 On the breakfast, Paris Saint-Germain Defender Ashraf Hakimi, his wife, won't be getting much money following their divorce after it was revealed the Moroccan star had registered all his properties and assets under his mother, Sadia Mout's name. This morning, on the breakfast, we are asking, is this approach by Hakimi one that the husbands should adopt in this age of increased divorce, especially in sub-Saharan Africa? And also, barring in the last minute change of plans, the federal government of Nigeria will be paying or beginning payment of planned increase in civil servants pay by the end of this month. We're looking at 40% increase in pay. This will be the focus of our second discussion right here on the breakfast. And of course, as usual, we'll have a look at what the papers say this morning. We call it Arthur Press, some interesting headlines on the front pages of the national dailies today. All right, we're back and it's a beautiful, beautiful Wednesday morning back with the breakfast on plus TV Africa today, the 19th of April, 2023. My name is Kofi Bartels, flying solo this morning on the breakfast. Once again, you're welcome. Before we get into the top trending stories, we'll take a look at the weather, I'm sorry, traffic reports. Of course, we have weather updates as well coming your way. We'll take those weather updates and then we will delve straight into the first conversations on the trending stories this morning on the breakfast. We can bring you updates on traffic from Lagos. And like you always say, if you are watching this program from other parts of the country, you can as well also let us know via WhatsApp or via Twitter at plus TV Africa what the traffic situation is like, where you are. Those making their way through Nigeria's commercial nerve center at Ibute Road, we told, vehicular movement from Carter Bridge is good down to Leventis to link the inner road and outer marina. CMS Bridge descending UBA roundabout is on fast movement towards Apoombo. Quite interesting. That bridge really hasn't been open, but we hear that by next month that Apoombo Bridge on the Aco Bridge stretch will be open to traffic. Appreciable movement from Broad Street connecting Apoombo on the bridge, en route or lower bow is very much okay according to, like I said, traffic management agency as well from Leventis towards a leg-butter bridge through to police posts. Everything is moving smoothly. We're told traffic movement from LNPC in Ward Canoe is appreciable, aside the alternation by the Canoe roundabout if you know Lagos, well, you know where we're talking about. Chivita connecting Lukman at Toh Bajun down to swimming pool junction is on a steady movement. Hollandia way to connect Kolaulay, Shawnee-Barre down to Jesus house is good, aside the traffic lights alternation is what the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency is saying. Movement team, Ward Ajao Gate is an appreciable movement, so what they call it, besides the alternation at Woney and Lemo or Lutosi and Jai and Latif, Salami, junctions respectively. Osolo way from IA in Ward Aswani Junction is good, towards Asha Afi Rogung. Junction is a steady moving traffic due to alternation, traffic connecting 7 and 8 is slow due to the alternation, coupled with human activities around 7 and 8. Apakul in Ward Nacho Airport is good, both in-ward and outward journey to Osho Lee is what the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency is saying. Okay, and we hear DHL in Ward's Five Star is still connecting the Amazon band is slow and that's what the latest, this is about 10 minutes, five to 10 minutes ago, just for those who are wondering what time this traffic reports were updated or uploaded by the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency, we've been doing a good job. So this year will be about 25 minutes ago, let's call it that, okay. There's a traffic situation as at 6.35 a.m., the traffic situation as at 6.35 a.m. We'll bring you more and of course you can always share your traffic updates with us from wherever you're watching, even for those who are watching from outside Nigeria, you can do the same as well and we'll be glad to hear from you. Let's take a break and we'll bring you the weather reports after which we'll return to look at the top trending stories. Please stay with us. All right, thank you very much, welcome back and of course, so we can now look at the top trending stories. Let's start with the first one, which happens to be from, it's a human-angled human interest story, really a sad one, sexually abused boy commits suicide after a radio station reveals his identity. It's sad, all right, it's really sad and it's from another part of the world but when you think about it, it's something that I think we should learn from because I happen to work on radio as well every single night into the morning, it's something that I do on a daily basis, barring weekends and this is a 15-year-old sex abuse victim in the Eastern European city of Poland. His name is Mokalaj and Mikolaj Felix, a 15-year-old sex abuse victim reportedly killed himself after his identity was made public by state-owned radio Cezin in the Polish city of Cezin. The radio station has come under fire for releasing the identity of the teenager, identified as the son of a local opposition politician, many believe the radio station was involved in a political hit job that revealed the identity of a 15-year-old sex abuse victim. Master Felix committed suicide in March at the family's Cezin home after being publicly identified as a victim of a jail pedophile. This is mother Magdalena represents the civic platform, the main opposition party to the ruling party in parliament and you can now see the political twist that some people think was behind this radio station revealing the identity of the boy. Well, the liberal LGBTQ rights advocate from Cezin by the name of Krzysztof Falinski who is set to have abused or allegedly have abused the youngster was found guilty in 2021 and has since been in prison so it's not an allegation he actually did it but his victims have never been named in the media. This is 2021 two years