 Welcome back to the breakfast. It's time for off the press. We have a quick review of the major stories making headlines across Nigeria today And would first of all say good morning to our guest, Mr. Ezekiel and I talk. Thanks for joining us. Good morning Good to see you. Let's kick off with stories from the punch newspapers this morning and see what we can find There's something there on Boko Haram. I think it's a big story that you can see there on your screen in a few seconds Yes, that's what it is. It says Boko Haram attack plot on national assembly and VIP locations causes scare Reps committee Chair notifies legislators of police warning indicating terror attack lawmakers adjust movement to enter and exit complex through presidential villa Also, Aquabomb governor's wife leads protests over slain job seeker We can also find on the punch this morning Okay, well it says here solving governor's meet shadow Delta summit over insecurity revenge sick in cultists attack OPC men in Undo six killed and Division emerges in a PC as a day attacks fire me over members suspension Boko Haram killed five soldiers and 25 orders in Borno attack says sources And the error five receives 27 freed kaduna college students to missing That's a really sad ending to that and also this morning Nigerian airs 5g deployment as NCC Night comes at sign MOU Government approach wrong ransom payment wound and kidnapping says from a president to Lutrego Bason Joe and Cash crunch labor draws battle lines once again salary slash On the nation newspaper this morning 27 abducted forestry college students freed after 57 days Buhari release 16 Greenfield diversity undergrad rates and others Above the headline on the nation newspaper labor rejects beach to cut workers wage and build affordable houses FIRS to deduct cash from tax supporters bank accounts Why pass apply must be prioritized by Illumina nine die in Icaria Coco or a war day of violence Nigeria set for 5d technology NCC and RG comes at sign MOU Banks directors back CBN's action on first bank It's Chelsea versus Manchester City English Clubs in European Champions League final and stars Lagos supported businesses with 940 million Naira from back as drama rocks Enrugu also on the nation newspaper APC Senate caucus tackles PDP on insecurity and economy Lastly on the nation newspaper headers or shum on Red Alerts All right now on the Guardian newspapers this morning Federal Ministry fails to keep records of houses built and sold in six years Also on the Guardian relief as freed 27 students arrive after 56 days parents commend roles played by a messenger on Gumi also bandits return to Kaduna raised church killed to abduct many PDP Flays federal government surrender to terrorists and bandits and Catholics Run amok over and back as alleged disappearance attack bishops residence also on the Guardian this morning federalism is the answer after all NLC rejects planned reduction in salaries of workers reps urge suspension of Census over insecurity and others also telcos begin seem activation as more lines get an iron linkage lastly Minority ethnic groups will lose more if Nigeria breaks abasem jaw warns Those are the stories on the Guardian newspapers this morning on the daily independent FIRS the deducts from tax defaulters bank accounts delay in 500 billion Naira FMBN recapitalization threatens affordable housing reps approved military operations nationwide Intercarity reps call off call for suspension of a planned national census remaining abducted 27 Kaduna Forestry College students released NCC awaits FG's final decision on FG deployment FEC approves 6.2 billion Naira for power projects and other stories here we've seen on other papers But lastly abasem jaw worries over small ethnic groups if country splits I think those are the stories we're taking this morning on the newspapers Miss Ania took thanks for joining us again Yeah, thanks Yep All right, the biggest story we've seen on our newspapers this morning is about the 27 school girls from the federal College of first-year mechanization who you know were freed after 57 days Remember that 10 students had been freed in two batches of five each The parents had been protesting at the gates of the National Assembly complex in Abuja But the good news is after you know lots of lots of threats You know ransom demands Kaduna state government's assistance will ransom will be paid. Finally, they are free your thoughts on this Mr. Isi Kalingi I talk First I don't know which side of the coin to take when the people are free Everybody's happy as you can see, but how do we look at the other side of the coin? Where a young lady who was seeking for a job was who somely murdered? She will never be free. She will never be seen again. So I will block this morning to pay tribute to In your bone more and who was who somely murdered and I also want to Thank the the a private state government Issuing a prompt statement condemning the action because we're lots of conspiracy theories and Also yesterday the wife of the governor Lady Martha was on the street and mobilized a lot of young people These were things that government need to show in no small measures that they are not part of it And that they condemn it, but I want to say that there's a third leg actually I run two live radio programs on when is the AC in a pipe home and the two lines for the two hours were jammed and The the case has gone beyond the state the nation is going international And I want to appeal to the IGP the acting inspector general of police that please use this case To inspire Confidence in the Nigerians they believe that this case is going to be swept under the carpet They believe that the confessions of the boy that we initially met public that he had set in associations We this is I'm public space and please I beg you let the IGP Stand on it and ensure that nobody's protected if this is going to become the case that will just No, no open up the space and let people be named and shamed and made to pay for it So we can have a center client. Please let it be done That same about in your bone with more red. Let's come back to the abducted students and I rejoice At this time with the family and with Nigerians. We prayed about them We are care we care about them and every sitting of joy, but let me end on this note I want to call on Mr. President to let us know the policy of the federal government is on paying ransom the past president who DJ has come hard on the past administration and the present talking about My brother good luck