 We're back, and of course, set to take a look at what the papers say this morning. Of course, our guest, G.D. Johnson, is on standby. He's a senior lecturer in the Nigerian Institute of Journalism. G.D. Johnson, good morning to you, and thank you very much for your time. Good morning, and good morning to all of you around the world. We join the British people, and the common word in the morning, the debt of Aurea Majesty, the Queen of England, Elizabeth, and God, grant the family the trust you bear with us, and we congratulate the Indian King, King Charter Todd, on ascending to the throne of the British monarchy. Thank you for having me. Thank you very much. Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. All right, let's start with a look at the stories on the front page of the punch this morning, and of course, as expected, most of the papers have Her Majesty, the Queen's picture on the front page. I mean, she's been on the world stage transcending generations. I remember when my father, my late father, called Blessed Memory, Mr. Charles Bartels, used to tell me how as a primary school student, he had to draw a portrait of the Queen, you know, a drawing when the Queen visited West Africa when he was a kid. You know, so that shows how long she's been on the throne, and she has really, really left her mark on the science of time. Well, the punch in the leading story says Queen Elizabeth's death at 96, world leader's pay tributes, Britain mourns, Charles becomes king. More from the punch, Railway Pipeline's GDP tumbles by 51% over insecurity vandalism. Railway Pipeline's GDP tumbles by 51% over insecurity vandalism. Pangasin threatens 30-day shutdown. Nigeria risks 1.37 trillion naira loss. Sack non-performing service chiefs Union tells Buhari. Sack non-performing service chiefs Union tells Buhari. PDP pacifies south with BOT chair, IU stays. PDP pacifies south with BOT chair, IU stays. Of course, like I said, we said yesterday, the PDP is really helping the newspapers to sell more copies these days. Military will tackle security challenges. Buhari assures Nigerians, of course, nothing different from what he's been saying from the first day he came into office. Military will tackle security challenges. Buhari assures Nigerians. More from the punch, UK Prime Minister, Buhari, Biden, Obama, Macron, others hail Britain's longest reigning monarch. This is in relation to that story on the Queen. Nigeria's monkeypox death toll, highest in Africa, WHO, UBA grows half one profit to 85.7 billion naira. Lagos woman set ablaze for kidnapping baby dies. Police hoodlums demolish 50 Lagos buildings, victims protest, and troops rescue three chipper girls arrest terrorist informant stories of the front page of the punch. Moving quickly over to the next newspaper, this time the leadership Friday. And that paper just has a big one giving prominence to the coverage of the Queen's passing. And it says, by Elizabeth II, after 70 years on the throne, Britain's longest serving monarch dies at 96. Britain's longest serving monarch dies at 96. And a quote there from Charles, it says, the death of my beloved mother, Her Majesty, the Queen, is a moment of great sadness or greatest sadness for me and all members of my family. Charles Mons has he is named King. Buhari trusts Biden, other world leaders mourn. British society faces major changes. And the other series on the Queen, the paper says, how the Queen saved my life by prof Badajo, life and times of the Queen. And I'm sure make an interesting we can get a copy of the leadership Friday for more on that. Next up is the nation. And of course, you can see there's a picture on the front page of the nation of Queen Elizabeth II, as well as others. But the lead story on the front page, the paper as it has been doing over the past few days and weeks, indeed, is given coverage to the PDP crisis. Any surprises there? Well, it says PDP crisis, are you? Not Jibrin, should resign, says Wike. Are you? Not Jibrin, should resign, says Wike. I'm sure in response to the BOT chair stepping down. PDP Neck passes vote of confidence in chairman. I resigned in party's interest, says BOT chair. Wabara replaces Jibrin. Of course, the party had the BOT chair from the northern part of the country, the chairman of the party from the northern part of the country, the presidential candidate from the northern part of the country. Charles is king of England, says the nation with a right to that headline, world leaders mourn Elizabeth II. DSS, military items, cash, financial instruments found in Mamoo's home and office. This is a reference to the publisher of the Desert Herald, who has also been acting as negotiator for the kidnapped victims on that Abuja-Kaduna bound train. 