 Welcome back. We have Tunde Kolawale, a regular guest analyst and author, standing by to do justice to the headlines on the front pages of the National Dailies. Mr. Kolawale, good morning to you. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you for having me. All right, all right. We'll start things off this morning by looking at stories coming on the front page of the leadership newspaper. There's quite a colorful one, colorful one this morning with some infographics on the ongoing ASUS strike. It makes for a good read. But the big story on the front page of the leadership is about the ongoing nationwide protests by Labour. And it says that nationwide protests, Labour gives FG two weeks to meet ASUS demands. Labour gives FG two weeks to meet ASUS demand. It says failure will attract serious actions from workers, holds mega rally in Abuja today. Nothing youth declare support for the NLC. Governors urge prompt resolution of crisis decry applied to students. Of course, at the different state chapters of the NLC, the Governors were presented with the demands of the NLC that, you know, talk about the ASUS ongoing ASUS strike. More from the leadership this morning at the top of that front page. My ability is not centered around spikes. Moussa replies, Michael Johnson. So some controversy regarding her breaking of that world record and the statements are coming from a American athlete rather, Michael Johnson. Terrorists ambush. Military confirms three casualties. There were some reports that said eight soldiers died. One lieutenant, one captain and six officers. But what we hear from the military, they're saying three persons died. Also yesterday, the Kogi State Governor confirmed some deaths after he mourned in a statement some of the soldiers who came from his state. Restructured death to avoid default. IMF warns Nigeria others. Restructured death to avoid default. IMF warns Nigeria others. PMB6 confirmation of acting CJN for CBN director's 19 INEC nominees. I think we should say 19 INEC commissioner, resident electoral commissioners nominee. We have commissioner nominees. We have 66 persons kidnapped in Kaduna, Zamfara. DSS issued 44 reports on Kuja prison attack. Wase, this is quite interesting. 44 good reports on Kuja prison attack. Nothing was done to stop it. That was enough to stop it. No plan to impeach Baja Biamila over controversial water resources bill. Reps is one to watch. This is some of the stories coming on the front page of the leadership this morning. Let's go next to the daily trust newspaper. It has also its own set of infographics. This time a weekly update on the continuous water registration exercise by the independent national electoral commission. It's quite interesting to see. The figure there is 11 million 11,119. But to the stories, the big one on the front page. 2023, North lags behind as water registration ends in four days. North lags behind as water registration ends in four days. The writer said that story. Delta rivers register more people than Sakato, Niger, Katsina. Lagos Kano Delta top chart. Imo Yubei, Akiti lowest. Insecurity disenchantment responsible done activists. So those who are saying that making that statement. More from the daily trust, ASU, FG. ASU, FG knocked as NLC status stages, solidarity protests in states. No immediate resolution. Soviation crisis. This has come from the minister and the airlines. Bandit scale six in Teraba, Katsina abduct 36 in Kaduna. DSS presented 44 security reports before the Kujie prison attack. Deputy speaker. Kari six confirmation of CJN, 19 others. Yaga partners media trust on election debate. And it says terrorists plotting to attack Lagos FCT others. NSCDC schools, worship centers, national assets targeted. Of course, NSCDC were named. That's the ones who came out with that. And that led to the deployment of the guards of Brigade of Guards officials to the entry and exit points in Abuja. Of course resulted in that shootout between the guards and the terrorists. Let's go to the next protocol. This time it's a nation. The nation also has its set of stories. A picture there, depicting or showing what happened yesterday of the nationwide protest by the Nigeria Labour Congress in solidarity with ASU. And the big story, they're looking at the attack on the Brigade of Guards. The headline there, two officers, six soldiers killed in attack on presidential guards. This is a departure from what the leadership newspaper quoted the military as saying. So they're saying two officers, six soldiers killed in attack on presidential guards. That means eight, as opposed to what the military said was three. More from the nation. Buhari seeks confirmation of acting CJ in 19 recs. Train attack victim, 100 million Naira paid for my freedom. 100 million Naira paid for my freedom. I think we need to do a calculation of how much has been paid so far by the victims or families of the victims of the train abductions. Access could account down from $35 million to $376,655. I had to pause there because I wasn't sure if I was seeing it well. Access could account down from $35 million to $376,655. Insecurity, food prices could double. Farmers warn. Vacity strike. Act fast to vet unrest. Labor tells federal government some stories on the front page of the nation. Another interesting one at the bottom of that front page. Reps move to bar CBN governor, deputy from politics and APC leaders, Morn Nelson. All right, those are the headlines on the front page of the nation. So let's move over quickly to the last paper for this morning. This happens to be the punch. And the punch, of course, also, like the nation gives the graphic space on its front page to the