 On the breakfast today, the People's Democratic Party begins primary elections to nominate candidates for the 2023 general elections in various states. We'll take a look at the conduct of those parties. Also on the breakfast, we'll be speaking with an expert too, on how to end obstetrics fistula. And also don't forget, we'll also look at the headlines of the front pages of today's national dailies, analyzing the biggest stories of the day. A very good morning to you, welcome to the Breakfast and Plus TV Africa, and what is a beautiful Monday morning reaching you live from our studios in Victoria Island, Lagos. I'm Kofi Bartels. And I am Merciable Post, beautiful Monday morning, and it feels really great to be back on your screen. Not a great one for Liverpool fans. And you decided to come to work wearing rain, mercy. It warms your shame, it warms your shame. No, it's not a shame. I mean, you can say that now, Kofi. But it's okay. I mean, as a football fan who has a soft side for us now, I just want to talk about the Premier League. I'm moved on, really. Moved on, moved on. But anyway, that's a good way to start looking at the trending stories within the country and around the world. A lot of social media bars and attention being taken, generated by... Why do I feel like you're very happy? The final, I'm not too happy about that. But I'm happy in life, generally, all the time. No, I know you're happy in life, but I'm just... No, no, but I'm just saying that you feel like you're just happy about the outcome of the game. Well, I mean, I'm a fan of Arsenal Football Club, and they didn't make it tough for why should I be happy? I'm not happy at all. But I mean, we have to move on. But the bars generated by the final day, days play in the Premier League, took over social media. It was quite interesting. It was reminiscent of the Manchester City First League victory. Remember that famous victory was Manchester City versus Manchester United, and Aguero had to score that last-minute goal against Queen's Park Rangers to leave the title. It was two games, and that's how it was. I was surprised because I kept my eyes on the Arsenal game. But I was surprised to come into the second half and see that Manchester City were down by two goals to nail. It was a big surprise, mercy for me to see that. And I mean, I never expected it. So it was a nail-biting finish to the game. If Manchester City had drawn, Liverpool had won. Liverpool had walked away with the title. If Manchester City had lost, Liverpool had won. Liverpool had worked away with the title. It was the last ditch-goal by Ilkay Gondogan to seal the victory for Manchester City. They've won the title now for the fourth time in five years, basically colonising the Premier League. I'm not too happy about that as well. But that's what transpired. Last ditch-goal. Manchester City or the Aston Villa goals came in the 37th minute. It was one-nil. Then in the 69th minute, it was two-nil. Philip Coutinho scored the second goal. You're from a player. And Gondogan had to come onto the field of play in the second half and was able to get one goal back, 76th minute. Rodri scored a goal to make it 2-2. And we all thought, OK, can these guys really score three goals? I mean, it's amazing. You must give it to them. And the fact that they've actually always been there and one would think that... I know that a lot of people were rooting for Liverpool. You had a lot of support and all of that. But it doesn't also take out the fact that you have Liverpool winning their match in a grand style. But it was also dependent on the fact that if Manchester City would lose, then it would be a plus for them. But that didn't really happen because of the comeback that they actually had. And it's a great one. But you can also take the fact that Manchester City is a great team and Pep Guardiola has been doing a great work with the boys. Fantastic comeback. And that's exactly what happened just like you have mentioned. No one saw that coming, but it happened. And that's the beauty of football. Really saddening, especially for Liverpool fans and Liverpool themselves. Even though you also want to give it... I mean, at some point you have the coach saying that at the first season, during the first season and first session or first half of the season, you can't really say that Liverpool were really consistent in terms of the play. So the inconsistency actually led to that. It was just one point. Just one point. One point of winning. One vote, one vote can change. It was like one vote, one point. One anything can make the difference. You know what they say in football is you have your feet in your hands. You have your feet in your hands. So much as a city, they had their feet in their hands. They knew what they had to do. And in football, sometimes it's not good. If all the time it's not good to rely on another team helping you beat your opponent to be able to make it to the next round or to win at a qualifier. For instance, Arsenal were relying on Norwich City to beat Tottenham, which was almost impossible for them to make that top four when they could have won against Newcastle and then also maybe held Tottenham to a draw. You know, just because they had it in their hands. They bottled it. Liverpool too, there