2023, no option to victory under Motel's APC members. Over 30 aspirants undergo screening for Al-Lafi, UBA grows profit to 88.76 billion Nara in six months of some stories on the front page of the nation. Reps, Summon, Pencom Digi, Manquil's 90-year-old father in Quora, 7,000 donkey genitals intercepted and seven injured in Ibadun collapsed building. It's another one, really sad one there. Over to the daily trust, which is the last paper on the table this morning. Of course, a picture of Queen Elizabeth and the people giving quite a wide space and wide coverage to this developing story. Queen Elizabeth II, 1926 and 1922, the paper says, writers to that headline, Buhari world leaders pay tributes, life and times of longest seven monarchs, her ties with Nigeria, how King Charles III will be unveiled. I'm sure the world, it will be really keenly watching how that process will be carried out. More from the daily trust, insecurity. After clearing operations, FCT schools are ready for resumption. Some good news there, PDP crisis, NEC passes vote of confidence on IU and DSS recovers military uniforms, huge cash from Mamu's house. And you can see daily trust has been given us coverage of all things North in recent times. And indeed when Mamu was detained in Egypt, it was the interest who he spoke to who put out an interview with him. They've been covering this story. So they put that recover in quotation marks, inverted commas. DSS recovers military uniforms. They put that in inverted commas. Interesting one to watch from daily trust. All right, so we go over to our guest. We'll start with the story coming from the United Kingdom, Ginny Johnson. You of course did a short tribute to the Queen, Her Majesty the Queen, Elizabeth II, who passed on yesterday. Just some words from you, what are your thoughts on this development in her life and times? Once again, enjoy the people of the United Kingdom, the common world and the world, to one of the greatest icon of the 19th, the 20th and the 21st century. There's no doubt that the Queen shipped global politics, global lifestyle in the 20th and the 21st century because she was a generational figure and a transnational figure. Like you said, she's the longest. She was the longest Queen monarch of the British, of the British Empire, the United Kingdom. It's inevitable. If in other sense they've been rehearsing this particular incident that happened yesterday since the sixties, which is called Code Name, Operation London Bridge. So, but in any case, nobody really wants anyone, if it's possible, mankind would want everybody to live forever, but there's a death we all hope, which is death, which is inevitable, which one of us is the prize of one of us is going to be. But we must also take Sulaas and the fact that she served her nation until her death. Just Tuesday, she was there to receive the resignation of Boris Johnson as the Prime Minister of Britain, as well as set the straws and invited the straws to inform the government on our behalf for and become the Prime Minister of Great Britain. So, it's sad and at the same time, it's also a reflective moment for all of us. And it's also good for us to take lessons as a particular story which you read. The other thing for you as that, as that for many, many months, and the show of who she was, right? And we have not seen the making being appointed or being selected. This story you read, that 128 candidates are going for the screening. I think that is enough for us to tidy up the succession plan of our kings in a part, when you release the selection process, that's when politics comes in, when the queen died, automatically charged become the king. And if in the future, if that happens to charge to automatically William to become the king, so I think there are lessons that we need to learn in putting up things in proper perspective for our reality down go. What do you expect to happen going forward? Of course, some have said this will be another step on the road to phasing of the monarchy in the United Kingdom, in Great Britain. When she ascended the throne, it was no longer, it no longer was called the monarchy, it now moved to calling it the royal family and reducing the presence and activities in official British British affairs to more ceremonial role. Some people feel that with her departure, it would have more of the powers and influence of the royal family being taken away. Do you expect that this will be reduced? And what kind of king do you think Charles III will be? Well, King Charles has already said the throne for a very long time, that is going to turn down the empowerment of the monarchy once he ascended the throne. There's no doubt about that. I don't forget that the queen, like I said, trans-generational, moved from being the queen and the emperor of the British Empire. What used to be the British Empire is to call truly third of the world's geographical and territorial landmines, to the point that it is just the queen and the head of government of great Britain and 15 nations. So there's no doubt that they moved towards republicanism. They moved towards their movement over the years. But one thing I would like to let the British people understand is that the monarchy has given them some sort of stability. They have given them some sort of stability to their political system. Look at the work characterised by Johnson's administration. The selection process of selecting or electing the leader of the conservative party who automatically becomes the prime minister to complete the tenor of Boris Johnson. Imagine if there was no monarchy to provide the head of state which is in gravely ceremony. What would have happened to the great, to the great, to the United Kingdom political system? I think it's important for the British to understand the value of what they have. You don't know what you have until you lose it. That's just my take. They don't have to follow suit with other countries where by you have the monarchy was gradually eradicated from their political, social and economic landscape. I think that the stage is the room for the monarchy system which makes it unique and which needs to be different. All right. We'll stay, thank you Jilly Johnson, the interesting analysis from you. We'll stay with the Daily Trust. On the front page of Daily