ongoing Nigeria Labor Congress national protest, the nation-wide protest. And of course, the big story on the front page this time, they go with terrorism. ISWA plots massive attacks in Lagos, Kaduna, others. Security alert in the FCT. Call to bar venue. Changed. I made fear of attack. This is the call to bar. This is what happens for those who are newly, the new lawyers. Kaduna community is invaded. Troops patrol Abuja's police allay fears. Accounts for $1 billion security fund. Governor Otam knocks federal government over attacks. ASU, Labor threatens to shut down the economy. And the other top of that front page, FX crisis, made in Nigeria products for 27% to $7.4 trillion. Details on the page 18 of the punch newspaper. No immediate solution to evasion sector crisis FG. A mafia house to bar CBN chiefs from politics. Subsidy. Lawmakers to probe Jonathan's administration. Passeny planning Bajabiamila's sack over water resources bill. Nigeria graduates working as Canadian guards. Killed. Identified. Very sad one there. Passengers tackle bribe seeking ocean policeman. Law graduate batted. Muslim Muslim ticket. Teenable begins consultation. Can denies knowledge. All the thought would have been done with the talk of that. But this week, the pages of these papers cannot escape some coverage of the Muslim Muslim ticket. And finally from the punch. Fuck allocation rises 18%. FG states share 802 billion narrative. Those are the headlines on the front page of the nation of the punch. New super. Let's bring in Tunde Kolovali at this point. And Barca Kolovali, it's very interesting to see the disparity in the figures coming, the casualty figures after the attack or the shootout between terrorists and apparatus of the brigade of guards in a Bujan Bwari area council. The nation is surprised, as indeed all the papers have stated, saying eight officers or two officers, six soldiers, meaning eight members of the guard brigade, a captain, a lieutenant and six soldiers. Whilst the leadership disrepair is caught in the military is saying for now, we have three casualties. What do you make of this? Well, we're going to, whether it is the eight casualties or three casualties that is put up or the major army have recorded, it doesn't really make a difference. Human life is human life. A single life, when we both can be equated to a thousand lives that has been lost. So, I want to say, these young people who have lost their life, some of them are parents, they have wives, they have children, again also relations and friends, who will never get to see them again or benefit from whatever that is going to surrender to them. Secondly, the attack on the Brigade of Guards is a natural on the Nigerian nation. The Brigade of Guards is an elite group that not only protects the presidency, but that are also, when the kids are really down, when there are serious problems, when the nation captures all the presidency or the state of Guards, we don't have speech. That is when the Brigade of Guards are brought out to confront whoever is in motion the attack on the State of Government or the symbol of the Nigerian nation. From here we see a situation in which on a real-time basis, on a casual basis, without any remorse, plenty of audacity and infinity, the bandits who go and attack the Brigade of Guards or ambush the Brigade of Guards, not like they have attacked the Nigerian defense academy in Kaduna and then the Nigerian Air Force leaders in the past in short staff. What this tells us is that this is what does happen between the two. It should appear to me that it is on the agenda that are in action and that they are being prepared everywhere in Nigeria, such that they are not the ones choosing the path to do, choosing the path to life and dictating the work force that is going to be used in their confrontation with the Nigerian nation. So, the national security advisor, the police, the theater, the national, I mean, the people that are called immigration are no matter of security or matter that we have in this country. They are required to wake up, to confront this divisive element who are helping on the side of the Nigerian nation and it is doable. If only we would encourage these young people, if only the Nigerian people would stop cooperating with the theater. If only we want this information for the security people to do their job when necessary. And then I also want to say kudos to the GSS and also to the civil defense force because these people can only be seen and not heard. Most times, some of us criticize them in very, very harsh manners that there is not the life of their responsibilities. But here you have to learn from the deputies because they are program. Telling us that more than 44 reports were reported to the people in power, to the prison people and to all manners of the department of government that one attack or the other are imminent. But in a convoy or in a very casual manner, those issues will short and those issues will force the attack waste to see and the consequences of what you have seen that happen. Thank you very much. It's also worthy to know that the reports say that about 13 of the soldiers or let's just say some because we have for conflicting figures right now. Some of the soldiers are missing in action and the military has launched a hunt for them or to try and rescue operation for them. I would like to, I mean you've talked about the national security and civil defense and the security alert they issued for the FCT. They've talked about the fact that we have schools and worship centers and national assets being targeted in the federal capital territory. This is here talking about the NSCDC. And also