 Good morning. You're welcome to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. My name is Romare Paulsen And my name is Nyamgru Agadje. It's the pleasure always knowing that you are there today is the 16th of April 20 24 and we thank God for keeping us alive and so many things are looking up and we're hoping I can tap into the goodness that's in there All right on today's show we're talking about food inflation and reaching an old-time high regardless of Denier rebound and also the fact that the grid collapsed yesterday We'll also be taking some global stories making headlines in our national dailies as well as some top trending stories But first let's check out our course of the day science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response and That is by author Schleißlinger is an historian and he says science and technology Revolutionize our lives, but memory tradition and myth frame our response. What do you think about this one, Nyamgru? It goes back to what we've always been saying that no matter how how good Innovation is how Technology is it cannot replace our humanity cannot replace our real being and that is What comes with the memory that's talking about with? tradition and all that because it's not what happens to you that matters is how you respond to it and How you were raised it's not through technology It's through tradition is true myth is true memory through stories that people tell you is true How the environment around you ships you and that's how you respond to it particular thing So no matter how good technology could be Our tradition our our being as humans is a lot better because it helps us respond better or worse I like the fact you just said better or worse because now To our view as is what is your response today? Are you responding better to technology or are you worse off? For instance, you take you on mobile phones or your tab or your laptop that is what people are fixated on You know these days. Nobody's trying to make so many memories anymore, but then at the end of your life Well, I'm not saying that's bad because I do that all the time I love to take pictures and not just pictures of myself You know pictures of places that have been to for instance if you are following my story over the weekend You see that I went to a very nice Well, I call it a resort and agricultural Institute any battle and it was so beautiful and make Yes, I T and making those memories is not even just about the pictures that I've taken Although I can look back on it and say oh, I remember when I went here, but the experience So making memories is super important. What's up here when you went there? You know because I've gone there and I went there like a farmer Trying to get some things like trying to do research Yeah, I tried to find out some things some new things that will will help agriculture back home and all that so Give you the treat, you know, I want to relax and I think for me. It was just how beautiful the place was Yes, it really helped me to unplug Sometimes you just need to do that. We are like us can be stressful. Come on And then, you know, just having that time to unplug I wasn't thinking of anything. I wasn't bothered about my phone I was just there. You could hear the birds chirp. I had this long walk by the lake It was just really beautiful and I'm like we have Beautiful places in Nigeria. Why are we not doing something about tourism? You know, sometimes you think you might have to go abroad for vacation This was something for me. This was something that is right here in my country And I was still able to have that feeling when I came back. I was my mojo was there Legos can really be stressful a friend of mine visited from Kalaba and It's going back today the flight is this morning and When he called me Around 6 30. I'm on my way to the airport. I said, okay. I am at work already That happened when did you leave home and all that in Legos you time yourself you have to leave at five In some cases and all that and then we're getting used to it But if you come from outside or when you're talking to someone who is staying outside Because you will know they really is stress. Yeah, there is even if we're used to it But our bodies will tell us, you know, sometimes yeah, but anyways, you know bring suckling in back to technology I mean making memories is important. You can't just sit on your phone and say, you know what AI would do everything for me Yeah, I send the text to my mom. Tell her I love her Meanwhile, you can actually call your mom or you know be with your mom and Physically tell your mom that you love her. So technology is great. It will revolutionize our lives Come on, you can see the vehicles that we have the airplanes, you know, people are going to space now There's a lot that technology is doing for us. So it is definitely And that is true because of the Emissions and you know, even in the urban cities, right, you know, it kind of like takes a toll on your buddies, but Can we say that technology would really revolutionize our lives? I can only imagine what the next Hundred years would look like with technology. That's going to be insane. There's a possibility There will be no technology in that time. Well, we never know I have this belief that okay, not just the belief but there was a time when books were burned because People in that time felt too much learning has eroded the fabrics of