 On the breakfast today, we'll take a look at how Nigerians can be part of the structuring and restructuring of the polity despite ethnic and religious differences. Also on the breakfast, we will look at the prospect and shortfall of having, we'll say, the CEO as the new permanent coach for survival. And don't forget, we'll also be looking through today's newspapers and analysing the biggest stories of the day. And with that we say, thank you for joining us on the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. It's a new day and I am Osaugi of Bomba. And I am Messi of course. Good to have you join us this beautiful Friday morning. As always, we kick off with top trending stories and some of the, you know, stories that made the biggest conversations across the country. We're starting with, of course, a justice for Sylvester. You know, of course, Sylvester O'Rumone, or Romone, who was an 11-year-old child who reportedly was beaten to death according to, you know, allegations from his family and from, you know, his dying statements at Doran College here in Lagos State. Of course, as a follow-up to that, the school has been temporarily shut down and investigations have continued. But yesterday, a Nigerian, of course, he says it was a cousin to the little boy, put out a message on social media claiming that efforts to get justice for Sylvester are being frustrated or put on snail speed. Complain first of all about the suspects, you know, being granted bail while the house masters, I believe, are still in custody. And the second autopsy report done by the Lagos State government has still not been released two months after his death. And of course, that created a lot of conversation. Nigerians also react into it, you know, speaking about the slow pace of justice in Nigeria and why the autopsy report is being withheld by the police. Of course, there's not been any response from the Lagos State police or Lagos State government as to why that report is being held. And, you know, but it's basically just to remind, you know, remind everyone, you know, about that case. And, you know, how long it takes for certain things, you know, certain families and people to get justice in Nigeria to understand. There needs to be proper investigation. There needs to, you know, be a thorough investigation and questioning from the suspects to the people who may have been witnesses to his family and all of that. You know, but it once again brings back that conversation on the slow pace of justice and if these things should take that much time. And of course, you know, make sure also question if there is anything that is being hidden in that autopsy report that is being withheld by the police, according to a cousin to Sylvester O'Rumani. Quite sad and unfortunate. I mean, especially at the period where there's a lot of merriment. I mean, this is a festive period. And usually you have families come together celebrating, you know, the festivity and all of that. So I can only imagine how, you know, the family of Sylvester O'Rumani will be feeling at this point in time. The young man, very, I mean, he looks like a young boy who has so much prospect, very handsome young man. Probably who knows, probably would have been maybe the president, the Senate president or what have you, but it's really, really sad. You know, the issue of justice and the factor, the Nigerian factor, you know, the powers that be might, you know, federal might and what have you would always play. Because first of all, you remember when the incident, the story actually broke out, the reports that those who were alleged to be have been involved in his, I mean, in the In his death. Who have left the country. So you begin to ask yourself and a lot of us is that saying that that's because you have a lot of prominent person, the elites involved, I mean, the kids are involved. And so it's a system where you can actually maneuver anything and anything can actually work. And that's where we are at this point in time. It's really, really sad. Well, the reason that a lot of people are talking about this and being very vocal is that it's like, it's a public case. And everybody wants to see everybody wants to hear. Same thing as, you know, the case of Namdi Khan. I'm sure that, I mean, you can't put that, you know, side by side, but I'm just saying that is a public case. And I really do not know. So the major problem for us is the fact that I think that we have a lot of information. We live in a society in Nigeria. We have so much information. I mean, things that are supposed to just be very basic things, very, you know, fundamental things. We begin to make them look like they're rocket science, mission impossible. And it calls for a little consent. Well, all that, you know, Nigerians and a lot of persons are asking is that justice would be, you know, there should be some form of transparency. The Nigerians need to see the family need to see the transparency in this case from start to finish. Now, you know, with that particular fact that, you know, these persons were granted bail. Don't forget that the court had established that there was a case of homicide. And so it's been established that if you look at the homicide and what was your court again, so there's a conspiracy, right? And so there's this fact that has been established already by the court that these persons, you know, have contributed to the death of Sylvester. And I would always say that that's a plus. But what happens afterwards? What's going to happen? And we constantly would say that there's no way you're going to experience peace. There's no way a lot of people are going to recover from the trauma that they are going through. If they don't see people paying. I mean, justice, it just is not about, you know, bringing him back to life. But the fact that let justice be done. And that's why we have the government. People would have to pay for things. I mean, that's why people are expected not to take the laws into their hands. Constantly we talk about jungle justice. Because sometimes things actually happen. And then you feel like you should take the laws into your hand. You should act. But of course you cannot act. And that's because you have a system already. That's why you have the government. And that's why you have institutions that would address all of these issues. So, but when the system, you know, begins to fail or don't leave up to the expectation, then it begins to, you know, create the room for people to want to take the laws into their hands. I want to act, you know, contrary to what they should do. Well, you know, I would just simply