 We're back. It's still the breakfast in Plus TV Africa. Glad to say we can now look at what the papers have for us this morning, our guest analyst, legal practitioner, Tunde Kolawale, is standing by to readjust this to the headlines of the pages of today's National Dailies. Tunde Kolawale, thank you very much for your time and good morning. Have a good morning, Father. Hope you have a good night. Yes, it's a new day. We thank God for a new day. And how about you? How about you? Well, it's okay because the electric power supply is still affected now. All right. Well, Barus, I can tell you that there are some parts of legal that are enjoying near 24 hours power supply or 24 hour power supply. Do you not know what the magic is for them? I don't know how that is. But we just pray that things get better, you know, things get better, especially in the face of the high cost of petrol. We pray things get better. All right. Let's start by looking at the stories on the front page of the punch. Quite colorful as usual, and it has a focus on the new Naira deadline. Today is the 25th of January, counting down to the 31st of January. Let's not forget yesterday after the the monetary policy committee meeting at the post MPC meeting briefing, the CBN governor said he has no good news for those who want the deadline to be extended. But the headline on the front page of the punch, Kanu, Ondo, Anambra, Depositors, Flood Banks with old notes. CBN Sean's National Assembly insists on January 31, cash swap deadline. AFCC, ICPC want to arrest huge depositors, says Amifiliations, bank customers, so people can take their billions to the bank. Nobody will be arrested. Central bank officials, POS agents set up real cash exchange points. But I heard somewhere from the CBN yesterday that POS agents are not allowed to do the cash swap. I don't know how that relates with this recent or latest headline. More from the punch, FG raises a 14-man panel to end fuel scarcity. Interest rate hike, job losses, crisis loom, warns OPS. They increase the rate, the monetary policy rate by 100 basis points. They increase the benchmark interest rate by 100 basis points to 17.5% yesterday. More from the punch, traders lament as Okowa shuts markets for Ateku. Ligas projects 7.5 million train passengers monthly, quite interesting. Labor knocks governance, states reject local government autonomy. I think they're talking about labor unions and not labor party. Islamic teacher bags, life jail for defiling eight pupils and world health organization worries over fresh 170,000 COVID-19 deaths. A picture on the front page of residents of Kautungu and Dambata local government areas swapping their old Nara notes with new ones in Gombe and Kanu states on Tuesday. The CBN official in Gombe state had earlier alleged that banks were hoarding this money because they said they had enough for the 3.5 million residents of Gombe and there needs to be no scarcity from the banking angle. Let's go on to the next paper this time, Daily Trust. With the following headlines, Buhari chair's 14-man committee is fuel scarcity worsens. Buhari chair's 14-man committee as fuel scarcity worsens. DSS customs, EFCC, others members. President racing against time experts. Hawkes sell petrol for 500 Naira per liter in Abuja and 600 Naira in Ondo. I can tell you for free that someone told me, a member of the public told me last night that he saw 900 Naira per liter at a petrol station in Ondo. Will the sky fall on our heads? Only time will tell. As far as this committee is concerned, the paper says that President Buhari is the chairman of that steering committee. The Minnesota State for Petroleum Resources, Timmy Press Silver is the alternate chairman of that committee. I think that says one or two things about what the president will be hands on with that committee or not. Let's go on. Constitution review. State assemblies reject financial autonomy for local governments. New Naira notes. National Assembly may fairly defer on deadline extension. Go and make governorship. Court dismisses PDP suit seeking to disqualify Governor Inua. PSC orders retiring police officers to go. CBN debunks 89 trillion Naira stum duty claim. Says 370.686 billion Naira collected by banks. Buhari Centurial District, Keita Daura set for epic battle. And a funny one from the Daily Trust. Woman quits marriage. Murray's daughter's boyfriend in cattle. Wonders shall never end. Alright, let's go to the next paper. The nation goes big with a political story on its front page. The lead headline there. Senators reps draw battle line with CBN over Naira notes. Lawmakers seek six-month extension. Tuesday deadline. Sacrosanct, if expand, insists. More from the nation. Legislature, judiciary, autonomy bills ready for Buhari's ascent. Legislature, judiciary, autonomy bills ready for Buhari's ascent. Wiki, we won't campaign for Artiku. Wiki, we won't campaign for Artiku. I think we may have already known that some months ago. I don't know if I guess you'll agree. We hear from him. Governor Aburah Saks-Saks provost. Retire if you do. PSC orders, DIGs, AIGs. Abia to enjoy export hub. Export hub status says Tinibu and Tribunal fixes Friday for verdict. You know, your tola versus a delicate president heads 14-month patrol crisis panel. Some of the stories on the front page of the nation. The final