 On the breakfast, the National Assembly sets to amend some relevant sections of the Finance Act to solve 11.03 trillion-dollar deficit proposed for the 19.76 trillion-dollar 2023 budget. Also, on the breakfast, Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressive Congress accused the leadership of the Nigerian Congress, NLC, of being hypocritical over the burning issues of field subsidy removal in the country. Don't forget, we'll also be looking through today's newspapers analyzing the biggest stories of the day. Welcome to The Breakfast on Plustidia, Africa. It's a beautiful Tuesday morning. As always, we start off with conversations that make, you know, have a lot of engagement. But just before then, I am messy a bookbill. Now, these conversations for our top trending are conversations that have different engagement in different quarters. We start off with Britain and world leaders beating farewell to Queen Elizabeth II. We'll take a track down. When we return, we'll continue with the conversation. Please stay with us. And it's surprising so long time with you, Jesus say it has thou not known me. Have I been so long time with you, and yet has thou not known me, Philip? Thanks be to God. That hath seen me, hath seen the Father. Thanks be to God. Well, a little bit of what actually transpired yesterday, and if you were not able to catch up with, you know, the events virtually, or you were probably not invited for the event then, that's it. Finally, you can say that Queen Elizabeth II has been laid to rest and she spent four days lying in state at the Palace of Westminster to allow members of the public pay their respect. I've seen a lot of persons complain about that, but it's a tradition, you know, that's actually the tradition. Hakofin was moved to Abbey earlier yesterday, that's Monday, for the State Funeral Service, which was scheduled to begin at 6 a.m., so it started of course at that time, EET. And the global event withness several leaders, we're talking about global leaders and heads of state from across the globe in, you know, central London to attend the State Funeral of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II yesterday. And I'm sure that a lot of persons have already said, okay, it's over, even though we saw different, you know, reactions from the space, we'll definitely get to that. But around 500 foreign dignitaries who attended that service, who attended that service, the Westminster Abbey, including President Joe Biden, Kings and Queens from across Europe, and leaders of Commonwealth Nation. Biden also had arrived, you know, earlier amongst many dignitaries accompanied by, you know, his wife, the first lady, Jill Biden. In attendance, you had a German president. You also have the Italian president who was there, Irish president amongst others. But what actually stood out for me, and some of the persons that, you know, six countries and a former U.S. president were not invited, you know, to the ceremony. And we're talking about Russia president Vladimir Putin, Belarus, Syria, Miami, Venezuela, Afghanistan and U.S. president, former U.S. president Donald Trump. But reason has actually been given for, you know, why they were not allowed to attend or they were not invited for that particular, for the event. There are several reasons why six of these countries, including former president, not necessarily the former president, or you understand, you know, the riots and all of the issues surrounding the elections. And so that might just be it. But Vladimir Putin, President Vladimir Putin had congratulated King Charles, the second to his ascension to the throne, but the relationship between the United Kingdom and Russia have collapsed since Russian invasion of Ukraine. That's one of the reasons. Now, Belarus was not also invited to the state funeral because President Alexander Lukashenko is considered a close ally of Russian president, that's Vladimir Putin. And you understand what that means. Myanmar as well has not been invited following the coup that happened in last year, Afghanistan as well, Syria and Venezuela. Now, there were other countries that were invited on the grounds of ambassadorial grounds and then you have North Korea, China's vice president also attended, but there are also some other issues. I mean, that's it. But those who didn't really attend, I think that the entire world was in central London yesterday. Everyone, those who were in London and who were not invited because it was an event that was based on invitation, probably would have attended via television or probably on social media, YouTube and what have you. And for Africa, I think that's the time where Africans were raised. But we saw several videos that surfaced yesterday, especially a visual where some people say it was Niger, but I think that we would do better. Really. So we saw another procession. It was really comical if you ask me, but I think they said the video emanated from camera and they were also having their own procession and honoring the queen. That is what it is. And finally, she's been laid to rest away from the queen's death and the fact that she's actually been laid to rest. And you had a lot of persons attending, not forgetting to mention the vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, represented president of Mohammed the Buhari. Just in case you're wondering if Nigeria did not get the invitation, we got the invitation. Another on the top trending this morning, it has actually