 Today on breakfast, the Central Bank of Nigeria has announced that the monetary policy rate of the nation is retained at 11.5% what does this mean for the Nigerian economy. Transference International Corruption Perception Index is a hot topic amongst Nigerians any time it's released. The latest rankings have been released what does this say about the state of affairs in the nation. We also have the analysis of the latest Nisrpa headlines so these are head on the breakfast right here on Plus TV Africa. Welcome to the breakfast and Plus TV Africa as always we will take you through two hours of an amazing conversation and usually we start off with the top trending this is a conversation making the rounds across but I am Messi Bopu. And I am Kofi Bartels Messi sounds so serious this morning what's going on anyway it's isn't enough to be serious you're looking amazing this morning thank you totally amazing thank you it's it's been a very very busy busy day yesterday around the nation lots of news stories to follow lots of events to follow lots of activities but I think one that was really of interest to me was Idumota you know that I was also trending you know lots of we're talking about Idumota do you have any personal any yeah because because I almost walked into Idumota on Saturday inside into the center of crisis when they were still fighting they were still fighting on Saturday according to what I heard and some people had been killed before previous day apart from the clash that was on Friday night so the thing was still brewing on Saturday you know so I was I was lucky someone said hey don't go there you know but but for me the the experiences and the difficulties that drivers especially commercial drivers and hawkers sales people people will push carts go through on the road every single time is of utmost importance yesterday I had the opportunity to go back to a 2010 documentary by the British Broadcasting Corporation called Law and Order in Lagos this was 12 years ago almost 12 years ago where a British documentary maker had to come all the way from the UK to Lagos to do something on the NURTW and and watching that documentary I watched it again last night gave me a very very a crash course in in the national you know road transport workers and for now the the calls by some legations and the one political party they're called party on Governor Samuel Lutu scrap abolish ban the NURTW the national union of road transport workers in Lagos state um was partly partially heated because the government announced a suspension of the NURTW national union of road transport workers activities in in Dumota you know and for someone who is not really indoctrinated or experienced in their affairs activities you know this union in Lagos when you hear people say they are agbeiru you might not understand because the dynamics of the national union of road transport workers in Nigeria southwest are very different from the north the southeast and the south south messy you and I you and I grew up in the same city did you ever see any union people doing agbeiru on the road in in this manner where you know they could they could kill themselves it's a bit different you have so when I actually saw that video I mean the first thing they came because there were there were doubts so that's the video of the fight yes of the fight so for and first for me it felt like this is not true this cannot be you know what part of Lagos could this be and how can this be happening maybe it's an old video from in most states you understand okay maybe some unknown gunmen or something exactly so I never thought that you know that could happen uh right here in Lagos I mean it really shocked me I mean that's that's maybe very honest and sincere then up until later of course verification and finding out part checking and then you have it in Lagos but the activities of uh you know the NURT is like you have mentioned I think that to some extent I haven't been seeing them because uh they're known for the colors green and white and and that's very patriotic color that's like the flag of Nigeria but I haven't quite seen um this personnel in some part of Lagos especially if you stay on the island I mean like he go into a jail and what have you I haven't quite seen them but like you mentioned very correct uh legosians are asking that they'll be scrapped entirely it's a good thing that they've been suspended uh following that well you know we just um like I said I'm sure a lot of persons will be wondering how do we get to this point where you know he felt like it was a war zone you can see the whole fighting and up until this moment I mean I'm still in doubt absolutely I'm still in doubt that that really happened in some part of Lagos it did it did and something we just want the entire body to be scrapped in 2020 September the um deputy governor of Lagos State Hamzat Femi gave an interview through the nation newspaper uh when he celebrated his 56 birthday and what he said in that interview the second question I was asking was the government can't ban the annual activity so this issue has been lingering if they had an interview in 2020 it's been happening every time and not just any Dumota in other parts of Lagos um these guys have become a a government on on the streets of Lagos and that's why some people will say in Lagos State you have four four years of government you have the federal government you have the state government you have the local government and you have Aguero government that's the reality of people on the streets of Lagos they can stop you someone told me um that that that a whole bus of passengers was actually stepped