 Today's World Cancer Day and advocates are urging us to close the care gap. We look at the import of this on the breakfast this morning as the survivor shares her experience with us. Also, the Nigeria Ghana rivalry is set to resume as the neighboring nations need to go past each other if they must be at the Qatar 2022 World Cup. What are the chances of Nigeria's Super Eagles on this one? We'll also have a review of today's newspaper headlines. It's one you would want to miss with our expert analysis right here on the breakfast. Welcome to the Breakfast on PLOS TV Africa. I am Kofi Bartels. It's a brand new Friday and we're back with very interesting conversations for you on the breakfast. Alright, of course we have a topic, a discussion rather on World Cancer Day. We'll be having a guest joining us on the program this morning. But of course, we also have a discussion on sports at the ongoing African Nations Cup has gotten to the last two teams. But we'll not be looking at that today if maybe time permits we will. But Nigeria and Ghana will be going at each other again. Another chance for Twitter to go haywire. What are the chances of Super Eagles on that one against the black stars of Ghana? We'll be discussing that with my teacher. Let's take a look and feel of the pulse of what's been trending in the stories that Nigerians have been talking about. That's what we bring to you every single morning and today will be no different. Well, a video popped up online and this was really, really scary. It was about an explosion on an FPSO. What exactly is an FPSO? An FPSO is a, you can see the pictures on your screen, a floating production, a storage and a floating vessel. This is what the oil and gas companies use offshore. It's called floating because it has to be on water. And what we're told is that that floating production, storage and a floating vessel was destroyed by an explosion and their fears growing over the fate of its crew. Their fears growing over the fate of its crew. This is on the high waters somewhere of the coast of Delta State located in OML 108 and it's operated, we're told by an indigenous player in the oil and gas sector, a Shiba A&P company limited or SEPCO for short, SEPCO for short. And this is the, called the Trinity FPSO. You know, you don't have such facilities existing on their own. You usually have human beings manning these facilities. And the Trinity Spirit FPSO was rocked by the blast in the early hours. We're told of the morning of the third or the second rather of February, 2022. There were multiple news reports and so we had to dig into the bottom of this and also the monitor people were saying online. The latest we have is the SEPCO chief executive. He is Ikemefuna Okafo. He was cited yesterday by Reuters news agency as saying, quote, at this time, at this time, there are no reported fatalities but we can confirm that there were 10 crew on board the vessel prior to the incident and we are prioritizing investigations with respect to the safety and security. And, you know, a lot of comments coming from that, you know, video showing the explosion, people were concerned, first of all, about the safety of the crew, if there were any, on that floating facility. Also, Nigerians were expressing concern about the environment. So I'm saying, you know, the fishes in the water, the aqua life and all that will be affected, something needs to be done as quickly as possible because apart from the fire and the debris from that floating facility, the FPS of floating production storage and offloading terminal, the crude oil that may be going to that terminal could spill. You know, so people are concerned about the oil spillage. You can see the water there looks clean, it looks green, it looks sort of greenish-blue. So that's something very, very, very somewhere on the high sea. So we don't want to be seeing a lot of these oil spillages because we've suffered a lot of it for too long. The Niger Delta said to be the most polluted Delta in the world. But this chief executive of SEPCO who owns this Trinity FPSO, he said investigations are underway into the cause of the explosion while attempts to contain the situation were being made with the help from nearby communities. So nearby communities are the ones trying to help control the situation. You have Fishermen, Clean Nigeria Associates and Chevron, which operates the nearby escrowvoce facility. So this floating production storage and offloading terminal belonging to SEPCO is not far from the escrowvoce facility in Delta State. So I think that gives people an idea of where it is. But according to Reuters, and this is quite important and interesting, the company, SEPCO, they're reporting that a company is currently in receivership and a form of bankruptcy protection. So it remains to be seen if this particular incident is controlled or connected somehow to that bankruptcy and financial issues that the company may be having in terms of being in receivership. But we just hope for the very best. We at Plus Sierra Africa will be trying to get in touch with Nostra, and Nigeria to see what exactly will come out of what is being done regarding that. Let's move on to the next one. One is a hijab protest in Quarra State. There were scenes of persons on the streets of Quarra State protesting against the government's directive to management of schools in the state. If you're even following this story, you'd remember that on January 25, the Quarra State government had directed management of schools in Quarra State to allow the use of the hijab by willing Muslims without forcing it on anyone or turning them back for using the hijab. Some Muslim parents and their wards were seen on major streets of Eloring on Wednesday protesting against the management of OU Baptist High School for turning back students wearing hijab. This has