say that, you know, the person who put out, you know, these complaints, you know, claims of these causing. And, you know, you know, even if yes, we will complain about the slow pace of justice and, you know, the seeming, you know, inconsistencies with the way that the police is all scorned out in his investigation. I think, you know, it's also, you know, important that we let the legal state police command and the legal state government also address some of these concerns and some of these complaints. You know, and if there are certain things that the public needs to know, then they should share. You know, I want to believe that they are carrying out the thorough investigation. And, you know, some of the truth will eventually be, you know, exposed. And, you know, these investigations will continue justice, will eventually prevail. That's, you know, where I want to, you know, to, you know, rest my head and expect that that would play out if it doesn't. And of course, we're going to be here to talk about it. And the legal state public will, of course, be there to, you know, to speak about these things again. But once again, rest in peace to Sylvester, little Sylvester. Besides that, we're moving on to the Minister of Information and the Minister of Information, Al-Hajjit Lai Mohamed, who yesterday put out the achievements of President Muammar al-Buhari. Of course, they put out, I think, as a hundred, you know, of those achievements that went from the fight against corruption to, you know, the basic infrastructure that had been built to the economy, to the fight against insecurity and some of all of that. There's a really, really long list. Also spoke about, you know, things that the Nigerian government had purchased, you know, to aid the fight against insurgency. Spoke about how the economy had recovered in different ways. Also spoke about, you know, infrastructural investments that had been made and whatnot. And, you know, a little bit of me, you know, was really, was, you know, wondering, you know, about certain aspects of this. So, I would let you quickly watch, you know, the Minister of Information share the list of achievements of President Muammar al-Buhari and we'll get back to you. In the Northeast zone, under opposition, adding Kai, a combination of kinetic and non-cognitive operations coupled with a review of strategies led to the internalization of over 1,000 terrorists. The rescue of 2,000 civilians and the surrender of over 22,000 terrorists, including their families. Large catches of armed ammunition were also recovered. This is in addition to the destruction of several IED bomb-making factories of the ISWAP Boko Haram terrorists. Under operation, addering Darje in the Northwest. The conduct of offensive clearance operations, rains and air operations resulted in the internalization of about 427 bandits. A rest of 257 bandits, rescue of 897 civilians and recovery of 3,087 livestock. Nine oil sector indicated better performance of 0.79% in quarter one to 821, 6.7% in quarter two to 821 and 5.44% in quarter three to 821. Compared to minus 1.55% in quarter one to 821, minus 6.05% in quarter two to 821 and minus 2.51% in quarter three to 821. In foreign trade, Andrea witnessed duet lane performance in 2020 arising from trade restrictions on account of COVID-19 pandemic. Instructions of trading activities driven by the pandemic further weakened the balance of trade witness in quarter four, 2019 in the subsequent quarters. Consequently, total imports in the first three quarters of 2021 rose by 57.13% from 13.97 trillion in the correspondence quarters of 2020 to 21.95 trillion. Similarly, total export green by 40.62%, which was 13.12 trillion Iran in the first three quarters of 2021 compared to 9.33 trillion in the corresponding period and indication of improved trading activities although with the deficit position. And there you have it, of course, the Minister of Information listened some of the achievements of the President Mahmoud Buhari government in the last one year, maybe the last couple of years. He spoke about security. I think the report is online. He spoke about security, investments in infrastructure. Like I said earlier, the economy and a couple of other things that they have seen as improvements and achievements of the government. Of course, that also has created some reaction on social media with those who agree and those who do not agree. And I would always say that it's fair and it's only okay. It's expected that the government would continue to pat itself on the back with the things that they believe that they've done well with. They would commend themselves. They will praise themselves. They will put out their achievements. But you cannot necessarily force the people to accept those achievements. You cannot force those achievements on anybody. The people would have to be the judges of those achievements. It's the Nigerian people that would judge whether the economy truly is better. They would be the ones to judge whether security truly has improved and it's a lot better. They would be the ones to judge whether the basic infrastructure that they are speaking about truly is better. And a couple of all those things. If we still are the poverty capital of the world, if we still have the highest number of out-of-school children, if we still have a lot of people who cannot afford full stuff, then... If you were to mention all of that, you would want to agree with me that... I mean, these are some elements who are really struggling to topple the government of President Mohammed al-Bahari. And these are elements. So you can't say that we're the headquarters, I mean, the world's capital of the poorest and the poorest live in Nigeria and all of that. You can't begin to see all of that. We are... Those reports are just incited by those who are not in support of this administration. And that's what it is. Yes, of course. But, you know, I like the choice of words that you use. The government would always believe, you know, they believe what they believe. And the truth is, how... Because with all of this, I really don't even want to go into the details and begin to mention, oh, okay, did this happen? Did this not happen? Like you have mentioned already, policies are supposed to reflect the interest of the people. And for every time you have government policies, have that solved the problem? Does that solve the problem of the people? When you go outside on the street, what are the people saying about infrastructure? So that's what all of the things that you're saying. I can't begin to argue with, you know, the Minister for