 Our senator proves Buhari's 22.7 trillion-dollar ways and means extra budgetary spending. Not a few Nigerians are outraged at this last-minute burrowing. Now, questions have been raised about the competence of the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed. We shall be taking a look at this on the breakfast this morning. We also are going to be looking at the growth of spas in Nigeria and the health benefits especially in a stressful place like Lagos. We will also be taking a look at the headlines on some major newspapers without the press as we have a guest join us to dissect the headlines. You're welcome back. We're glad to know that you're still there and watching the breakfast on PLOS TV Africa. And we're going straight to what the headlines are in the papers. We're beginning with the leadership newspaper that they just call Friday Leadership. And the first headline there on the leadership is Northern Youths Allege Plot to Stop Tinibu's Inauguration. Northern Youths Allege Plots to Stop Tinibu's Inauguration. Finger, Labor, iPod, Petition, IGP, DSS, Demand, Agiro's Arrest. Agiro, the NLC leader. It's Chip Blackmail, NLC president replies. Okay, then we also have another headline, Sudan, We Saw Hell at Borders. That is Nigerian returnees saying they saw hell at the borders. APC's Victory Saved PMB's Legacy Projects Presidency. Agricology's Union Rejects Exclusion from 40% Pay Rise. How to Shield Judges from Corruption. Tinibu is giving solutions to that. And then we also have Organ Harvesting UK Court Sentences, Aquarium Madu, Wife, Today. So we'll find out whether all the writings, all the letters will pay off in this sentencing today. Those were the headlines from the leadership, Friday leadership that we have. And from leadership we'll go to Nature News newspaper. Nature News leads with Nigeria Mali for others to face acute hunger this year. That's according to UN report. The writer there, over 250 million people hungry in 2022. Details of that is on page three of that newspaper. If you're looking at that right now, you see a picture of hungry children. Not a beautiful sight. People queued as food is distributed in old Fungak, in jungler state, one of the areas of South Sudan affected by food insecurity. Okay, away from that, you have only GMOs confirmed safe will be permitted in Nigeria. And that's according to Yemisee Asahbara, the newly appointed Director-General, CEO National Biosecity Management Agency, saying that only safe GMOs. I don't know if there are safe GMOs. GMOs are surrounded by. They must have parameters that they use to measure the safety. I hope they do. Well, stakeholders, well, you find details of that on page five. Moving on, stakeholders demand definite deadline for gas flaring by oil companies. Details of that is also on page five. On top there you have, we are moving towards launching NICOMSAT 2. And that's according to the MD of the Nigerian Communications Set Light Limited. That's all I'll be taking from Nature News. Okay. I do hope that when they launch that satellite, we will see a lot of improvements in our tech and everything. We're moving to the punch. The punch is the next one. And on the punch, the leading headline there is, again, military warns saboteurs, go on councils, petitioners, that is on May 29 handover. The riders are, threat to new President's inauguration will be promptly dealt with, says Defense Headquarters. Kayamo knocks on NICOMS for saying Tinibu shouldn't be sworn in before Tribunal verdict. We also have troops kill 40 insurgents, rescue two Chibok girls. 70 percent, okay, you have that on page eight about the insurgents being killed. And the one about the military warning saboteurs is on page two. Then 70 percent of Southwest private school teachers unqualified. That's according to TRCN. You'll see that on page 27. 25-year-old dredging firm Walker Drounds in Lagos River. That's an unfortunate one there. And that story is on page four. We don't know who that is. Sudan, second batch of stranded Nigerians arrives today. On page seven, that's where the story is. I do hope that they will arrive safely as well as the first batch did. Federal roads. On page 19, federal roads, federal government pays states 859.7 billion Naira in eight years. And we also have government agencies, military, or electricity firms that is Senate talking. Page 19 is where you find the story. And reps raise Buhari's extra budgetary spending to 23.7 trillion Naira. You find that also on page 19. That's it. All right. So we'll go to the next newspaper, which is the nation newspaper. And it leads without busts on inauguration. Naira comes under fire. Riders there. Senior lawyers knock cleric for questioning President-elect Square Ename and defense headquarters. Nothing will stop May 29th event. That's coming from the defense headquarters. At Damawa Rek, others get bill declaring Benani not wrong. He insists that you find details of that on page five of the nation newspaper. President-elect promises judicial reform judges welfare a priority. You find details of that on page four. And House OK's one trillion Naira loan for federal government details on page seven. 