paper this morning is a Guardian. And the lead story there, like the nation and they go with the CBN new Naira or old Naira deadline. It says old Naira notes. CBN insists on January 31 deadline. Shans calls for extension. Buhari appoints Rase as PSC boss, as a former IGP. Amit Fiorori over IGP's Tenna elongation. FG reinstates COVID-19 travel protocol. More countries restrict Chinese travelers. Expect earlier than normal onset of rainfall floods in 2023. Amit warns. Dango to refinery, not part of projects for Buharis commissioning. IPCC safety for journalists ahead of 2023 polls. And Buhari keeps mum. Buhari keeps mum. Commissions, blue line, rail, J Randall center. I can find out more from the paper by what they mean by Buhari keeps mum. Anyway, maybe they mean that he didn't say much at the commissioning. Like we saw in the tip there. To the color, over to you. What are your thoughts on the way the nation put the Guardian put it? You know, they highlighted the fact the president didn't say much when he commissioned the blue line rail and J Randall center. I think that can be a two-step step for a neutral process. Which when there are a monogamy, what should the government do? They can do the concept. We love the metro. We love the money we pay for the metro. And then we also take it to Amit Fiorori for where the federal government allows for future contracts. If in the second corner of the monogamy, we are not actually on the way. The blue line, they can't see. I think that's the norm of the metro that is not under like that. But let me also say, the project is not moving as far as the world we are facing. Also, my best friend Mum, who is an open aspect, Mum, why do I say this? A country like Egypt has wanted a contract for a bullet and a train. That is the kind of program I think is the investment and not responsible for most people and technology. Nobody is using the technology they gave you. France is even doing a new trade now. Which is fair to the fact that in a real place, such that in the near future, most people will be part of the problem, in the new trade that the French people are together with. But here I have the resources to go more than that. And when you invest in international technology, you are setting yourself back at a condition, at a country that is more than 15 years, which is very likely to be the case. But well, this is the forward movement, so to say. Because I am not specific authority to invest in modern technology, I am not so much into technology as far as it is possible. But now, very late, we have been making a show to you, to you, to you, to you, to you. So we have been making money now to let you, let you, let you invest. But now we see we have been making money now, to do a job, and then to spend it. For economic activity, in all this First, the legos would have to come down from the center of the stomach and then they go to the left pressure on the rows. In every busy spot, the private tools and other would not allow those rows to last. And what are they supposed to last? Those busy materials, those good things are not supposed to be carried by road. They are better carried by road or by driver. Thank you very much. Let's stay with the Guardian, the lead story on the front page. St. CBN is assisting on the 31 deadline, shunning the call for extension. The National Assembly is inviting, I think the Senate invited, the House of Reps or the Senate, one of them invited yesterday is inviting the CEOs of commercial banks, private sector banks, to come and tell them why they don't have a Naira with them. Either of the House of Reps or Senators is saying also that the CBN should extend it to July 31. You know, this was plenary yesterday. Senator Talim Dume said he hasn't seen the new units, even as a senator, he hasn't seen them. So what are your thoughts? Immediately addressed the press and he says he would like to apologize, but he's sorry to disappoint anyone that he has no good news for those who want an extension of the deadline. He also said that 90 days was more than enough for anyone who has an old note to return it to the bank and exchange it for a new note. Now, we can joke-suppose this with the fact that, yes, people are complaining that they can't see the new notes, but officials of CBN in different parts of the country, like Podhakot, like Kano, like Gombe, are saying that they've put billions of Naira into the system and the banks have the money. So should we be, what are your thoughts on all this that's playing out so far? Yes, like I said before, on behalf of the program, it is shocking to me that the people is investing in the design of the new Naira money or providing the new terms to the new Naira money. I thought, even from the home program, whether to be pursuing the cashier's policy, which is the main thing early in the world today, people are now using plastic money and some other forms of the money that are more durable, that are easy to carry and that are easy to move around and also transfer this money. But in the wisdom of the CBN, we have decided to invest in the design of the new money or the new Naira money. Well, we've started the project already. What we want to expect from them is a program that is going to be easy, that is going to be convenient to all Naira, and that is also going to have some value to the Naira