 Welcome once again to The Breakfast and now let's go to Off the Press where we have a review of the major stories making headlines across Nigeria today. I'm going to be starting with stories from the daily sun and sharing with you as many of them as possible should be on your screen in just a few seconds. And also we'll be introducing our guest, yes, it says there COVID-19, 30 die in seven days in Lagos. Songo Flushes red flags as state recording six deaths at isolation centers daily. 4,300 confirmed cases in July. We're yet to see the worst of the pandemics as a federal government. Also, Delta variant cases hit 32. Hoshpapi Saga, DCP Tunji Disu replaces Abakiari as IRT boss. Still on the daily sun, hunger in the land worsens. Nigerians grown as prices of foodstuff soar. And NNPC lists conditions for oil majors' divestment. DSS also fails to produce four out of 12 detained Igbo's aides in court. Still on the daily sun, Oshun or Shugbo festivals begin with traditional cleansing. We can also find here Anambra Omer's committee can't unite Abga. And Oguai to meet Inugubon aircraft inventor swears in 68 development center administrators. Doctors' strike bites hard. Hospitals discharge patients. NMA6 withdrawal of controversial secular on scheme of service. And those are the big ones that we can share on the daily sun this morning. Turning now to the nation newspaper, the headline reads Oshun Bajor's team working on ways out of APC's Lego ditch. Why last-minute attempts to postpone world congresses were stalled. Varsities to get 30 billion Naira next week. Government and ASU meets. APC PDP rejects Jaga's call for third force. Says it's time for alternative. Lawyer Igbo awaits an action on asylum application. Back in the tips seven commissioners. These two takes over from Kiari at IRT. Truck kills mom, baby, other in Oguon. Resident Dr. Strike takes children patients at hospitals. Strengthens COVID-19 measures likely. NNPC to safeguard investment with conditions for IOC's divestment. Candice firms stable in custody. Lastly, JamNUC, you back others, get acting CEO. Right to the Nigerian Tribune this morning. COVID-19, Lagos or your FCT and for others on red alert as third wave rages. 4.09 million Moderna vaccines donated by the U.S. await an efficacy test by NAVDAG. Don't take Moderna if you've taken AstraZeneca. And also federal government puts enforcement committee in places at airports. Controversy in education agencies as 10 of Oluya de Rashid 15 hours end. We can also find here patients and relatives lament as resident Dr. Strike takes toll on hospitals nationwide. Lagos free zone U.S. missions in Nigeria to facilitate increased investment. Disu replaces Kiari as intelligence response team head. And also aggrieved APC stakeholders set for showdown as governor's ministers hijack structures. Reject APC and PDP in 2023. Jagatels Nigerians. APC Buhari Field Nigerians says PDP. And also don't lump us with PDP. APC replies ex INEC boss. All right, those are the ones on the Nigerian Tribune. On the Guardian after $75 billion investment in 20 years, telecom services still struggling. Federal government confirms third wave of COVID-19 and need Dr. Strike for sanity to prevail in Laddipo market. Federal government gives conditions for deployment of Moderna vaccines as Nigeria gets 4 million doses. Ocean Badger APC governors and ministers seek safe option after Supreme Court ruling on caretaker chairman. No going back on indefinite strike resident Drs. Val. Federal government lists conditions for oil majors investments from upstream operations. All right, and I think we can just quickly throw in a few on the punch this morning. We can see a rise in COVID-19 cases, NESG, LCCI, fear, fresh lockdown. Federal government plans tough actions against third wave. Another lockdown will shrink government revenues affect private sector and citizens. Also, Song Wulu cries out over daily COVID-19 deaths says red zone travelers abscond. Nigeria takes delivery of 4 million Moderna vaccine doses from the United States. DSS keeps FOIBO 8 produces 8 assaults journalists in court. Also responded on the punch. Community leader puts recovered bodies at 43 in platoon clashes. PDP youth leader arrested for attacking Buharing and SGF on Facebook jailed for one year. Driver flees as truck crashes into Ogumbild in kills women, daughter and motorcyclist. And also Syracuse CFC invitation to scotless 2023 presidential bid says Yakasai. Lawyers fear assassination plot against Igboho pursue asylum. And also 2.4 billion dollars ransom paid for kidnapped students released in 2020. Buni says Oshimbajo governors begin talks as fear grips APC. And of course a government hospital is grounded as resident doctors begin strike. That's the last on the punch this morning. All right, so I think those are the ones we can look at. Chris, good morning, publisher of CK News. Thank you for joining us. Across the papers, a common story we saw was the one about the resident doctor strike and vowing that a government must fulfill the 10-year memorandum of action until they call it off. I spoke to the president of the ARG at Luthi yesterday, and he's still saying the same thing that this is a decision taken by the National Executive Council in Abia State that they must strike until they get what they deserve. And you know, when he went on to list some of these things, you know, to give a rationale for the strike, he