 Welcome it's the breakfast and plus TV Africa time for us to go through the pages of our national dealies We call it off-the-press Chris came in one do is on standby. He joins the conversation in no time Chris came there's good to have you join us this morning All right then let's take a look at the Guardian newspaper focus would be on the top stories on the Guardian Federal government faces tough choice to stabilize economic economy as inflation bites higher and Underneath you have inflation rate jumps to 16.8 percent in April highest in eight month We've been looking at you know double-jitted inflation Consecutively for the past seven years fuel scarcity in security hike and jet a1 compound was don't expect The acceleration until September Are the suggests MPR may join interest rate hike fair Flight disruption looms as fuel scarcity wasn't You also have bandit kills six sub docked village head in canoe Deborah you could please arrange to in Sokoto And just before we move away 80 million Nigerians living with hypertension 26.7 million receiving treatment EFCC arrest accountant general Idris for alleged 80 billionaire fraud These are the headlines on the Guardian newspaper this morning From the Guardian will move on next to the nation newspaper the board comes in for this morning EFCC arrest federal government's top accountant over 80 billion narrow fraud Money laundering in real estate suspected AGF faces allegation of overstaying in office Above the must-heard silver tall and opt not to resign I'm a chi a lashadura quit Supreme Court to hear appeal on section 84 subsection 12 on Thursday Ocean voters can be bought or yet all our replies are delicate federal government blames tax exemption for revenue loss Most stories on the front page of the nation newspaper I like gives a PC PDP others deadline parties in from agency of convention venues dates Delegates are less to be submitted seven days to the primaries Assault strike student protest in on door or your organ state my support for your higher below Intact says has fat a biola Petro's Cassidy lumps in on the state and those are the top stories. Okay, we can see some more a kitty 2022 a Pp6 replacement of candidate Igbo you tend to us Only PDP reject a NAP poll report APC candidate or you ban G calls for a violence free poll Those are all of the stories on the front page of the nation newspaper Away from the nation. We took a look at the punch newspaper this morning timetable I neck talk stuff as 18 parties feel to conduct primaries not going back on election timetable June 3rd as debt line and at one's parties APC orders intensify lobbying as commission says Terminal date for primaries fixed PDP postpones governor senator or Senate primaries for the third time Sides I pop sit at home order the riders you find underneath the boat caption on the punch this morning now on the dollar hit 600 Nara at parallel market The FX supply shrinks Amid failed negotiation and RC to resume a Buddha Kuduna train service and you also find fraud EFC CRS account in general alleges 800 million Naira I beg your pardon 80 billion Naira divestion marketers divest jet a12 foreign airlines scarcity hits local carriers There's a lot we have to grapple with as ASU issues you find ex-minister falls state varsities and protests protest rocks southwest a door Just before we move away federal government extends money laundry lower to casinos others and ban shell account inflation hit 16.82% Exits IMF's 2022 Production Okay, and nothing south east and south's presidential South South presidential aspirant greedy Selfish that's what Namdi Kahlu is quoted to say Or Kahlu you find Legos school driver bags live Jill for defiling your five-year-old people and NCDC wants against rats Over monkey pox lasso fever some of the headlines you find on the punch this morning Away from the port punch the last paper we are reviewing is the daily independent 30 years after burst pipelines to Legos Airport haunt Airlines Stakeholders say pipelines would have a lot of problems Stakeholders say pipelines would have made jet a1 cheaper worried use of tank has to discharge fuel at airport risky Say five million latest of aviation fuel so the Legos Airport Daily or the stories on the daily independent silver withdraws presidential beat back to office PSA promotes former EFCC boss Magu others AIG Police kill gunmen in four-cent seated home in the number Inflation rises to a sixteen point eight two percent highest in eight months a mid-fuse capacity and Security as a strike UI allow tech students protest lock major roads in Ibarra Union accused error management of planning to kill airline kick against 40% suck of work first Union's allegations unfounded Management Debra Samuel. I was a devout Muslim Quran does not justify killing to debackery Court remand suspected killers Defended by 34 lawyers federal government director Bojack Adona train services resumption Why I chose your hiya bello over South West Preston to last print hafizat Abula those are the main stories on the daily independent this morning Chris came to one do thank you for joining us once again We appreciate your time Let's leave it open to you now on which of the headlines and trust us who went through the pages of a national dailies Okay, they have to be the arrest of the account account general or the federation by the EFCC and This brings question the credibility of some of the people at the hands of a fair in Nigeria if the account on general of a federation could be Arrested for a lecture for those with less constitutions the word is Alex because Ontilia since finishing the situation. I mean he's a charge to call some pussy. He said he's still it remains a suspect but that is to me is a very very Unfortunate because for somebody at that level who should know better or if from to find himself in the situation Like is then that's big for you Anointing aspect of it for me is that from the information released by yes, he has been invited several times to come and Make a response to some of the allegations And he refused to appear before the essay and refused their invite Probably he thinks is the president or the