to get them effectively and fully into the Nigerian system. And one of the ways that we have been done from clay to clay and efficiently is to have more than two to three bridges across the Niger, especially because of the economic implications and the hardship one single bridge has been causing the Nigerian people. I hope the grandstanding that the second Niger bridge will be delivered in the 2023 is not a kind of a tata or a reward for more than 5,000 people used that they honestly have said the Nigerian army and security people have killed in the recent path. I hope that without the confessions they are giving the east by saying that the second Niger bridge will be completed in 2023. Okay, Mr Kola Walee, lastly from me is a story on the Ponsh newspaper and it's by the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajias Sadia Farooq. She said that the federal government has spent over five billion dollars since 2016, that's in about five years to fight poverty in Nigeria. She also said that 7.5 million people have been pulled out of poverty and that you know the president has invested in every sector, you know, every year. So from your perspective as a Nigerian, do you notice to be true? Well, where statistics don't lie, most of the statistics that we get with regards to unemployment, with regards to poverty, elevation and all that are coming from federal government institutions, that is the National Office of Statistics and the statistics that are coming from those places is to the effect that inflation has gone up as much as 15.5% and that poverty have risen astronomically since this government got into power. As in the poverty and evasion programs for debt, the number of people that have sunk into poverty in Nigeria have contributed. Even though we say there are billions of naira here, there are billions of naira are being spent on a daily basis, so are levading Nigerian people's property. You, yourself, can go around the street and see what is happening to the average Nigerian person. Women are now, old women, you see them on the street now begging, you find the children leaving school to walk, a pure water, and kola notes on the street. For them to be able to supplement their parents' income. You also see the farmers cannot go to the farmers, so the prices of food have gone up. And the statistics that we got all this money transfer and what have you, don't really tell you, because even the 774.7, we're going to create about a week or three There was a lot of rubble with regards to the payments of the so-called naira 774 people that the federal government said they were going to do to, for some of these other poverty and evasion programs. If the poverty and evasion program has been affected, we will not have seen Nigerian people invade COVID-19 warehouses all over the country and cutting the way most of those food items and other items that were knocked up in those places were not delivered at all, may have been distributed to the average Nigerian person. So statistics is online, like I said, the statistics coming from the federal government agency does not show that the poverty and evasion program of the federal government have been affected. Please connect that even when the children were on COVID-19 lockdown, the federal government was quickly changing our spending. Millions of naira feed the children that were in their place so that they don't know their whereabouts, that they don't know their locations and nor are. The money that the woman in charge of the poverty and evasion and the social management is talking about is probably going to be part and parcel of the deal is claiming that they are spent to amnestate the plight of Nigerian people. I am not convinced that all of these things look like a propaganda. All right. To Nicola Wally, thank you very much for starting off our week with us and of course sharing your thoughts on these stories. We wish you a beautiful night ahead. Thank you. All right. All right. So we'll take a break here now to return with today in history to tell you something about self-rule in a country and the unfortunate murder of three civil rights activists. Yes. Do stay with us.