 Experts in the global export business have said that the success of Nigeria's local export business in the 21st century will be determined by digital marketing operations. On the breakfast this morning we will also talk sports, analysing the situation in the Chelsea Football Club and also the Super Falcons and the Jenny in the United States of America. Have a look and analysis of the biggest stories on the front pages of today's national dairies all this ahead on the breakfast this morning. Very good morning to you, we're back with the breakfast and plus TV Advocates, a beautiful Friday morning we're reaching you live from our studios on Victoria Island Legos. My name is Kofi Bartels riding solo this morning and of course we start with a top trending segment where Queen Elizabeth II has passed on at the age of 96 with the Charles becoming King. Of course a very unexpected news and of course the Queen just about three days ago was with then incoming British Prime Minister Liz Truss. She was on the feet, the official picture released by the royal family showed her on her feet with a walking stick and many did not expect that Queen Elizabeth II as you are seeing on your screens will be no more in just two days time. She is the UK's longest serving monarch and she died at Balmoral age 96 after reigning for 70 years. She according to royal palace or royal family sources died peacefully on Thursday afternoon at her Scottish estate where she had spent much of the sum of the Queen came to the throne in 1952 and witnessed enormous social change. Of course her son Prince Charles now becomes King Charles III and he said the death of his beloved mother was a moment of great sadness those were his words for him and his family and that her loss would be deeply felt around the world indeed this is a moment of great sadness that's not just for the royal family and you know her close family but indeed the British people and the world at large. We'll take a short short short documentary and we'll put something together just to you know remember the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II. 1948 and who now succeeds her to the death of Queen Elizabeth II has been announced bringing to an end the longest reign of any British monarch. Born on April 21st 1926 the princess had never expected to ascend to the throne but after her uncorking Edward VIII fabricated in 1936 the crown passed to her father George VI. My hair I, whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service and to the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. Tragic news. She was just 25 when she became Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 on the death of her father. And following by the heavily veiled grieving figures. She was crowned the next year at Westminster Abbey. Winston Churchill was the first of her 15 prime ministers and during her 70 year reign there were 14 US presidents. The young Queen Elizabeth spent much of the early years saying farewell to the British Empire amassed by her forebears from Kenya to Hong Kong to Barbados. However, she remained the monarch of 15 countries and head of the Commonwealth. Her own personal union to Prince Philip stayed solid for 74 years until his death in April 2021. The couple had four children beginning with Charles who was born in 1948 and who now succeeds her to the throne. The Queen's life became one of public duty attending thousands of official engagements across the globe. She was loved and respected by many. Millions turned out to celebrate her 70th year on the throne in June 2022. The Queen herself had to step back from some of the partying due to recurring health problems. Commentators agreed that she came across as a dignified, down-to-earth and witty woman. Critics said she was too solemn and distant. A woman recognised by millions but known by hardly anyone. Away from her public duties, horse racing and her beloved corgis were lifelong passions. As was the outdoors, like her estate at Balmoral in Scotland, where she was more at home in tweeds than tiaras. 1992. Her reign was rarely plain sailing. The 40th anniversary of her accession was a year that she famously described as one of disaster and misfortune. It has turned out to be an endless horribilice. Three of her four children's marriages had failed and there was a major fire at her Windsor Castle royal residence. The death of Charles's ex-wife Princess Diana in 1997 was even more harmful to the family's public prestige. As your Queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart, first I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In years later, some of the damage was repaired by events like the marriage of her grandson, William, to commoner Kate Middleton in 2011, watched by billions around the world. But with Queen Elizabeth's death, the monarchies futures likely to face scrutiny like never before. Polls suggest Charles will be a far less popular British monarch and there are other challenges. Prince Harry and his American wife, Meghan, giving up their royal duties and made accusations of racism has robbed the institution of two of its most popular global figures. And the US sex abuse lawsuit against Prince Andrew, which he paid to settle while admitting no wrongdoing, also left its mark. The death of Britain's Queen Elizabeth finally hands on the duties and heavy responsibility of the monarchy, a task