 A very good morning to you. You're welcome to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. My name is Rume Paulsen. And my name is Nyangul Agkadi. We're very sorry that we had to begin a little bit late but we're glad that we're here finally and we hope that we're going to make the best use of the time that we have. Welcome to a wonderful Thursday morning. I think I'd like to start today's show by saying a big congratulations to the Super Eagles of Nigeria. I mean the Bafane Bafana of South Africa, they really did play a hard game but well I'll say Faith was on the side of Nigerians and so we are in the finals right and we meet up with Ivory Coast on Sunday and we just think we're going to emerge winner as the giant that we are. I would like Nigeria to win but I wouldn't even mind if Ivory Coast wins as well because they fought really hard and you know it was a seed that God gave them on the platter of both. For people who came and they didn't even qualify, they just best losers or something and then now they are in the finals. I really am happy for them but I would love Nigeria to win anyway. Yeah well of course we're patriotic so we definitely want Nigeria to win and I mean figures crossed four Sunday. Let's see what happens on the 11th. Bafana Bafana and South Africans spoke too early. They began having memes on on the social media how they roast the eagle girls and all that. They would say we're a generator country. I saw so many things I'm like oh my god Niger. So now they smoke from a generator and stroke them. There was a tweet that I saw that was so funny the person tweeted and said God please this is all we have. Football is all we have. We have no light. We have no roads. We don't have you know the best you know of politicians. This football is all we have please give us this one and I mean I'm happy because it seemed like it was the whole of Africa against Nigeria yesterday. Other African countries they were trending with the the name of Nigeria saying you know Nigerians are not going. Nigeria is not going to win. Bafana Bafana are going to roast them. Do it for us. There's four people coming from Angola, Cameroon, Ghana even but yes faith was on the side of the Nigerians and congratulations to the super eagles congratulations to Juan Valia. I mean he really did amazing yesterday and we're super proud of the super eagles. In spite of all the the magic that was against Nigeria the goal that they also scored for instance you know maybe a minute later they said okay something there was a foul in very close to the goal of Nigeria and then what a penalty it was abracadabra for me but even then it's still the match. Thank God we got in the finals and Piseru congratulations to you. Nigerians didn't like that coach but now at least people are talking about him and saying yes. Maybe now he's tried and tested. Yeah so Piseru is a good person. Nigeria needs to be patient a little bit. Yeah all right let's get into the meat of the day. Let's start with our quote and just set the tone really sometimes they're limited and you have to pick on the energy of someone else the brilliant ideas of the other person and when you merge that together it's just amazing. We really need to know how how how possible it is or how to navigate these trust issues that we have because in great companies you don't even have to trust the next person just the system has to just be in place and you can work together you don't need to trust but here everybody's afraid if I bring my idea someone else might steal it and one thing or the other and that's why people go solo and then they do not succeed as much as they should succeed if they come together. So maybe when we're teaching our children in our schools and all that we should take we should emphasize something about partnerships and not just sole proprietorship everybody wants to be solo. Everybody wants to show like yes so let's know what it takes to have a partner and what how the contribution comes with everything that needs to be known about partnership because that is a very true statement you cannot go it alone if you want to succeed really big. I like what you said about schools like teaching our kids in schools because most times thinking about it they give you assignments and say you know go and do you an assignment and submit it and obviously there's always a spirit of competition which is great I mean you should make you strive for more but then we should do a lot of teamwork in the sense that you know that you have to work with other people on your team for you to be able to achieve so much because if you don't really do that then when you move into the market right sometimes people can't work with others and why is that because you know from when you were younger you never really had that whole team bonding thing you never really you know have teamwork it's a skill actually and most times on people's CVs you know they write it there ability to work with it in a team sometimes you really do not have that ability to work under pressure you understand so I think teamwork should be something that we all try to push even for our kids because it's best to learn it from there and then you know you can't never do it alone partnerships are super super important so you can go the distance that these days we're talking about individuality we're just what everybody wants to be love myself I just work self-preservation and a lot of things that we talk about just come to us because we are the ones voicing them the days when people were talking about loving one another are gone everybody now wants to love themselves alone alone so no one is a lion what would I like it or not someday you will need somebody and if you don't build that partnership that relationship at this point the tomorrow that will make you need that partnership will be empty yeah those people won't be there so I like to say that it's okay to love yourself right yeah it's fine to love yourself but even the holy book will say you know love others as yourself so you should love love grows when it is shared so love yourself but love other people as well you cannot leave in we cannot leave in silos we can't leave alone so you should I mean still love other people right all right let's go to our top training stories for today and the first one is well we have some teasers we have governor uberni sani um so governor uber sani building three vocational cities in kajunel to export skills um we have you know another top try another story that we're going to be looking at later on which is nigeria slips law on african icity development index right and then we'll be taking some um what the for the national dailies are saying this morning in the newspapers interesting advice okay but let's look at our top trending stories for today um the first one comes straight in with the federal high court in legals on wednesday ordered the federal government to fix the prizes of goods and petroleum products within seven days just as ambrose louis alagua um specifically ordered the government to fix the price of milk flour salt sugar bicycles and their spare parts matches motorcycles and their spare parts motor vehicles and their spare parts as well as petroleum