70% of private school teachers in southwest unqualified. Details of that you find on page 25 of the nation newspaper. Okay. That would be about all that we have on off the press. And we're going to, we are now joined actually by our analyst for the day. And he is a senior lecturer at Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos State in the person of Mr. Jede Johnson. Good morning and welcome to the program Mr. Johnson. Good morning. It's a pleasure. Good morning. It's a pleasure to be with you and good morning to our viewers all over the world. Thank you for having me. Okay. Thank you for joining us. Well, most of this newspaper has carried something on the inauguration, the May 29. Northern youth's alleged plot to stop Tinnabu's inauguration is on leadership. The Army military won saboteurs, Goan Council's petitioners on May 29 handover. It must not be scuttled in any way. So we'd like your comment on that. Let's begin with that before we move on to other issues. Now, if you raise it dust, you must also identify the source of the dust. Just coming on the page of these people gathering somewhere and granting the press conference to say that some people are planning to sabotage the inauguration without you coming with specific details is that you are trying to heighten the polity as far as I'm concerned. The Northern youth should finger those that think that really wants to sabotage the inauguration of the president of the president-elect. The entire inauguration of the president-elect is a constitutional matter and is an issue that state institutions are charged with. There are various state institutions that are charged with irresponsibility. The president-elect, through the Secretary to the Federal Government and other agencies of government have critical role to play in the inauguration. So I don't see how people that do not have access to state power, that do not have access to state institutions, we circumvent the process. However, some will pontificate it just to justify whatever funding they want to get from anybody in terms of which group. The question is, who are these faceless groups? When they come into existence? Are they registered group? Are they political action committee or just individuals gathering themselves and then making statements that could eat up the polity? So as far as I'm concerned, you don't pay much attention to it. However, you see the media give prominence to that story. You begin to ask yourself the question, what was the editorial decision behind making that story the major headline in that particular publication? Because I don't want to mention that publication because I cannot be an editor of a newspaper and such a story is filed in and then I use that story as the major headline. On the issue of the military warning saboteur, there's no need for you to warn any saboteur. Anyone that tries to walk contrary to the laid down principle and procedure of our state is governed. Anyone that transcends the territorial integrity of our nation. Anyone that tries to abuse or break law and order in the nation, there are institutions that are responsible for that. In a sense, the military has no goal to play in this. Now, the military coming in democracy, the military must be seen and not be heard. Now, when they are saboteurs, when they are people that are trying to circumvent their state institution, like the police, like the DSS, that should deal with that. The military has no role, but a lot of role, a lot of prominence has been given to the military and the military is getting to itself. Powers that belong to other security agencies in a civilian administration. So as far as I'm concerned, it is the failure of the military to understand its own core function, core function of protecting the territorial integrity of Nigeria, of ensuring that no part of Nigeria is inclusion. You have never, you will not see military coming out with statements. In the last one month or there about, we have seen too many statements from the military with respect to transition whether there have been abrasion in May 29 or no May 29. And it caught across the parties. Both the party that won the election and the party that is protesting the election, a lot of invitations have been made. Whereas the military have not missed it, because they are not protecting UB, Mada Mawal, Bonu, and where we have insurgencies and where we have, we have boundary tree in Zamfara and the rest of it in Nigeria. So as far as I'm concerned, military has no role in democracy. Their role is to protect the territorial integrity. And we should not ascribe too much relevance. And we should not ascribe too much power with respect to preserve democracy, to the military. The military can preserve democracy. It's not in their core function. There are incisions of state that are charged with that responsibility. And those ones should wake up to their responsibility. It's just like proud to the election. And we were talking about security. And then we saw the chief of army staff granting a press conference. And the inspector general of police was behind him. When it comes to protecting and providing security for the election, it's not the responsibility of