mentioned that many doctors who have died in service during COVID-19 have not been paid anything. I think it was called a death in service allowance or something like that. So clamoring for a review of the 5,000-hour COVID-19 hazard allowance, some resident doctors have been owed salaries for months now. You know, so many others. I don't know really how you see this, because this is something we've been talking about for, you know, year after year, and it seems that we're seeing some sort of insincerity from the government. Or how do you see it? Yes, it's quite unfortunate that I got to look at things. And coming at this time where we are having radishes in COVID is very worrisome. One of the headlines was that about 30 Nigerians died in Lagos within one day in Lagos, and that is in Lagos. That is worrisome. And we still have even totally forgotten the fact that COVID-19 is bad. We still have, especially the data variant, which is a modular one. That's original, that's something, what? But at this time, some of the issues, one of the issues that was raised by resident doctors or the SACULA, or the Director of Lagos Takeup, Lagos Takeup, on the allowances paid to, I think you'd call members that are doctors and the rest of it. But we should be able to be proactive in this. This is not the time for the rest of doctors or whichever one actually let us go on strike, because we have serious emergency. Not just COVID. Not also forget that cholera is reaching across Nigeria. And over the last count, I think we had a 500 in something, of course, to 600 have died from cholera also in Nigeria. So the federal government should quickly meet with the resident doctors and the beds. My issue is that that seems to be the only land that the government doesn't. When some associations raised issues concerning their men, federal government is not proactive. It happened with ASU. ASU is also true. Just that ASU tried to help. The government just came out with a press release because of the headlines and said that they're going to start to deal with Naira to ASU. Probably that was because of ASU trying to go on strike. Why was that one not released? Or was they waiting for ASU to go on strike before they do that? The same thing happened with the polytechnic election. And for a long time, the government agreed to pay certain money. So this is the way to go. But that is the last option that associations have come to let. It's the only way that the government will lead. And that for me is not good enough. Yes, we do get your stance. But is there any way to rationalize this trend we've seen where, first of all, associations give an ultimatum. And the government seemed to do nothing during all that time. For Naira, they said they gave a 113 days ultimatum. Nothing was done about it. So that first trend of the government's cement inaction during the period of ultimatum. And secondly, that also common trend of the government signing MOUs, signing MOAs, and then not doing anything about it. It shows that this is a series on the part of government. And as I said, that seems to be the only language that I understand. It is only when associations are trying to go on strike that you see the government try to bring them to the round table to discuss and talk to them. If they issued 100-day notice about going on strike and letting them do anything, only for them to begin strike and not talk to them and rest of them, it brings to question the kind of leaders that we have. And let us even put it this way. Let us do the heads up as it will. The minister of law is a dog. They also have the minister for health. We have minister of state for it. All of them are doctors. So how will it be there? And they will not be able to discuss issues, to get issues resolved before the doctor. When two elephants find the grass that suffers, those suffers are 94 Nigerians. If anything happens in Nigeria and it goes to the hospital, there are instances where people will die. People get involved as dead. Their relatives are not around there. The line of contact is quickly to rush them to the government hospitals and for them to be cheated. Some of them will die because no one treat them. So those are the part of the problem we have. And it has been like year in, year out, year in, year out. That has been the situation we find ourselves. And it's quite unfortunate that we have that this kind of leadership that though they listen to it just themselves, they don't listen to others. The minister was saying the other time that the doctor that wants to travel can go out and rest of them. We have more than enough. So we will even say that they can go into family another. That is the kind of. How many doctors do we have in the country of about 200 million? Go and look at the ratio. What are we going to standard when it comes to health? But it's quite unfortunate. All right. We're going to come back to health. Well, let's move to security and controversy concerning Aberkiari. There is news, of course, that Tunji Disu, the former head of the rapid response squad here in Lagos, has been appointed as a replacement for Aberkiari. And of course, I'm now heading the IRT. What's your response to that? Well, I'm going to say that with the police force, we still have so many credible and young, bad brands, good-driven officers. And yes, Aberkari is a downward. With the police force, we still have very bad office. Tunji Disu, you know very