 A very good morning to you. You're welcome to the breakfast in Fosti, the Africa. My name is Vrimae Paulusin. And my name is Nyamgul Agadje. Welcome to today's edition of Thursday, the 22nd day of February, 2024. February, this is a leap year, so I would have said maybe we have a very few days to go. Yeah, it's a lot of time, 24 hours, a lot of time. Just imagine you fasting 24 hours. You know what your body will be telling you. So 24 hours. Now, if I want to see how time flies and how we waste time, I tell people, I recommend the traffic lights. Just wait at the traffic light for less than one minute that that light takes to change. It's as if you've been there for eternity. So imagine traffic light even lasting for two minutes, how you would feel. But those are the one minute, the two minutes that we've been wasting sometimes. Yeah, we take for granted. Yeah, that's the word to use. By the way, I was going to ask, do you know the story about the leap year? No, I don't know. Why do we have a leap year? The particular one that you're talking about. Okay, so apparently, you know, there's a leap year every four years. So there's an extra day. So the reason why there's an extra day, because each year is actually, yes, 365 days and six hours. So when you collate to the number of hours every four years, it now becomes a leap year. I thought there was one other weird story about it. When you were asking me about the story, yes, I do know that it's four years put together. And how I used to remember when I was growing up was that every Olympic year is a leap year. I thought Olympic was. But no, everything is. I thought Olympic was. But it so happens that it coincides. Olympic is every four years. And this year we have Olympic in June or July in France, I think. Yeah, so it's also a leap year. So people who were born on February 29th, you have a chance to celebrate birthday. Because they celebrate every four years. Every four years, yeah. Would it have been awesome or not? If I was born? Do you think it's better for them or it's good for them or bad? I can't really say. I mean, I'm not in that position. But I love the fact that I get to celebrate my birthday every year. Because I would be confused. I don't know. Do I celebrate it on the 28th of February? Do I celebrate it on the 1st of March? So what day? Almost like you were not born. And that means every four years I must throw big parties because I don't get this all the time. I have to celebrate that day. Like I have this day today. It's not going to come till another four years. So let me just do a big, big bash. But like I said, I'm going to be confused if I was in that position. But I'm sure you just figure out a day. Maybe February 28th is still in February. Like, okay, it's supposed to be tomorrow. But that tomorrow is not coming. And so yeah. Okay. Anyways, we're going to have a good show today. For today, I'm grateful for the rain, actually. I think the weather is becoming very cool because it's been very hot in Lagos. And not just Lagos. People in Abuja, Cano, Imo, Port Harcourt have been complaining about the weather. It's been so hot in Nigeria. Lagos has been lucky a little bit because it has rained more than once in at least some parts. So if it rains on the island, for instance, the breeze will go to some other places, you know. But okay, Cross River had its first rain yesterday or last night. That was the first rain for this year. But it has rained in Lagos at least more than one time. I'm like, well, this rainy season might just be coming real soon. Just never know. Anyways, it's probably supposed to be a great show today. We're going to be looking at what the national dailies are saying. We're also going to be talking about some, well, exchange rate battles that Nigeria is having right now and the fact that they're looking at banning cryptocurrency as well. But also, we will be looking at some top trending stories. But first, let's look at our quote of the day to set the tone. Only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. And that is from Vidal Sassoon. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. Well, obviously, you know, the dictionary has the whole ATZ. So it's arranged in alphabetical order. And so the only place where success starts with an S and work starts with a W. Let me just talk like a bitter person. But, you know, when things like this happen, I ask myself the first question in what language? Because if I were writing a dictionary in my language, work will come after success. Because the words are spelled differently, alphabets are different and all that. So sometimes it just makes me feel that some of the people who say these things think the world revolves around English. And so everything has to be how English has set it to be. But that's not the issue we're talking about today. Like I said, I was just talking like a bitter person. But that's not it. You have to put in the work before you can enjoy whatever you want to enjoy. If you say, let me just sit down, enjoy first before I work. What will you be working for? What are you enjoying? What are you enjoying? What are you working for? You don't have zero money in your bank account. What are you enjoying? I just don't know how that is. So yes, for you to be a successful person, you have to put in the work. You have to just try your best to ensure that everything that is necessary, everything that is necessary for you to get to that point, you are doing it now. For instance, do you need training? Do you see yourself as maybe a TV personality, for instance? Do you need adequate training for that? You can't just say, oh, no, I want to be the biggest TV presenter in the world. And you're not trying to work for it. You have