president of Nigeria or vice president The truth or a governor the two people that I'm new from the situation, but it's good that Yes, they have gonna have gotten him arrested that you have his time in coax and If he's fine, you see It's not just only this side. He shouldn't be stuck the icon the umbrella body as in charge of a counter She also derailed him because they really to be the age a counter general of the federation He must be a fellow of icon. He should also be derubed I should do it. We've said the right thing now to think you have Think that and just this place a misuse of the trust And for me that is also I hope that he is not go like this so many others before him Oh, we just see a media trial. They just picked up after some days They've been left of the whole and we continue as if nothing happened and life goes on This case must be seen to the illogical completion All right, let's slide into the guardian this paper The economy seems to be the main interest for this morning and federal government faces tough choices to stabilize economy as inflation bites harder that's the main story and We are actually being faced with inflation rate jumping to 16.8 in April the highest in eight months How do you think we can stream out of this troubled waters Chris? People with the right mindset We can be able to I said I'm able to do it for always find ourself in this situation. Don't forget the in the past few one or two years We Yes, it has been that oh, it was Kobe because of Kobe. That's why we always going into recession That's why we have been all the challenges We have been out of Kobe for close to one year now So but we should also not take this away from the global trend There is a lot of a lot happening within the international community and international economy Community that goes to show that the economy in most part of the world is not growing But we can be able to do much in our part if we can do the needful I've said it and with price number that an economy that is mono Polistic in nature can never grow an economy that depends almost 90% of its foreign exchange From all you cannot grow on to be able to start looking at other sectors like agriculture like mining and even telecom Most countries of the world like India China so many other countries are making so much money In the area of telecommunications. So on to be able to look at this This is what we're going to get. I won't talking of The growth look at our rates when it comes to unemployment it is one of the highest in the world and you have a lot of people that are fully that should be fully Engaged and they're fully employed, but they cannot find a job You see that just coming out of the university Techniques college of education on a yearly basis some people with first class. They find it difficult And I have always said part of the problem also is that we are not doing what we were doing in the past Let's see you remember that we used to have what is called NDE The NDSS of NDE there when it was established. I think was by Babankita. It is for people graduates That have graduated to be They have to less certain skills Everybody cannot get a white collar job to walk with plus TV to walk with NNPC or wherever graduate should be saw the skill of Oppositions so that's when they come out. They don't have to stop waiting for this White collar jobs. That is the problem. We are having now. So I hope that those are within our economics able to look But it's not looking up at all Chris, let's also look at the punch this morning It talks about INEC and the elections the fact that you have 18 parties failing to conduct their primaries and INEC is very fixed or not shifting grounds because the deadline is still June the 3rd What are your thoughts and what does he even make of political parties, especially, you know Those who are saying want to take the office of governance because you have them filing candidates for different offices in the country The most ridiculous The one by PDP that the reason why he has not been able to conduct his primaries because of the sit at home in the studies You only have sit at home in the studies on Monday And what happens on Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday that to me is It's just a flimsy excuse and we are going to show you the unseriousness of the political parties and that is why some of our Our revered leaders are coming up with this kind of Insignation that oh, let's give worries this most attention. Let's give a let's have an intering government has been come fast by senior because of Nigeria After Baba land rest of them if the political parties are not even giving up to expectation and what they are supposed to And you You can now understand whether they are really ready for 23 I know has come up with this guideline for long has given them They start with I know a sad and they agreed on this date The political party had a meeting with I next apparatus and this is so why are they trying to just listen to this date? I believe that I need to be sacrosanct on this issue because any alteration of this of these dates We have faith the timeline for I need to come to the 2023 election The political parties should do the need to a political party I'm sure parties that are just much interested in collecting hundred million Naira and 40 million Naira For presidential aspirants and shifting the days because of the money they're going to make Rather than sticking to the title that said it I need to have said that God is Is the last day for this? I think they should just bought and try to do it So that we don't have So that I may come focus himself in planning for the 23 election. All right, Chris. Let's move on to the daily independent At least talking about in the scarcity of an aviation fuel and it um Applications at this way 30 years after burst on pipelines to Lagos Airport Haunt airlines with the right that stakeholders say pipelines would have made jet a one cheaper. Do you agree, Chris? I'm not a nested on a vision On immigration matters that from what I have read if there is a pipeline that's supposed to be Transporting that those evasion fuel the most alarm. I met a