 Welcome back to the breakfast and plus severe Africa time for of the press We have G.D. Johnson joining the conversation this morning, and he will be Analyzing some of the top stories. Good morning G.D. Johnson Good morning messes in Mexico season Welcome back to the Friday beat. Thank you All over the world Merry Christmas Same thing we are in advance Thank you All right, so let's take a look at the daily independent newspaper this morning We're starting off with the bold caption We are in final phase of battle against terrorists Buhari is quoted Might just really explain why that attack happened yesterday, you know very close to the airport and the air force base He swept insurgents bomb my degree as president visits burnu Underneath the board caption away from that federal executive council Okay, 16 power projects at 31.36 billion era 65.61 million dollars 15.15 million pounds Away from that omicron federal federal governments may issue restrictions on gatherings Imposed cough use It's also another caption you find underneath below the paper 2022 polls You will find a bami deli declares for a kitty guba race And UAE suspends entry to arrivals from migrae, kenya to others Panicking the buja And environs as terrorists plan attack Gunmen abduct four worshipers inside taraba mox Commissioner dumps matawales cabinet and join hope uzo de mass government And song olu empowers 1786 farmers with 3.6 billion era now. This is some of the headlines on the daily independent newspaper Now to the punch newspapers Big one there says nis ones of foreign terror attacks as federal government heightens security Nigerian and Algerian terrorists on the way from mali to invader buja Planned can never work fct security network intact says god brigade Strategies in place to avert attacks no cause for alarm says immigration Also divorce we are probing possible hacking of olori Naomi's instagram page says the army's palace Okay, legos declares magudo invasion unwarranted vows to prosecute corporates And also on the punch x ns cdc commandant forfeits 60 buildings and land to federal government over corruption Reps deliberate on nyc fund firms may donate 1 profit And five killed as terrorists bomb medugary airport areas Airport area rather ahead of bohari's visit We can also find on the punch a can kicks as federal government limits religious gatherings to 50 percent And darkness looms as six power plants halt operations over gas shortage That's all on the punch this morning. All right. Let's take a look at the leadership newspaper president mohammed bohari promises to end insecurity as Explosion rocks medugary That's a bold caption for the leadership this morning says nigeria in final phase of war against terrorists 501 terrorist and police rescue 48 kidnap victims in kaduna now and ahead of the 2023 polls iBB endorses or seabed draw for president That's also another caption Christmas despite cash squeeze Nigerians flood markets and parks That's what you also find here an x ns cdc deputy commandant forfeits 60 houses to federal government And the palace falls rumors separation of oni and wife governor boni signs 163.9 billion a year 2022 budget into law now This is the headlines on the leadership newspaper this morning quickly on the guardian this morning oil spills hits 14 million liters as shells 800 billion hour judgment upsets industry darkness looms as gas shortage hits Jankos also Broadcast stations get february 17 deadline to renew licenses Covid 19 federal government's restricts religious gatherings to 50 capacity And also an ns cdc commandant forfeits 60 buildings and land to federal government A day to christmas food and transport hike dampened celebrations And police foil kidnap attempt of 48 people in kaduna Julia johnson. Good morning. And once again, thanks for joining us. Um, I guess we should kick off with the story from the federal capital territory with the nine joint immigration service warning of a possible attack On the fct by terrorists from mali. Um, and then the jerry public Let's start with that What was the best you to start except for us to start with the media issue That has always characterized the front pages of over the last 10 years of terror part is the issue security and insecurity Now the president on one hand Is saying that we are in the final phase Against terrorist yet the president visited my google corner state and they are bombast in resolution rather rocks my google situate that with another headline In the newspaper across the newspaper nis ones of foreign attacks And then situate that with what the abuja security network said that they are fully prepared to undo any security challenges that may rare of his head during this yellow tide period We don't need the sushi to tell us that at this particular point in time of the year when people know when non-state actors terrorist groups And all other People that want to ferment violence that will pursue their leaders or political ideology And this is the period they exploit to gain maximum attention and maximum impact In essence it calls for both security agencies and government to put their house in order in order to deal with the security threats to live and properties of people if we check Other climbs all we did do at this season it will raise The security art either to level one level two level three level four level five But we don't have any level in Nigeria They don't even tell us but i'm sure we are level five which is a critical critical state because Even the president cannot travel to any part of Nigeria without an advanced party and advanced security agencies not being mobilized to go and ensure that whichever species is going to use during his visit as secured so The the issue of security was one of the Particle factors that brought his government into power in 20 in 2015 Are we being able to address it? Are we playing politics with the life of the people are we We hear funds being i'm sure at the end of this administration A lot of this we come to light with respect to the resources that we have expended Providing security and in actresses whether we actually provided no security because on one hand for political point of view The president we see we are winning the war on the other hand We will see signals and evidences. I was watching the news yesterday where The emir of wassey said 50 percent of their of their of their land Has been taken over by terrorists 