that will certainly be in Nigeria. But from the way you think, I'm not to show that the CBN has done its own work properly before I'm backing on this project. Not like you said, when you still go to some of these banks today, it is the old Naira note that the ATM machine is expensive and when you make employees in those places, they will tell you that the CBN has not been able to finish him with a note of the new or a note of the newly designed Naira note. So you can say that at the time of January, the deadline, and you are not making the new Naira note available, how will you be able to improve the deadline? Well, it might be that it's fair that maybe the CBN is trying to use this name, the designing of the new Naira note. So in a way, it might be an instrument to really tackle the inflation that will have the new Naira note. So you can say that the new Naira note is the old Naira note and when they use the name, the old Naira note, that means less money in population. So in a way, it might be an instrument to really tackle the inflation that will have the content. The CBN will have the information that there may be too many people and so much Naira note, who can start to use it and not put it in that place. It is also not important. There are too many contactless Naira notes out there in the market. So to be able to address some of those issues, the mayor of the engagement with the new Naira note and then to talk about the exchange of the Naira note on the 31st of January, 2003. Then with the tango, that is the note which is the national assembly, and also the CBN and NOSA. I have said this time, it is out in Namta. The new Naira note, especially the Naira note, and the house of the president, is the most powerful of the Naira note. They are even more powerful than the perpetrators. So when the Naira note is out of place, they say to me, I am of the deputy of Naira, you will not rise also, I am of the deputy of Naira. So it came to answer for whatever cause that is coming from the national assembly. When you dissuade the national assembly, the entire Naira will be dissuaded. Like I say, the ground known, that is the office of authority, the utmost power of the federal republic of Naira, rise with hands for the national assembly people. This is not a captain, he is taking his electricity, for that anybody should be solid, for that anybody should not take their calls. When they make a call, for the post office, the time it is out in Namta, we are thinking of disresigning the national assembly, without your questions, following those decisions. And the national assembly people that can't do it. But I explain, when people dissuade your calls, when people dissuade your service for you, when you treat a subject of people out of the victim of something, if I have something that they refuse to pay, then you apply the rules, so that you will know where the utmost power lies in the federal republic of Naira. As some of you say that to mention, this is not just us, in places that are quarreling, there are so many remote villages, that don't even know how to pay, that the Naira has been and that they require to take the whole Naira note to the bank, and they change it for the new ones and whatever. We also remember, that there are so many villages and rural areas, that they don't have banks, they don't have the community funds, but the law and the rules, due to our ability to sustain the situation, all those community funds also, change and all that. It's a very serious problem that I think the situation is listening to the people in the Naira and also listening to the people in some of the parts of Naira, the government in the north and the parts of Naira, so that people will not be there at any minute. It's a very serious problem that I consider to work, when monies are even paid, they have to take a little hand on your own note to keep taking it to their bank and to take it to hold it on people that... Let's move on. You've said it all. I'm sorry I have to move faster because of time, so you can give us your expert opinion on other stories. But you've said it all, that the Sibian needs to listen to the voice of the people as well, try and have some balance in all of this. And I think you've painted a real picture of the rural areas and how the truth is that people will lose out because of their non-availability of banks, financial institutions and even the Naira notes where you have banks and even Naira notes. Let us move on to another one. I'd like to take your thoughts on what's going on between the police service commission and the Niger police force. So the front page of the Guardian, it has a story at the bottom. Puhariya points Arasi, that's former IGP Arasi, as PSC, police service commission boss made Fuhariya over IGP's tenor elongation. If we swipe to the nation newspaper on the top left corner, you can see a story there. Retire if you are due. PSC, orders, DIGs, AIGs. What are your thoughts on this issue, the ongoing issue between the police service commission and the police? It's not the first time we've had something similar, but this time it's about tenor elongation. Can I mention this? If you are the leader of PSC, when you are ten years old, if you are ten to sixty years old, if you are ten to sixty, if you are sixty years old, when you are ten to sixty, the boss