Information and Cultural Alliance Mohammed. But let's get to the streets. Let's talk to Nigerians. Are these things a reality? Can they feel all of these things he's talking about when you talk about insecurity? How do the average Nigerian feel? How do we feel about security? What are the realities on ground? So there seem to be a disconnect all the time. And then I constantly ask myself, what are the people who rule us? Do they live in space? Are they in the span of the world? You said that they're coming from another aspect of the world. So sometimes some persons would say, I think I saw a video where someone was in the FCC and then they started saying, oh, no wonder the president would never understand that, you know, roads are not, we don't have motorable roads and all of that. And that's because, you know, in the FCC you probably will have very motorable roads and what have you. So, but like we have established, it doesn't really matter what the government is putting out to say, ask her achievement. I'm not even thinking that the government, it's okay to say yes, maybe out of the fact that they have to do the needful, then they begin to look at the scorecard. But should there be a judge in their own case or should they allow the people who, the people who voted for them, you know, so I'm just thinking that it's just part of the formalities, which is okay. But at the end of the day, does that really translate to the standard of living? What are the people saying? Are they failing the domestic care? Pretty much the same thing. And if there's reports that we have the world poverty capital, is there any report that counters it? By the Nigerian government. No, but the Nigerian government will constantly say that these are reports to, you know... Absolutely. And if you don't expect the government to come out and say, oh, we have made you people so poor. You don't expect the government to come out and say, our government has still... But even if you don't say that you have made the people so poor, you don't have to accept, but you probably have to just pay attention. I mean, it's not every other time that you feel like, I would always say that Nigeria does not revolve around, you know, minister for information and culture and all the president. I mean, Nigeria is bigger than, you know, individuals and interests. It's not always about a political party or an interest. So because every other time you have reports coming through, somebody would just decide to make it about themselves. Or this is about the president. Some people don't love this administration and they want to topple the government. And it's because some people do not love the face of, you know, the minister, but which is not the case. It's really just, you know, not being able to accept criticism and do better. That's really what it is. And if you never get to a point where you can be criticized and you accept that, you know, yes, this person has a point and so you would improve, then you would never really improve. If you continue to give yourself a part on the back, you'll never really improve. But once again, you know, like we both said, it's left for the Nigerian people to judge some of these achievements, you know, with, you know, every, you know, direction. And I'm sure that our guests on Off the Press, hopefully this comes up on Off the Press this morning. So our guests can also share his thoughts with regards to the achievements of President Mohammad Ibarra. Our final top trending story this morning goes to a young man named Ibito A. Michael or Lajide who has built himself a sports car here in Nigeria. I hope that we can quickly share pictures of that very fantastic Lamborghini Ferrari, McLaren Mercedes. I don't know what brand of car this is. But, you know, he... Ibito's, you know, Lamborghini. Ibito's, yes. Well, we don't need to call it Lamborghini. It could be anything. It could be Ibito's, Ibito's, whatever. It looks like a Lamborghini. It looks like a mixture of everything. But, you know, congratulations to him and, of course, I think he also deserves some commendation. And the things that we spoke about yesterday about how there's a lot of talent in Nigeria, you know, you would expect, you know, that we should be that country that should be able to create and build, you know, vehicles and many, many other things, you know, here in Nigeria is sort of important all the time. But we haven't gotten there. And so when people like this take it upon themselves, so still, you know, in the face of the hunger and the face of the challenges that they, you know, that they deal with every day, still go ahead and create and put themselves to work and express, you know, put out the talents that they have inside of them. It's something that should be, you know, applauded. You know, so that is him, his name once again, Ibito E. Michael or Lajidi. And we say congratulations to him and we hope that he continues to, you know, share that talent with the rest of the world and eventually maybe finds himself in a place where it is truly and completely appreciated. Well, the truth is this, that, you know, somewhere outside of this country, I'm sure that the company, maybe in the western world, will soon identify him and he will be taken away. No, but funny enough, there's the innocence. That's what happened. He could also work with the likes of Innocent and, you know, other... No, but the point is, will we even see that? That's always it. I mean, I can't even remember the young, this year, we also had, there was a report of a young man who was also involved in, you know, that craft and all of that. And he was spotted. And before, you know, he was moved to one of these countries. They identified him and they took him out. Finland. Yeah, Finland. Right, so the point is, somebody is going to come somewhere. I mean, if they've already not started negotiations, I mean, thank God to, you know, all thanks to the internet and to social media where you can actually put on stuff now. And so some company somewhere outside of Nigeria, the western world would definitely come through for Ibito in no time. So fingers crossed in 2022 because we would not say it, including the ones that we have here, we'll not pay attention to it. I mean, that's the reason why we constantly want to go out to go get coaches outside of Nigeria. We constantly think that we need to get stuff outside of Nigeria, you know, to sort ourselves. All right. We'll take a short break and when we come back, we're moving to Off the Press where we have a review of the major stories, making headlines across Nigeria this morning. Stay with us.