to which she devoted her own life to maintain its popularity in the face of seismic, political, social and cultural change. Right, of course, a life in times of Queen Elizabeth II or passed on at the age of 96 and of course her family released a statement, royal family released a statement. Also, now King Charles released a statement saying that he mourned profoundly the passing of a cherished sovereign and a much loved mother. I know her loss will be deeply felt throughout the country, the realms of the Commonwealth and countless people around the world and this will be the case. You know, I mean, of course, some people have also said that Queen Elizabeth lived a long life, very long life indeed and this is just a celebration of life passing. Of course, you have the processes that will be adhered to and will be followed by the royal family, the British public, and these have been announced, I'm sure they've been preparing for this day for quite some years, so they'll just put these into motion. So now Prince Charles becomes King Charles III and his wife, Camilla Parker Bowles, now becomes the Queen Consort and they will return to London on Friday to Buckingham Palace. This is what we've been told and he, as the new King, is expected to address the entire nation, the British nation today, Friday. I'm sure they've been getting ready for this moment for quite some time, but still the pain and the hurt will be there. They've become used, even more used to the presence of a Queen, the Queen, their mother, even as the entire world has become used to the presence of the Queen constantly being there. All right, now senior royals, we told at Canada at Balmoral where the Queen passed on after the Queen's doctors became concerned about her health rather early in the day. All the Queen's children travelled to Balmoral near Aberdeen, that's in Scotland, after doctors placed the Queen under medical supervision. Her grandson and now heir to the throne Prince William and his brother Prince Harry had also gathered theirs, good to see that he's back in the UK on royal duties. Now, how about Liz Strauss, the new Prime Minister? Now, she was appointed by the Queen just on Tuesday, you know, just on Tuesday and the picture is a match of the Queen on her feet, shaking hands with Liz Strauss, which is quite remarkable at such an ripe old age. Well, Liz Strauss said the monarch was a rock on which modern Britain was built who had provided us, it is her words, code provided us with stability and the strength that we needed. All right, and of course what is Prince Charles, what is she saying about King, the new King Charles? She said, quote, we offer him our loyalty and devotion, just as his mother devoted so much to so many for so long. Apart from her, the archbishop, the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who is quite known to Nigerians because he spent some time of his ministry in this country, he's a spiritual leader of the Church of England of which the monarch and his Supreme Governor express his profound sadness. He said that his prayers are with the King and the royal family. Of course, I mean, Queen Elizabeth Stena spent a long time in a post-war austerity, the transition from being an empire to the Commonwealth, of course a lot of nations lower the Union jack and then, you know, raise their old flags, this referring to their independence. And she saw that period and transition from, of most countries from being colonies of the British Empire to being independent countries. And that meant moving from an empire status to the Commonwealth. He also was around and saw the end of a Cold War, the UK's entry into the European Union and the UK's withdrawal from the European Union, what we now know as Brexit. She was Queen over 15 Prime Ministers and you see in that picture there where she welcomed Lee's trust just two days ago. She oversaw 15 Prime Ministers starting with Winston Churchill, believe it or not, who was born in 1874 and also including Miss Truss, who was born 101 years later than Winston Churchill was born in 1975. Quite, quite some time. She held weekly audiences with her Prime Ministers, Ministers throughout her reign, weekly audiences with her Prime Ministers throughout her reign. Now at Buckingham Palace in London we told crowds of waiting, updates on the Queen's condition began crying as they heard of her death. And of course the Union flag on top of the palace was lowered to half-master. 830 British Standard Time and an official notice announcing her death was posted outside. Yesterday we had football matches involving two British teams, Arsenal Football Club and Manchester United Football Club, both British football institutions and in the UEFA Europa League. For Arsenal it was during their match that the announcement was made that the Queen officially had passed at the ripe old age of 96 and at halftime before the beginning of the second half the Arsenal players and the players of the opposing team FC Zurich had to gather around the centre-circle for a brief moment of silence and I'm sure this will hold memories for the Swiss fans who were hosting Arsenal Football Club that it was on the day that their team played Arsenal that the Queen passed and they marked it, you know, officially the first official marking and moments of silence was held at that ground in Zurich. Alright, or somewhere in St. Gallen rather, in