 On the breakfast, the Nigerian Center for Disease Control, NCDC says it's on a high alert following the outbreak of MacBook virus in Ghana. Also on the breakfast, the Super Falcons boycott training in protest of unpaid allowances ahead of their match play with Zambia. And don't forget we'll also be looking through today's newspapers analyzing the biggest stories of the day. It's a beautiful Friday morning, walking right here to the breakfast and plus TV Africa. And some people will say thank God it's Friday, but not to almost everyone because I mean work would always continue. I am Masya Boko, we start our conversation with a top trending and on our top trending this morning, JAMA proves caught off-mac for polytechnics and university. That's been getting Nigerians talking and reacting in different spaces. The conversation is one and the same and people are saying hey, we're going down. Our educational system is just dwindling, it's just going down. We can't, you know, get a cut off mark prior to this time. Cut off points would be from 200, 220, 210 and would have you 190. Now we're looking at what's the cut off again, 140. And the reaction is just universal that we're losing it in terms of our education. But it's important to note that, you know, the minimum cut off mark for admission that's been put out for 2022 and 2023 academic section. This decision was not just arrived at. So you had stakeholders, for instance the joint admission and matriculation board, heads of tertiary institutions. That would mean that you had vice chancellors of universities, rectors of polytechnics, provosts of colleges of education. They were all including the minister of education who presided over this meeting for that approval of 140 as the mark for admission into the university and 100 for polytechnics. But however, now one part I think that a lot of Nigerians did not or haven't really paid attention to is that institutions have the right to fix the cut off mark even up to 220. So, I mean, everybody seemed to be talking about the fact that hey, the cut off point is at 140. But no one is also paying attention to the class that you have that institutions have the right to fix the cut off mark up to 220. That would mean that it's okay for you to score 140, but you can't go below 140, especially for universities, 200 and what have you. But you get to the universities and what if the universities pay the cut off mark at 220 or 300 and what have you. Then, so it's okay for you to make jam, but getting into the university is still very dependent on the university and the colleges of education as well as, you know, the polytechnic. So should we worry about anything but all the persons are saying this like it might just be another means of generating revenue, you know, for government. That's what's been said. Okay. We move away from that another on a top trending. It's also getting a lot of people talking might be dominating the papers this morning is the fact that the federal government is considering a ban of Ocada nationwide. And that's to curb the insecurity challenges that the country is faced with. And so you did this was actually the outcome of a security meeting that was held and we have the output that hey, the government is saying in order. They might be considering the fact that there should be a ban on Ocada nationwide. Now, let's look at the fact that Ocada as it's popularly called and known in different parts of the state has been banned. For instance, in 2008 in River State in Potarkot. I mean, for some reason issue of militants and what have you. It was restricted. Cano, Kaduna, Aqaibam State, Lagos, you also have Cross River State. One reason or the other, but you also need to understand that in this as it is, you have a suburbs, you have satellite towns where vehicles do not play. And then these roads are roads that leads to feed the road. But another thing that was also mentioned again is the issue of, you know, security, the issue of mining. Now, mining was another issue saying that this terrorist actually involved in activities of mining and also make a leaving which funds them. And so the reason why the government is considering this is that it would help, you know, reduce the activities across Spark. But people have not really embraced us because we understand that there are satellite towns, there are suburbs, you have feeder roads. How, when you tell people not to, when you ban Ocada across, I mean, for instance, if something's to go by and Ocada has been banned or motorcycles been banned. What happens to people who live in this satellite towns, who live in this suburbs where the only means of transportation and transporting their goods would be having to use the motorcycle or use the bikes or cover whatever you want to use to get to their location. But on the other hand, the issue of mining is also very critical because there are several reports about from intergovernment, you know, and independent think tanks. Talking about the activities of miners. So you have people who are into small scale mining in the West African region and, you know, all the parts of Africa. And so Central Africa, so West Africa and Central Africa. There's been several reports from intergovernmental agencies and independent, you know, personnel or personalities. These reports have been ongoing. There's a correlation, strong connection with mining and the activities of terrorism or terrorists. And so there's a connection because this group of persons actually get into, you know, the mining activity. But at the end of the day, they do not, it's illegal. And so you have these terrorists come together to collaborate and that becomes a lot. Mining is a gold mine for every, you know, it's a global thing across board. Mining is a serious issue. And these persons have understood collaborating with illegal miners. But the question here is, do we know those who are involved in illegal mining? Do we know the identities of these terrorists? We understand. So it's not a new thing that mining, but is it okay for you to say you want to buy and buy? Does that solve the problem? People have raised question of the NIN, you know, the same linkage and communication. Some people have been very sarcastic about it and say, if the government is bent on conceding banning bikes or the Okada nationwide just to co-op the activities of this terrorist, then it would be okay to say let's ban life. Let's also ban communication. Let's ban mobile phones. Let's ban some of these things. A lot of persons have not really embraced this idea. But our fingers are crossed and let's see how all of this pans out. Away from that, Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19. We're talking about, you know, the president of the United States of America. And that's big because Joe Biden has, well, there's a time in all of this, he's talked about that vaccination or COVID-19 is for the unvaccinated. It definitely means that he believed that if you were vaccinated, then there's no possibility of you contracting the virus. So it's for those who are not. But there's been a lot of argument that being vaccinated does not mean that you cannot still, I mean, you cannot contract the virus. It's just that it reduces, you know, the severity of whatever effect it would have on you when you juxtapose that or compare that to when you're not vaccinated. And there's a lot borsing, especially from the United States. People have reacted differently. We've also seen persons who are wishing him to get well soon because they cannot imagine anything happening to Joe Biden. But it just goes to show that despite the fact that countries and countries of the world have actually relaxed the restriction. I mean, all of the protocols, for instance, travel restrictions, all of that has been relaxed and what have you. And some people have been very careless about the non-femacitical protocols that we observe, washing hands, wearing your nose masks and what have you. It's just a reminder that the virus is still with us. It hasn't done. And it's important that we protect ourselves at all costs. And that's the size of it on a top trend in this morning. We take a break. When we return, we'll look at other front pages of the National Daily. Stay with us.