Jonathan and our president O'Hara that these two administrations have been building in power You know this terrorist is this moderate and they have they've gotten so it becomes such an Enterprise that we are going to as a nation have to take very hard decisions and Mr. President should address us and and prepare us to take hard decisions No matter how you love your head You're not going to be able to eat the only if you're not ready to break the shelf So it's a choice that the president has to put on the table and take so that when things are done We will be able to move along with him because they may be Collateral damages that for goodness sake how long are we going to be here? Nobody's look at the National Assembly all the papers, you know It's become headlines because it's a oh there's a likelihood of them being attacked How I mean it's just commonsensical that for you to Take off the fire just remove the oxygen from it Just just just just take the wind off the sail and everything we copy this are not rocket science But to what extent is government really completes it in the insecurity We really need to sit down and have very honest discussion because these things are not as mysterious as they want us to think So back to the issue. Let me thank God first and then rejoice with the parents and all Nigerians for the freedom of this 27 students and we look forward to the freedom of the others from the from the Greenfield University That's it for now. All right We're having a more extended discussion on this sometime on the program this morning So fully we can you know on bond or more of it? Well, let's not talk about the finance minister and Labor's reaction to the idea of cutting down salaries She of course made statements yesterday saying that Nigeria needs to find ways to reduce its cost of governance And it's very likely that they might consider reducing worker salaries. What's your reaction to that? Do you agree that yes, we need to cut down on cost of governance? It bothers me how this government just don't understand what and strategy means It just bothers me something that you can get very easily You go about it in a hard way How do you expect that you sit down here and tell the workers? I'm going to cut your salaries. I Expected that it will be a three-step approach Step one. Mr. President comes and says cost of governance is too much I'm starting from my cabinet as from today one two three four measures Okay, I'm going to take I don't mind what it costs the national fleet if I need to go on private Public transportation. I don't care. He comes and says Nigerians. I've got to make the sacrifice My ministers you've got to be ready for it. He puts that down as step one Step two, he looks at the you know the MDS and looks at every national assembly everybody is Before you call workers workers have seen it coming and they will say, okay Even if the workers want to resist we will tell workers put down now see the way it is that he said the sacrifice for the nation The way national assembly is intact feeling fly and then mr. President is It's not even around. I don't even know what to say and then you your first attack is that of the workers? I mean it's just it's just I Don't know the works to use but it's it's the highest, you know Display of lack of cut and strategy Yesterday we spoke about the work. I won't accept. Yeah, the NLC of course has put out their own thoughts Consonants yesterday we spoke about the 2021 budget and the Padding that has already been spotted by budget About you know the amount of projects that have repeated You need in that thing over and over and over we spoke we've repeatedly made statements concerning blocking leakages in government And how billions of Naira continue to just disappear across Nigeria in different MDAs across the country Why do you think the government hasn't? Taking a closer look at any of all of this and found ways to reduce wastage of government funds instead Because the answer is just as simple as can be in confusion in secrecy Prize corruption Look at the average civil servant His salary cannot Take care of himself alone not the top of his eyes and is his family But they're all living good Not all a good number of them If you look at the houses in Abuja, I look in the real estate sub-sector Please tell me the owners of all these things you realize that the number one corporate at the civil servant There's something about the civil service that is just not straight and I really Had expected that a man like president Will come to sit down knowing that he's on the last leg of his life with respect to his age You know if someone like me have 57 going to 58 and see myself as retiring because I'm already a grandfather Then how much more my precedent so the least he can do is is is is give his life But it seems like this was just his retirement benefit and it's feeling is feeling pretty where he is I expected that a man like him will look into the civil service. Everybody will respect him Everyone when we came up first everybody was to go body language body language, and then you you look at the lion And then you discover that this is there's a string tied and to a big pull I said this last week And then you can go excuse us to be lion. I just hello hello knowing that there's nothing you can do more than a dead rat So then the president has lost that that bite as thing I don't know who is going to help us. I think Nigerians should brace up and wake up to take our destinies in our hands Legally officially and formally. This is not the time for you to say this is my person This is a time for us to profile the chief executive for the office of the president and that leads me to a little story In in one of the papers I think that's daily independence talking about the NDDC board I want to appeal to mr. President right now. There's a young man that is a part who is by my Estimation dream very well absolutely well, but there is a pro-tapino constitutional provision for a board I want to appeal to mr. President Let him decide if the MD ship is going to a particular state Let him get a professional profiling, you know, you know a recruitment company To look for the best in that in that in that state Not of the chairman I'm not really bothered because the chairman of NDDC is more ceremonial But that of the chief executive the MDCEO Please don't tell for the chance to bring you name unless you don't mean well for the night to delta Let that place be professionalized Aqours has come in as a professionalist doing well