St. Gallen in Switzerland. Also Manchester United they had a brief moment of silence before they kicked off their game with Royal Sociedad in memory of the Queen. We expect that the football matches for the English Premier League and indeed the leagues in both England, Scotland and Wales and maybe even Ireland will be suspended over the weekend indeed including Northern Ireland will be suspended over the weekend as they mourn the Queen. The British public have been instructed to stay at home today to mourn the Queen and I'm sure this will last over the weekend. If we go into the history, the biography, the life in times of Queen Elizabeth it will take a long time but of course some people, you know, having also expressed in their congratulations for Prince Charles that he's finally also been able to ascend to the throne after waiting for quite some time because he of course was born in 1940 but some have said that, you know, those expressing those views are being insensitive to the death or the situation at this time where Prince Charles himself will be in mourning and grief. Prince Queen Elizabeth has had a very close relationship for those of us in Africa with the continent because she was in Africa as princess when the death of her father, the then alien king was announced and she was in Kenya in 1952 when her father the king passed and then of course she had to fly back to London to become the new queen, she wasn't the new queen crowned at the young age of 27, you know, in 1953 she was the first monarch to be crowned and her, you know, the crowning was horse being live on TV, that was the first time it ever happened in history before an estimated audience of 20 million people so she created history, you know, in her lifetime she'll be missed and we say right here on Plus TV Africa, may her soul rest in peace. Alright, moving on, more trending stories right here on the breakfast, Hush Poppy has been in the news a lot but not recently, we've not had a lot to talk about it's mostly being about Abba Kerry who is wanted by the United States government in relation to Hush Poppy's case but Hush Poppy is back and what we hear is that the United States government has granted his appeal and has reduced his sentence to 11 years this is quite some news, you know, this is quite some news he is an internet fraudster he is facing trial in United States of America Ramona Abbas is his official name but of course for those who are following him on Instagram he is probably known as Hush Poppy so his jail term has been reduced to 11 years now the reduction comes on the heels of his record which was revealed as part of his memorandum countering sentencing recommendations of prosecutors showed he cleaned well and related well with other inmates now he was claimed to be one of the best cleaners in the prison where he has been remanded since his arrest in 2021 who would have thought that being a good cleaner in the prison could get your sentence reduced I mean all of them there should be cleaning the hell out of that prison now it was gathered that his report card for Central Valley workshop for prisoners showed that between July 2021 when he enrolled in November 2021 he completed a work when he completed a work Hush Poppy put up very good in attitude quality of work and dependability and productivity so Hush Poppy had appealed to United States judge Otis Wright for tempering of justice with mercy and a lighter jail term after scoring high in the cleaning activities now the presiding judge is scheduled to hear the sentencing arguments of the prosecution and the defense of Hush Poppy on September 21 before delivering his judgment on the matter so this is not yet a foregone conclusion but prosecutors in United States have asked a federal judge the federal judge rather too would use the sentence to 11 years in prison and 3 years of supervised release I think this all goes to show that Hush Poppy is quite a clever man and he should not be under his cleverness and intelligence should not be underestimated amazing alright let's come back to Nigeria and of course the 2023 elections around the corner the political scene is heating up and the political scene in Lagos is not being left out as the Lagos State chapter of the Progressive Congress they have reacted to comments made by the gobernatorial candidate of the People's Democratic Party in Lagos State Olajide Adeliro and he's popularly called Jando now he made some statements regarding the recent cases of building collapse in Lagos State he had earlier this week called for the resignation of the Lagos State governor Babaji Ray Sam bolu over the spate of building collapses in the state since 2019 then this I didn't think we were going to hear anything from Jando after he got the PDP ticket and there's a relief I would say we are actually hearing something from him because there's democracy you need to hear from your position as well now this is what he said quote it is not enough that a government official is signed to the Ministry concerned the Commissioner of Fiscal Planning and Urban Development The government has failed the entire negotiations, not only the victims of this current incident and the over 100 people who died in about 47 cases of building collapse in 2019 to date in the state. The governor's failure to ensure due diligence on the governance process by engagement of competent personnel