 Welcome back to the breakfast and plus TV Africa we are head straight to check in on the front pages of a national deal is we call it off the press we also have a guest and stand by Chris kindy one do who is on standby and he jumps us in no time Chris is actually chat at mediator and a conciliator good morning Chris and thank you for joining us good morning all right so let's start off with the leadership newspaper and find out what is making it this morning on the leadership newspaper I was that with a big story and you have controversy trails 42 billion Naira NAS complex renovation contracts that's the board caption underneath contractors has no record of previous jobs official address untraceable original builders be 27 billion narrow but was overlooked reps deny on their hand dealing in contracts award I what of contract followed due process the BPP is quoted on that and no contract has been awarded says the FCDA and fact to decide on project tomorrow of course the federal executive council meeting that happens every Wednesday and you also have power minister neck intervenes as AEDC workers shelf strike again bandits kidnapped 36 in Kaduna community I'm going to publish debtor's list in January that's in 2022 and the family demands coroner's inquests again you also have the Omicron United Kingdom travel ban on Nigerian just and discriminatory that's what the federal government is quoted to say and cano crisis APC distance self from parallel Congress that's the much on the leadership this morning move on next to the punch newspaper and the least story this morning is still on the travel ban Nigeria UK may clash federal government alleges action the scream in a tree several writers here Britain's decision based on discrimination not scientific but prejudice claims some federal government presidential chair in committee will respond appropriately soon says Mohammed it's a temporary precautionary measure to prevent further Omicron cases in UK that's according to the UK envoy all the stories on the punch this morning 3 billion Naira fraud EFCC protests US medical travel application by ex NSITF boss for the six-year-old man arrested for killing Ogun cigarette seller with blows over 50 Naira all right motorists protest that deployable quarrel or your connecting colonial era bridge a most stories are just below a pictorial there during college family demands coroner inquest into son's clash 24-year-old man sentenced to death for killing brother over Ocada in a kitty state most stories here the smith's worker accused an erector of having a fairward wife on character assassination above the must have your other stories on the punch rising food prices fuel and inflation in Nigeria orders IMF NSEDC operatives brutalized punch reporter tag him ESN spy foreign airlines to your car Nigeria flight as sales crash now called to roll on a T-co seat is in ship February 21 you went seek support on as Cameroonian refugees in Nigeria across 70,000 and Nigeria record 8.9 trillion nitrate deficit in nine months expert blames in security those are some of the stars you can find on the front page of the punch newspaper now let's take a look at the daily independent newspaper this morning the bold caption reads insecurity won't stop investors coming to Nigeria that's what the presidency is quoted to say though in college students death big slap on Lagos show or lose wife is quoted on that and you also have nas will insist on prudent use of COVID-19 funds Senate president is quoted you also have Supreme Court hears seconders appeal challenging removal today and COVID-19 Omicron federal government kicks against restriction imposed on Nigerian travelers underneath that's the rider you have says vaccine to cover 70% of population available quite interesting why federal government launch a virtual court in prison and federal government to establish six plant health clinics pirates abducts civil defense officers and for others in biosus state British airways bars Nigerians on board in his flight the several riders underneath that board caption and you also have protesting AEDC workers plunger Boudre and Niger orders into darkness that's the much we can take on the daily independent newspaper this morning away from the daily independent would slide over to the guardian and the apartheid federal government additional isha laslam UK's travel ban what several riders here returned blue FG reviewing sanctions Niger will respond appropriately assess SGF UK red less than unjust discriminatory line Mohammed Nigerian pay in for condoning errors of commission a Tomah reblooms federal government Africa CDC only 7% of Africans fully vaccinated compared to a 66 of EU population now they hold as a link restriction to economic sanction edge federal government to reciprocate a writer away from that one true Niger street deficit rises to a 3 trillion Naira five states FCT in darkness as labor strikes she who sunny Ozakome edge federal government to address inequality injustice others southeast raiders lament multiple bank charges seek central bank intervention Nigeria risks exposure to deadly a COVID-19 variant as only 1.8% fully vaccinated no guarantee government will implement World Bank's recommendation those are the main stories you can find on the front page of the Guardian this morning all right let's have Chris one to share his thoughts on some of the headlines this morning thank you for joining us we do appreciate your time Chris one do thank you once again for having me okay so I like to set up with the leadership newspaper this morning and the big story on the leadership is about the back and forth with the renovation that's the renovation of the NAS complex we have no records previous contractors do not have records they do have records and what have you not surprising if I may say that's the way we do things as you say look up and that's how you roll expectedly that's good to be deniers and counter deniers several billions of Naira have been approved for the renovation of the National Assembly complex and don't forget that some few months back we saw water rain dropping in the chambers and which led to an adjournment and there were a lot of accusations as whether the necessary authorities have done in this pool in making sure that those the key rules and the most part of the National Assembly are well renovated but at the end of it on what we get I don't know how this is going to pan out but the fact remains that there's always corruption in everything to all aspects of our lives is to show where somebody said we don't have a document they met and the rest of them now we have to go back to be put up with the rest of them the National Assembly is within the first line charge as you know most of them they don't need to go to the secretary to get their money once it's approved and then etc. but this is just one accusation too