says you must respect that law, you must obey that law, and bar out of this study very quickly. Without timely ways you have to begin to ascend your tenor. You have to begin to ascend your tenor and all of this. They argue that the law is better, that they are out of 12 million years old. They are no other capital person and can repeal them. And I think the answer is no. Out of every single time that 200 million years old, 200 million years old, they see they are cheese. When they say this is українish from the senior party, this is the same from the senior party, and the special position in the central of the civil society is not selected at all. As regards the, you can see I mentioned the, I mentioned the police and all that. I think there's a better top of the field. Really, we say that the ultimate authority is the police and the police commission. Why the IC is here today, the police and the commission? This is my imagination. You will remember when you were going to the Supreme Court of Youth and Waterloo, the IC went to the police and this is in the Supreme Court of Youth. That refers to the police and this commission. And the police and this court of youth, they went to the court, and then they locked up the airport and then they went to the Court of Appeals. And I think the Court of Appeals finally accepted and said that right here, the police through the court to the police and this commission, whatever said, they wanted to see the rest of the court men, for example, to see the rest of the empire law and the media police. The case is over and over because of the potential. So, the outcome of that case, because of the ability to take on the police. This is where they know, this is where they send the law of the law, to know and see the rest of the life. Then we said the appointment of the law of the police man, at the term of police and the commission. Honestly speaking, I am not comfortable with it. I am not happy with it. This is what they know. I would have to die in situation with the retirees. But this is a commitment. Why do I say this? Is it short of you to accept a balance? Because of modesty in place. You mean no. The retirees got jobs. No about laws. Not about fundamentalism. I would know how to apply the law when it comes to the decision and the motion of the rank of high policemen. But with the AI and with the IT, we will be looking at the issues. The situation perspective of the police act, not from the conflict. And then not from the precedent that are coming from the different cause. That we want to see a situation with the law. And then with the court thought, or a senior lawyer, who has been made to work with the commission. In fact, I am not the pros and cons in the fact that nobody to be made an area commander, nobody to be made a commissioner of police, or AI, IT, IT, IT. Without the input of the community, we still want to start. We see too much of this. We see too much of traction on the fundamentalists of the engineering people simply because the police are not accountable to the engineering people who have paid their salaries and then they are given this work. We must be able to call this community that is coming from the police. And then we can call the community we can make sure that the security of the police is as much as the security. When there are breakers at the area commander level, when there are breakers at the area, and then the commissioner of police, or whatever I say, what are these? Position should be advertised and people should apply whether civilians who are in law or similarly, who are in religion or not. And we should conduct that to conduct that. And wherever we call this the day. No failure. This is the name of the police. Every order of the police is administrative. For example, the forensic department of the Nigeria Police. You don't have to be a policeman to be able to hear the forensic arm of the Nigeria Police. I'm told to be a policeman to be able to hear the organization of the Nigeria Police. This is the name of the officer who is a professional policeman to be able to hear. Like I continue to say, once you put the police in the hands of the Nigerian people, you're never going to have a police that is accountable, that is responsible, that has to serve the rule of law. All the physical feelings that we need to see, all the other places will not affect until you now begin to put the police in the hands of the Nigerian people. Thank you very much. Thank you so much, sir. We're out of time. We wish you had the time to take more stories as a couple of stories I really would love to get to. But we will definitely have the pleasure of your presence next week right here on the breakfast. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me, my brother. Thank you very much. Absolutely, absolutely. It's three days and 50 hours, 54 minutes and about 18 seconds to the deadline for the PV's collection. I think we'll have time to discuss that with you and the next news report review segment, hopefully. Thank you so much for your time. We have to take a break. Thank you, sir. We have to take a break. Now when we return, we will look at our first major conversation. Very, very important discussion on tax collection. We also have a discussion on, say, vital cancer and on the problem. So the breakfast, please stay with us.