linked to this is the deputy speaker of the House of Reps saying that the Department of State Services presented 44 security reports before the Kuja prison attack. I think we can talk about this but the benefit of hindsight, yeah. And this is as indicated in the Daily Trust newspaper this morning. The first thing that happened is that most times some of these departments of state will do their jobs in the military but those who should take action with respect to whatever information these people may have given them will return, they will not do it. It's the least that those organizations are just trying to do. Here they are, it's not. A man or woman, I'm talking from Waterloo, from other parts of the world, where they are going to continue security breaches. The American CIA, the FBI and the police, we could hear it at the lab. And we'll find out the political authorities and the security agencies who are responsible for the protection of the areas that are left as they live in the attack will swing into action. But here in Nigeria, it is business as it is. We are never bothered. It's a reflection of our attitude to some of these very serious fundamental issues. I have been telling people that the reason why Nigeria has also nothing left to provide ourselves with electricity is because of our kapa'ia manner, our approach to some of these issues. When somebody is putting out of the plan and they leave the plan on the weekend to attend a daily ceremony, a period ceremony, a marriage ceremony, then if the plan has a problem, when it's not there, the electricity supply is short-term. This is what some of these security agencies do. You see some of them, most time, when the police report on the patrol, Nigeria has been alert and attentive to whether they are going to attack them. You see some of them swing granades. You see some of them catching instead of being at a lab. So, with me, I think if what the deputy speaker, the answer of this is true, there is a need for a massive check-up in most of these security agencies. Those security agencies, the whole Nigerian environment has been secreted by the PRG. And they tell me back on the massive porch, we might not be able to get on top of this security. If it's not impossible, that people will see the security of cars. There are the individuals, there are financial provocateurs who are giving reports to the security of the movement of the security of cars, as some of these other security people are aware of are there. So, we require to have mayors or mayors of security, the structures you see, the local government should provide security, the communities, the different communities in Nigeria should organize their own security. So, complement the regular security that we have in the police, we have in the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and all these other security agencies. The more important thing, giving information to the security people is paramount. Without information, the security people are not secure. They are not secure. They are not able to put some sand on the ground and begin to reach where security places will occur in the country as large as Nigeria, with a population of about 200 million people. All right. Thank you very much. We look at more of these stories. The one that made me pause to actually be sure I was on the front page of the nation newspaper, happens to be the shocking depletion of the excess good account. $35 million down to $376,655. Not even up to $500,000. Maybe those who will be shocked at this like I am are overreacting. What do you say to this? It is surprising to me if you will remember there was a time somebody attacked the CDN governor. I think the president broke into his telephone conversation or whatever. He got the information and with the CDN governor was touched or was touched by the president who was raising an alarm that the foreign exchange holding of the people has a bad day to people and that he doesn't know I am going to be able to manage the foreign exchange and also the major economy and of course to the acting account and general we go a lot of New Zealand that we were borrowing money to pay federal security salary. In the past two I think it was the governor who raised an alarm that the New Zealand foreign exchange holding has a bad day to people and that the country has come back and we are merely printing myra notes to spend. So when you look at all these things and then you let me tell you that the comments of my brothers which is all those things due to Covid-19 which showed that the economy is the most part of the war due to the war that is going on in Ukraine and then the performance of the myra currencies around the world like the dollar, like the euro like the pan-starling all these are indicators that are falling the same as the bad news because it is when you match your falling the same order which your myra is calculation that would determine the risk at which your own currency all your myra would think for some of these currencies. What we have in our hands is the consequence of the complicated because if we are not the complicated if we are including the management of our resources we are also not the generated so this level remember when the passenger was back when the country where I was there they went around the whole world to solicit for their forgiveness they also pay the debt and the general debt was a white rock we started on the green split we immediately took over and then we went back to the state of cool we started borrowing from the right center and the people started drawing it out here and borrowing is a virtue and as we are asking if borrowing is a virtue if the