Trust, of course, with the paper's usual strong presence and coverage of activities in northern Nigeria. They have given us an interesting update on the security situation in Abuja. If you remember, we also have discussed it on this programme before. The closure of schools in the FCT following the widely publicised, well-publicised security breaches in the federal capital territory, Nigeria's capital. What the Daily Trust says is that primary and secondary schools in the FCT are set for resumption following intensive clearing operations by the military and criminal hideouts is what they're saying. It was learned that the schools would resume on the 12th of September made excitement by parents and children. No, parents are rushing to the schools to take their children home even before the Ministry of Education and the FCT declared that they should announce that they should be shut down because the terrorists would always history has shown target schools as a federal ground for kidnapping. So what are your thoughts on this? Does this mean, in your opinion, that you know securing the FCT is back on track? Well, there's a little story where some groups or union called for the President to change the semi-steep. The question we need to ask ourselves is that if it has to take this level of security engagement for children and school pupils to go to school in Abuja, the federal capital territory, where you have the seat of government, where you have the presence of all the security agencies, then it tells you something about the whole security situation in the country. There's a lot of security situation in the country and I think that government has not really come out with a template or a strategy to really solve the security challenges that we have in this in this in this country. No matter what assurance parents get for returning their children to school, based on this security cleanup that the agencies of government have done, you will still have it at the park of your mind that anything can happen at any point in time. There's no assurance that can give you peace of mind where you have security of lives and property and there's no 100% guarantee of safety of lives and property. Besides that, you will recall in most cases, parents and families that have suffered kidnapping and other related matters are to resort to self, have been left alone by government to resolve their issue, to resolve their issue. So my advice specifically is to government to make sure that they provide the environment which guarantees the safety, security of life and property. That's the first responsibility, constitutional responsibility of any government to maintain the territorial integrity of the nation and secure lives and property. It's a fundamental function, a constitutional that governments will and would to do and we can see we have experienced that to a larger extent. But our advice parents to still be cautious to study the environment before they take their children back to school because if anything should happen, we have seen that government has left, overtime has left families to resort to self-help in solving their problems that the state should have guaranteed them on. Interesting, you're saying they should, they should be cautious and watch out for a couple of days before, you know, taking their kids back to schools. Let's move out of nation. I will stay with security matters now in northern part of the country. Of course, the DSS moving to arrest Tukru Mamu, the publisher of the Desert Herald, who's been negotiating for the release of the kidnapped hostages from that Abuja-Kaduna-bound train. He was on his way to, for the Lesser Harjini in Saudi Arabia on a transit in Egypt he was detained and then deported to Nigeria. What we told from the papers this morning including the nation is that the DSS are saying that military items, cash and financial instruments were found in his home and office. What are your thoughts on this? Some people including myself have asked, okay, why did the authorities wait till he traveled out of the country before arresting him? He's been in the country all this while doing what he's been doing. And secondly, is anything behind this that we do not know that is maybe suspicious? Because he's been saying that he's been under threat from the authorities. But a bit of some of what the nation is saying. They said that the Department of State Services yesterday said its officers found, quote, incriminating, end of quote, materials in the home and office of Tukru Mamu, a negotiator for the release of the abducted Kaduna-bound train passengers. The paper went on to say Mamu was arrested while we know that. So let's skip that. Spokesman for the service, Peter Fonaya, said in a statement that the military accountants' large amounts of different currencies and financial transaction instruments were found in his home. What are your thoughts on this, JD Johnson? Well, he shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody. If he is the negotiator on behalf of the Abuja Twin hijab victims, then he should expect to see all of these items that have been found in his residence. Like you pointed out, why do we have to wait till now? And why do we have to wait for him to travel outside of the country before he was invited? I think because you don't have to make too much force about arresting people who would have been invited locally to the resources of the state that has been invested or expended on security arrest of someone that moved fully in Nigeria