down and just go because they wanted to deal with the driver no it happened I think there's still all the passengers it happened it happened a lot of times so if that is not a government then what do you call them no so so for me I think that um it is the same thing if you want to begin to make comparison it's still the same thing in the cost of discharging duties and we keep asking just as we demand of the police that yes we know that your duties to protect lives and property you have a responsibility you have a role in a democratic dispensation but what are the people asking and what's different from other clients that you behave in a rational way that you behave in a civil way that yes you are asked to discharge a duty but there's a way to go about discharging the duty and then you don't start acting like animals because we have seen um those who should perform duty now you said something I totally would not uh you know want to agree with that even though we have you know little or no time you know to stay on this one I've also experienced that those who are saddled with the responsibility some part of region I mean to regulate activities on the road so in different states you have different names and what have you but it's a national union no this is a national union I haven't seen I haven't seen this behavior 1978 several unions in the country including the cross river state uh transit workers union uh river state uh uh corporation I would say that I haven't but you also have a you also have different bodies that have been created by the state government you know to uh regulate I mean of course of course but the union remains one well two now but the RTE so but the point is as much as it might not be very prominent in different states but you still find pockets of violence and acting not in a very civil manner and we constantly say yes you have a responsibility but we can't act like we're animals and when there's zoo you there's a civil way to act so someone wants to stop a vehicle you want to check particulars what are you doing with the machete why are you using a bottle why are you being very violent why are you treating people like the bottom line is that area boys area boys are controlling the collection of it's about collection of tools a collection of levies transferred levies daily transfer ticket sales of transfer tickets um uh by these people but we'll have to move on we have to move on it's still trending by the way this morning so another conversation that has been generating a lot of conversation I mean that has let me almost speechless not necessarily speechless because uh I mean you know it just pops up a lot of question in the mind is the issue of Samuel Posso and the uh if you know Samuel Posso he's a gospel singer uh fantastic one of that and the fact that he tendered an apology publicly as regards cheating on his wife I'm sure that you probably would have read or heard that story so yes that's what happened but it's gotten a lot of Nigerians talking and uh some people say Samuel Posso is actually apologizing now because he was caught and other persons would say that you know it's okay he's apologizing because of who he is I mean you're talking about being a gospel singer he has fans or he has a comma there's some people say oh you know he doesn't necessarily owe the public any explanation or whatever you but at the end of the day you also have some school of thought towards saying I mean these persons are humans it would happen and others are making it about a gender issue so if you have the woman uh committing the same act I mean with the apology tender would it be acceptable so these are some of the issues and some people have said you know what marriage is overrated it's overhiked let's just move on and forget about it I don't know about marriage being overrated you know some people went online and to point to today it's still trending if you want to take the micro blogging site twitter you have 12,900 tweets as of now you know so a lot of people are talking about this but and for me you know I don't really rush to comment on things like this because I know that we all have our sins you know everyone we have every human being has our sins you know and Jesus Christ said since we're talking about the christian community now that he that had not sinned let him cast the first stone so for for those who want to comment and to condemn and criticize they would want to remember that you know this is a human being and he owes duty and explanation to his wife and I think it's between them so the conversation the argument is about yeah he's not about whether he's now give you my thoughts now okay but but now what one trend online uh was the fact that some guys were saying that Sammy just just made a mistake he was him is a man and they were saying a man like he's not just coming extra explain to people why he cheated he's just going to explain to us they don't want to know they don't want to know why you explain to us you did the wrong thing you should have just gone to your wife and banged her and kept your mouth shut it's all coming to explain to us but then some who were opposing that view online yesterday said that though the reason Sammy is coming I've met Sammy a number of times reason why Sammy is coming out to the public to apologize is he doesn't want to vote blackmail and you know this this american you know ladies sometimes when they want to blackmail you it's in millions of dollars you know so he can't keep servicing the secret that's what someone's saying you know boy all the same hey you should have just kept his wife they don't need his apology and stuff like