 Canada State Government bans motorcycle operations and cuts telecommunications services in some areas as insecurity increases. Nigeria ranks low in digital quality of life survey. And Airpeace gets bashing for delayed flights for more than three hours and getting passengers rested. You're welcome to the breakfast on PLOS TV Africa, it's a beautiful first day morning in Lagos, I am Annette Felix and I am a saugi of Boa. Good morning, thanks for joining us on a Thursday looks like it might be a wet Thursday morning across Lagos. If you look outside your window, I felt like it was going to rain this morning. So just keep that in mind as you step out of the house this morning and we hope that it's going to be a very, very beautiful Thursday. Yes, and our first top training story really falls from what you said yesterday when there were unconfirmed reports of the murder of the husband of the former boss of the Nigeria or national agency for food and drug administration and control NAVDAC. The news has finally been confirmed and what we're hearing in some courses is that his death might have been at the hand of IPUB militants, that's still unconfirmed. The question remains, who killed Chike Akunyili? The story really says that yesterday he attended a function where he even donated money, it was a function to honour his wife, his late life and then this happened. I mean, I witnessed this, we saw him, he donated money to us, at least 500,000 Naira and he was leaving, we all hugged him, said goodbye and later we saw videos, very gruesome videos of him in a suit and a tie as well as a pants as well. And then that video too gory to even describe what happened there, but it's something that has left questions in the minds of many Nigerians, who really killed Chike Akunyili and for what reasons? Well, as we would expect with many, many other situations like this, it's always expected that women never know the truth with regards to this. The video I have chosen to not watch it and I hope that I never get to watch it because I don't think I want to ever have that memory of Chike Akunyili in that position or like that. It's really, really sad and really, really, really painful and I've said it this week multiple times that Nigeria can happen to you at any time, but I don't even think that Chike Akunyili deserves to be put into that narrative because of how painful this is. And that's why I started yesterday by saying it wasn't confirmed yet, but it's also going to be one of the most shocking things that happened this week. And as always, it's also expected painfully that we would still move on from, this will not be in any way enough for the Nigerian government, the South Eastern government, for everyone who is concerned or who is relevant to take new steps to ensure that there's security and safety of lives and property in the South Eastern across Nigeria. This would not be a big shock painfully and that's why we found ourselves in Nigeria have accessed multiple times, like what would be that thing that would be big enough to get the Nigerian government to understand how much they have failed with regards to protection of lives and property, what would be big enough for the Nigerian people themselves to look at and say okay, this is the straw that has broken the camel's back, what exactly would that thing be? It's obviously not death. It's not death of hundreds, neither is it death of popular people. It's not death of the good, the bad or the ugly. It's really just absolutely nothing and that's how thick skinned or maybe dead inside that Nigerians have become to certain things. It hurts because the Akunilis basically gave their all to Nigeria. Chike was a medical doctor, I remember his hospital in Transiculu, he was able to successfully build a new one a few years ago or expand what it was before a couple of years ago and he has been known for what he's contributed to health care to the South East and to the whole of Nigeria, aside what his wife was known for himself, Chike Akunil was a phenomenal human being, a philanthropist. He was everything that you would want to see as a mentor and as a role model for a person of that caliber. It hurts and I cannot imagine what the kids, the Akunili children would be dealing with, seeing their father in that position, basically trying to survive, what happened. I don't want to imagine what kind of trauma that would cause them. But most importantly, the Akunilis gave their all to Nigeria, they both have lost their lives and it cannot be explained how hurtful this is. Who is responsible, nobody will know. The DSS has said that they are not responsible and I think they were responding to allegations by the IPOB saying that it's likely the DSS. There's also people who said that it may not even be the IPOB, it might just be Robbers or Assassins. There's people who say that it may be the IPOB and that they didn't know who he was before they carried out that action and eventually killed him and his escort and drive, I believe. There's many, many narratives but most importantly, what will the Nigerian government do, what will the Anambra State government do, what will the South Eastern governments in general do with regards to the Akunili's death? I can't. I think