 On the breakfast, should political debate be mandatory for presidential and governorship candidates in Nigeria? This is the demand of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties. But how visible is this? We'll find out ahead of the breakfast. Also on the breakfast, Nigerian's inflation rate rose from 20.77% in September 2022 to 21.09% in October 2022. This is a cutting to the National Bureau of Statistics. An analyst will join us later to help us understand and make sense of the numbers. We'll also be looking through the papers this morning, having an in-depth analysis of the major headlines. Good morning and welcome to the breakfast in Plus CV Africa, beautiful Thursday morning right here. I am Messy Boko. As always, we start the conversation with our top trending. This would mean that what are the conversations that people are talking about, Nigerians are engaging, what's really happening, and what are the people really interested in. Now first is the fact that the people's, the ruling party, Nigeria's ruling party, we're talking about the APC, started her campaign in just a platoon state. Well, something that happened quite unfortunate is that, does the video, which we're going to roll in no time, angry Nigerians stoning or stoned the APC presidential team during that rally in Jus, and the deputy speaker had to beg for such act to be stopped throwing other stones. It's something that has never really been seen, but we just quickly look at this and when we come back, we'll discuss some more. Well, that's actually what transpired right there. The videos has been making that round and it's gotten a lot of Nigerians talking, but quickly to everything, we know that Nigerians are very comical, even in serious situations. Now a lot of persons have made reference to the fact that at some point, during the political campaign, about 2019 or thereabout, the spinner requested whether, if the APC does not perform, stoned us. So Nigerians, some people have said, well, this really is a response to the call to stoned us if we do not perform after two years, if the Buharis administration does not perform whenever you see us throw stone and some people are saying, this has actually been taken into cognizant and that's the reason for that action. But however, it's totally condemnable. If you are angry as a Nigerian and displeased with the current dispensation administration, then it would be important to show your grievance during the polls. When it's time to cast your vote, that's when you should show how angry you are. But violence has never solved a problem. I mean, too long to say never make a right, that's it. And it has never happened. So taking the laws into your hand does not solve the problem. If you're angry, displeased with everything that's going on, then you have the elections coming 2023. It would be a time for you to express how dissatisfied you are with any, you know, with the government or, you know, the political party and that would actually matter. Expressing your votes with violence is not acceptable and should not be tolerated. But hopefully we'll also expect that there should be an investigation. I mean, we're talking about the police carrying out an investigation and also ensuring that those who were responsible for causing that disorder should be brought to book, unfortunately. Moving away, quite interesting is the fact that the move to establish national carrier, that's the Nigerian air, probably might have to suffer a setback due to a federal high court who actually granted an interim order asking the stoppage of the process of establishing the Nigerian air. We should actually have a collaboration with the Ethiopian airline in terms of, you know, the suits. Well, the suit was actually fired by registered trustees of the airline operators in Nigeria as man air services limited, air peace limited, and max air limited, United Nigerian company limited, and Tobras aviation limited, the plaintives, these are the persons that formulated the five questions to the court to determine, you know, a lot of issues. So these persons have actually, you know, approached the court, they came together and say, hey, this entire union cannot happen. Okay, but prior to this time, we understood that the Nigerian air had planned some sharing or selling of her asset, you know, the Ethiopian airline, which we know that it's very, it's been rated as one of the biggest and very renowned airline in Africa and also can be competing at the global standard. And there are several prayers that, you know, this the court actually granted or the question was being put out by this category of peasants or group, if you like to say. Now one of the prayers is that whether the entire process of the sale and transfer of shares of the first defendant to the second defendant and is concetuned by the third and the fourth defendant is in line with the provision of infrastructure and concession regulatory commission of the 2005 Act, Federal Completion and Consumer Protection Act, International Civil Aviation Organization Convention, the National Policy on Public-Private Partnership, that's the N4P, looking at section 76 and 81 of the Federal Completion and Consumer Protection Act. They say it does not affect the entire process, including the selection, approval and also grant the second defendant and it's concetuned by the third and fourth defendants, they are not valid and thereby entailing the entire process to a fresh beating exercise. This question is being put out. Another one is that they have also asked the court to award them a 2 billion error in damages and all their perpetual injunction restraining the Federal Government from transferring the shares and operation of Nigerian Air to Ethiopian Airlines, which will have a larger shareholding, right. So on the ruling of the case which has the Nigerian Air and Ethiopian Airlines, Hadi Sirika, Minister of Aviation, Abu Bakr Malami, Attorney General of the Federal Region and the first to the fourth defendant and the Federal High Court judge said that the Government which was represented by the Aviation, Minister and the Attorney General should not proceed to the establishment and agreement until a substantive matter of the suitors head and determine and so that's why you have the request of private Airlines operators who don't want the monopoly broken. This is the question that a lot of people are asking and some people are saying in whose interest is all of this, people were saying Government, we haven't known Government to be a manager of anything, I mean in terms of business you say Government is not really a manager of business, they have no business being in business and so let's allow the private sector to come in and all this going on, but the question is in whose interest is all of this being put out exactly, who are the people querying all of this, could it be that there might just also be some concern as regards breaking of the monopoly that you have this persons having, it's a lot. But let's see how all of this unfolds as we inch closer to 2023. Another on the top trending is that the EFCC has arrested currency speculator and if you look at it, this has been also a reflection in the interest or the rate at which the dollar and the Naira exchange has been and that's why some Nigerians have actually spoken differently, there's been several policies from the CBN, but Niger's anti-corruption agency that's the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC says, it has arrested a certain Mustafa Naira who is responsible for sabotaging the Nigerian economy and quickly with all of that is that we also have the issue of having power markets, who created the power market, how do we get to a point where you have individuals getting to that stage where they can sabotage the economy. So yes, the agency has reported the arrest as part of its ongoing operation to sensitize the foreign exchange sector and read it of speculators and all shades of economic sabotage. Some people have said this is actually commendable but when we say we have a system including the CBN saying they acknowledge the fact that they created multiple exchange platforms or rates, now it feels like we have to bear the brunt of what's going on. Well that's so much we can take this morning on a top trending, we take a break and when we return over time for us to go through the pages of National Dailies, please stay with us.