50 percent and I saw a lot of farmland destroyed now Um, whether they'll be foreign attacks or no foreign attacks When is war when um ices was decimated when they were decimated from Syria Iraq and iraq iraq in syria Um in toky and then in iraq they moved over To west africa now when they move over to west africa A lot of Analyst security analyst who raised issue concerning iswap gaining ground ahead of book warram What did we do we level it banditry we build on manners of the government did not come out to level them Terrorists and we have seen that in zamfara state in cardinal state Just two days ago all the islamic scholars in in animans in cardinal state Beckon on the president to declare a state of emergency in the north west and in the north east and particularly in Niger So the issue of insecurity It's a major problem facing us We have we are not in the final phase in actual says we we I don't think that we have a template of dealing with this particular This particular issue if after six years Of of these six years plus of this administration We are still talking about final phase. Tell me what's the template. Tell me. We have changed security. We have changed service teams We have changed service teams every now and then they are one form of attack or the other the president will command Does he because the Command or the directing of the president for the chief of army staff to do his job for the chief of defense staff to do His job No no eddies really look about two or three fridays ago. We spoke about the cardinal Cardinal Ads is where people are kidnapped one has been done concerning that effect Nothing. We just hear the story Business as usual. Nobody was held accountable. No Osiris Security security All right, let's move away from that now for the want of time omicron federal government may issue restrictions on gatherings And impose coffee. You also have the fact that the UAE has or suspense entry To arrivals from Nigeria and Kenyan to others. I'd like to share your thoughts on that. I mean, this is uh The festive period where we're in and of quarter beyond imposing restriction It is important for government to educate people through Assumption mobilization and awareness There's what we call in development communication ICM Campaign ICM is an accurate information information for eye education communication And mobilization When it comes to development communication those four prong approach enables you to achieve your goal when it comes to development Communication and health communication public health is under work In in communication stories not that development I have taken the vaccine I went out of my way this week to take the booster vaccine. I've taken the booster. I've taken three shots That's my social responsibility as One in israel two as a public commentator I can't come on screen and be talking about kovid without me showing a degree of responsibility What form of responsibility are public officials demonstrated across board what form of responsibility I've seen we serve and demonstrated across board What level of campaign is government doing to educate people on the basis of taking the kovid now? There's a misconception and there's a connect Respect to kovid. It's a global problem. It's a perceptual problem. And what's the perceptual problem is that Every team the public health officials have said They said something contrary. There's a free flock when it comes to you. Okay Stay shelter and don't have public entry. Okay. Let's have the lockdown to slow the spread seven days 15 days 15 days to six months use face masks if we do this if we do that take the vaccine You can't catch it. Yeah, people get people that have taken the vaccine At having kovid so government and public health officials Need to come straight and communicate with people because a lot of people have a lot of misconceptions with respect to it And I asked this question Does kovid respect time? I'm asking this question. Does he say that? Okay. You know what? I only come out in the morning. I'll not come out in the evening I'm asking Absolutely does he tell you that I'll come out in the morning. I'll not come out in the evening What what road or stuff you play? In mitigating against the spread Of kovid I'm asking this question. And one moment says, okay. We are going to place restrictions restrictions on people's gathering What measures are we placed to encourage people to take vaccine? What public health? Okay, if you take that restriction in people coming in buses in going to the market places And that's why you see time has kicked against government talking about Limiting gardens to 50% I said it's on tape. It's on record even in the age of kovid I've said from my own study as a researcher As a public commentator and as a journalist The way I have never seen where they've used lockdown to treat the pandemic is you isolate the city To keep them in the hospital you treat them and you allow Others to continue with their life. It is herd immunity That is used to deal with with them. There's no measure that has not been tried To deal with this particular issue with a benefit of insight Everyone will agree that what we are facing in terms of economic challenges globally in terms of inflation In terms of unemployment in terms of dislocation in terms of mental health Is as a result of the lockdown we went into last year and what role did lockdown Do in mitigating against the spread of kovid-19? Now we have a mikron There was an I think About two or three or four months ago. We had delta variant. I think there was the eastern city We had delta variant now we have which variant are we going to have next year and then Are we going to remain in a perpetual state of lockdown or a perpetual state of fear? And I've said it for me growing up I'm even mad at you Medical science does not pity does not take a position of fear Medical science always give up But for the very first time in my lifetime I have seen a situation whereby government officials and public health officials are promoting fears Science does not promote fear science give up everything about kovid-19 is about control fear And that's not medical science and has time to be challenged or collected on this There's no particular issue or challenges that you take to science that science does not give you But you know the size of kovid the size of kovid is fear All right jidya johnson lockdown and