But because of constitutional provisions time will come when you have to give way to a proper board Please let the recruitment of that board be done by I don't know any of these professional profiling organizations recruitment organizations So that they give us a chief executive Who is not a government appointee so to speak from the governor to work for a lecture That's well, you know, all this thing is about politics about funding election Is the NDDC set up to fund elections or is this set up as an independent body To see to the development of the night that delta Richard This is one of the things I want to make to mr. President. He can do this for me. I will Forget everything in the past and hail him. Well, all right. Let me say yeah, talk. There's a big There's a big story. We're seeing Maybe not There's a big story. We're seeing here on the punch newspaper It says Boko Haram attack plot on national assembly and VIP locations causes scare So there's a there's a warning here that there's a planned attack by Boko Haram insurgents, you know to Basically destroy government facilities assets in a buja including the national assembly complex and some key locations That this is an intelligence report that you know was released on may 6th And security agencies obviously have said they are on top of the issue Security has been beefed up in and around the complex in the last week Thursday, you know, they're checking vehicles entering the premises, you know So there's just been a lot of security activities around this You know, we know that soldiers have also joined the regular sergeant adams and men of the Nigerian police force Apartment of state services, you know around the gates of the national assembly complex and all of that So remember that we also see all is statement from the dss just on sunday That there is a plot and alleged plot by religious and political leaders to cause a disruption in government And this one now a plot of Boko Haram or by Boko Haram to basically destroy key assets in a buja What do you make of all these security threats at this time? You know, um Some things really bother me and one of those is please How is the life of Senate president lawan more important than the life of in your bone more Than the life of Than the life of Ibrahim that nobody knows When will we stop this Mindset of thinking that the people that we elect to protect us to serve us Are the people that must be protected and served? When would you realize that the normal skillings In the north is the number of killings in the north ways the south ways the south south the south is the north central The number of killings on a daily basis Should make more headlines than the number that that that the The perception of a possibility of an attack look at the bold headline of national assembly Where our deities are where our lords are where our guards are where our Puppets are where the owners of Nigeria are and we're just at the French is watching A time has come when like my sister Yusuf says This is a time when no Nigeria should be more Nigeria than any Nigeria All right I think we can also just squeeze in your thoughts on the reverend father. I came back under The drama that has emerged from you know in the last one week The there's news this morning that he has been suspended by bishop on aga for one week one month. I beg your pardon Yeah, yeah, yeah that um that the tale of two cities And um, I have a lot of respect for the Catholic church because they are Socially responsible probably more than any other church and um, there's all these issues of the discussion between church and state And church should stay out of state. I don't believe that they shouldn't stay out of state But there's a man that should be starting that man is reverend Chris Ophotie That man had you know run for presidency and yet he was the pastor of the church And I happen to have been in that church for a long time before I relocated to Abuja And while he was contesting He was able to draw a line between his politics and his service in the church PDP members were there APC members were there other members of other If I did they wanted to take part of politics and he would talk on that on behalf of fresh party But he wants people from PDP people from and everybody had a very very good dialogue. What am I saying? Let pastors exercise a lot of wisdom in approach They can't just let us and say oh stay on politics. No, no, no, no They must be involved in politics, but they must be there as guiding light and not for personal benefit Personal benefit. I don't agree. But you must encourage your people to Take up the civic responsibilities You will tell them what those civic Responsibilities are you must be able to bring out the profiling basis on which you should choose a candidate Look at character. Look at capability. Look at competence the pastors the imams are the best people to drive This ethics and characters in politics. So the issue of leaving them Out from is out of the window. But if you were squeezing this in, please Let me squeeze in a little bit. Which is about recapitalization of the federal mortgage bank It worries me and bothers me to what extent our government would understand appreciate the place of housing In in the economy of state in job creation in human dignity Chapter two section 14 subsection two b Say that the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary Purpose of government. How do you talk about welfare without housing? The housing sector is suffering because we have not paid attention federal 500 Billion, what is that in our economy? And you know what effect it will have the federal mortgage bank should be recapitalized as a priority And then government should look at housing as a major driver of the economy and job creation When they do this, they'll be the better for it All right, I think that's all we'll wrap it up this morning As a colleague I talk. Thank you so much for starting out Thursday for us. And of course, we wish you a great day ahead. Thank you Thank you. Oh, it was a pleasure. Thank you. Absolutely. All right, so today in history I am going back to tell you about The story of three women who were kidnapped, you know and a good story, you know Success just after many years Incaptivity just like the good news. We've heard about the 27 students in June Right. And of course, I'm telling you about the day of course that Good luck. Jonathan became president after, you know, all the drama that emerged before that will be back after the short break