to put your skills to test. You have to just try as much as possible that everything that is required, because it just would not fall on your lap. If you don't put that work, you would not get the success. And that's just how it's, I think it's a principle thing. Life works with principles. It's just like sewing and reaping. So I feel like success and work is just like the farmer. The farmer has to sew seeds into the ground and then there's a time for harvest. So you don't just think that you will wake up one morning and just, what are you harvesting? Another man's crops? Do you understand? So you need to sew that seed so that you can reap the fruits of your labor. And that's just what work is. You put in the work and then success comes in. And this putting of the work, it doesn't mean... It doesn't mean hardship. It doesn't mean... No, no, no, not even that. It doesn't mean it's meeting your uncles and meeting your aunties and saying they are the ones that are supposed to sponsor you, sponsor your business and all that. The first place you work is on yourself. Because if you want to go to a university, you read hard, first of all, and then maybe you try and buy jam form for yourself, write the jam form, get your cut off marks and you show your uncle and say, I've gone this far. It is easier to help you at that moment because you're putting the work yourself. So if you just go and say, okay, I know I didn't go to secondary school, but I want you to buy jam form for me. I want to go to the university. It doesn't work that way. So you start the work with yourself and invite others to help at some point. Because like they say, the quote we had the other day, it was that if you want to really succeed in business, you have to involve others, something like that. There's need for partnership, but you have to put in the work yourself before you can get that partnership that will make your success even better than what it is at the moment. Yeah, I agree 100%. All right, let's look at some top trending stories this morning. And this first one says, Labor Party Chairman Aburi arrested in Ados State. The national chairman of the Labor Party, Mr. Julius Aburi, has been arrested by security operatives in Ados State. Aburi was arrested on Wednesday a few days before the party's primary election in Ados State. The arrest was carried out by operatives of the Zone 5 police headquarters in Benin, Ados State, a crowd that gathered at the entrance with only police officers and a few VIPs allowed inside. It was gathered that his arrest was the result of a petition forwarded to the zone from the office of the Inspector General of Police in Abuja. Aburi was captured in viral videos and pictures being possibly handled by the police officers while his supporters from the Labor Party tried to intervene to stop his arrest. Confirming the incident, the police public's relation officer of the Zone, Tijani Momo, said, there are, or rather, there is a stand in order for now that nobody should come in. Yes, the Labor Party National Chairman is here, and it has to do with a petition that was referred to this office from the Inspector General of Police. It was referred to Zone 5 from the IG's office he is with us, but I cannot give the contents of the petition right now in court. When activity was being detained or just to take a statement Momo said, I don't know for now. Aburi has been having running battles with some members of the party in the state over allegations of substituting candidates in the 2023 general election without the consent of the affected aspirants and allegation he has denied. It was also gathered that the arrest may be connected to the factional crisis working in the party as a factional national youth leader was recently vitalized by some suspected members of the party. Aburi has also come on the fire for allegedly with handling party funds. So, let me talk about social media for a few seconds. Now, do you notice that thing that they tell you sometimes there are fake news on social media you should not believe everything you see on social media so there was a news making rounds on social media and he said Aburi was trying to commit suicide and they tried to stop him and now the fact is you know there was a petition so that's why I just wanted to say do everything you see on social media you know just take it with a pinch or so do not believe it and try to dig deeper to the fact of the story not just what somebody has just you know cooked up and served you on social media but yeah let's move it over to the actual story now the fact that he was so Labour Party has a lot of prices working you know their party at the moment you have the the factional leader the what's his name again the other man I can't even remember his name I know he has like a great beard and all of that and I'm going to remember his name and then you have Aburi as well but if the Inspector General of Police Union is making this then I think he should be you should they should have copied him you should have known and except maybe he knew and he still went ahead and then I don't think you should not have to do what I don't think you should now make a mess of him like I saw videos of him sitting on the floor and all of that it was just a lot first of all this is political according to the the story even it is political the people who wrote the petition are members of the party he's been having problems and it's a few days to the election or the primaries and all that so it is connected to politics and they are acting on a petition not on intelligence that they have they have not investigated this we don't know the contents of the letter anyway but it didn't show it didn't tell us that they investigated after a petition