that but it's it's it's sad so moving on quickly but you also wouldn't want to agree that there was some kind of interview I mean so the lady actually called out made statement in public and if he was actually called out in public it was necessary that he made the apology in public I mean this is me making the excuse for him and maybe thinking that that's the way he was thinking and that's why he put up that apology but what however I mean we're yet to so far because I was curious yeah he's he's actually just gone a little private on his you know social media handle just to limit all of the comments that will be coming through and all of the some some people were also saying that oh no be today you know some logically but logically if you want to say no you know this is it's one of the things the reasons that if you if you want to look at it logically yeah it would be that because from the report of the woman trying to stop me from from see what I'm not trying to stop you I'm actually I honestly as I've said it's a private matter for me I if it weren't it's a private matter or do he made it if he weren't a trending story I wouldn't even be talking about it because I need to work on myself first if I start pointing at someone but it's it's it's a job so I will say this some people also saying oh you know no be today you know accusing them the amount of of um you know playing some some some dribbling some some ladies in the accusation in the house on the rock choir and all that and that's why pass up all sent him packing and all that you know people going back in history for me like I said and these are the things that people are seeing online personally it's just the amount so it's been so the reason you know for every time you make you know you make something do you have something something that you're not proud of the point is this for every time you make something probably because now I would borrow I would borrow from the I would like to borrow from I would know let's borrow from the legal practitioners I mean they say that okay we're not talking about the merit of the case now the merit of the issue whether or not he did it and all of that we're talking about you know why he has to bring it public and some people are saying he brought public because of XYZ and because he has brought it public it has become a public conversation whether you like it or not and that's the reality it doesn't that's everything that is made public you don't need to comment on it no the fact that it has become everything that is the fact that it has become a duty to report of course but that's what I'm saying that society today society today in the social media do you know what was trending yesterday do you know what was trending yesterday a four letter word four letter word merci I saw that should I spell it for you no you don't need to spell it for me because it's it's it's vulgar and taboo in Nigeria I can't even say it on air that's how bad it is so so people just you know you have a phone you can just I'm saying I'm saying everybody who is commenting has one thing or the other and I'm saying that because he made it public because he made it public it has become a public we're all sinners that's why Christ came to die and and that's what I'm saying that because he made it public it has given everyone the leverage to talk about it and that's what some persons are saying that hey you didn't need to bring it out public so even if he was going to be dragged by you know the American lady that he indulged in I mean we didn't have any of this information he's the one who said it and now we now found that there was an interview that the lady was making you know some insinuations and making some allegation however in particular she she said you know that she was impregnated by Samuel Porto she's identified by the name African doll I mean that that sounds really exotic and and she said she would keep the baby is that an excuse yeah African doll it sounds like you're trying to make an excuse but she said she will keep the baby because she does not believe in abortion that's what she said she only called out the gospel singer on Monday saying she did not require him to bow to her but turning his back on her is wrong all right all right so that's what that's what she she's saying so like I mentioned earlier we're not about the merit of the case we're about the fact that it's been brought public and all of the conversations is generating and the fact that oh if he put it out there yes he put it out there so people people I mean can comment on something because he's made it public he's made it public and that's why people are commenting and the issue surrounding is that okay so let's assume that it was your wife that committed the same and indeed you know public apology would you accept the public marriage counselor to the to the couple no that's when you make your issues I'm just saying I'm just saying I'm just saying personally I would advise you know the principle of life you know is um we jump on people's cases and write all sorts of things look at look at Madoka Okoe and Alexi will be people were just saying you know I don't use no but no but he actually has the same things on online that are really derogatory that are really depressing that are really and they're calling them to threaten them threatening them it happens you know so it happens it happens to the most of the people so it brings us back to the conversation the day that the global community international governments global governments will wake up they will shut down if case not taking look at what's trending yesterday it's become a free-for-all and