 Let's seal the breakfast and plus TV Africa. Thanks for being with us. We have been joined by Tunde Kolawale via phone. He's a legal practitioner. Tunde Kolawale, it's good to have you join us. Thanks for having me, my assistant. Alright then, let's start off with the nation. Now the nation asks you, government raises a 14 man panel to resolve the nothing issues. Again, you have 23.5% per increase for teachers likely. Return to classroom, Bishop urges the teachers. Niger gets 23 slots as Google leaves 60 African stats up with four million dollars. And Ogun's speaker, two others, arraigned over 2.4 billion hour fraud. Nigerian, Poland signs PACTS and agriculture. Probably might just be signing different PACTS. PDP campaign team, Atiku me, Sean, Rike, Tambua, Ugunwai, Oitola, Tiptoz, DG. Detractors after my life says, uh, reverse governor. PDP governorship candidate in Pothackert. Leave us out of your mess, APC ones, are you? And that's what you find here, 103 billion or million Naira, I beg your pardon, 103 billion Naira paid to all marketers as bridging claims in nine months. The headlines you find this morning on the nation. Interesting, let's go over to the next paper. Of course, on a list here, we have the punch newspaper with a very beautiful pictures. We're seeing on the front page, uh, of President Ambuwari, um, of course, um, on his international diplomatic duty right there in the nation's capital, Abuja. But the headline, the big one, anti-drug war is a kicker and the headline FG freezes 600 accounts, seizes 249 luxury vehicles, uh, where there was an anti-drug war going on in the country. Well, the writers to that headline and the early eight confiscates 1.3 million dollars, 102,000 pounds, 14 million sefer, um, whatever it is, West Africa and sefer, 252 million Naira drug proceeds, um, court orders in tearing for feature billionaire, Ocatuz, 25 properties factory. Don't buy drugs for youth, agency warns, politicians ahead of campaigns. I think we can put the hashtag there, Mariah's working to that headline. All right, let's take some more from the punch newspaper. At the top of that front page, Fios Keste hits Abuja as marketers shot stations, details on page 25 of the paper. We have more. In security, FX crisis cut capital inflows by 23%. FG proposes 200 billion Naira for 23, 200 billion Naira, 23.5% pay rise for Vassis. Yesterday, the, um, minister of education at Damodamo has not met with ASU and hasn't met with one or two other people who've paid him a visit like the, uh, Senate committee on a, on tertiary education and Ted fund. Uh, he had a meeting with VCs, pro chancellors and some stakeholders, uh, in the tertiary education sector. Also, professor emeritus professor, Nimib Briggs, who headed that Nimib Briggs committee by the federal government, um, that negotiated with ASU. And what they, they said was they are forming a new committee, to, to look into the recommendations of the Nimib Briggs committee. And then before deciding what to do, but that they are sticking with them. The, the issue of a 23% point, 23.5% pay rise for lecturers and then 35% pay rise for, um, for, for, for the professors and then 150 billion Naira, uh, we vitalization fund then 50 billion Naira for the, and allowances of the, the lectures, uh, which would, would mean a total of 200 billion Naira. See what ASU, ASU says, uh, and what I guess thinks about that. I like deleting double registrants from voter register, Mahmood. All right. The PDP neck divided over a call for IU's removal. Nigeria, Poland plan, closer ties, ink, agric deal. Hope that that would go beyond the pages of the paper. Uh, fire ship believes I will be uncontrollable as governor, X, A, G, Ajai. Governor went into fair with inaugural speaker's case commissioner. Quite interesting. And FG grows VAT by 20% rakes in 1.2 trillion Naira. That's some good news. Um, I miss, uh, a sea of, uh, negative stories. FG grows VAT by 20% rakes in 1.2 trillion Naira. All right. Then, uh, we'll just quickly move to the daily trust newspaper federal government offers professors 35% pay increase or the varsity workers, 23.5%. I mean, it's a conversation, you know, usually on different spaces. I was tempted, you know, to drop a comment and that's been getting a lot of boss because if you look at some professors and someone said no professor earns up to 500,000 Naira, you have professors earning like 350, maybe 412, depending on the bar. Uh, but I say that some professors who've been in the business more than 20 years will probably be earning 500. I know one. Well, uh, to release 200 billion Naira next year for revitalization and allowances, all the same 150 billion. And so, uh, what were we having within consistency brings us back to the actual news, fake news, real news, 150 billion, 200 billion increases new committee to discourse, no work, no pay policy. Keep your salary, increment, implementation, agreement. Keep your salary, increment, implement our agreement. That's what I was saying. Well, Harry wants government official again signing on, uh, on implementable parts again. Well, how did they even get into the first one after meeting the vice chancellors and pro chancellors? I mean, this is the outcome, 35% increase for professors and 3. Uh, 23.5% 2023. We care reluctance delays, constitution