I said this yesterday that I'm slowly and slowly starting to become also affected by having to speak about these things every morning because they eventually, it's becoming traumatizing, you know, mentally and emotionally for me to have to deal with Nigeria every day and have to share stories on Nigeria every day. It's really not even a healthy place to be to talk about these things like we're talking about the price of bread. These are lives, people, families, husbands, daughters, wives. It's just not normal to have these type of conversations every single day for years in any way. It's not healthy and it's not normal at all. But rest in peace to Dr. Chike Akunili. Rest in peace to him. We really hope that the police this time actually gets to the bottom of the situation and just does the investigation to find out exactly who killed Chike Akunili and why exactly. To be honest, at this point, I don't care. And the reason I don't care is because of what the Nigerian police has been like in the last few years, forever actually, not the last few years. Anybody can be brought up and be said to be the found killers of Dr. Chike Akunili and half of the people who sit as there will not even believe that they are the ones who are responsible. And also. It doesn't solve the security challenges. Whoever it is that the police arrest doesn't in any way address the security challenges. And so doing that photo op, raiding whatever village in Uqba'u in Anambara state and arresting a couple of people that maybe would be the ones who actually carried out that attack doesn't solve the challenge. If we still aren't doing anything to ensure that Nigeria is safer, then this is just one waiting for the next one to happen. And so that's why I really don't even care. I mean, yes, you encourage them to do their job and make sure that the family gets justice. But it's not the answer to our problems in any way. Half of the people who are going to see whatever the police is going to do now, more than half actually don't even believe, you know, those things. Sadly. OK, so our next uptrending story really takes us to the airport across Nigeria, and one name really comes to mind. It's air peace. So the top trend in the story is that the hashtag boycott air peace has been trending on social media. And that's because the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria fan basically arrested two air peace passengers a few days ago. So what the story is saying is that the flight and air peace flight was delayed for about three hours. And one of the passengers who was concerned went to talk to one of the officials to say our flight has been delayed for about three hours. What's happening? And the man kept quiet. So what he did was push him in the face. That really was assault right there. Very wrong of him to do so. So another lady, her offense, she was arrested. Her offense was basically bring it out her mobile phone and recording passengers complain about the poor services of air peace, because we know that air peace has this, you know, reputation of delayed flights. People call them out on social media every now and then. So this man is a poor Samuel, was arrested by fan officials. A retail courier for arrested by fan officials as well for recording and putting on social media. They told that she had no rights to record and she had to stop to record it. But she continued recording, putting that on social media. They arrested both of them. They closed the boarding gates. They seized their flight tickets, put them in a van, drove them away, give them forms to fill and all of that. So that really is what the situation is about. But we have a track really that explains better. Take a listen. Look at that. He's a natural. And that guy is an asshole. He's a natural. People who have a clear words about this. Who does it? You are a complete digger. They have a clear words. What's in there? What's in there? What's in there? Take it also. And as soon as they don't listen, if you catch people for two hours, this is a different place. But that's what we've done. 11 PM. All right, basically just showing you clips from where it all started yesterday. But of course it started actually at 7 PM when the flight was meant to take off. Eventually it was later, about 11 PM. And all that drama into it. What I would continue to find shocking is how Nigerian companies, mostly air peace and basically airlines in Nigeria don't understand that passengers have the right to complain. And when you complain... Customer service. Yeah, the important thing with customer service, where you complain they might bring you smart shops and some soda and expect you to calm down. One thing that was very important is if you listen to the clip, one of the things that was said there, where a woman was saying it's not your fault, if Nigeria was safer, a lot of people wouldn't even be flying, which is very, very true. I remember a photo a couple of days ago where some government officials in the north were complaining that their flight was delayed for about two, three hours. And people were asking them, I mean you guys have been saying roads are safe in the north and traveling safe. Why don't you go by road? It's not so far. But of course these are