well. And there's another guy franking by the guy that's in the spokesperson of the police. Wonderful guy. I've known Tunji Disu for over three decades. We're classmate at the Lagos University. I've known him for over 30 years. I know his character. I'm his person. He's very, very bad officer. And I said it to yourself when you analyzed when he was in the IRS. You saw what the IRS was. And the way he went about it is not the current IRS we have. Tunji Disu seems to have fallen out. Tunji Disu is somebody that does it. He doesn't make noise. He's a fantastic officer. He has served in a war. He has served as head of in a university. Then also before coming to and the way he utilized the system he got. Security challenges he got. He was moved to Amrubi of Bans. He was a member of the Amrubi DIO to all parts of Lagos. He was then moved to Mati and he moved to Miti. Before he took off there he was appointed don't forget he was moved to the police headquarters in Ambuja where he was a commissioner in charge operations. If you know operations means to enforce, then you'll know that this is a ramp in a round hole. I believe we'll be able to deliver and be able to step into the shoes that is led by Abakri. So I'm looking forward to seeing what he can be able to take off from where Abakari stopped. But more importantly also, I want to say that issue of Abakari and the case is quickly disposed of so that we know where he stands. This is a fact that Abakari has worked on very, very well. It's just an unfortunate fact. We did this tenure at not only the idea of hierarchy of a young police, even he's at a SARS in yours. He worked it pretty well. But it's just one of the things that so happened that you find yourself in this issue. Let's do for the investigation when they're set up by the IG and for them to come out with a result. Okay, Miss, I want to, while we also look at security matters, we see on the punch news paper the story about DSS keeping four of Igbo's aides and producing aides and also assaulting journalists in court. I don't know if you saw snippets of that video yesterday. And there was also a slight confusion in the court when the aides that were produced, the names of those aides were different from the ones that were arrested. This was something that the court pointed out to say there's a bit of discrepancy in there. And the court even went on to call them names, so to speak, saying that this just reeks of negligence in the DSS. How do you come in regarding this story? First and foremost, I'm very much interested in and enraged what is enraged by the way DSS is doing their job. I don't know why they were in court to present suspects. That is their own job. The job of a journalist, our job is to report the proceeding. Why would DSS be stopping journalists from reporting and stopping the functioning in court? The chairman of the yesterday issued a press statement where the UJ condemned the activities of DSS. I don't know the kind of officers that have in the first days. These are guys that are just taking the laws into their hands. They don't obey the laws. They don't do the right thing. Journalists, you want to get attacked. What is wrong in doing this? Is there anything that is wrong? It's not for them to come to report. It is even for credit that they are there to report. So I was shocked by what I saw. Some of the things that we saw and some of our members were I don't know what to do. But I think the hierarchy of the DSS should call their officers or their boys to order. This is not how to go about it. This is not how to do this. You just take the laws into your hands. You are working with DSS. It doesn't mean that you are both the law. They are Nigerian. Journalists are also Nigerian. All of us have interests. It is our duty as journalists to repulse the proceedings and report to Nigerians. Every 200 million Nigerians can be at the court at the same time. So they are just few and they have to report. I think the court can hand you that. Don't forget that the initial SSKB had to have sent it back to them. Now it's the initial they brought for. This time around they brought it. What happened to the other suspects as well? But within the next few days, you see how it goes. Isn't this like a constant disregard for the court? It feels like the DSS continues to disrespect the ranking of the judiciary every time that they fail to bring a suspect to court. Same thing happened with Namdekanu. And now also you're bringing people whose names don't comply with those who were arrested. You're bringing eight instead of 12. And it feels like they've continued to disregard the authorities of the court and disregard everything that has to do with the judiciary because they do as they like and then the cases are adjourned and then they take their time and just continue to drag the case for that long. Why do you think this is happening and why do you think there is this constant disregard for the Nigerian court? It brings us back to what I said initially, the issue of leadership. DSS have less primary responsibilities which is to maintain a high-law security within the country. They are the spy agents that we should know. They are to be here. They are not able to be seen. They despise what DSS and SSS used to be. You don't see SSS and DSS cameras and the rest of them. This is the secret agent that we are so revered and prepared in the past. Now you see them wearing