many don't forget that for years was also big under the controversy to know how much our legislators and senators and house today we don't know how much the end and they continue to give us also some discrepancies in terms of what the end address so we bet I hope that addition looked into I personally will just prefer that EFCC or ICP should move into this and look at the records of the National Assembly they are not above but we affected them and they are accountable to us but whatever it is to be done to make sure that it is a very very big complex I'm sure you've been there in the train I'm slow for about three or four years I was covering the National Assembly and I know how huge and how big it is it's the issue of contracts coming up at this time yeah I don't know but my question was to be was this budget is in the 2022 budget or is it current 2021 budget we're looking at and I think we need more explanation alright Chris I wonder away from that let's go to the punch of this paper Avam or we should travel ban is the main story for this morning and the Nigeria UK may clash as federal government alleges action the discriminatory the last has not been heard concerning this issue of a UK Red List what are your thoughts exactly Chris First of all I just believe that the decision of the United Kingdom British government was a bit hectic on the part of Nigeria how many cases of Omicron variants we have the last time I think that was about three that is that warrants a ban a travel ban on Nigeria don't think that's necessary don't forget that even within the United Kingdom they also have their own they have people but on Nigeria that to me doesn't show any capacity you know the market relationship Britain for one is a country that even pray to our independence in 1960 and we have supposed to have a robust relationship if there's been to be a slam on Nigeria I wouldn't think that pretty should be first yes we had a travel ban from Canada I think that's I don't believe that I didn't know that one but that of Britain I think it's not well thought out you can see so many Nigeria including the Dr. Deshino and several other I watched the our High Commissioner to United Kingdom on BBC TV yesterday and he was talking about and he thought that that decision should be sent and I hope that the government as well as the High Commissioner in Nigeria but it should be yesterday the news came in that we just stopped the lifting of passengers have also had a lifting passengers from Nigeria it's the shocking part of it that I pray this money is that Nigeria is about to be prevented from holding a waste flight and I want to ask why that is very very unbecoming if that's true and I think information is possible that's possible this relationship is a battle in the church well but if you look at if you look at the blacklist there I call it a blacklist the red list it's not just limited to Nigerians at this point in time you have almost all of the African countries in that particular list I mean South Africa is there the list is almost endless so it's not just a Nigerian thing I thought to you also you know put that forward but let's also check out another caption on the leadership he says bandit kidnapped 36 in Kaduna community the kidnappings endless what are your thoughts it is endless and I saw the clip of the directive that the one that you just showed a directive by the president yesterday matching of that to satisfy that they should be needful well I don't know what I'm going to do the practically done everything within their power to make sure that they need this in the process on the daily basis I'm going to see the cases of kidnapping killing abduction attacks here and there and that is not that it is not the same well of course and as Riley mentioned messy I listened to you as we were talking the problem we have now is not just about security but the fact that we are not prosecuting those that were arrested for all this kind of banditry kidnapping and terrorism those arrested and never prosecuted and that's a piece of fire and we have to continue to perpetrate this art or to start doing the need to put the language of president changes on issues like this then we'll continue to have this because open and time over again the two that most of those arrested will be without me that's the deal with it I'm not sleeping on the knees and what have we seen I think unless it be granted they save some say they are repentant and rest of them but they are transcontinue you can see how many were killed in Calcutta that's it does the one that I reported there's so many are playing in so many other places around the north and even in the south that are unreported so given imagine order to the salvage chips I don't know what is going to achieve Abuja Kaduna expressway is a no-go area and train have been attacked no we are safe and then we as we also you rightly said we cried out that we should have a change in such questions which was granted after several years and not a sense of change I don't know what the president is going to do one of the reason why the president was elected because it was a military or he was a military man and I just feel that they'll be safer under him since he knows the art of war and how to deal with criminals but what we are seeing is not speaking well and we are getting getting close to the Christmas and you're going to see a lot of this after so many people are so scared to even travel with this Christmas I know so many people that are not even thinking of traveling it wasn't as bad as this before all right Chris there's another story I just want us to quickly touch on the puncher before we leave on the punch finally rising our food inflation prices fueled inflation in Nigeria others that's a code into the international monetary fund you know I have not of the opinion that the market is limited to a particular gender of course I feel like we all go to the market but however it should always translate because for every time we keep saying that yes this the prices of goods have actually gone down or this we're no longer experiencing inflation the question is we want to look at the standard of living of the people how does it translate to you know the people having money how many persons have money to actually go to the market and buy that's number one and every other issue so it's usually not about you know the prices of goods and services you know going down I mean inflation generally going down and all the likes and for Nigerians to even eat at this point in time so it is an issue that needs to be looked at and when you can choose to see the figures coming up from the pedagogical man yes I just continue to that because they seem not to be on ground the prizes okay so let's move away from the punch now you also have on the daily independent newspaper a very big wonder presidency saying that