been a contentious issue in not just Nigeria but around the world. We can talk about France, for instance, but in Nigeria, especially particularly in the southwestern states of Nigeria. Muslim students and parents hit the streets against the management of that school, the Baptist High School, after they turned back some students wearing the hijab. A government delegation, we're told, led by the Commissioner for Education in Quarra State, has gone to that school two times, twice, to try to resolve the matter. We were also told that another delegation led by the Commissioner for Local Government in Chieftain CFRS in that state also visited the town for the same reason yesterday. But yesterday, despite all these efforts, a fracker erupted when some Muslim parents and students stormed the school premises, as you can see the scenes on your screen, to protest the rejection of the awards and members by the school. It's a really contentious issue in the southwestern part of Nigeria. Quarra is one state. Oshun State has also had its experiences even when the former governor, Aragwe Shala, was there. Eyewitnesses are telling Plus TV Africa that they protest later degenerated into violence. And it went physical when an unidentified man rushed to the school to inform other protesters of a machete cut. That's really, really, really, really sad. Now we're told that this triggered an angry reaction from the Muslim protesting parents as they looked around for various weapons to defend themselves. But thankfully, thankfully, the members of officials of the Nigeria Police Force returned or responded to quell the situation. Also, we told, apart from the Nigeria Police Force, the Nigeria Civil and Security and Civil Defence call, who might be scrapped in the coming months, we're also there to quell the situation. It's a very disturbing image. It's coming from Quarra State. It's a very, very disturbing image. We just hope for the best as far as the situation is concerned. Now, the last story we've been monitoring, and this one has also got a lot of Nigerians talking. Ah, this one, I don't know if you saw it coming. But we told that the president, Muhammad Abu Hari, has launched what he calls the national or revised national policy on population for sustainable development. So this is saying the federal government is muting population control in Nigeria, a population control policy in the country. Now, how about that? We hear about population control in countries like China, where they have the one family, one child policy, which has been relaxed a bit in recent years. But when this news erupted, Nigerians started reacting. Why is coming going ahead to embark on a population control policy? Opinion has been divided amongst those who have been commenting on this, some for and some against. But this is the revised national policy on population control for sustainable development. The president is stressing the need for urgent measures to address Nigeria's high fertility rate. And this is something that some experts have talked about in the past. And we've asked this question before. In the media, it's been discussed on television, on radio, online, the growth rate of the Nigerian population. It's something that needs to be discussed. And finally, the government is doing something about it. They want to address Nigeria's high fertility rate through expanding access to modern contraceptive methods. People are saying, OK, may all this is grammar, expanding access through modern contraceptive methods. But the president also inaugurated the National Council on Population Management, chaired by himself, very importantly, the vice president also as the deputy chairman of this National Council on Population Management. And you have the heads of relevant ministries and public agencies there. If the president is sharing this himself, it means that he takes it very personally. So this was put out by Femme Adeshina, who is the president's special assistant on media and publicity yesterday. So it's become a contention. Some are saying, no, start from the north. Some are saying, start from the south. Some are saying that the president's people kick against it. And all of this. Some are saying they need to start from the lawmakers first. They're giving birth to a lot of people looking at the geopolitics and the cultural dynamics in different parts of the country. Some say, start from the National Assembly. A whole lot of people are making fun of it. But these are real and serious issues that need to be talked about. And some are actually suspecting that the federal government is just trying to balance things out with both policies. The National Police for Sustainable Development on Population for Sustainable Development and the National Council on Population Management. Opinion is divided to say, OK, this is just trying to balance things out. But the crux of the matter is that Nigeria as a country is embarking on a population control policy. How will this be implemented? How will this be carried out? Are we going to see the government saying we won't have one child now in Nigeria? Experts have linked some of the conflicts in the country and the difficulties to the exploding population. And for those who live in urban centers, especially cities like Lagos, Abuja, Podhakot and so on, they'll realize that these cities have experienced a population explosion in recent years. And this is something that I'm sure we'll be getting the experts in to talk about in the coming days and weeks right here on Plus TV Africa. Well, it seems very few national issues can be weighed by the public without talking about the North-South divide in the country. It's still the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. We'll take a short break and when we come back, we dive into the pages of the national dailies. Stay with us.