Humanity and all that and they were burning books and it was almost a crime to own a book and be too Widely read. There might come a time when our own technology that is supposed to enhance our lives will will make us turn against each other and Almost get ourselves extinct from this world. So there could be a possibility There will be no kind of Thinking about because at this point, it's almost as if we've had almost everything So what will they be creating at that time? That's why I said, I don't know what it will be like I just hope we don't you know go into extension You know, if we have like so many nuclear weapons because technology is The biggest guns are made for humans. The small guns are for animals, but the biggest ones are made for humans You know what we were talking about guns? Let's talk about the nuclear weapons I mean, I was watching a documentary that talked about how there would be a winter, a cold winter If all of the nuclear weapons were to be deployed So literally human beings might just go and even if you survive Because Iran is spoiling for a fight. In fact, they have started Israel is responding America is supporting to My joy in China Before we know it. We are in a world war. I hope that doesn't happen. Please. I love my life But the other thing is that I'm glad that in most cases when they talk about world is already the Western world Man in the world is somewhere there in the West. They don't know some of our Africans are older than that This this in the world is them. They think the world remains there. So let that world world And I think we should be planning for that even though it's we're not praying for it We should be planning for that. We know what happened to Nigeria when Russia started the war The oil the bread and everything so they might come a time when even if there's no world war three They might come a time where the scarcity of everything that we depend outside. Yeah Yeah, we should be able to produce for ourselves really. I mean, that's a no-brainer Well, we just hope that we can stop being an exporting an important nation and become an exporting nation Anyway, so our course of the day is just talking about technology Revolutionizing our lives, but you know the traditions the myth the memories that we make just frame our response to that and so How do you respond to technology today? Make sure that you are unplugging Taking yourself out of your phone or out of technology sometimes try to spend time with your family your friends the people that you care about Okay, moving over to our top training stories this morning This one says Singapore paying fuel subsidy more than before and that is being said by El Rufi The former governor of Kajuna States Malam Nasir El Rufi As claimed that the precedent bulletin it will lead federal government is currently subsidizing fuel for Nigerians Fielding questions from journalists in Medjugorje the Bournemouth state capital on Monday El Rufi said the federal government is now fielding questions from journalists Well, El Rufi said that the federal government is now paying fuel subsidy more than ever before The president declared during his inauguration on May 29 2023 that the country can no longer Subsidize fuel for the citizens saying the petrol subsidy is gone The development skyrocketed the price of fuel and other products and services Triggering the economic hardship that has been bedeviling the nation since 2023 But the former governor told journalists on Monday that the subsidy is back according to him The federal government returned the subsidy because the impact has been seen and the packages of support that would reduce the impact Have not been so effective in reducing the impact. So the federal government is back and now subsidizing petrol Well, I agree because I mean if you're looking at, you know, the prices of fuel and how the dollar was able to go up to 1900 but then fuel well with NNPC was still being sold for 568 Naira or so Then I'm wondering how come the dollar doesn't, you know, reflect on fuel as well So I'm sure there's a coincide subsidy on that. What do you think, Yemko? My question always is if subsidies being paid with our money Why is it such a secret? Why don't just tell us that okay? We're humble enough to know that subsidy removal is not working So we're returning it and then let us see it reflects it because when subsidy was being paid To the tune that is smaller than it is being paid now the fuel was less than 200 Naira So tell us subsidy is being paid and let it reflect on our fuel price and everything Will is bound to come down. So why are you hiding it and paying fuel subsidy? Who are you paying it to? And when you're paying it, they're so-called cut walls. That's, you know So if you're paying this for who are you paying it to? Why are we not seeing that reflected in our fuel? fuel price secondly Since they said the removal of fuel subsidy has begun They they fuck their federal location that they shared to states went up. It hasn't come down So if they're paying even more, we are they getting the money to pay this federal location to states that Will amount to their tune that they're giving to them. So where's the money coming from? There's something that's not connecting and I don't understand. There's no transparency. I don't understand Tell us fuel subsidies back. We won't eat you. We won't kill you after a while you removed it We