insecurity won't stop investors from coming to Nigeria what do you make of this a session stepping so if you continue to look at me from the point that nobody become you because of the secret line to yourself they're just like the Austrian that buried your head in sand and your other parts of your body exposed in security is very very security is very very key in every economy and any country no individual country or investor want to invest in a country where he knows that his money is not secured that is wrong then also not only that we also have to put the basic fundamentals especially power the power situation in Nigeria it's so terrible that anybody that's coming forward to the best year has to think of that very well but once we prove our power sector so I go to have very very serious strategy there's probably no organization in Nigeria that don't have two generative sets backing it for them to even take on companies if I'm sure you see most of those are must and best of their you have those they have two generators backing them they're not they depend on public power supply the same thing with individuals so those are the basic thing that you look at also other infrastructure such as good roads, enabling environment, ease of doing business all those basic elements that the time is in our second year school that I used to be I can focus in the long term I did that localization of industry I think that's in my class here also localization of industry and look at this is that term in localization of companies or industry and so if they find that that is not then that is another aspect of it is also remittance of funds you can see that most of them get the best and they can remittance of their funds the aways we haven't that standard for a long time you I'm sure you remember that that they couldn't remittance of their funds because it's not possible so there's always this bot name around so we want to take out with our economic policies and rest of them especially for how many times the president travel a month you will find difficult to get for investors but here we have to see that all right Chris and wonder another story on the daily independent that these are making headlines is the former you know chairman of the people's democratic party which is second is the daily independent captions at this way Supreme Court hears the condo says appeal challenge it removal today you know where do you see it swinging later today the second is still on this case I thought that on the set I don't know what I think personally I just think that it should be a good party man irrespective of what it feels in the party in the party should it is the supreme you should be supreme so I still think that when it comes to issue of political policy has been the chairman of believe practically about four years and if he has any misgiving is a that should be a familiar you know this is probably familiar I hope you love about it is a familiar which can be said to be in there I think that they should be able to get this rate so that the party can get itself prepared for 2023 for now but as it is its right to go to court and see justice if they can get justice oh well I've got every nine years I'm giving the opportunity to do that because that is the only way to go alternative is chaos and the also so but and I give birth for me if I'm to advise I just think that they had a very nice conversion fantastic conversion and anybody came out smiling and I think they should just take it to be next level but it's within his right to continue the legal uh legal issues with the party is that he has not done some of the activities and the decisions of the party all right Chris those are the stories on the daily independent but I just want us to take up on one more before we actually just wrap up you know this particular you know discussion all right it is about a protested AEDC workers plunge Abuja Niger all that's into darkness over three states actually being affected there is blackout in those states because of the Abuja electricity description company protested now what what what do you think of it really I did the latest information company although not to the public opera is that the school of that strike um that's the latest information from me and as I said not public opera and I'm using the language of journalism so I should not be put a bet I had that correct it if all that's right don't forget that there have been notification right that and we're talking about Abuja now don't forget that that's we say is gary now I have to say that discussing the issue has to remain safe as you say that within the next few hours that government is here from and you know that when has to make such statement the problem we've always had is that we don't obey agreement we sign agreement with workers at the end of freedom we engage on it and we continue to move on and say nothing happened and when they now start agitating and say they are going to strike start running around and try to just look at parties I call it palliatives measures to stop the strike but the workers have ingenuity right to start to go and try if they feel that the agreements they reach with the organization are not met they don't forget that this electricity companies are now private companies and not pedagogy as it used to be with NEPA and the rest of them so I hope that and we will be able to make sure that the people of Abuja and NEPA restates sorry that is maybe because we can see that across the country as we're talking to you as I'm talking to you I don't have light out and I'm talking to you using a power generator versus me and not everyone of us to this same problem so those are the issues so when I see a electricity people going on strike I think it's dangerous as I don't know what are we gaining what are we gaining because most of all we are the worst party we know that every Nigerian is a local documentary set you provide your security you amend your in your rules you provide water for yourself and you do everything so you become a local government chairman of your own house and that as a lesson in that I had that a strike is being called about that I cannot confirm that but they should do they should make sure that it is not because electricity is very important and that's why I'm talking about the economy imagine somebody coming from outside the country and it's coming to invest in Nigeria only to buy them up all right Chris we have to let you go at this point in time we do appreciate you know speaking with you and thank you so much for being part of the conversation we look forward to having more of you this is where we call it a wrap and up next is what happened today in history please stick around when we return we'll head straight to our second conversation of course we'll be looking at the blacklist and we'll also have a guest join us good morning