ago. However, in December the editor-in-chief of radio Cezin Thomas Duklanowski revealed the identity of Mr. Falinski's victim on the station's website stating the son of a well-known legislator was among those that he abused. The only Cezin based lawmaker whose family matched every description in Mr. Duklanowski's report was Miss Felix and according to the family's lawyer the young boy started getting phone calls and text messages from friends inquiring if he had been sexually molested soon after radio Cezin reported the information that this included messages from his mother's political opponents as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, really sad indeed. Over here wasn't just his classmates who learned about his abuse. The whole of Poland found out according to the lawyer he says you don't need to be an expert in child psychology to understand that this was very upsetting for the young man. So you know, there's not much to say about this down to really say that we in the media in Africa should also learn from this, learn from these the ethics and their rules and regulations as far as the conduct of activities are concerned, you know, we should always try our best to, we in the media should always, always try our best to, you know, realize that there are human beings behind these stories and the ethics are very well spelled out. You know, yesterday I was going through my Twitter feed and I noticed that there's a story that was floated, you know, about Arsenal Football Club and, you know, as a follower of English football and, you know, a supporter of the Arsenal Club in the England English League. I took interest in that story. What was it about? The Arsenal footballers went for the last match against Western United. It's a London derby because both clubs are in London. It was a big deal to supporters of both clubs. And there was a film that the football club put on its Twitter handle, maybe 45 second, 30 second clip showing the footballers of Arsenal signing the t-shirt for the mascot for the day. You know, the kids that these teams walk out onto the field with, they call these children mascots. Okay. And most times, for instance, for a club like Arsenal, it's I think the most community focus club in England Arsenal. You know, do a lot of things to really highlight their involvement in the local community, even in the adverts, even with the LGBTQ issues. That's how deeply they are involved in their community. So what someone did was took that clip and accused the Arsenal players of being proud, of being, you know, snobbish, of being horrible and terrible, because whilst all the players stood in line to sign the t-shirt of that child, they did not say anything to that child. This girl was invited by the club. Her parents were invited by the club. Her father in particular, they hosted the child for the day, gave her, you know, jessies and gave her privilege to walk with the players onto the field and stand on the field for the anthem and everything, you know, give a beautiful day to do this every single matchday. And so they said, oh, that the players did not, Arsenal players did not even talk to the girl. They didn't say hi. And you can see the abuse and insults and, you know, a lot of things that have rained on these players because of that. And some people said, hey, wait a minute, you take just 45 second or 30 second clip. You don't even know what happened the entire game, especially on the day that these footballers are playing a very important match because they have known the title in 20 years or more, you know, 20 years or more. And then you now turn it into a hate campaign. But why am I citing this example? You see, in this Twitter crazy age, you know, where we rush to just do everything without thinking about the consequences. And the media is all left out because all these are forms of media and social media is a form of media where we will just take something and just put it out there. Sometimes for likes, sometimes for retweets, sometimes for photos, sometimes to trend. And we don't think about a psychological effect on the people involved now. You can see with this young man in Poland he's taken his life. They asked our players, they may be earning a lot of money, but the human beings as well, you know, who knows if they had any ulterior motive in mind. I saw the players standing in line, standing in line on just a few minutes before they went on to the field play, very important match to sign Jesse's. And so on said they were so terrible for doing that. All right. So this is very important. Something that we need to be aware of, you know, that victims need the most protection wherever they are, wherever they are, they need the most protection. It's all about the victims. And that's that's that. So in our profession, we are told that we need to be discreet. You know, the ethics do a lot of other things, but it's so clear from what the reports are saying that it's not a safe guy in Poland, the editor-in-chief in that radio station, they didn't know his job. Okay, he knew his job, but he may have had an ulterior motive. Maybe there was a political campaign against the lady. They maybe didn't know the boy will take his life. So it's very important. It's very important to to be aware of these things. You know, even social media, sometimes I would say to myself into some other people that social media may not be so healthy, sometimes from mental health. You know, so the way we even expose ourselves to some of these things, very important. Let's protect our mental health. Let's protect the mental health of our children. Okay, of our children. It's very important. It's very important. And let's also protect the victims. Okay, let's protect the victims as well. Very important. And we'll move on from that to another one. And I don't know if you have, we're going to roll a video. If we will, please let's show this is a fully loaded truck crashing three vehicles in in Lagos. Just watch this in and then we'll come back and talk about it. Okay, there were no casualties recorded as a fully loaded truck crash three vehicles in Lagos. Okay, there you can see it on your