IMF the world bank impose very strict measure on countries that are able to meet their financial obligations on countries that go that follow it why is it that the value of the currency of countries that go goes down so it is a political class that we should blame for some of these people they have not managed or let's say the country they have not managed so they are very soon and much not what I am saying very very soon most essential medicines will disappear from the power state most essential daily items like sugar repair and all sorts of condiments this will be something will disappear from the supermarket shop and then we will go back to the state of cool start like a witness during the war years now we have to go to some special government to listen to cure for sugar to cure for milk to cure for baby food we are in general trouble multiply the hours to that the country is not employing the default in the same way on pensionary salaries on the worker salaries that is prevalent all over the state it is a miracle to be able to get out of this problem and sadly God has left this miracle of people who are not good or people who are prodigal which is something that has been given to them by God I don't know whether we should add a prophet to your name because you sounded like a prophet of doom prophet of doom we hope we don't get back to the days of having to cure for bread, milk and sugar we have seen this in Venezuela may God save us we have seen this in Venezuela in other countries like that may God help us talking about the central bank of Nigeria you linked the situation where the excess could account to economic micro-economic issues you talked about the efforts and difficulties faced by the economy and what the central bank of Nigeria is doing on the front page of the nation just at the bottom of that front page we look at the move by the House of Representatives to bar the government and the central bank of Nigeria from politics what I thought on this is suspected or rumored involvement or ambition to be the flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress for 2023 elections of course it's fresh in the memory of a lot of people including yourselves. Do you think this move by the House of Reps is necessary? Do you think that his performance as CBN Governor is affected by his political ambitions? Honestly speaking what the CBN the President of CBN Governor was unless you are trying to do to participate or run for the President of Nigeria without force designing as the CBN Governor is very very strange if you don't know in Nigeria that that kind of a thing would happen is like the Chancellor of Asia in the UK trying to apply for the President of the city without force meeting with office or the Treasury Secretary in the U.S. trying to apply for the I.S. office in the U.S. without force designing from you know our job and when they don't do that there has been no sanction from the authorities who should sanction the CBN Governor the CBN are the Governor but the CBN I mean the Nigeria has a little you know, you have the President there and you also have the Senate that would usually combat the appointment of the CBN Governor so in the CBN Governor as well as in the writing any of his authority that has mentioned are in the position to discipline him not to equal track him and then to the out-of-air decision that we talked about and also you know that making the law banning the CBN Governor from participating in politics is a very superfluous move there is no exception in the CBN today and the constitution of Nigeria tries at a situation in which the CBN Governor would come out of public to start fraternizing or participating in politics where was the former CBN on against that the allegation against it was that it was uprobing with certain politicians and based on that it would be equal to the appointment why is it that what is good for all the things is much not good now for me personally the law is very sacrosan the only business or activity that any CBN Governor that anybody in the position of the CBN Governor can participate in without the knowledge and department is farming is farming this is my business and what I do they are trying to start immediately showing friends in those areas so if a health problem now decides to again make a law like running sooner than later our laws will come like a necrophilia and become very unwieldy for it to be made because this time we have to internalize our way we want to make a law to stop that machine when we naturalize nations are not governed by laws they know presidents are there politicians are there the court is there practices of the people are there presidents are there here the new mechanisms are also instruments to ensure that people want to go and play and break news and compare that's my thinking of that we don't need another law before the CBN Governor can be stopped for breaking the policies or before he can reform it to train the politicians using the nature to reform this to power in conditions interesting, very interesting indeed on the front page of the punch new surprise we read out REFs deny planning by Jabia Mila Sack over the water bill is the way the paper put it what the surprise thing is REFs has resolved to investigate an impeachment report we saw those reports in some papers yesterday of the speaker allegedly moved by some lawmakers especially from the north over the consideration and passage of the controversial national water resources bill the city sources closed press conference held to dismiss a media report which claimed that some of the lawmakers pushing for the passage of the bill were threatening the speaker with