didn't die. Now that you're paying it You're doing it for our benefit. Tell us that this is the challenge we are facing and this is what we are doing And I let it reflect so talking about reflecting in you know, the fuel prices I don't think it will come down In the sense that if dollar could go up because as of when subsidy was gone, how much was the dollar, right? So if dollar could go up as much as 1,900 that means they're paying a huge chunk for the subsidy So I'm not sure they would now, you know, take out everything and say come and pay 100 and something that again The way it was last year When they removed fuel subsidy, they discovered according to them the number the actual number of Litters we use in Nigeria that the amount they were giving was was outrageous So now that you have discovered that amount, let's say they were seeing a thousand or One million liters for instance and now you discovered that we needed only nine hundred thousand liters of fuel in Nigeria You know the amount which means you should spend less no matter how how big the dollar has become or how high it was Now the dollar has come down anyway to In some places they say less than a thousand which is good, which but I still cannot clap for them But so there's just no connects. There's just no connect. Let us know why why you're paying the subsidy how you're paying the subsidy To and where you're getting the money to pay the subsidy and then still pay the federal allocation like so We don't know what is happening. Yeah, like I said, there's no transparency and that is what we just need from the federal government We transpire it with all of your dealings. It says I don't think it's Science just be transparent and because right now look at the list of questions you've you know pose We have so many questions as Nigerians. We need to know these things So if you are a transparent, we don't even have to ask you all these questions I don't even think anyone needs to come out and say where is the subsidy money coming from? Where is this? It should be there To cut first they also take them to court and before you can say so why be transparent the people will help you govern That's as simple as that Yes This is what I do as the boss, this is what I do That you can leave your post and you know that the person next to you can just Handle that thing so you rest more Mm-hmm Secures release of suspects skilled in drone AK-47 modifications. That's our next top trending Senator Ned Woko representing Delta not senatorial district Delta State has secured the release of four family members The army arrested for fabricating weapons at Onisha or Lona Community in the state the major suspect reportedly has the ability to build drones and modify AK-47 rifles designed to hold 30 rounds to 60 rounds which attracted senator Woko His desire was for the nation to provide support and develop the skill of such a talented persons And he plans moving a bill for a law to recognize and build such talents nationwide We said that thing here We're not supporting crime. Yes, we're not supporting crime But when you find some people doing things like that let they are let their jail time be Producing this thing or doing what they know how to do for the benefit of the nation If you look at the United States of America for instance, you know The people who go there maybe go to jail and there's the very good with technology or something Maybe they are like ha ha maybe that was how they they arrested them. They were hackings You know accounts or something they use them They use those skills for their own benefits and that's what we should be doing in Nigeria fine Obviously, we're never going to support crime. You shouldn't even go out and be doing anything. That's illegal But for the people that are there, they probably have one thing that you're scouting or another So why can't you use that? You know for the benefit of Nigeria now, you know If this person can create all of these things We're not saying he's going to create it to give it to you know thieves or kidnappers or armed robbers But even for the the police department for the army So we can start to produce ours and even sell to other parts of the world So it also tells us that sometimes the opportunity for people to flourish may not be there true The people who recognized his talents are the miscrans they the lungs and all that so why can't we have? Platforms that people like this can explore and and and put their talents to use if you watch catch me if you can for instance Yeah, it's a movie. I know that but these are things that happen cut me if you can he was a forger He could for anything and he could recognize something that is being forced and it's because Saturdays to work with with the FBI And that's how they were able to catch a lot of criminals and all that so Sometimes you turn something that is supposed to be a bad thing to your advantage You know, that's what the government should be doing not to go and catch a ship that has as siphoned oil and then you burn it You don't have a seat. You just just burn it on the high seat. We say no evidence. We're slain All right, let's move on to our final top trending story. This one talks about Sylvester O'Romany Fallen of false judgment says corona ignored evidence Human rights lawyer Femi Fallenor has fought at the recent ruling by corona inquest sitting in Ogba magistrate court Examining the death