was a match they drew I think it was against Tottenham that really affected them. So when you place your feet in another person's hand then of course this is what you have. It was surprising, really surprising to see that Man City were down 2-0 at home. I don't know what happened. Maybe I've been thinking about it. How can such a great team be 2-0 down to Aston Villa? But maybe sometimes the occasion gets to you. The tension of the day because Man City are good. But they prove themselves resilient. This is the second time they're coming down from behind to win. So it's great. But one of the side stories to this victory was the fact that the Manchester City fans poured onto the pitch as a final whistle to celebrate with their team. And you saw fans, in fact the stewards had to literally drag the players away. Some players wanted to celebrate with the fans because they were happy. You see the likes of John Stones. We don't tend to leave the field. But the stewards had to drag them away so that they could be safe. But Manchester City have had to apologise to Robin Olsen the second goalkeeper on the day for Aston Villa. After Steven Gerrard, the coach of Aston Villa, claimed that his goalkeeper was attacked during that pitch invasion at the Etihad Stadium. And the videos are already on social media where it shows that Olsen's goalkeeper appeared to be holding his head as he emerged from the crowd. And these are some of the dangers we've seen in fans embarking on pitch invasions. You know, when Everton were able to win the Alaskan against Crystal Palace, the previous game, and achieve safety in the Premier League, the fans also went onto the pitch. These are the things we've seen about the Premier League that need to be worked on. But apart from Manchester City winning the league, it wouldn't be fair if we talk about Man City winning the league and Aston making it into top four, and do not talk about the teams that escaped relegation. It was also guilt edge. It was dependent on that day. The final relegation slot was decided on that day. And I predicted, I predicted on radio last week that I think Leeds will stay up and Burnley will go down. That was the last slot to determine who was going to go down. And thankfully, my prediction came true as Leeds United were able to beat Brentford away, which was a wonderful feat. They stayed up while Burnley lost to Newcastle, and of course they have gone down. Well, we can also say that Liverpool actually put out a fantastic player right there over the walls, and the fact that, like you have rightly mentioned, when you put your faith in another man's hand, you can actually decide what would actually happen. So it was a situation. 3-1 was the game, fantastic player right out there. I also remember looking at a picture at the time where you had Mo Salah putting out the goal, and then he was, I'm sure he was very, I mean, looking at that goal and the expression it could have been that he would stick it out. It's not taking them anywhere. But then you could see, there was also a picture of a fan trying to let him know that, hey, guy, man sits here, it's the head of you. You know, the goals are like this, and that's it. But it's okay. One of the things that you have Jürgen Klopp saying is that I think that they weren't really consistent at the time when the season started, and so if they put your thoughts together and put your arcs together, they might just come better. But it was a fantastic one, and congratulations to Man City winning the Premier League and to all of the fans there. Indeed. All right, so we move away from that. Another one is the fact that you have a building collapsing in Lagos Island. Again, it seemed to be a very consistent act that's been going on for a very long time. If you look at statistics and reports, there are reports that between 20,000 or 2005, up until 2020, if you like to say, we've had like 152 building collapse in Lagos, and it caused a lot of concern. So one would think that with the eco-e, because with that collapse, it was like it was the climax of it. It was the epic of it. It was just everything, and we would learn our lessons and we'd get to action. It's a combination of government and the people. When you talk about the people at this point, talk about the developers and those own disabilities and the fact that we need to do writing. But doing the writing, we can never overemphasize that we need to do the writing at all times. I don't even think that we need to get to a point where we have government pushing and asking that we need to do the writing as a people. Yes. So imagine that you're a developer and then you're being contracted by the owners of properties and then you don't even have to dive in, because according to reports that we have, and the reports, which is actually authentic, it's been verified by authorities, is that the set building was a bungalow and then it was being converted to a story building. How do you explain all of that? These are the reasons. The statistics and reports have actually stipulated that the reason why you have all of this collapse is because there's always, you know, some conversion. We want you caught corners. You have an original plan. Then you want to divert from the original plan and get to