port or MM or MM1 then something need to be done if that has been in command tools for over 30 years they wish to because part of the complaint by the effect aviation Operators is that the cost of transporting Aviation fuel from the time in a from the from the port to To the airport is very expensive. Don't forget to promote some custom. We disturb you police We collect their own local government will collect me Nato or whatever they call the association we collect any our rules see we call it so by time you add up Then the talk less of the police at the picture between a papa and Muhammad and we just to collect your own Well, in fact, so all this into the price of the aviation fuel and that becomes the problem But that has not been the issue that has great for long part of the issue is that the aviation fuel is not even available Where it is available. It is very expensive. I remember this the Issued by the freighters last week when they wanted to Baccalaureate he said that it has jumped from what he used to 700 Naira Are we saying that it's not because of the transportation alone that They are also saying that there's a lot of problems within the system that they cannot get this patient Right right. I know that there was a short gap meeting Right, it was agreed that to be given to them. I think for about 500 or so For about three months presents a short-term measure. What is the long-term measure for this? How would they be able to get this? If you go to the airport now and see the level of rescuing of flight In fact, you stay at the airport for about three four hours the next year So that your flight of the after I think can soon and nobody's giving you any reason for that If nothing is done in the days to come then we are going to have Inevitably it's going to happen. There will be total short-term of the Evasion system and don't forget aviation is not like the road transportation or a transportation It's a very very dynamic Interest that if for any reason that want to start particular and there's possibility of Having some kind of crisis and then I wish to have in the path go forbid So I think the stakeholders for the federal government the Minister of Petroleum the airline operators and marketer should be able to come together I find a nice solution to this problem 80 million Nigerians living with hypertension 26.7 million receiving treatment Chris came to wonder does this statistics and figure shock you You know shock me messy. You said They actually with the Nigerian or is to to give people a partition That's true now Problem with the Nigerian or is to keep people's hypertension. You cannot get a job. You cannot eat You find it difficult to make a living the children are out of skin when you whom come out You are not sure that you be safe. That's what would not kidnap you Someone will not pick you up and suffer and so asking for us and rest of them. It is enough to keep Nigeria's Attention so it is me is not a surprise I'm sure it is more than that most Nigerians now are living in Not only have their poverty, but in fear in fear that they don't know whether if they go out in the morning They come back there. They are in fear that their children cannot open the food for their children They are in fear because they cannot pay this children I fear that Any at any time Nigeria have become indigile species The hypertension level is not only hypertension There are some that are having other illnesses that come to us yours How do we get here or until we continue to do the right put and make sure that the citizens face a space of a sense of Responsibility they believe Kind of really I know that they are in a country where the Can be able to And they'll be able to make a living this will continue to happen Problem is the situation where the man of the house is out of job man of the house What they have anything to do if she may be out of job where she read the small And try to sell the bread and whatever Time counts for what a look at what they destroy the Pick up all the other rest of them. How for children out of food. That is enough Potentials so I am not surprised by that Chris as we round off there's this story on the nation newspaper We actually talked about it on top trending and they have You know follow-ups up to that ocean voters can't be bought. Oh, yeah Replies at daily K remember the video that he's trending right now where a daily K was actually Boat in a boasting about his a financial prowess. I Used to that I used to respect a dancing in it. It's one of the politicians From the old trances and from what I saw and I heard I was highly disappointed that somebody at that level Maybe so that governance is Some a Structure or whatever you call it And that is what is bringing to see but I think the ocean people of horses should just discard him I'm forget about him and look for other kind of a because it is highly level of Responsible for somebody of that kind of a to be making that kind of what is the easy time to tell the ocean people that they are Hungry my day people that can be bored with But even at that the option is that such statement also happen In the last election in our shoes that we are somebody came at us that he is rich at an ocean So this is not new maybe saw in the line of that's a person. That's who called big man. I think that's it This is not the first You can look back and search somebody made that statement that he was That he is rich at an ocean state that's an individual. So but that is kind of reckless Apologize that if anybody So it is very reckless statement and then very on becoming of somebody who want to as far to the highest office in As a government. All right. Thank you so much Chris one do chartered me date and conciliator for your time On of the press for this Tuesday morning. We do appreciate the thoughts that you have shared Thank you very much for having me. I don't have a man. Yeah, you get it All right, that's as much as we can take him off the press for this Morning or take you through what happened this day in history in a moment And when we'll come back would be going straight to a force conversation for the day to join us again