of articles campaign cancel. That's it. Over 2 million SMEs collapse in two years, according to report. Costum sees explosive making chemical and military uniforms in Oregon state. Again, you have a new British Prime Minister, Lee Strauss assumes office. He will rain. Her reign will strengthen relations with Nigeria. Others. That's what Buhari is saying. Uh, we paid petrol marketers 103 billion Naira transport claims in nine months. Over 2000 Nigerian doctors left for Europe, Saudi Arabia and Canada in six months. I mean, we're in the know of all of this. No longer news. Gunman kill Islamic cleric in a boy. We recalls for justice, the headlines you find on the daily trust. All right. Moving on from those juicy headlines on the front page of the daily trust. Let's move to our next paper and the final birth for today. Interestingly, the daily sun makes a comeback after a while on sabbatical. Um, the big one on the front page of the daily sun article to be to fight for 84 million votes. I make pledges to publish comprehensive list of registered voters soon, right? I asked to go check, you know, the INEC offices in the area, so severe any discrepancies. And for those who whose PVCs were already, they have to go pick it up. Um, I've seen some local government areas on some days. You have only one person going to pick their PVC. I think people need to double up so that they don't get left behind. We have more. IPOB begins the rest of terror gangs in southeast. IPOB begins arrest of terror gangs in southeast ex customs intercepts explosive making chemicals in ago PDP members connived to help who harry win 2019 election, we K PDP members connived to help who harry win 2019 election, we K CBN goes after anchor borough's debtors, six to recover 5.7 billion Naira loan. Can we say that money's entered voicemail? Like we say in Nigeria, oh my Niger government or Niger government where that goes tough on tough and civil servants over support for opposition parties suspense salaries. It's quite interesting. Governor Bello releases a take off fund for free healthcare in Kogi state ASUS strike FG offers profits 35% others 24% pay rise to reconsider position on no work, no pay policy constitutes 14 month committee on gray areas committee of VCs waits in sets of peace building team PDP incapable of presiding over Nigeria. This is coming from APC. Of course, you would expect anything other than that from from the APC. All right, to Nicole. Good morning to you. And thank you for joining us. Let's start off with the one I think is important to love Nigerian see ASUS story. 35% to the professors and 23.5% to lectures. Of course, you have we don't even talking about the graduate assistants. Let's talk about the assistant lecturers, lecture two, lecture one, senior lecturer, then associate prof and then a full professor. From what I've seen and the calculation I made last night, if this 23.5% is implemented for the lecturers and 35% for the professors, the highest an assistant lecturer will end in a month after deductions, you know, is 169,607 Naira 49 cobalt, the highest a lecturer, lecture two and after deductions, look at taxes and other deductions is 189,615 Naira 331 cobalt, the highest a lecturer one will end after deductions per month is 251,665 Naira 83 cobalt, the highest a senior lecturer will end after deductions is 387 Naira 987,987,986 Naira 37 cobalt, the highest an associate professor will end per month in a federal university in Nigeria after deductions 472,728 Naira 15 cobalt, the highest a full prof will end per month after deductions 562,603 Naira 5 cobalt. Now, when I say the highest, Mr. Coloma, please permit me to add that for this high, this side you have to be there for some years, like for the prof, full prof you have to be there in the interest for 22 years, you know, 22 years, 10 years as a prof, 12 years going through the ranks to end that 562,000 Naira. So, do you think, what are your thoughts on this, this proposal to increase salaries by these percentages? Well, what I do know and I do think that what the university, the future are ending in Nigeria, the future, and that it is up to get more than that. All over the world, TechEd are usually better teams than the most workers or most people who work in whatever economy that they might find themselves. This is supposed to be the best brains among us and if we are going to provide the necessary intent and encourage them to even do better in terms of research, in terms of teaching, in terms of providing the philosophical, political framework for the society to grow, then they deserve the better remuneration. But the data that is made are not always compatible when we are talking about the quantum of money instead of the value of money. You and I will know that even if you are a professor, you say the million Nairas today in Nigeria, that will not be enough to provide the necessary comfort for that professor. Because inflation, as we are told, has gone over as much as the 12th extent, more than more, most good and services have disappeared from the shelves in the market. And if you also take into consideration our President's admission with regards to some other sectors that have had this kind of a problem, have we prepared better, well-increased salaries and provided some