another. So it's a lot for us. But we don't really get to think about it. But who should take the blame? Should it be all about the blame? It's quite unfortunate that every other time, I mean, 2021, 2022, prior to this time, we still talk about building collapse in Lagos and it feels like there's nothing that happens. And in all of this, we get to loss. I mean, we're talking about the loss of lives. Okay, let's leave the properties. People die in the course of this. What I was one, two, three, four, five, people are dying. And for a mistake that could have been corrected. Indeed, mercy, it's sad. You know, yesterday, we had three more bodies were recovered from the rubbles of that three-story building which collapsed under construction. This is another building under construction. I think the last major one, I mean, the old major, but the last two, the one in Cuyo is also under construction. So yesterday, three more bodies were recovered from the rubbles of that three-story building under construction which collapsed at Fremont Road, Fremont Road for Alayaki Lane in Lagos Island. This should be the second amongst the past three that have happened in Lagos Island. So that recovery of the three more bodies brings a total number of deaths to four. Four people have died in this latest building collapse in Lagos, this time in Lagos Island. Five people were told have been rescued alive. According to the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, they are saying that the building was in violation of safety protocol. And this is something that we must note. We must take note of the building was in violation of safety protocol. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency also is saying that they discovered that the building had been captured by the Lagos State Building Control Agency. It's the agency that looks at buildings and approves and controls and sees which is perfect and fit to continue. So they said this building control agency, the district office of the building control agency had captured this building and that they had served the developer with all the statutory notices. They had also sealed these statutory notices at the district and central enforcement level. So they have district offices for the state building control agency and then at the central level or the central office had done that. Now, the investigations conducted which also went on to reveal that the developer had continued, you know, despite these notices to clandestinely work on the building. And we're told that he was working mostly at night and on weekends. So, of course, at night, you don't expect that the authorities would come looking for you. They'll be at home resting, you know, and on weekends as well. This is what we're told. You know, so it's sad, you know. We blame authorities a lot of times, but this is a clear case of the authorities actually serving notices to a developer. Do not work. No, so in this particular case, I mean, no one is... It's a situation because usually, like I mentioned earlier on, it's a combination of the people and a combination of government. And we always say that we can be in government at all times, you know, for everything that's going on because you also have... We also have a responsibility to... a role to play. So, for instance, if you follow... I mean, if we have... if there are statistics and reports saying that 152 or there were about had collapse at a certain time, you know, between 2005 to 2020, then we should pay attention to it. We're talking about those who are saddled with the responsibility, these contractors, without even having the government going about monitoring and looking out for... ensuring that you're leaving up to expectation and you're doing the need for, we're saying you should have... you should consider the fact that the implication would be that people would die if you don't do the right thing. That's what we're saying, and this has been going on. So, it's not about, you know, putting the blame on the people, like I stated earlier on, it's a combination of the people and the government. You can't take that away. It's okay that you have disaster, risk management, reduction, and then you have government setting up. Government is set up agencies, you have this board is checking and most of the times, a lot of people would say that government... these agencies that have been set up have looked away, they've turned their eyes and for whatever reason, taken bribe or whatever, whatever you want to explain. But the point is, if you have, at the point where the building has been flagged, so because I know that sometimes you move around and then you see, like an asterisk red on a particular structure, what does that mean? If it's been flagged, why don't you follow it to the latter? This is where we bring the conversation to an end. And we're saying that we need to do the right thing. We can't continue like this and expect a different result. Buildings will continue to collapse in Nigeria if we do not wake up and do the needful. All right, that's our training segment right here on The Breakfast on Plus TV Africa. When we return, we dive straight into the pages of the National Daily Review of Analysis after these newspaper headlines. Thanks for watching The Breakfast.