the military. And if the military wants to come into that, they turn to the national guard and you have a special train. Military are not trained to maintain law and not that. No, it's not within their core function. And where you have it in other civilized life, they are called the national guard. And they are trained for that specific purpose. But here, are they trained for that specific purpose? I don't know. But there are issues that cause for concern with respect to as we are advancing our democracy. Now, you could see that the first thing the president elected made, he made a pronouncement, a policy statement. It's not been sworn in, but he made a very, very instructive policy statement that there will be judicial reform. There will be judicial reform. It's not been sworn in. And one of the critical organs of government that is going to determine the final outcome of all the elections we had is the judiciary. The situation whereby the executive have a role in playing in reforming the judiciary. It's not good for our policy. That means that, and it has been identified and that itself could lead to the judiciary being compromised. That's why some people have some fears. And that's why some have advocated. And I'm advocating and I'm doing this advocacy. One of the things we need to look at in terms of our laws, in terms of constitutional amendment, is for us to finish all issues relating to the election before inauguration. For example, I contest an election with you for the governor of our state. And I won the election. And then you took me to court. Why I've been sworn in? Why I'm in court? I'm the governor, I'm the governor using executive power. And then I'm fighting litigation. Where do I get the resources to fight the litigation? There's a certain tendency that I'll be using the state resources to my advantage, state institutions to my advantage against the person that is contesting the election with me. So there is a leverage that I've gotten by having access to state power, to state authority, to state institution while fighting the other, the person that is contesting my election. So I think that some of the issues that have been raised by, let's see, Bishabonoyeco and others over time that election petition material should be dealt with, should be an issue that the trend assembly should look into. All issues to be conducted election February 25. Now, if you have done everything with respect to this, February 25 to May 29 is three months, that's 90 days. Now, even if we choose 60 days, 60 days, accelerated hearing to deal with the matter, I think you have 60 days window to solve the problem. Or if there is a need for us to bring the elections six months before, before ending over. And then you deal with every issue that has to do with litigation concerning the election. And then, you know, once the president is sworn in, once the governor is sworn in, once the legislator is sworn in, he does not have to be going to court, attending to court issues. And at the same time, attending to state matters. That itself is destruction. That itself has contributed to the fact of us not getting the degrees of democracy. Because when the governor is in court, how can he concentrate in running, in running, in running, in running, in running the government? So I agree with those that have advocated that there is a need for us to not inaugurate president or governor until we finish the inauguration. We don't let go matters with it into it. And then you solve that problem. Yeah, Mr. Johnson, you have not only just thoroughly crushed this matter, but you've also established the fact that you are a senior lecturer of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism by letting us know what qualifies to be on the headlines of a newspaper. And I just love that. But let's move on to another headline there from Still on the Punch newspaper talking about troops killed 14 surgeons rescued two cheaper girls. You have a picture over there of two cheaper girls who have been rescued with their babies in their hands. Well, it's unfortunate that even the Punch newspaper is reporting this story without them blindfolding the girls that were rescued and the babies in their hands. It is against the ethics of the profession and it's against the principle of reporting the child. Because this image will last forever and people can use it to stigmatize, stigmatize these these children when they grow up and also even these ladies that have been that have been rescued as a result of them being kidnapped and being abused by their abductors. So for me, there seems to be a lot of glory hunting. Glory hunting on the part of the military with respect to their call, with respect to their function of protecting the territorial integrity of the nation. As far as I'm concerned, I will not use if I will not use this as the media. Well, if you understand the way the media works and I can tell you for a fact that this is more of a PR. This is an editorial picture. This is a headline picture. This is more of a PR picture. If you know the way the media works. So if I were to look at it, I wouldn't pay attention. I wouldn't pay attention. In most cases, in most