 It's the Friday Flex edition of the breakfast on the Plus TV Africa and it's time to take a look at what the newspapers have for us today and let's start with the Guardian newspaper. The Guardian newspaper leads with Nigeria's drug crisis hits 500 billion worth of seizures yearly. That's a big story here and the full stories can be found on pages four and five of the Guardian newspaper. On top you have after 800 million dollars palliative, FGC suspended subsidy sites wrong timing. Yesterday we're all you know surprised to hear that you know the subsidy removal that was targeted for June of this year has been suspended by the federal government. Indeed it is one of the stories we'll be taking a look at today on our hot topics and as you go further on that newspaper the Guardian you find APC crisis. Lukman drugs are done to quote over a ledge brief bridge of party constitution. That story is on page six and then you have Malami Nox reps says claims of illegal 2.4 billion dollars oil sale falls. Well that is a very hot hot topic there Nyango. Well I don't know if they will probe any further because if it is not false that means a lot of people must have shared in the cake and it will be difficult to bring them to book. In Nigeria a lot of things happen and we don't hear anything about it anymore. I'm thinking what still happens to the pensions guy Mayna. I'm thinking what happened to the accountant general that stole about 80 billion or 120 depends on what it is Naira billion 120 billion or even if it's 80 billion Naira. If you calculate in your head as an average Nigerian you know how many millions go into a billion Naira and then you're having 120 is that all poverty mentality. Nyango you know that oil sector is shrouded in secrecy it's been for a long time and so many people have been trying to break into it and shed more light to the activities of that ministry. But will they shed more light once you get the battery to your torch light dies. All right at the bottom you have a writer Sudan crisis confusion logistic huddles trail evacuation details of that on page three of the Guardian newspaper. Okay maybe we'll move on to daily independence now. Daily independence also has its own stories. Companies working for foreign carriers quitting Nigeria and you have under that same headline Emirates consultants exist exits the class workers redundant. Stakeholder urges ticket sales in dollars to stop job caught. That's still problems in aviation industry as we're seeing. Why federal government made U-turn on fuel subsidy removal by June. You can see that story on page 29 of the Daily Independent. A lot of us were not really really surprised because we knew it's okay we thought it was going to be just a gimmick and all that the timing really was bad but they knew it from the beginning and they still went ahead and said it well. Governors ask Buhari to present new revenue sharing formula to national assembly and that is like 30 days to going. That's on page seven. Eboni Commission's 36 billion narrow airport offers free flights for four weeks. I just might be traveling Eboni is offering free flights for four weeks and it's a very commendable one. Yesterday we were talking about the governor of crossover state. One of the things he said he was going to deliver was a super highway from Calabar to Obudu which will have Wi-Fi which will have a lot of things he said very beautiful things till date. I'm not sure we've seen a kilometer by the way. No I'm from crossover state. But that free flight is it for everyone or just Eboni? Well if you decide to land in Eboni I'm very sure it's going to be free for you but even if it's not free it will be so subsidized because they need traffic in that place. I haven't read up on the story but I saw flights taking off and landing in the Eboni airport and it is very commendable I say I must say. So the crossover one for eight years we have not seen I just know he cleared cocoa farms and yam farms cassava farms and let the place just stay like that. Nothing has been done about it. I hope the farmers were compensated. Ah well that's sorry for the gods. Okay we have homicide fresh trouble for Dogua as called Askano AG to prepare charge against him and others that's on page six. Then overconfidence worked against opposition in 2023 election says Buhari overconfidence and what? Well confidence in the system maybe that the system was going to work and then it didn't work. Federal government of Nigeria security safe risk free investment opportunities. Okay so let's go to the top of that newspaper that is the daily independent newspaper. We have no stolen 48 million barrels of crude oil what 2.4 billion that's according to Malami. Buhari boast of facilitating recruitment of 60,000 soldiers and others. The story is there. He says terrorists are being subdued. Okay so when we call terrorists we need to define what terrorists are and what terrorism is and what they do. They are being subdued. I don't know if they average Nigerian will say the same thing. So those are the major headlines on the daily independence. All right so the next newspaper to look at is the daily trust and daily trust leads with Tunibu settles for Akmabio Bairau, a senate president and deputy. The writers there to convey decision to national working committee other contenders meet APC governors says let's work together on national assembly leadership. North can't be second fiddle that's what the former governor has said that's the northern former governor and then consultations ongoing for speaker deputy speaker positions. So Tunibu finally settles for Akmabio. You know the off the press guest we had yesterday just kept marketing Akmabio and who knows whether they watched us and the marketing paid off he should come and pay us something for that opportunity to market his money. We didn't market with him he marketed. That's what I'm saying he marketed and we made the mistake of not collecting money for that marketing. All right so on top of that you have presidency to youth. You can relocate abroad for better opportunities. You can relocate abroad for better opportunities. Femi Adesina was heard saying that that you can relocate tonight relocate abroad as long as you don't go there and do manual jobs. Well let's what a response we'll talk about it we'll just finish it. Federal government suspends fuel subsidy removal mentioned that it's also on the other newspapers and federal government says no vaccination as poultry farmers lose 3.4 million birds to flu. This is not good news. Eggs are already on the because of