before deciding to go to the search and to be arrested in Egypt. That's one. Then too, I always like the security agencies and the Justice Department to do their diligence before they start releasing evidence to the larger site. These are investigations still ongoing and then we now have a situation whereby there are information that has been provided with respect to intelligence that the security agencies and the Justice Department are getting with respect to solving this particular particular problem. That's my take on it. I don't think there's a need for quick publication or release of what government is still investigating. It might be prejudicia. This idea also might be providing is other associate the opportunity for them to disappear. So I'm not a security expert. I'm not working in the security sector, but I'm just talking from a strategic point of view that I think that adopting that particular strategy will not be appropriate in fighting the war on terror. I think it's important for us. Information is part of what you call information in security agencies is intelligence. You need to manage the intelligence. You need to gather your intelligence. You need to get all your facts right, not that for you to ensure that none of what you want to do is compromise. This kind of particular put in my opinion, I might be wrong, might compromise the investigation and the fight on terror. While we've heard from the DSS as covered by the Nation newspaper, the MAMU campus has also been talking. The Nation said that they spoke to a staff member of the publication headed by MAMU, which is a desert area. He said that the number of operators, well, I'm heavily underprivileged, the DSS who went to his house conductor's set were 50 in number. That's what he said. Maybe it was a guess, I don't know. But this is what he said, quote, I know they were looking for incriminating materials. They can use to link our bus to terrorism, but I know he's sincere in rendering assistance to the victims of the train attack. He said, quote, went on to say, quote, they ransacked the house and cut it away, documents, phones and laptops. Those in the house were ordered to sign a document. They did not read. They were about 50 who came with sophisticated weapons in Toyota, Hilux, Highlander as army vehicles. So this show of force and strength by the DSS is far from what we've seen as far as the terrorists who have kidnapped these train victims are concerned. There's been no rescue effort. The President has said that they have had recommendations, but did not want to do anything that would jeopardize the safety of the victims and hostages and lead to collateral damage. What I thought on what the MAMU camp is saying as captured in the nation and also the use of extreme methods, including taking about 50% to search his home, as compared to the efforts that have been made and put into rescue the victims of the kidnapping. I just want us to see, how would this not compromise the rescue effort of the government? How would this not lead to collateral damage based on the justification provided for government for not using force? And then you also wonder, why would they take, really see this show of force? Either when you have the chief executive at the state level or federal level is visiting a community or you want to effect an arrest of an individual. And then you see the whole of the paraphernalia of security agencies being displayed openly and publicly for people to see that these agencies are working. And then we should also deploy that in the process of rescuing the victims and they are trained in different format. And besides in security agencies, we also have trained negotiators, people that negotiate on behalf of kidnapped victims, on behalf of terror victims across the globe. And I'm sure the agencies of government responsible that must have spent millions of dollars in training because if there is one aspect, security agencies and pages, it's about training of their personnel. So I think it's important for government to understand that whatever it do creates an impression and that impression has a long lasting effect if we could do this just for one individual. Why don't we go ahead and do this long time ago to rescue, to rescue the victims of the Abuja train. Abuja train, there's no doubt there will be one or two collateral damage. For at least we have set a sign and a message that is clear to all the perpetrators of evil against humanity and crime against the state that government will leave no stone unturned to ensure that justice is done to ensure that the safety of lives and property in our nation is guaranteed. All right, we'll stay with the nation newspaper. It's a big one from page of the nation. It says tale of three senators. Senator Walid Gibrin, BOT chairman of the People's Democratic Party. Senator Adolfo Swabra, former Senate president who is the new BOT chairman of the People's Democratic Party. And Senator Yochai Yu, who is a party chairman. That's why I call it a tale of three senators. And what BIPA is telling us is that BIPA has called it a PDB crisis all along, no surprises there. It's a wiki is not taking the, accepting the resignation of the BOT chair. It says, are you must go, not Gibrin? What are your thoughts on this? It seems that this you know, look about this and I said that for the interest of the party, why can't, because the this spotlight has always been on wiki, but it's not only wiki that is in the forefront of this, of this movement. For the