products which includes diesel premium motor spirit pre-ms and kerosene the judge gave the order while delivering judgment in a suit filed by the human rights activists mr femifalano against the price control board and the attorney general of the federation listed as the first and second defendants fallonade approached the court to determine whether the virtue whether by virtue of section four of the price control act the first respondent was carrying on carrying out his duties to impose a price on any goods that are of the kind specified in the first schedule two price control act at the hearing of the case on wednesday the plaintiff fallon informed the court that the motion unnoticed was premised on section four one subsection one of the price control act laws of the federation of nigeria 2004 he also told the court that the defendants in the suits have been served with the processes since it was filed in may 2023 but refused and failed to file any response to counter it fallonade consequently urged the court to grant all the reliefs sought since there is no counter from the respondents justice league justice louis alagua after listening to fallonade submission observed that the respondents did not file any counter to the suits the judge cited decided cases and held that all the reliefs contained in the motion paper are hereby granted as prayed fallonade in the affidavits in support of the motion disposed deposed to by a lawyer in his chambers tywin e or law only stated that the first defendant the price control board was established by the price control act and it is saddled with the responsibility to fix a price on goods to stabilise the general price level prevention of hoarding of goods protection of customers from exorbitant prices among others the second defendant who was the chief law officer of the country he also stated that the plaintiff has been involved in the defense and promotion of human rights in africa for over three decades and on that account of his human rights works the plaintiff has been honored by many local and international organizations the defendant avert that on january 3 2023 it was informed by the plaintiff that the following commodities are listed in the price control act bicycles and spare parts flour matches milk motorcycles and spare parts motorcycles and spare parts petroleum products salt and sugar oh yeah that is it for um that story so yeah just tell you even if it's the law the act is uh they are putting 2004 it just shows you that how old that law is and it needed to be renewed before this time but as it is some laws in the constitution or in the acts that we are having it how do you talk about hardship in Nigeria you're talking about matches and bicycles that's what people are usually now how many people use matches bicycles and all that it took it's well that is what is available in the act i'm not saying that it is bad but that's what is available and that is the only way father not could have argued that yes so he had to go to the relevant section of that act so i'm not saying he shouldn't have argued it i'm saying that if they had updated those laws possibly a lot of other things to the current commodities yeah a lot of other things could have been included you're talking about bicycle bicycles and spare parts matches and you know well there's pms there yes there's pms that's the i'm thankful for the flour flour milk sugar salt anyway but i do hope that um this should be there should be a good response to this maybe not a hundred percent but the government should show that they are concerned and they didn't need to be taken to court first before they do all this right supposed to do but here we are they are in court and they just judgment is against them so let's see what the government is going to do so i understand what this is coming from as well because most times um all of you know the sellers right now um they try to take advantage of the situation and finally we know that dollar is crazy right now some of them have to import these things but then they take advantage of the situation by you know hiking the price so high just because they feel oh i need more money um when i want to restock and dollar might you know go up even more but then you're anticipating something that hasn't even happened yet and you can't be charging people people have not been able to even buy what is available yet people have not been able to feed and then you're making the price is so high if you go to the markets right now maybe you buy like a bowl of tomatoes for about 3000 naira before you go the next day they're already telling you that you know it is 4000 naira guess what it is the same tomatoes that they bought some days ago so it's not like maybe there is a price update because they've gone to the market but if well that's demand and supply well they just say that people are coming for this thing they just had the price and it's ridiculous i mean pity us now before now i used to be very mad at the people who take advantage and want to exploit people but now i don't even know what to say for instance a friend of mine sells ring lights okay and um like a week ago the ring light that she was selling for it's 80 000 naira she now packaged everything a valentine's package and all that and gave some freebies if you buy this thing that seemed like right now is when you went to the market the next week is 120 in the market when she was selling for 80 so imagine how much she was buying so now it's 120 so when you're selling now you don't even know what the market will be like when you go tomorrow so people are now selling in anticipation yeah a crazy price that might come when they want to go back to the market so if i'm selling for 80 000 now because i bought it for 70 000 and i go to the market and it's 120 you know that i will not be able to buy more than one all my in fact i would even know for more money to go and buy one of this this unit so i don't know how to blame them you know but again like you said they should have a human face when it is avoidable let them not move the prices that's my own have mercy have mercy because i mean when it comes to like food produce most of our perishable goods are produced here it's just maybe it's a few stuff like apples and some other things to buy things other things that are important you see that's why they will say the landlord can up the rents because he built the house to take care of his family and so if everything else goes up even if he built the house in 1940 he will still need to use the rents to buy other things and you know feed his family but my problem is with the federal government that is replying people who are complaining that things are not that bad that they in fact somebody was arrested in minna for leading the protest and they are now seeing its opposition parties hey what kind of opposition is that have you been to the market in fact even our next story there's another protest that has broken out on the streets of suleja in niger state the same niger state over the rising cost of living this is coming two days after protest has stormed the streets of minna the niger state capital suleja is just a few kilometers away from the federal capital territory