control Yeah, all right Let's go to politics. Yeah, now let's let's go to point. Let's go to another story on the punch is one. I found pretty interesting It says there got x nscdc commandant four feet 60 buildings And land to federal government over corruption Nothing we have nothing we happen. We just hear it on the bridge of newspaper This if one person will have 60 building one just one Who is the accountant? Who is the auditor? Who is the director of finance in the in in in that organization? Where that man Stole The amount of money is told to assist the building minus the one he wasted Minus the one he gave out as gifts He could not have stolen the money alone. Who are orders that join him? It's not possible for you to spend money on the public service Who are orders? Why isolate him? Who are other companies? So they would not say it on the page of newspaper people feature alone He should be brought the good answer to jail Just one agency And probably one office yet We are it's on record. It's on youtube What is it from day one? I have I have said it when people used to say this administration is fighting at deceiving yourself Really for we are fighting corruption on the pages of newspaper They will just feed us with stories and what have you this is the first time you see beauty from someone The first time has already You have not seen any civil servant being prosecuted in this particular case You investigate it or only who are those there's an auditor There is the due process act That talks about how you can release phone and how Contracts and public funds For the auditor the accountant The director of finance all those that get approving Osirugi Okay, the only fighting corruption on the pages of newspaper Let's go to politics. Osirugi, uh because he's getting interesting. There's a particular story That says ibp endorses um Osirugi for 2023. It's on the leadership That you cause with full effect In my stage, you know from Lincoln State and it recalls the full effect In in southwest part of Nigeria I've been endorsing Osirugi And then some people have gathered themselves together To say they will go to court to ensure that as well you contest the president's Using youth endlessly Which you have used endlessly acts for as you are just like well youth endlessly acts for abacha Use it your but just that sometimes you will think that we are fools in this country They don't they think that we don't have a sense of history. That's why they say this you don't teach history History in schools in schools in games so that they can fool they can they can fool us Well, it's not it's not left for those calling for Um As you are due to contest and now that he said he has accepted the responsibility of ibp to endorse To endorse um Osirugi It is left for us Nigerians to determine who should be who should be our president and come 2023 people should not wait for We should we are not looking for the lockdown president. Let people declare Let them declare their interests, but I'm told those are kept to listen. There's nobody in the history of Nigeria Nobody has ever become the president. I've been an aspiration to become the president. No, not even shagari Not even the ceremonial president in 1960 in 1963 Which is um namdi as equal he wanted to become a prime minister Not even shagari that wanted to become a senator not even of us or just that was that that went to the prison for them to To release him to come and contest the presidency Not even Jonathan not even Not even worry worry in twenty level worked or fully as that is not going to contest the presidency Until they form a pc and they went to bring it So we have always had the lockdown president the lockdown president president that are not history I've shown that those that are desperate for that position. They never get that position And they never get that position Let people declare their interests that they have interests or not not saying that oh, you know what Nigerians are asking for me using the bachastan or asking ibb Is ibb the best them Character to someone that truncated june 12 that recruited them to be the one that were endorsed So they know what they are doing the actors and players are the same and that's what I've told All Nigerians for them to understand this Don't kill yourself because apc or pdp It is the same set of power class that as we really know since independence that are still there. They are just changing their color over time Let's move to ikiti. You know in ikiti Reba medelio has declared his intention to run for the governor to run for the governor of um I watched it on tv and I saw 21 senators Following him to go and collect the form those 21 senators. I hope they can visit their respective states I hope those 21 senators will have taken And you'll have gone to meet the chief of army staff the chief of different staffs and talk about security challenges facing Nigeria What was the care about this political power and someone someone someone has asked me would there be a election in 2020? At 20 present there will be election in 2023. There will be peace. There will be crisis the political class the actors The non-state actors and the political class they work in tandem They will speak to one another there will be relative peace just like people said that there won't be election in anambra state We saw the election came and it was peaceful now in in in few months time Who have a transition to a new government by january in anambra state? That was the thing that that that that will Pave its the atmosphere in in 2023 in nigeria. Let me quickly end with this Is unfortunate that journalists are perpetuating illiteracy in this country Journalists and that's why there's a particular strand of study in media and communication study Which is comedial literacy now look at the way this newspaper both the editors and The editors and the journalists in this particular list I will mention in this one see the way they crafted this story It's not a new story. This is pure stunt Is that someone will lose? Empowers So lu empowers one thousand I'm coming one thousand seven hundred and eighty six farmers with three point six billionaire A big project is an appeals project a big project is a one bank federal government assisted and Participated state project. So it is not even legal state one A loom. It's a one-pound project under the hospice of the federal government And which is a