eggs already astronomically high. You buy egg for three thousand Naira for a crate two thousand five depending on where you're buying it two thousand seven hundred and so with this kind of bird flu and the chicken itself what could happen the chicken itself that you're going to buy and you know that some of these things funny as it's me it also affects relationships you know because someone is trying to you know be in the good books of a girl for instance and then you take the girl to an eatery and then when you finish eating when you want to buy they tell you a price for the chicken that you had calculated in your head that's going to be a certain way and you find out that at the end of the day you're just sweeping for the people the girl will never come back you know but you know as funny as it is it affects a lot of things you can't take your family out because you can't afford it anymore you can't take relationships that mostly in Nigeria begin in social places like that like the eateries cannot happen anymore because you can't afford it anymore so yeah we should see to a lot of things to make sure that they don't have ripple effects that will well will will be detrimental to us all right well you have more headlines that tanker explosion kills 13 injured many in just I mean this is one story I am just not happy about have you seen those tankers on the roads they are so scary I hate seeing them on the roads there was a time I believe in playing in Lagos when the government made it illegal for them to ply the roads same time as normal vehicles and I think they they they they limited their movement to 11 p.m because they had caused so many tragic accidents in Lagos many people were trapped at some point on was it not or Jody Begha wrote somewhere there close to the Tedola bridge thank you very much many vehicles were burnt people's burnt in their vehicles very horrific and so to see that this has happened in just certain people killed right there and then in one accident is no joke let's hope that all across the country that government will make sure that these vehicles that are very deadly do not ply same time they should not be on the roads during the daytime and then we don't know what we can even say to the people because as we speak right now they are I'm sure close to a thousand when you're going to a Jody Begha so between a Jody Begha and the toll gate as they call it you could have up to like like 500 or at least 300 standing there so they've been trying to move since all night and some of them slept there so if you tell them to move at 11 o'clock will the road even be free enough for them to move at 11 o'clock because those ones moved in the night and they're still there this morning so will you arrest them if the law were in place of for instance will you arrest them that they're moving in the morning when you didn't make available the road for them to pass so while we're looking at punishing the people for for not keeping the law for breaking the law we also should be looking at why they are breaking the law as well because like they say you're catching me for roadwardness and then I'm supposed to drive my car in a road that is not worthy of my car so the car may not be roadwardy but it's a road car wardy that's what the road so that's that's the thing we should look at both ways but there is more um my administration recruited 60 000 soldiers that's boharic we're still on the daily trust and then just below that you have girl eight tests HIV positive after mother's boyfriend ripped her that story can be found on page 20 you know nyambo we're talking we'll be talking about child abuse prevention uh this uh friday because this april is the month for the child abuse prevention and this story is is just horrific this heartbreaking very heartbreaking raping an eight-year-old child why would you even do that it's not a see if you were sexed out because you're dating the mother you're dating the mother so what what are you looking for and eight-year-old that you didn't find in the mother it's it's just terrible pedophiles uh i don't know you know one of the things we one of the questions i'm going to ask uh resource persons as resource person as we take a look at this is uh let's assess government's effort in uh creating deterrent measures to predict us sexual predators pedophiles such as this animal beast that raped this eight-year-old what because if these measures are there and implemented and i hope they are there and being implemented those many of those who have the tendencies the perverts who would see a child an eight-year-old child who has not formed anything and want to have sex with her such people would have a rethink and you know there was a time many years ago i think that was in 2008 2006 2007 2008 there about when almost on a daily basis you would open the newspapers and you see cases of sexual abuses of children children few months old there was one case a woman a wife narrated how her two months old baby was sexually abused by her her father that's her own husband yeah and i'm gonna kid you not i became scared at the thought of having daughters and that is the story or the story of many mothers out there because the girl child has become an endangered species in this world that we live in yeah but um we should also know uh that it goes both ways there are some people who who have been damaged in adult life because that's men because of what i was done to them by by some women that were in their life most times is the maids in the house you know that do do all sorts of things and all that so we just need to be careful we need to be careful because we can't rule that out and we yes we need a lot of things to be done but for the physical things that we can see for those that we can catch we need to use them as an example to deter others that might want to do the same thing and to stop them in their tracks if they have any any thinking about that they the the worry something is that who knows if after we are talking here and we are hoping that a law will be made or there will be drastic major measures taken against these people that being a pedophile will now become a right because there are people who have already started advocating that they be given this right that is that is that is their own way of expressing their their desires so you can't take that right away from them and now writes the things that were supposed to be psychiatric cases are becoming rights somebody tells you i'm a trans racial that means i'm in a black body i'm a white person or i mean i all that i