other incentives? The answer is no. We recall there was a time the medical doctor to recall the notice agitated for detention salaries. Remember, there was a time the judges demanded for detention salaries. And we decided as our people and some states that they would be given a whole house, immediately they are appointed as judges, every two to three years we will give them their new cars and water. But as the judges did not complain, not too long ago, the judges of the Supreme Court which is an operation, not a petition, again the decision of the country that what they were getting and they take home is not enough to take them home. So what I am doing as of this is that this quantum of money approach to solving the answer problem is like putting the cars before the house. Furthermore, when you offer the industry teachers the amount of money you are offering them and they compare that with what the politicians are getting and they also look at some of the news that come down to the point, it's a little busy, but they are coming from a moving phase. We are the speaker of the house of assembly, we are less than bezels as much as 2.4 billion dollars. If you think actually we want to take the kind of offer that will make it to them, I doubt it. So we need to really speed down as our people and approach this problem in a very holistic manner such that we will be able not just to address the challenges of the industry system, but also be able to attend to the fundamental issues that we have in the country. And in our humble opinion, the fundamental issue is that we must have good governance in this country. When you have good governance, then whoever is in power will be able to take care of all the pressures of our lives in a very prudent and very prudent and very efficient manner. Once we begin to have that, I doubt it, whether this palliative that we are offering us will solve the problem. Well, so how can we have good governance where if you look at some of the content of the list, I mean the issues are actually raising. Number one is you look at that list, they're talking about releasing the white paper report. And the government is not on the other hand agreeing to do that. How can you have, you know, good governance where it feels like the union itself is trying to help the government fight against corruption. White paper report of a visitation how many years ago has not been released? Well, most times when a fraud report or a panel report or a labor report is not in favor of the government, they are usually very reluctant to do a white paper on it. Just so you could see on the pages of the newspaper this morning, the president is already warning the federal worker not to sign any agreement that is not implementable. How do you define an agreement that is not implementable? In a way, the president is saying that, look, any agreement that is passed on with the national implication, please don't sign it on behalf of the federal government. And we are saying, if the representatives of the nation's student name manage the world as well, we are still not money in the system to take care of all spaces of our life. In fact, an official very proven manner that would be having the rest of the strikes and challenges that we have in all the federal, all the federal spaces of our life. As regards good governance to us, which I consider to be a very charming and very good question, you go and check all over the world, the universities, the research institutes that they want to usually provide a philosophical framework and also the leadership framework, and also they want to train the good leaders who will be able to manage the society in a very prudent and efficient manner. I will tell you that with that memo and your program there, that it is the other, it is the Cambridge, it is the Massachusetts and others that provide leadership for countries like Britain, for countries like India, for countries like America. Why is it that our university system has not been able to all, it's not being used for us? That is a question we must ask ourselves. Also look at the performance of the academicians when they get into governance. In what ways are they prepared from the normal positions that we have in the country? You have some professors now who are governors in some of these states, you have medical doctors, you have some of them who have their PhD, you have some of them who will be university teachers, don't I love the other part, before becoming senators. In what way are they a performer? Please be in government and improve our lot as a people. I haven't seen it. So that is to say that even in the culpability for the lack of good governance in the country, the university system is also entitled. But the university professors require those who are so statured as regards whether they want to continue to pursue this program of economicism, salary increase, market allowance increase, difficulties or whatever allowance is and what are those. There is this fandom of money that goes into providing for social sphere for the university. When the university system, I mean when the hospitals are also run down, when it's been taking more than 10 to 15 years to complete the legacy but the experts wrote. If the ASU people are going to help us, this is a very good