some of the things that you would have to experience because Nigeria is not currently safe enough for road travel. Customer service in Nigeria, who really defends the customers? Who stands for the customers? What is the Federal Air Force Authority of Nigeria meant to be doing in a situation like this? They shouldn't only be relevant, they basically manage the airports. But there has to be a body that stands for customers. It cannot just be social media. There has to be somebody, and unfortunately I'm not very sure now, who really should take the rights of customers more importantly at a time like this. Eventually this might end up as a lawsuit, maybe, maybe not. And nobody even really, even trust at the court will be able to rule in their favor. So air peace needs to do better. They've been known for, you know, delayed flights somehow, some way. Their chairman, you know, has of course in overtime also been indicted for money laundering or has that money laundering charged a few, a month ago, a few years ago in the United States. And so it's not just good PR for them. He has also tried to do whatever it is possible to change the narrative concerning air peace. If you remember the speech that he gave to the super egos not long ago, which everyone applauded. When he also rescued Nigerians from South Africa, which are really, really good things. But his staff eventually now go and throw some of all those good things in the mud with their attitude and with the failure of the airline to just, you know, do what is right when customers are upset. Okay, so really, I believe that, you know, like you said, customer service should be prioritized because it is the customers who pay for the success of those businesses. It is the customers that keep them afloat. So I believe that businesses should do better with regard to customer service, prioritized customers welfare. When they complain, take that very seriously because your customers really can be your undoing. I mean, when a customer goes ahead to make complaints like this, you see hashtag boycott air peace is trending all over social media. And there's some people who say, oh, I stopped flying air peace 2003, 2005, after they delayed me for this and that. So let businesses do better. And like you mentioned, we need to find out some of the protection agencies and laws that, you know, we should have recourse to. And the mechanisms for reporting this, you know, even there, do customers get compensation when they complain? I'm sure that some of these things exist but the point is how many people know? Because it all starts with awareness. How many people are aware of whatever channel is available for you to complain when, you know, you do not get the service you pay for. And when you eventually complain, haven't known what agency you need to complain to, how much of a compensation do you get? I think there was a, just to quickly mention, I think there was a time not very long ago where the National Assembly had debated laws, you know, to punish airlines for delayed flights. I remember that we talked about that. It was stated that when you delay a flight for about an hour, at least an hour, you should serve refreshments. When it's modern three hours, it was recent that you should go ahead and refund the flight tickets. But this is Nigeria. I said, it's beyond knowing what agency to report to. When you eventually report, do you get the compensation you deserve? That really was the sum of what I was saying. So I'm going to go back to our first up-trend story. That's because of our full-found breaking news about Chiki Akunyili who was killed yesterday. I think that was in Anamra on Tuesday. So the DSS put out a statement. They said that they heard news that the DSS has been fingered for being involved in the death of Chiki Akunyili. So Peter from Naya, the PR of the DSS says that the DSS cherishes life, believes in the rule of law and that they have no reason to kill the medical doctor or fellow law enforcement agencies. They said this really is a desperate effort to divert attention, deploy reverse psychology to deceive unsuspecting members of the public and that they never really had anything to do with the death of Chiki Akunyili. So the DSS has said we are not involved. Now, while it seems the DSS has spoken out, the IPOB, the just people of Biafra have spoken out as well, the spokesman Peter Afunaya put out a statement saying that they do not know Chiki Akunyili rather. Am I powerful? Yes, Imano powerful said he does not know Chiki Akunyili. He has nothing to do with him. He went on to say that the people who killed Chiki Akunyili, this is what Imano powerful IPOB spokesman is saying, that the people who killed Chiki Akunyili are people who are contesting the Anambra Elections, Anambra Governorship Elections. They also said that they are the same people who poisoned the last Dora. I mean, let me read out a statement for you. He said, those who killed Dora, Kuyili's husband, killed his wife with poison. Oh my god. So he went on and on and on to continue to say things about that. He also said that they are fulani I don't know why he had to throw that in but he said because she was deaf, for good luck Ibile Jonathan to take over as president of