established to carry out, you know, established rather his culpability is expected that the governor himself should have resigned instead of the arranged scapegoating of asking his commissioner to quit. He's made many unfulfilled promises to prevent these disasters and the attendant avoidable death. So this is a statement coming from Janda, the PDP governorship candidate in Lagos State and of course the People's Democratic Party is a leading opposition party, not just in Nigeria but also in Lagos State. And you know some persons feel that most of those in the PDP in Lagos State are just fronting for the APC and the PDP in Lagos State is really virtually non-existent. And of course Jando was a key member of the People's, the all-progressives Congress with his Lagos for Lagos movement conversing and gathering lots of support for the APC in need for Somolu and President Buhari in the last election. And not a few eyebrows were raised when he moved to the PDP. Some people still feel that the PDP is just another arm of the APC in Lagos State and that's why the party has been seen as a toothless bulldog over the years in Lagos State. So maybe Jando's statement and his speaking up over the incessant or the recent rather building collapse in Lagos State may go away to dispel that view of some person, of some persons indeed. This is not something that Somolu would want to hear. Indeed Jando went on to say that the governor's failure to ensure due diligence on the governance process by engagement of competent personnel established his culpability. He also said it is expected, quote, it is expected that the governor himself should have resigned instead of the arranged scapegoating of his commissioner. He said his insensitivity and display of disregard for human lives by showing up at a social event in the far away United States to present an award while the blood of the victims was still worn is condemnable. Of course, this is referring to the governor's visit to Atlanta, Georgia in the United States of America to attend the Heady's Award. It's a musical award, the biggest music awards in Nigeria this time holding the United States where Somolu did not just attend but indeed tweeted about that event and put his pictures on social media, of course, Jando now saying that this is insensitive by the governor. The latest is that the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressive Congress responded. And it did this through the spokesman, Mrs. Shea Oladejo, who released a statement a couple of days ago describing the call made by Jando as, quote, childish. This is what he said, quote, the Lagos State government has not hesitated to investigate the cause of such incidents and wield the big stick where necessary. While there may still be a few bad eggs in the sector who continue to circumvent the system, we remain committed to its complete sanitation. He went on to say in the statement, quote, it is unacceptable devilish and uncivilized for the PDP to celebrate the incident and dance on the grave of the victims in the name of politics. He said, quote, the Lagos State government remains resolutely committed to the protection of lives and property of all Lagosians. Lagosians will continue to do our best, utmost, as a regulatory body for all manner of construction while we all as citizens have a duty to comply with all rules and regulations. So of course, this statement, you know, pushing the blame to the citizens and of course raising the issue of noncompliance to building regulations as the result or the cause rather of these are building collapses in Lagos State and did a lot of them have held and Jando was, he even went there to give a number, 47 cases of building collapse between 2019 to date. So what he said is the governor himself should resign, not commissioner for urban development and fiscal planning. But what the APC in Lagos City is saying is that most of this is as a result of nonadherence to building regulations by the citizens and this is not a governor's fault, you know. So the jury is out, of course, for those who believe that the governor could do better, for those who believe that, well, this is out of the hands of the governor of Lagos State if people choose not to comply or if those who are meant to regulate the building in Lagos State, you know, the building sector in Lagos State do not do their job well. I think, you know, for most people when they heard that the commissioner had resigned, that was a novel in Nigerian politics because you do not hear politicians or public office holders resigning, it's rare, it's rare. So for the commissioner to have done that, that was a bold one, it was not the usual. Now is this big enough or is this, well, it's actually big enough because people have lost their lives, but does it call for the governor himself to resign, to step down? This is where the debate is, you know, is this something that is enough for the governor to step down? That's where the debate is. Well, you're left to make your mind up as to what you believe, but I think for me personally, I think it's quite refreshing to hear the PDP in Lagos State speaking up and saying something at least for a change. All right, that's our top training segment. We'll take a break and when we come back, we'll dive straight into a new super analysis segment of the press. We call it right here on the breakfast. Please stay with us.