time for them to be able to do this. Let them identify some of the candidates who are contesting as presidents. Let them identify in the respective states some of the people contest here as governors. Let them identify people who are the good as senators as the other red members, as the state House of Assembly members, as people look at government, German and other such persons, back of such persons can pay for them, even donate funds for them. So that those people might be able to win the election in 2033 and also be ready to provide services for people in terms of campaigning without when the cases are coming, write the position papers to them from the good government and keep them for now they can generate the revenue internally. Tunde, let's take a look quickly at the punch now. What do you make of the anti-drug war? Federal government freezes 600 accounts and seizes 249 luxury vehicles. For me, the struggle against drugs in the country is a very noble one and in fact we need to congratulate and thank General Amaruwa for the beautiful that he is doing in that area. He will remember that the fight against drugs in Nigeria was almost comatose before General Amaruwa came in as the chiamat of Mdl, but since he came in he has been motivated with the task and many servers are also very aggressive now in trying to control and seal off not just the sources of the drugs, but also to take on the drug burden that we do have in our society. If the federal government will be good to them, they should provide all the necessary where we talk, in terms of armament, in terms of weapons, in terms of better pay, in terms of promotions for all the servers of the Mdl so that they will be able to do more in the fight against drug addiction and that we have in the country. You look at what they did with respect to Mr. Bakiai with due respect. People they see a mere allegation and the case is being caught. If it was before now, it would have been possible for the Mdl to take on an arrest of Mr. Bakiai with the kind of soto that they had on ground in the past. Furthermore, you and I will need to go around our society. I see the effect of drugs on our youth, on my way to office, in the day, on my way to court, when I'm going to my house. I see our children, I see the youth doing all manners of drugs. And when I look at the racks that most of them have performed, you will agree with me that we are not even doing enough with this fight against drugs. Drug is ravaging our community, the gas-suit level, at the needle level, at the upper level. Because drug consumption is no longer confined to just the motor parts, to just the market, to just the universities, and what are they. Even the high-level people in the society are now being drugged. I'll give you an example. A cup of sheep aspirants suddenly died, some time ago, and when the autopsy was conducted on the person, the report shows that aspirants have been drugged in search. We can cut down on drugs for a long period of time, and that was precipitated by drugs and alcoholism. Do you think that this war that has actually started, it's going to be holistic in its sense, because you also have the spin-several accusation of those who are the hemophers, who are engaging, and who have some drug-related kind of connection going on. So do you think that this fight against drug or drug war is a holistic one, or will be a holistic one? What I mean is that the government was taking the bull by the hand, and from what has been able to do so far, I'm sure, if we get the necessary support from all of our people, from the government at the state and federal level, and now from the traditional rulers and world as well, they might be able to take the war against drug addiction and potential addiction to the national level. At least so far, there has been no scandal, there has been no let-off in the war against the LAS. In fact, on a daily basis, they are breaking more grass. I want to say that I have confidence in the leadership of the present MDLA, but you know, a freedom of not making progress. And the MDLA is a job for all of us to do. But I'm also cautious that the MDLA, to as much as possible, receives from media from propaganda. For example, I have heard them in the past saying that somebody is a drug bearer because the importance of the country is a drug, which is a prescribed drug. A drug, I say, is not a drug. It is when it is mixed with a drug that becomes a very clean drug. It is not a prescription drug. A drug, I suppose, is prescribed. Yeah, we have to go. Yeah, you've said it all, but the state of the nation's youth as regards the use of drugs is terrible. It's not good, and something needs to be done. And thank heavens we have Marwa retired army officer who is army chief and from a mill out of Lagos state who is doing a good job. Thank you so much for your time, Barista. We hope to have you same time next. We can enjoy your expert analysis as always. Thanks for having me. You have a lovely day. Same to you. And let me thank you. Thank you so much. I have you saying a little tired. Please take a look out of your face. Yes, very important. Thank you for helping me tell her. All right, today is the 7th of September 2022, and we'll check out what happened on this day in history. After that, we'll be right back.