cases, these pictures are paid for. These pictures are paid for. So it's of no news value. It's of no relevance as far as I'm concerned. Okay, let's look at something that you may consider newsworthy and that has to do with the GMOs. That's on Nature's newspaper where you have Yemise Osabuera talking about GMOs. She says, only GMOs confirmed safe will be permitted in Nigeria. Talk to us about this. She is the newly appointed Director-General, CEO of National Biosafety Management Agency. Well, that's the goal. There's the bottom line. The agency has a commanding. And the commanding is to regulate that industry. And so it's the commanding, too. What do we expect from that? There is an operating standard procedure. There is a requirement for those that want to participate in that sector. And they should stick to that. That's the barest minimum. That is the requirement of any regulatory agency to ensure that there is compliance and due diligence for both operators and stakeholders in any sector of Nigerian economy. In any sector of Nigerian, of Nigerian, like what you do, she's just assuming office and she's laying down the gunlet and she's saying that it's not going to be business as usual. We are going to stick to the principle. We are going to stick to the process and the procedure that governs this industry. Let's wait and see whether she carries out a policy statement with respect to the agency we operate under. We wish her all the best and we hope that she has the confidence and the way we do that to carry through all what she has said. You know, I found that interesting, that very headline, because I had interviewed someone who is an agriculturist and she said that Nigeria does not consume organic foods and ours alarmed because it was one of the things we boasted about that we eat organic here. But then she said that and you know, and then there have been questions about GMOs, how safe are they? And as I read that headline, I asked Nyamgo, are there any safe GMOs out there? Well, as you said, let's watch and see how this pans out. Okay, let's stay with the nature news there. There's a headline there that is really troubling. 24 days to go for a government that prides itself as having delivered their campaign promises, everything that they have, the promise Nigerians they have delivered. That's what the presidency is saying. And not only have they done that, but they also say that in agriculture, they can be rated like 100%. Now this headline on nature news from the UN report says that Nigeria alongside Mali and four other countries will fit acute hunger this year. So I'd like your comment on that. This government says that they have delivered, but what is this coming? What you need to do is to look at the cost of living and the cost of goods, the price index of commodity goods, man, even now so essential. And then you ask what was it eight years ago and what is it now? And then you do a comparison, you do a comparative analysis and then you come to a conclusion because it's comparative analysis that gives you clear picture of what it was and what it is. So for government coming, you see they can prove PR for themselves, they can pride themselves like a gamma lizard that fell from the Roco tree and keep nodding their head that they've done well. What do you expect? You're asking me to devalue myself. I will always value myself above what even value that I have. The reports of United Nations is that you all just take a trip, take a trip around Nigeria, even in Lakers, look at the number of people begging on the street, asking you for money. And then for those that have meaningful jobs like you and I, how many dependents call on you on daily basis or on daily basis, asking for one relief fund or the other. So it's clear the reality of what we feel is in Nigeria. Okay, why would government say they are lucky because of cost of living, they are increasing the salaries of Federal Civil Service in order to combat the hyperinflation, the double digit inflation that we have, the double digit inflation that we have in Nigeria presently. So if they've done well, well, they would have inflation because of goods and services wouldn't be on the rise and then you won't see people begging you for relief packages on the street. So it's just they are just playing to the gallery. What I usually tell people is this, history is a determinant of your performance or not performance. History is, does not apply. History will place you in the rightful place you belong to. And whenever you are given an opportunity in leadership position, just understand that you are writing your story because the word history is story. So you are writing your story. Whatever actions or in actions, time will tell. It's becoming critical care to the President that all those that are around him were just presinking him. Now, all attention has shifted from the President to the President-elect. He will soon discover that out of power is solitary in Nigeria. He will soon discover that and said if we disturb him a lot, he would just... He would run to Niger. The President has no problem with being forgotten at all. But let's move on to Sudan, the Sudan story, our