was written they just arrested him and disgraced him that's what I don't like about this if Aburi some report said he was it was because of attempted murder some say a lot of other very very terrible things whatever it is the police should do that due diligence get their intelligence arrest him prosecute him do whatever they need to do jail him if they have to jail him but you don't act on a petition and disgrace somebody the way they disgrace him you said he was on the floor I saw the videos as well it's it's not funny it's not nice for someone of that standing yes a national chairman of a political party that is one of the greatest opposition parties in this country so if you tie things like this to politics who knows if the people who are doing this are sponsored by other political parties that feel threatened so a lot of things I think that was just against his constitutional right his human rights because you can't do that to someone who is supposed to be in at least a good position fine they are not the ruling party the nlc chairman was also brutalized the other time and then they said they were protecting him and we know that it was not a protection for him and all that so things like this people should not just be acting and especially the law enforcement agencies respect them respect law enforcement agencies are breaking the law breaking whatever it is that that we see as law and human rights are being violated and all that it's not right I'm not saying whatever was in the petition he did not do but how much did they the police know or by themselves that made them do what they did it's I don't see it as a good thing at all so the other man is Lamidia Papa yes I just remembered now Lamidia Papa yeah I usually associate his name with the pot so I don't know how I forgot that okay well let's move on to the next one Mephile Suza Acquabio for defamation demands one billion Naira in battle former governor of the central bank of Nigeria CBN got with Mephile as demanded one billion Naira damages from senate president gospel Acquabio for defamation a Mephile's lawyer Matthew Burka saying that he has defamed he has defamed him because you remember that when Acquabio went for a Thanksgiving where they were honoring one of the south south senators he said that Mephile has committed so many crimes that they do not even know what to charge him with and we know that Acquabio was in the government when Mephile was doing whatever he was doing he was part of the economic team the economic council where all the governors go to with the president and all that and now he's saying that they don't even know he was doing so many bad things and Acquabio I don't know if he even has the moral moral grounds to criticize anybody we still did a lot of us do not know how he got into the senate he and the former senate president we don't know how they got into the senate we don't understand their brakada bra that went on and he's saying this as if he didn't know anything that happened and he doesn't know what the federal government will charge Acquabio Mephile with yeah even charges that have been dropped they gone possession and all that he still mentioned I don't know how are these people reason so funny enough um the the what he means the mandate is actually 25 billion yeah but you know not one billion less less be just nice less be nice I know he will get 25 billion but the thing is the good thing is no matter what Mephile is right now no matter what he is it doesn't give anybody the right to talk anyhow I will call that talking anyhow if you have facts bring them up I mean I was talking about it on the show the other day I'm like if you want to charge demand for anything investigate and charge demand why are we still talking about this he was arrested in the first place and they said he was possessing guns and after that they dropped it nobody answered for anything you you detained a man for a long time and then came and dropped just like that because they did not have evidence to show that this one was illegal this one was that and then you're now still using that no no no that's actually different our our our public office holders should learn how to talk that was not a speech that just came off his head that was a speech he delivered that was written so he knew exactly yes so if you don't have professionals to help you write your scripts please do get engaged we've been talking about this all the time they are PR experts there are people who write speeches for the president for a choice the best of them people who can also look in your face and say if you say this sir it is not going to go down well analyze everything because for every word you speak there are at least 10 10 interpretations to that so choose the very careful and I mean what we keep talking about freedom of speech in Nigeria and the fact that you know especially with the media they try to tell you oh you can't say this you can't say that but then you're seeing these politicians go off and say whatever they like so are you trying to tell me that you know the law works for some people and it doesn't work for others as a media person you should know but you as a you as a politician you should know they keep blackmailing you with that you should know even if what you're saying things with fat they want you to either divulge where your sources are and sometimes it's not possible I can't just give my sources because of that but is it a lie deny it tell us what there we're not expecting you as a media person to say that the blackmail you can't say blackmail anyways we'll go on a short break we'll look at the weather and when we return we'll be looking at what the national daily is all saying this morning please stay with us