fct abuja the protest has called on president bola tinobu to end the hardship because they were suffering there could be same displaying placards with descriptions reading things like tinobu do something now leadership is all about improving lives nigerians are suffering stop the hardship now among others a group of women had blocked the minna vida road at the popular uh quacong roundabout express and the grievances over the rising cost of food items was the case people traveling to major cities in the south such as leaguers and among others were held hostage for hours due to the protest we started as early as 7 a.m. the women were later joined by men and youths who accused government of turning deaf ears to their minds neither the thick smoke of the tear gas uh the sound of the gunshots fired by police operatives to disperse them nor the plea by the deputy governor of the state jacobo garba who went to the scene of the protest camp the protest so you see this this when the federal government keeps saying he's saying his opposition is opposition we've been saying it on this program that we are now having pockets of protest here and there if this protest all merge we may not be able to contain them the other day i saw a video where a man went to the market was it with 5000 or so he couldn't buy anything and started crying a full grown man with children at home with a wife because he knows he has people to feed he couldn't buy anything and started crying and he was recorded it was on the social media and you know some people who campaign for this government are coming out to to apologize some of them to say unprintable things about this government and all that it should tell the government that something somewhere is wrong the truth is people are really really living in hardship like when you see the way people are suffering i mean some of us might be lacking or fortunate to still have clothes on our bags still have food on our table still have shelter but there are lots of people that they have responsibilities and they cannot meet them with the monies that they have because you're not making so much and even the litter that you have is almost worth every single day the dollar is depreciating so what do you do but my question now is i know that these protests are happening um in places like minna now that um two protests have just come up but what can the government do instantly to start to alleviate you know the sufferings of Nigerians like and you are the one asking that the government arrested a woman and said she let the protest how do you arrest someone who is telling you i'm sorry you should not start to do something that's the first thing they did arrest somebody so it's almost like how dare you how dare you say anything that you're suffering so it's almost like you're beating you're beating the baby and telling the baby not to cry and then the federal government came out and said that the cost of living in Nigeria is better than way better than any other part of Africa really so you know you will just be looking at it and you expect people not to protest it's ridiculous anyways let's move over to our final story the federal government has reiterated its commitment to tackling insecurity across the country with renewed vigor in the various counter insurgency operations the vice president Kashim Shetema made this commitment during the induction of t129 attack combat helicopter and B craft king air 360 er at the air base in Makodi the Benoist capital along with a cargo plane to support air power operations and the fight against insurgency the vice president said the induction is one of the many unwavering resolve by the federal government to combat insecurity play in the country it proceeded to induct the fighter jets amidst chairs as the combat t129 attack helicopter in a sequence of a mock operation it displays its capabilities in an air agility the governor of benoist state hyacinth alia commanded the federal government and expresses the hope for increasing peters against violent crimes and insurgency the speaker of the house of representatives tagidina bass led members of the national assembly to the historic induction ceremony to show solidarity um well insurgency insecurity is something that we've you know spoken about extensively on this on this show and i mean if they're doing something about it yes i would commend the federal government but still i know we're going there and you know showing all of these things i just don't want it to be pr i don't want it to be photo op i want you to actually do something i want you to actually secure the lives and properties of nigerians we can see all of these things like yes you're trying your best but how about people in the remote villages that are going there and getting killed in the middle of the night and then for hours they perpetrate such evil and north you know military force no police force nobody is really showing up and securing this people's lives so i mean i'm happy that you're getting all of these jets and you're doing whatever you're doing but we need to let me just say these show walkings security is not all about buying jets yes even the jets are the same jets that have been bombing you know some people here in ijira and i've not heard anything about it anymore nobody has lost his job nobody has been imprisoned or something people in their hundreds were bombed in the village and those were not insurgent so we'll be asking ourselves are the jets are going to do something positive for us or they're going to use them to kill us again and all that so i'm not saying it is a bad thing but what i'm saying is that no security no intelligence succeeds without the people they are the ones that will give you the credible intelligence that will make you be able to fight whatever insurgency or not but if you the people are not happy with you they don't trust you then whatever you're doing is for not so government should try to build that trust security agencies should try to build this trust and all that so that the people will work in sync with them because these criminals a lot of them are known by the people but you know the repercussion of even reporting some of these people you don't know how much anonymity you will have yes you might report and you you're thinking that what is the person i'm reporting to is also parts of all these people you know so all of these things come into play and that's why insecurity is like it is in ijira so let them let them let them try to flush out the bad eggs let them try to build confidence in the people in the security agencies and we can be sure of a better uh society when we buy jets and buy jets and buy jets i'm glad that the house of representatives the senate all that they're having series of meetings with the security chiefs to find out what is happening i'm sure they're beginning to know that as a big man if you interlock your compound and leave the surroundings untired the dust from the streets will also come to you so let them know that all right this is where we have to end this segment we're going to go on a quick break look at what the weather is and when we return we'll be looking at the national dailies this morning please stay with us