generated different engagement. I mean, we started the conversation yesterday, where we're speaking with the Nantes secretary that we're headed to the airport. And the intention was to actually protest the current strike that happened. But we'll take a breakdown. Let's quickly take a look at what transpired yesterday. When we return, we'll discuss some more. Stay with us. The federal government, the values, the headlights, more than even with the proper citizens of this country. And this action is going to affect the majority of the light of this country. And it's also going to affect the integrity of the federal government. By seeing students coming out, I think it's a major international effort in this country. And that is why we came out here today to protest as the second face of this struggle that I started today. That is why we're using the international airport across the country to start our education. Right, how long are you going to be here? As far as the strike, the federal government called off the strike. As far as the strike, we'll be coming here repeatedly every day. We'll be coming into the international airport until we decide another face of the struggle. Well, what happened yesterday was that you had members of Nantes stomping Muay Thai and Mohammed International Airport in Lagos. The essence of that was to mount pressure on the government to resolve this seven-month industrial strike by Asu. And so the protests were still ongoing at the time. And you can see that greed lock was on top of the front. But a lot of Lagosians and those who were in Lagos or maybe moving from one spot to the other had suffered. Because there were some videos and pictures where you see persons, especially those who were travelling. You saw them with their luggage moving and trying to get to their destination. And we call that this student body had earlier threatened to ground activities at the local and international airport across the country. And so that lead out to their expectation. And that's what we actually saw. But it's really unfortunate because we had a representative, someone who spoke with us yesterday. Unfortunately, the network wasn't very pleasant. But there were several questions that we asked. We understand that this is the issue. The strike has been lingering. And of course, the issue have not been resolved, the government or Asu is yet to compromise. But really, what's the rationale behind coming to Lagos? And some people say, hey, the airport is actually a federal project or so you have. It's a federal because one would expect that if you were going to have a protest, the president is an Asu rock. Asu rock is in Abuja. And so the National Assembly, what have you, the protest should have taken place right there. But it was a different case entirely. And you had it in Lagos. But we're hoping that these would actually force the hand of government or maybe ask on the other hand to return back. There would be some level of compromise. We're hoping that there might just be some answer. I really don't know because a lot has actually happened with the strike action. But it feels like when the conflict situation where both parties are not willing to compromise, very saddening. But let's see how all of this protest with Nance will pan out. Now quickly, there's tension in the Niger Delta. And that's not something that we want to agree with, especially with the time where we're struggling. Nigeria is actually struggling. And the economy is struggling with not being able to meet up with quarter production. We're talking about the quarter production that's been allocated to Nigerian or producing countries by OPEC. Over time, we have fallen short of it. And right now, it's been reported that 900,000 are, I beg your pardon, 900,000 barrels per day is what we're talking about. And that's really, really not up to it. I think we're really going down. But the pipeline surveillance contract awarded to government. Of course, the second Tom Polo has caused an apprehension in Niger Delta. So if you're wondering what's causing all of that tension, it's because of the contract that was awarded. Now the deal was sealed by the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and the National Petroleum Corporation. That's the NNPC. Nigeria at the time was producing around 1.6 million barrels per day as of July 2021. That was last year. However, by July 2022, the output had dropped to around 1.1 million barrels as we speak. But however, like I mentioned earlier on, we're within the range of 900,000 barrels per day. What worries us is that 500,000 deficit forced the country's leadership to act and seek funds to finance the proposed 2023 budget of $19.76 trillion. So the government is actually acting in a certain way to ensure that we have the desired result that we want to see. So there's this tension. The tension is between Tom Polo and Dukubo, Asari Dukubo. And clearly it's been stated that how would government assign or allocate such contracts to someone who's actually not from reverse state? So we're talking about former ex-militant right here. Asari Dukubo has been very vocal. And this is what's causing the fricasse or the contention. And so there are several interest groups and several persons who are very interested with the situation. And that's been going on. That's it on the top trending. We take a break. When we return, it will be time for us to go through the front pages for National Dailies. Please stay with us.