when you have an uncontrolled social media might end up becoming a monster that will go out of control and that was trending because you had some persons I mean let's even begin to narrow it down you had some of the I mean the comedian that was actually um arrested by the NDLA he made a couple of comments you also had a particular music star who was making comments in that direction and what you expect because people were reacting to some of this conversation so it brings us back to the people who are in the industry the entertainment industry those who are the elite those who we call influencers and I think we need to because everybody can just go up and say whatever it is they want to say now prior to this time there were things that were kept private there were things that you would not want to talk about as much as it was okay to express but we feel like you know we're in the 21st century and let's go ahead and that's why the trend comes because you are reacting for every time you react to messies on the story and you're typing and chatting with messy it becomes a trend with every other person that says the messy so if you were something there was a school of thought online that said you know what he did by making it public by um um publicly apologizing may not even be good for the health of his wife for her well-being if you were in her shoes would you want him to put it out there in the public or would you want him to apologize privately and and keep it that way no the point is this I think he actually he took he took a decision that's the question you're asking me I don't know because I'm not we're looking at the emotional and psychological because I'm not involved usually I'm saying you now would you because I am not faced with the situation I'm saying I'm saying I'm better for him for to just because lady may not want this thing to coffee I can say that I want him not to apologize publicly or publicly that's because I'm not faced with the situation sometimes we're able to say this is how you behave you can never you can never predict how you're going to behave until you're faced with the situation I understand so until I'm faced with that then I probably would understand how it would feel and how we react towards it well however we need to move on over to you then all right we hear that six people are dead and many injured in an afghan stampede and this is something that you don't want to hear you know as far as um football games are concerned it's always a danger of having a stampede in a football match if if you have a crowd wherever you have a crowd and it all comes down to a crowd management you know all comes down to crowd management crowd control which is very important for um any any organization any tournament any body that has a large number of so what happened coming together and it was simply a stampede you can see the pictures on your screen anytime you have a football match like this you have a crowd you know and the whole stadium is full and people want to simply you know um enjoy the game and so when you have more people than should be in the stadium sometimes um or you have a full stadium and there is um sort of a skirmish then of course um you begin to have some beats my father really father bless me was the first person who told me about um uh a stampede in the stadium he said he came out uh just he made his life he was lucky to have survived but this happened in kimberon now we had at least eight people died and 38 were injured uh in that stampede as fans stunned a stadium hosting the african combination uh in the capital of kimberon uh yes on monday the government said you know and there were images of social media um showing a panic crowd okay trying to squeeze through a narrow entrance gate and this is also nothing that happens um at the newly built olympia stadium in yawnday uh that were hosted a round of 16 game between kimberon and comoros so sometimes it's either people are trying to enter or people are trying to exit the stadium if maybe there's a rush to leave the stadium and then there's only a small exit and the people who are at the back do not know that the exit is really like small so you know they have to wait for everyone to go and everyone starts moving at the same time they surge from the back of the crowd will push and the blows will fall on those in front and climb on them because nobody wants to be crushed you understand so it's really sad that um eight people you know are having to die and 38 people are having to get injured in in the african combinations a tournament which um you know is is meant to to to showcase africa basically and sell africa to the world see sports does not exist in vacuum sports is is a tool to sell a nation you know football tournaments are a tool to sell a nation so if you see nations vying for football tournaments to have the hosting rights they want to use that as sell themselves to the world you know like south africa did you understand even katar the next walk up they want to sell themselves to the world to say um we are opening for business you know we are a peace loving country the world can come to us don't always go to dubai we are also here you know so it's really really sad very sad what we have to move away and we're also hopeful that the continent is evolving as regards sport and sporting activities and crowd control we hope that african will pay attention to the issue of crowd controlling our current control and that there's no repeat of all of this that's the much we can take on top trending when we return it will be time for off the press or we have tundekola will join in the conversation good morning