interest of, for the interest of peace in the party, and if indeed I use a statement, what stops are you from designing? If it is the torque in the wheel of the progress of having peace and harmony in the party, why is he helping in, in um, in holding on to the, okay, if they say, okay, let me just put it in this context. Your children work up to you and say that, you know, the reason why there is an argument between you and Mo is because you, um, you, you, you, you don't, you don't go out to steer through more of the time and in the process because argument that you have to develop a mechanism in, in, in such a way that you have to go out for some time and come back home. And the man keep insisting, I'm not going out. He's man looking for peace in his house. Now you have been the centerpiece of the argument that there is one, you became the chairman through a consensus arrangement that zoned the chairman to the north. And by design, after you have become the chairman, you truly will put the precedence, the normal thing is for the chairman of the party to pin the nut and the presidency to be, to be, to be, to be in this out. So what stops him from resign if he toes the part of honor? Like you said, if the, what is the beauty? What does the beauty do? The beauty is just an advisory, is an advisory, an advisory body that does not have an executive power. Is the chairman, is the national executive committee of the party that has executive power, the chairman of the duty is just an advisory, advisory, advisory body. So I think if are you is indeed a man of dignity and is interested in his, in his party's success at the pole, except that there's something that the other eye cannot see. Why is he holding on to? We saw the commissioner for, for the commissioner that resigned in legal state as a result of building collapse in, in legal state in one of the cities you had before we, we come to this segment of the press. So why can't he, that's the question I keep asking because narrative has always been a wiki, wiki, wiki, wiki, wiki. And you had what the governor of Mubu states said, you have got the governor of, of Abia, as you said, and you have had what the governor of Bedway state has said over time. So why is it, why is he not trying to move for Nigerians to do the part of honor in bringing about peace? All right. But the paper is telling us that the, the, the national executive council, the PDP has passed a vote of confidence in IU. What else can we do? I mean, if they, if they, any neck of the party says we're passing a vote of confidence in you, I believe that you are the man for the job and you deserve to remain on this seat. I think it wouldn't say that as the, as the end of the story, like we say in this part of the world. Kofi, if you know the power and the fleece and the, the best of the office of the national chairman, you understand all the money, the number one, the account is not audited. Look at the amount of money these parties have collected as nomination for. That money is sitting in the bank now. It runs into being, you recall that when APC, when Adam Sushilman was the first APC chairman and the governor of UBS in Mahbuni was made the chairman of the Kiatika Astrakhani Committee. You know, it had to take the intervention of the president for them to conduct the national convention. You know how many times it was postponed? Now, we are not talking about, especially by the national executive committee is sitting on tons of money collected as nomination, as nomination free from aspirants across the left and right. Why should the national executive, why should the national arm of the party be collecting the nomination for gubernatorial aspirant? Why should they collect for as of assembly aspirant? That type of resource should be domiciled at the state. Why the one for national assembly and the president should go to, to, to Abuja? But we have a fraud, a fraud system in, in, in, in our country. They will be speaking of having federalism at, at governor's level. But at the party level, you have military structure at the party level, where everything resides with the national chairman who acts as an entrant. You recalled about two days ago, the, the southern members of the national executive, the national working committee of the party stayed at work out. And today they are passing, they are passing a vote, a vote of confidence on him. For me, I think that if IU really loves that their party, and if you really loves the presidential candidate of their party and is interested in them in the direction, he is not stopping him from doing the part of honor by stepping down. Indeed, it's, I think it's important you reminded us that the national working committee, the southern national working committee members are at a stage to work out and insisted on, on IU's resignation. Interesting times. And we watch to see what happens in the people's democratic party, which is one time the largest party in Africa, which was meant to be in power for 60 years, whatever happened to that dream. Let's move over to the punch in East Africa. I think a very important issue that needs coverage, and I'm happy the paper has given some, you know, attention to this, monkeypox, monkeypox. It's been, you know, circulating around the world, and Africa has not been left out. And it's been an issue in other parts of the world, you know, I mean, they've been running scared about this, you know, after we're still grappling with COVID. Indeed, I told a friend of mine, you know, I put up