screen. I don't have the full details of this particular incident. But you can see it looks like a few tanker. It actually looks like a few tanker. And you can see that the traffic, the traffic is moving in a particular direction. You can see the direction of the vehicle. Now I don't know how that vehicle got to be in that position where it is facing, you know, directly facing the tanker. I don't know how it got to be in that position, but it's not the first time that a tanker has had such an accident. I mean, some will say only in Lagos, look at look at look at the direction of vehicle. So it is possible. I don't know. Maybe the vehicle was in front of the tanker. You know, maybe it was coming from the other side. I do not know. All right. I do not know. But this looks like the Bagada Bridge in Ifaco. You know, I use the lags this a lot. So if I'm not mistaken, this looks like the Bagada Bridge in Ifaco. All right. And then I think the Legacy Management Traffic Management Agency also had put the information out on his Twitter handle. This is what they wrote. Quote, a multiple accident just occurred while descending the Bagada Bridge in Ifaco. Okay. Okay. So that's that's that's correct. This accident involved a loaded tanker and three other vehicles. So we're not told how it happened. And I think they will also encourage the Legacy Traffic Management Agency to do the investigations and also tell us what happened so that people can learn from the situation. You know, but but this isn't the first time. All right. It's not the first time we're hearing that a few tankers crushed vehicles. It happens all the time. And I think it was last. Okay. In February, these are headlines from some of our newspapers. In February, in the punch newspaper, February, February 1, 2023, one kill, the tanker crushes three tricycles in Lagos. One killed, one person killed as tanker crushes three tricycles in Lagos. Another headline, that's also on 1st February, another headline from 4th January 2023, fuel tanker crushes motorcycle rider in Lagos. 4th January, same thing. Okay. It's another one. Petrol tanker or petrol tanker crushes three vehicles on Lagos Ibarra Expressway. That's another one. From 2016, from 2016, petrol tanker crushes three vehicles on Lagos Ibarra Expressway 2016, 2018, petrol tanker crushes five cars on New Year's Eve in Lagos. 2021, one dies as gas tanker crushes cars in Logan State, which is nearby Lagos State. And so we can see that this is, it's not new. It happens a lot. This is another one. 2020, one passenger dies, all those angels as fuel tanker crushes vehicle on Lagos Ibarra Highway. You know, it's really sad. This is another one from 2020. Two dead, seven rescuers, three trucks, fuel tanker crush passenger bus. You could go on and on and on and on. You know, it's really unfortunate. I've been in a situation where I was in a vehicle at night going to work, you know, somewhere around Ibarra, trying to, because it was a lot of traffic in Lagos. I think it was just before the governorship election. And everybody was speeding up and there was traffic and all that. And you had these, these heavy duty trucks, these trailer trucks. These were not, yeah, these were tankers. Yes, they were petrol tankers. And the way these guys were speeding, there were two. It was as if they were in a Formula One race. It was as if they were in a Formula One race, driving, trying to, and I was wondering what's going on. Now, the way they were speeding, one almost hit the other. I was in a vehicle, I told the driver who was taking me to work at the time to clear, to just be on one lane, you understand. And I said, the way these guys are driving, I hope they don't hit us. Fortunately, and I say fortunately, the second one, because he was driving so fast, at the point I saw him applying his brakes, because he was trying to avoid budging into another car. He hit a car. I think it was a Venza, if I'm not mistaken. I remember clearly. And when we got to that point, because they had to allow them to overtake us, and they were faster than us, speeding. What I say, fortunately, he hit a car was that he was owned by, or had a military personnel in that vehicle. And I said, very good. It was me more damaged, no one was hurt. I saw that. So at least, you know that the soldier will do justice to the situation. They drive recklessly. And I think that with all these headlines sort of read from 2016 to 2023, it's so clear. It's so clear that we have a problem on our hands. It's so clear that we have a problem on our hands. And something special, special attention needs to be given to, not just a tanker, but special attention also needs to be given to the heavy duty vehicles of all categories. You know, should I talk about the dangote trucks? Now, dangote has nothing to do with these vehicles. They were given out to these drivers, you know, I think on a higher purchase or something, and they owned them. But people probably call them dangote trucks, but it has no affiliation with the company. These guys also drive recklessly. Those guys with trailers, I saw one trailer, there's a video on social media. This trailer truck was bearing a container, and I think he made a sharp turn and realized that the truck was trying to fall out. But he kept driving to the whole thing upsized. You know, she would talk about containers that fall, all right, 40 feet containers that fall on people, cars, because of recklessness. Lives have been lost and needlessly. See, the amount of bloodshed in this country is too much. So what is calling, not just on the legal state traffic management agency, but on the federal safety core of the Niger Police Force, Traffic Management Department, and everybody needs to come together, federal government, we need a special program, something, to address the issue of death, death on our roads because of recklessness of these heavy duty vehicle drivers. All right, we need to address that. We will go too much further than to leave it at that, and we'll take a break. When we come back, we'll look at what the papers are saying. Our guest is standing by. We'll tell you who is when we return. Please stay with us.