children who have been, our people who have been brought back from there. And that's our Friday leadership where it is captured. We saw hell at borders, Nigerian returnees. Give us your thoughts and all that's played out. And well, today we hear that some of them, 300 of them have arrived at Buja. We saw capes of that as well. I think the problem we have is a lack of coordination. Lack of coordination and internal competition between ministries, departments and agencies of command. The question you asked, which ministry is responsible for this ever question? Is it Ministry of Foreign Affairs? Or is it an agency or an agency, the Presidency need to come? Or is it NEMA? Under Ministry of Humanitarian Services. So we faced the dilemma, which the United States of America faced in 9-11, when agencies were not sharing information with one another and there was no collaboration. And as a result of that, United States of America established Homeland Department of Homeland Security, which allows CIA, other state security institutions to collaborate and to share information. We have seen what happened with Ukraine, the evacuation of Niger from Ukraine. We have seen what happened in Libya when Nigerians were stranded in Libya. And we have seen what is happening in Sudan. And there's everything likely that if there's an outbreak in another country, we have a lot of Nigerians who face similar things. I think that there's a need for us to create a template, a template of how are we going to ever quit our citizens when they are in the face of conflict. Because look, and I pointed it out earlier this week, that you have ambassadors. You have various officers in Nigeria. Nigerians and embassies in Sudan. Nigerians in foreign relations with Sudan. What are we looking at? And why are we not proactive in ensuring that Nigerians will ever quit as quickly as possible before the issue escalated. You see, you can see the carnage. It's carnage going on. Now, when such things happen, what is the natural reaction of nations? They will close their border because you don't want infiltration. One, infiltration. Two, you don't want migration. You don't want infiltration of that crisis to dovetail into your country. You don't want absurd of migrants into your own country. So the natural reaction, if it happens to neighboring countries around Nigeria, the natural reaction will be to close our border. So it's not new. This is the way nations will have to conflict in countries that share borders with them. But it is the responsibility of the Nigerian government to be proactive in taking actions. You could see that we are here distorted. They gave us the IAD versus 1.2 million. Oh, the president intervened by calling the president of Egypt. But the president intervened. What is the minister offering a first doing? But when the people that were evacuated, we are now hearing their own story. Their own story is contradicting the stories our officials have given us. But you know, people, there are no consequences for bad action. The same set of people, you see them being appointed into offices by the president-elect because it is the same party that is in power today that has won the election as of today, until the court ruled otherwise. People are admitting who is the president-elect. If the court insists that it is the president, it will be the president of the 2027. So you might not be able to have a place for you to see five the same set of people being rewarded. It is in Nigeria that we reward incompetence. It is in Nigeria that we reward bad people. In Nigeria, you reward people that lack capacity to undo situations and to be in leadership positions to solve problems. And you know, when the two little things, they come on the air and they will be calivating and fortifying as if they've done something big. For crying out loud, you are a public servant. You are meant to serve us. If you are not ready to serve us, why don't you offer yourself a public service? So the government and his agencies and his personnel must be proactive and will not be proactive in dealing with this issue. Thank you so much. Also, the citizenry has the role to play. Let me just quickly add this. The citizenry has the role to play. When you travel outside of Nigeria, you have a responsibility as a migrant, as a legal migrant. You have a role to register yourself with the embassy. Let the embassy know about your where with that in a foreign country. It is easier for them to track you. It is easier for them to look at you. It is in your own interest for you to do that because government has its role. The citizens themselves also have a role. In the situation we are in, we don't know whether you are in a country. We can identify you. And when there is crisis, you are running to us. Is he responsible in your part? Thank you so much. Because we must have the balance. Thank you, Mr. Jide Janssen. Senior lecturer at Nigerian Institute of Journalism, League of State. Thank you for your time and insight. Yeah, it's a pleasure to be with you. And thank you for having me. Have a wonderful weekend. You too. Well, the program continues in the moment as we look at our first hot topic. Stay with us.