one of the headlines, the screenshots of one of the paper front pages on my WhatsApp status, and a friend in Kenya was scared when they saw the statistics of monkeypox from Nigeria and said, are we safe? And I said, well, we don't even, we're not even living like there's something on ground in the country. I don't know what you think about that situation. But what the World Health Organization is saying, as you know, covered by the punch newspaper, is that Nigeria's monkeypox death toll is the highest in Africa. They said this yesterday. It's a highest death toll in confirmed cases, not just death toll, but confirmed cases, if you read the details there. Are we giving this the priority attention it deserves? Either for the WHO report, the newspapers are lighting it in their major stories. I'm not too sure that the government or the people are aware or have placed this particular issue in the front corner of their concerns with their safety and health in the country. There's no doubt that if you put the population of Nigeria vis-à-vis other countries in Africa, that the statistics of Nigeria will definitely amplify the rate of whatever you're talking about in Africa. There's no doubt that there's a need for government to pay serious attention to this. And it's also important for us as citizens to also pay attention to issues that are asked to do with our health and in order for us to know what steps that we need to do. And then this is a call out to the Ministry of Information and the Ministry of Health to come up with a protocol on what Nigerians need to do with respect to this outbreak before it turns out to be a major pandemic like COVID that we are still grappling with and that the effect will still be with us for the next 100 years because, yes, COVID totally shut down the society in almost more than 100 years. It also disrupted the economic, the major disruption of COVID and not to show that all society or all family or all major business interests have recovered from it. And we must also bring it to our side. COVID must come up with protocol on educating the people with respect to this particular disease and also telling us on what steps to take to ensure that we do not facilitate the spread of this particular disease. All right, Jimmy Johnson, still with the punch, I think this will be of great interest to you as it is of interest, the pressing issue tonight during the issue of oil theft. The Petroleum Natural Gas Senior Staff Association, Pangasat, the punch says is threatening a 30-day shutdown over oil theft in the Niger Delta, believe it or not, over oil theft in Niger Delta. And so they are threatening to shut down the oil and gas sector in the entire country. So this would mean that, I mean, even down to those of us at the downstream end, those at the retail sector, we end, we cannot buy petrol or diesel from the stations, they're even kerosene. Now, we're hearing papers reporting the members of Pangasat stage the protests in various parts of the country, including Abuja Wari and, of course, Port Hakot and Kaduna. It's a key city where you have refineries. You know, they're also saying that findings by their correspondent show that should the workers implement their threat, Nigeria might lose about 1.37 trillion era from the non-production and sale of crude oil, a foreign major exchange revenue in the country in these times. So, I mean, the issue of oil theft has been, has been on for years, you know, and like I said, we said yesterday, bunkering is a term we're used to in this country. Are you surprised that Pangasat is organizing protests around the country and threatening to shut down the oil and gas sector in the country because of oil theft in the Niger Delta? I don't know. Because of this, we can read the particular report. I said that over 200,000 parts of Nigeria and crude are stolen daily, which amounts to, I think, $1 billion or I don't know how it was stated, $1 billion era. My take on this is these oil and gas workers, oil theft cannot be possible in members of this union and are participating in it. It's absolutely impossible. Down the line, we have some of the members of these various associations being involved in this nefarious crime against humanity, crime against the state. What steps have they taken to ensure that within their members there are a code of conduct and ethical practice that ensures that none of their members will participate in the theft of Nigerian national treasure? That's my take on this particular. You know there was this crossfire between the NNPC, NNPC and the chairman of the Custom Board. Go on. We can see you. I think we had a momentary phrase in the video signal. I'm sure you're referring to the daily consumption figures. You said we're consuming 60 million barrels of crude per day, but you are releasing 98 billion barrels of crude per day. Why? I guess that's what you're referring to. Okay, we seem to be having a bit of a network challenge with GD Johnson. It happens from time to time, and we apologize for that. GD Johnson, if you can hear me, okay, we definitely cannot hear him. All right, we will just call it a day right now on the breakfast. And of course, I would say thank you to GD Johnson who has given us a very interesting analysis on some of the headlines on the front pages of today's National Daily. So we have a brief wrap of what happened today in history, being the ninth day in the ninth month of 2022. All right, back with a first major conversation on the breakfast. Please stay with us.