program designed for women and youth and look at how this newspaper Crafted You don't say legal state government legal state government Empowers it is not it is not someone that's what they have that mdc chairman The right to steal public fund because the way we the narrative we give to issue is that anyone occupying public office Whatever it does Is doing it with its personal capacity What is Does this is not what is federal government of nigeria? Have you ever seen Federal government of nigeria if you want to say obama's administration There are trouble with how is administration someone lose administration Not someone lose This is the height of the literacy perpetuity And it's unfortunate And we are the one That build People in public office to become authoritarian to become despotic for them to have a first sense of image And they don't have and that's why we have seen people when they leave public service. They become irrelevant Because they are given a first sense of identity which they don't have They become irrelevant. We are the governors. We are the class of 1999 governors. We are the class of 2007 The moment they leave office they become irrelevant And I don't know those that care to listen and all their managers and people managing them Why do you bother yourself in post putting your images of public of public of public information material? Is this state government this state has a local task You don't need to put your images because just a matter of time whether it's four or eight years your images will be irrelevant I keep asking you this. Where is the image of embody? Where is the image of Tinungu? Where is the image of Fashola? Where is that of Jonathan? Where is that of a person job? And we must as journalists as the watchdog. There is a consumer responsibility placed on us one He said section 22 of 1999 consumer as amended said the media shall be the watchdog of the society And shall all government accountable At all times is this accountability? This is irresponsibility It's not something we do It is legal state government And that's the way the story should be written. Yeah, june johnson quickly. Let's let's get you to also share Something from the guardian this morning is at the bottom of the guardian. It says a day to christmas Food and transport hike dampened celebration. So just you know, you can wrap up. We're talking about 2021's christmas celebrations Across nigeria. It doesn't seem like it's you know, the best one And just to add, you know, because there's another narrative on you know, the leadership that says that Despite cash quiz nigerians flawed markets and parks. So I mean whose report do we believe? Well, you know, whichever way People will always make time to celebrate the the season they will go out of their way. Some will get loans Some will get Largies from family and friends. I'm sure you have received a lot of text messages Because they see you on the screen and they think you have all the money in the world Um on family and friends for you to ask me smiling So and so basically people will still try to to make their children and their family happy They will go out of out of their way for this particular for this particular season Well, we knew quite all right that one The lockdown created a dislocation and a disruption of society Disrupted the economy. We knew this 2021. We are going to face inflation to In nigeria to domesticate it apart from facing the disruption of cobit 19 We are the disruptions of farmers edas clash and the growth of banditry but which I call terrorism in nigeria and Which would ultimately affect production of foods and any nation that can offer it itself Is is facing the major security talent in fact food is seen as a security as a security as a security So challenges are facing now. We've been more in 2022 All the factors are there There's a principle that got established. I'm a Christian by faith. There's a principle God established he said as long as the earth remains see time And I best time Shall not see at least to to call that law law of course and effect He called it law of course and effect see time and I best time Whatever you do you want to have an effect. You must be committed to a cause What causes are we taking to address the issue of destruction of farmlands to address the issue of disruption of Of of of the society as a result of the lockdown with people not going to work What effect what cause are we taking to when government was popping too much money through traders money through parity through without Engaging in giving people for productive issues and they said they are going to remove them Oil subsidy in 2023 and they are going to give 5,000 naira To 40 million poor nitiners where they got that figure from only god So when you don't have a constructive policy to deal with the issue caused by the destruction of the coveted 19 pandemic and your internal problem of farmers eddard's clash insecurity Banditry and the rest of it then you have the challenges that we are facing we are facing And I have not seen any step that government are sticking to address this. I'm not a prophet of doom Um Something that happened in the day of Elijah might happen in Nigeria But if you look good by natural cause the effect in 2023 will be food will become more expensive The inflation will be on the increase Because the inflation will be on the increase because government is making periods attempt to inject more money Into the economy giving money to the people and when you have too much money pursuing few goods prices We we we we rise and government is also imposing we impose taxation taxation different form of taxation and labors on the people in 2023 and that's What hopefully Joy comes with the christmas season. We hope the joy of the christmas season We come on all our public officials and they will do the writing at the right time. You guys are looking beautiful Thank you Guys are looking. I wish you merry christmas same day johnson happy happy see you on the 30 on the 31st As we wrap up the year in view. Absolutely. Thank you very much for your time. Enjoy all of this. Enjoy all of this Thank you gd johnson. We're appreciate Uh, thanks, uh, of course for staying with us so far. Uh, that was of course off the press We'll take a short break. We'll move to of course sharing with you what happened on this day the 24th of december many many years ago Today's history will be back