their shirts. DSS, we're going everywhere. At parties, you see them following VIPs and the rest of them. That is not the bottom up of DSS and DSS that we know. The DSS is a very secretive that goes down, do a lot of investigation and come up with results. You don't see them. But these days DSS and we want to provide no air and air coverage. That is not the decision. I think they should go back to what they are supposed to do. They ask for me, they expect the DSS to see the police, to go to fish and most of these that are going out, I'm picking up a today's arrest. I'm not, you know, Mr. Wander Sims are losing you there. Yes, we say we are arresting the judges rescue forces. So how do you expect them to let them go? I think they just should call them to know that. And just with that, they are just saying, the primary responsibility of DSS is not what they are doing. That's the responsibility of bringing them to the attack. Obviously, the primary responsibility of police is not of the DSS. DSS is not what they are going to do. And they should respect them. Well, the time we have left, quickly also speak on Atahiro Jega saying that Nigerians should reject the APC and the PDP in the next elections. And of course the APC saying don't, you know, rope us in the same, you know, ties with the same rope with the PDP. Is this an add-on? We cannot do it. We cannot do it. That's a problem in us. In every kind of vote, we have done that. In a view, you have a concept and in a view, you know, you have the Democrats, other people. So it is this way and proper. They don't really can see that. They have to put it, when the new things must work, they are not the panel with the PDP and the PDP. To be able to present this and make it. And that is also an incredible point. My brother, if you feel that you are poor enough, I want to contest. Then you can vote for you. But if you don't, it has to go to lack. How much you pay to convert for vote, that's the issue. So it will be a tall order. But I don't think that's happening. Until we get to a point where we think that we are politically lighted enough, we know the difference. And the reason for us to alternative politicians under the issue continue to be the way. It's just an opportunity. The people that are around, and also now, going around the country and demonizing according to the others that will be contested in 2023. That is President Buhari tried it for about five times before he got the president. I don't think that's happening. Okay. So still what's still talking about 2023. There's a story on the Daily Independent that says, 2023 presidency, it's inevitable to make position known after APC convention. And they went on to say that the Bonilla Ketecha committee can be distracted. The talk and clamor for a Tinnable presidency has been on for a while. And we're having, you know, who are yet to see Tinnable come out to say something. But the APC has seen that after the convention would get clarity on whether or not he'll be running for president in 2023. But when we look at the internal crisis facing the party right now, the ward congresses and all of that. Do you think that the APC is a party that Nigerians have confidence to, you know, put their votes in? Every Nigerian has the right to ask the highest office in the land. Both you and myself. So is Tinnable, if he wants to contest, this is a contest. So is that for his party nominating and also for Nigerians to vote for him? But my challenge here is the immunity going on in the 80s. If you look at the court, the Supreme Court judgment on that Acreodulu case, it was four to three for Acreodulu. And the Supreme Court judges made a statement. If the interim chairman of APC Bonilla was added in that case, that APC would have lost that. What it means that, what a sense it was that the continue existence of that of the APC, the categorical chairman is wrong and is unconstitutional. It was said that no, no person can hold the office of, be the governor of his state, as well as the office of national chairman of a party. And that is why you saw what Oshiba tried to do. Where he tried to ensure that they postpone the congresses across Nigeria. But the AGF, Ambuni, who seems to be the hawk in the party said no, they should go ahead and give them some insight. The APC should be very, very careful. If they don't take their time, they'll be shocked that what happened is a farra, reverse, and so on. Also in Bayesa, we had lost blockchain relations due to internal crisis. It will be a shite play when the big picture comes out. Other parties are just in town and watch what is going on. And if this situation is not done properly, there will be serious trouble. That is why I think no, Oshiba will depress the earthquake country now. And other, so I think other parties should do the needful. Else, APC will be in serious trouble. Come to me today. Alright, Chris Wanda, thank you so much for your time this morning. Beautiful Tuesday. And thanks for your analysis. We look forward to speaking with you always. Thank you. Thank you very much. We do have a nice day. Absolutely. Time for today in history. After the break, I'm going to the year 1975 to tell you about a third war's air crash in history. And of course, I'll be going back to 1949 to talk about the NBA. For those who, of course, are celebrating 9 years and the Tigers and the Tigris this period, we'll talk about the NBA and how it started.