impeachment so the leaders of the main caucuses as well as the spokesman for the lower chamber the paper says jointly signed jointly held rather press conference after the plenary on Tuesday to debunk this it's not going to happen it's nothing like that I don't think in reputable newspaper or media we don't cook up a story of that magnitude that there are a plan to impeach Mr. Sack because he has me now he was supposed to be an obstacle to approach the passage of the water resources bill that he presented before the National Assembly most times well-positioned want-to-slacked jobs you don't have come at all for me to say the way he collects that when Mr. Sack collected was going to become the 10th president the plots were hatched at night and most of the people who were mobilizing and who were going to vote for him practically fled in the from the National Assembly like Mr. Sack Mr. Sack that he fled inside the Sack for him to be able to enter the National Assembly very early in the morning and then to secure the mail that he did not carry the weight to proceed he's becoming the 10th president you have almost the time to start the number when there are a few more you are starting to go to the beach how the legislator who wrote some effective outings and sketched the first of the National Assembly so they could get into the how those things are to process whatever impeachment procedures certain persons might be planning of course we also remember how Mr. Gage solved and he solved the how those things were the 10th so I thought the 10th so I'm not sure that the proceedings of that then is a truncated shall we leave it to the fact if the National Party indeed certain persons are set free to pass into law the water and as this is the tree Mr. Fakati Amina as an obstacle they will get rid of them the question to now ask is what is so important in this water the process still that certain people and certain persons and from the circumstances of the country are set free to make sure that there is no passing to law what is done, what is operation and what is on ground now I suspect that there are similar what is to make sure that this bill is passing to law you will know the collective this bill has been presented also in the National Assembly or in the House of Representatives and the whole of Nigeria speaking to me as an example show this bill for this time this bill is short term if it is correct again then take it to the National Assembly to be passing to law let a lot in Nigeria that a lot of Nigeria is passing the water resources into law if you do not be like when don't need the military don't need the air of the water it pass a law that all 15 meters by the ocean side in all the state and region where there is an ocean will belong to the Federal Government and if it is in that degree what made the air life in the military and the air life in the people's workplace when there started a jacket all the land that existed to the ocean and made the people to allocate those parts of land to themselves that was when Osborn and some of these other parts of Nigeria became the parcimonies of the few Nigeria in their life the second thing Nigeria is saying when the water resources is passing to law it should not be possible for certain people to apply the certain river certain river certain places where water is very low that could easily reach to be allocated to there like the one where are located in the Niger Delta shorter when the air life is at fire don't reach water resources there they corner it and then they develop it and then they begin to sell the water for the Nigerian people and then they have in time to make ends meet and those things are made to remember the people like Jarosha one of the first Zillonea this is not the first one that Nigeria had was mainly selling water before it became a Zillonea that was his boss he had a ball hole on Lagos Island and water too and was selling water to people that turned into a Zillonea overnight so if the water resources become too low the federal government will not only attack all the waterways and it turns around in the future will also begin to apply but the federal government starting water resources area like tools, like jam like liver be allocated to them just like they do get the railway to them to Zillonea in that quality of a night the dangers are too many the whole of Nigeria should rise up once again to speak up and shoot down these water resources that they want to impose on all of us it is like Ruga they want to make a Ruga 200 in power national night we know they tried to get the Ruga to pass into law in which thousand areas in the country will be here much for certain pastorally not that the quality of those pastorally to acquire land to buy land and build a market like it is done in some other parts of the world quite interesting analysis from you to the Kola Walea you brought up the Ruga issue again let's see how what you are simply saying is there is no smoke without fire you know buying what they are saying in that press conference it has been quite interesting so many other papers to look at we have not had the time to talk about Muslim ticket in the consultations by Shirwajibola Matinwukhan who would have you the next time we have you there may be more developments I want to thank you very much for your time sir and for your expert analysis thank you very much same to you alright still ahead two days of nationwide protests by the Nigerian Labour Congress continues today the union has said that if the federal government does not cede to the demands of ASU they will be back on a three day strike we will discuss this ahead on the program stay with us