Nigeria that they know themselves, they conspired to kill her and now they have killed her husband over their, you know, the contest of the Governorship election in Anambra state. They have no issues with Chiki Akunyili. We do not know him. Those behind the act must stop and stop using the IPOP name and that this is pure political assassination. This is what they are really saying. I think I already mentioned, I already mentioned all of this. DDSS response was really to the IPOP's accusations and of course those who had said that it might be politically motivated and some all of that. Moral of the story is that the southeast is currently very, very unsafe and more work needs to be done for people in the southeast. It's not the first time there has been assassinations in Inugu state multiple times and this is maybe just the highest profile person that has been killed but anyway recipes once again. Our final top trending story is about paternity leave. Yesterday at the end of the federal executive council meeting ahead of civil service Mrs Esso announced that a few weeks having granted two weeks actually having granted two fathers as paternity leave. So before now we only had the maternity leave where women had 12 weeks. We had a few weeks before you deliver before your due date and a few weeks after you deliver but that was reviewed I think in 2018 and they said we're going to increase that from three months to four months and women had a few months before their due date and a few months after then when you give birth of course and you come back to the office you're allowed to close early just so that the burden of combining work at the home front and at the office doesn't take its toll on you but now they're saying that fathers also deserve that time to bond with their children and if you give birth or if you're that's how they say it, we're pre-nanced, we're given birth and have a child, the man tries to get that ownership I understand. So if you give birth if you have a baby and you work in the civil service you can definitely apply for two week paternity leave so you can be at home and spend time with your family. I think this is good I'm looking forward to the next few years going up to maybe even a month I don't know if that's going to be possible but it's a good thing because we know that in other parts of the country paternity leave it's even more men get more time off work they even get about 60% or so of their salary still paid there's job security there but good to know that Nigeria is trying to catch up Yeah I think Norway has about 10 weeks for paternity leave Slovenia fathers in Slovenia are given about 12 weeks paternity leave Lithuania and Hungary have parents taken up to 150 weeks of work You know those countries are high in the index what you're talking about I just wanted to point that out and that is of course like you mentioned because parents need time to bond with their children we've had this Omogwa tradition for a long time I'm not sure who's mother is it the mother of the woman or the mother of the man I think it's the mother of the woman to come take care of the child but I think that's not it's important that we also understand the role that the father should also play in that time and he does need time off work to be with his wife and to be with the child not just the child but to be with the wife also to play his role as a father and absolutely to be in the house while she is of course healing from childbirth there's many many many post-partum issues that aren't discussed a lot here in Nigeria that I feel like parents need to work through together it cannot be when he gets back from work at 5pm or 6pm he has to be there 24 hours with the wife to do those post-partum issues hair loss pains and depression, yeah all of that those are things that both parents need to work hand in hand to be with and of course it's a little stressful also for the men having to go through that period I actually try to have a conversation about a month ago and speak with husbands and see what they also deal with post-partum what are the things that they have to also deal with a lot of them so a lot of them responded with I choose not to speak because they will get me in trouble so I think it's personal to their marriages and so they would rather not put those things out there but the point is really just to express that there are those issues that fathers also need to have to deal with it may not be as major as what the woman goes through we need to know actually it may not be as major as what the woman goes through but for the child for the woman and for the family unit itself yes they deserve some leave and I don't even think two weeks is enough I think it really should be as much as you know a month or two months absolutely so those are our top trending stories for you this morning we shared you just information about the death of Chiki Akunili and controversies surrounding who killed him air peace delaying flights up to three hours and then arresting two passengers as well as the fact that the federal government has now approved the two weeks intended to leave for fathers obviously with awesome breakfast we'll be back to take a look at the stories in the headlight class