of a 12 year old student of Doan College leaky Sylvester junior O'Romany Fallenor said the coroner disregarded further toxicological Examination and we threw initial recommendations for criminal Negligence charges despite glaring evidence and allegations of bullying within the school including the Recovery of a mysterious substance in Sylvester's stomach Earlier the coroner magistrate Mukal Khadiri said O'Romany died as a result of failed treatment for his enlarged leaver Due to his parents and doctors negligence The deceased's death was an avoidable one but for the negligence of the parents and pw3 They didn't take him to the hospital until the day he died on november 30 2021 Reacting to the judgment in a statement on Monday Fallenor said the coroner ignored the evidence Of the government pathologist That the black substance found in the stomach was well off the disease was not subject to toxicological examination Delegation was that the disease was forced to drink a poisonous substance In an attempt to exonerate Doan College The coroner was silent on the overwhelming evidence of the bullying of the disease His sister and other students by the same set of students In particular the coroner Discountant the evidence of a student who had testified that he saw the disease bitten up and subjected to torture by a group of senior students In spite of an uncontradicted evidence the coroner said that the disease died of natural cause The coroner claimed that the negligence of the family doctor led to the death of the deceased But failed to refer him to a medical and dental council of Nigeria for appropriate sanctions said Fallenor This is quite a touching It's very sad. It's very sad. A lot of Nigerians don't believe this story of the corona and all that They're saying so if if I have an ailment that has not been treated And then I come to your school and then you you subject me to bullying and I die of that You will say because I didn't go to the hospital You don't know how I was managing it until I got to that place You give me a substance that I take that will trigger it and then I die You say it's from home and all that. Yes an ailment could come from home But but what about the management that they've been doing With this and all that and then you ignore all that and you say These people are exonerated so the bullying can continue and now you say everything can continue You're blaming the parents blaming the parents. Do you know the torture? That the parents have had to face knowing that their son is dead From something that they believed was bullying and now you come back and you say, oh, it's your fault You did not treat you. You did not take care of your child. That is just it's just ballistic to me Yes, I was reading a lot of comments on social media about this story and One comment in particular that was you know, just there was people were saying for a child that is in boarding How do you you are in boarding school? At least your teachers are supposed to be there taking care of you. You have matrons. You have a school like that Infirmary you have all of you have a dispensary you have you have a nurse you have all of these things I sent my child to your school. You're supposed to take care of that child because as at that point the child is under your custody So this child this child and come back and tell me this child comes to me one month And then he goes to your place for three months. So he's more with you If you have if you have A nurse or something in the school, they should discover that this child is not fit to be in school Or he can be treated and you do some recommendation, but you keep quiet So I'm wondering I'm wondering whatever the school had done before his death Because that means in your own part absolutely nothing Yes, because you are negligent as well. You did not notice anything. There was not did you call the parents your school fees That's let's collect your money and that's it and that is so wrong. Um, I don't believe what's you know, the corona has said If that's the evidence Okay, that's fine. But would I say I believe that no just like family fallen are coming to to reject it A lot of Nigerians have said, you know what there's something about this story that is not it's not adding up And then and then they took five hours to to give the judgment and and say the findings with five hours What were they saying that they skipped the most important parts that people were talking about you skipped it And then you use five hours to blame the parents. It's just quite unfortunate Three years later, you know a judgment is coming and is a judgment, you know, like this one because it's okay Yeah, almost three years about um two years and a few months and it's quite it's quite sad And I mean people are just saying what happens to our justice system in Nigeria What happened? Well, uh, let's see how how it goes Sylvester cannot come back We hope that even if he doesn't have uh, the parents don't have justice for him here that he might have Rest in the bosom of the Lord. Amen. And that's what we pray Yeah, and we pray for strength to the parents because I can only Imagine what you know what you're feeling like right now, you know hearing this judgment and you know, all of the things that have happened Anyways, we're going to short break. We'll look at the weather and when we return we'll be reviewing the papers. Please stay with us