identify as a wolf yes some say i'm non-binary who does that uh you're either a woman or a man and they say they are they are non these you cannot some schools in america right now as we speak have removed the pronoun he or she yeah so they or they be so you know i'm happy we've not started having that discussion in nigeria yet i hope we don't get to that well there are a lot of things we are copying that we should not copy there are a lot of things they are they are if you talk they will tell you you're homophobic you they will tell you you are this and that but i i will be the loss of nature so when i'm talking i'll talk nature i'll talk god and you can't separate god and nature i talk nature nature made a man nature made a woman and then you're telling me that i must believe that what you have chosen to call yourself a man if you're a woman or call yourself a woman if you're a man it must be in the curriculum you teach it to our children you do a lot of things and you say i should accept it do it if you if it works for you do it if you don't but don't force it on someone else don't force it on me you know that's the thing i've discovered with uh some of these people who have moved from the natural normal ways of doing things they then become very sensitive and they become very defensive and every little thing you say they take offense and then it becomes becomes a thing of you know hatred and just like you i'm careful i'm i'm i'm choosing my words i can't see i can't see i can't imagine i'm choosing my words because i don't want to be dragged for whatever though if i'm dragged i will not see the dragon i don't i'm not doing so much on social media but nature remains supreme okay before we if we can have time for the nature needs to be because you've just mentioned i'd like to just comment on this tinnaboo settles for fabuio barau a senate president and deputy and for me i think it's a disgusting kind of thing we should have we should have suppression of powers we should have the executive we should have the nature we should have the judiciary judiciary and then it is the president elect or the president even if he is the president that will tell you who he wants to be the senate president or the deputy senate president he will pick the person he wants and then tomorrow you tell me there will be checks and balances you tell me there will be someone who will hold him by this by this sleeve if he does wrong you it's just my boy go and do this and you're a rubber stamp rubber stamp so the national assembly that is saddled with the responsibility of making laws for this nation cannot choose their own leaders it's disgusting as far as i'm concerned and then okay no go ahead and then she fed me an additional says you can relocate abroad for better opportunities like do your worst nothing nothing spoil as far as you are going to be a good person go away people are looking for others from other countries to come and our people instead of saying be patient with us these are things we have done if you must go but help us like this want to make a country better you say you can't go and i know because in trying to address this jacquard syndrome that many are crying against saying the brain drain is becoming so much and that you know knocking the president administration i guess that's what led to him saying well you can go abroad if you have opportunities to do so in future you're going to come back to nadirah a better person but ensure that when you go you do not go there to do many odd jobs and all that and all that and um well you remember he said that whatever this administration has failed in the administration didn't promise it because it's the supporters of the president administration or the president that may have given those promises so they shouldn't blame this administration who who does that okay this administration promised us security okay now we've heard that terrorists are subdued anyway they had promised us let's go to the next let's go to the next newspaper okay well to save our mental health yeah well uh nature newspaper maybe you just take that nature newspaper and let's see what's on nature newspaper nature newspaper has a story all right well oando champions energy transition in transportation takes delivery of electric buses well maybe that's the way to go because everybody has been talking about ppp private uh partnership with the government to get things done maybe more involvement like oando has taken this step will make things are good for us electric cars electric buses good that would be good um if we have enough power to support these electric vehicles it would have been good because you want to protect nature one day of one day on because you can't charge them there's no place to charge them so on top you have tomato farmers lose 1.5 billion narrow to disease nabg blames climate change oh wow one of the biggest forests we have in the world was in cross river state uh where we also have uh the cross river gorillas that are only 250 in the world now and they are only found in that place but now the logging that is going on there and we were supposed to be making money green energy money from from uh united nations and all that but the logging that is going on there the lucrativeness of that business uh they are destroying the entire forest when you say login what what does that mean i don't know cutting down the trees all using the trees for it if they fell the trees and all that so i don't know how how how disciplined we are in sticking to the plan to make sure that we we we we have this green energy we stop this logging we continue to have fresh air from our forest and all that we need to be deliberate about it we have to be federal government extends a deadline for fuel subsidy removal uh ip man hails action okay that's everywhere uh on our newspapers um then we have federal governments stakeholders push for robber sector revitalization all that means the diversification of the economy that will be good afdb least nigeria others among most vulnerable to climate risk that is what is being said that's from nation nature news then maritime industry large enough to engage youth that's according to nemasa you find that story also on the nature news newspaper okay well um that's the much we can take on the newspaper review as it is off the press we call it and we do hope you can read up on all the stories that we've talked about here on the pages of the newspaper but that's how far we can go we'll take a short break now when we return we'll take our hot topic number one stay with us