 On the breakfast this morning an estimated 151,000 people will be diagnosed with the highly preventable disease called colon. We talk extensively of colon cancer, signs and symptoms, symptoms in treatment with medical practitioner. We take a look at the ruling of the Federal High Court in Abuja by Justice Tywood Tywood sacking 20 lawmakers for defecting from the PDP to the APC in crossing the state. And don't forget we'll also be looking through today's national dailies analyzing the biggest stories of the day. Very good morning to you. Welcome to the breakfast on Plus TV Advocates. A beautiful, beautiful Tuesday morning reaching you live from our studios in Victoria Allen Ligas. I am Kofi Bartels. And I am Merciable for us good to be back on your screen this beautiful Tuesday morning. As always we start off the conversation with the top trending and this morning we head straight to the University where you had some residents and citizens of Lifa actually protesting the fact that the choice of not having an indigent as the VC of the University in Abuha Femiah World War you can see that and some people are saying that you have a traditionalist and you also have because I mean looking at if you could probably I'm sure if we were able to put out the audio you would hear some of the chanting that's still going on. Traditionally some indigents at the campus of the Abuha Femiah World War University over the non-appointment of their townsmen as Vice Chancellor. So that's been getting a lot of people reacting and it's been getting a lot of persons you know talking about it but if you look at the situation the truth is the Vice Chancellor that's been appointed is from Oshun state and that's it and you also have the fact that the University is also in Oshun state. There's a lot you know to this particular issue but Kofi what are your thoughts on this one as we progress? Yes indeed these are Ifeh indigents and the Abuha Femiah World War University is located in Lifa. It was a bit bizarre because you could see indigents of the host community of the University clad in their traditional white white. When you hear the name Ifeh you know of course they have a very revered could I say deity you know and so it was a bit bizarre and strange to see them coming out in in white white you know but of course the issue should be the the subject of focus and this this clamor for having an indigent as Vice Chancellor is not on loan to Nigerian universities I mean I've seen some people you know comment online to say you know what isn't OAU a federal university again and but we know that around around the country federal universities have traditionally appointed at least indigents of the state as Vice Chancellor and that's been the the practice all along. I mean I've taken a cursory look at the history of Vice Chancellor of Abuha Femiah World War University from 1962 to the present you know the present to immediate past VC who wasn't yet handed over I believe he was appointed in 2017 and but of all the names that have been there there's only one that I have noticed since he's not even from the southwest I'm talking about Siru Agodi Omu Mechili who was appointed as a VC or Vice Chancellor of OAU in 1970-98 Eastern and Labs in 1982 where he handed over and so this is this is where we find ourselves as a country today that even for a federal institution like a university which is meant to be the citadel of learning citadel of everything that that should encapsulate or be a utopian society we're having these interest play out but of course this is Nigeria like Falz the badman said well the issue with you know having a Vice Chancellor in the university is usually not on the platter of gold I mean it's not something that has been handpicked and you're being given so you have candidates contesting according to reports you had like 16 candidates or there about contesting and so the selection board actually examined the people who actually submitted their you know their credentials for this particular post they were whether you were nominated or you submitted your credentials at the end of the day you had a board who actually examined the you know the credentials of this candidate in 19 sorry not 12 and scored them according to you know the stipulated criteria at the end of the day you had three highest scoring candidates which were presented to you the council and you know for further consideration which is provided by the law now the entire exercise because on the other hand you would want to say maybe this is also an issue of the fact that the people do not understand and we constantly want to go to the issue of nepotism because that has been part you know of our culture whether or not we want to agree it's very dominant so the entire exercise at the end of the day that led to the selection of professor Adebayo Bamiere who is now the vice chancellor was not like he was just single-handedly picked that's number one the exercise had you know the joint selection board which witnessed the representation of the federal you know you also had the representative of the federal character commission who confirmed that the exercise was fair and transparent and carried out so becoming a vice chancellor in a university is not an issue of you know chunking out I mean just giving it to whoever should get it if you even want to even get to that point there's there's a criteria it's based on merit it's not based on the fact that you're my family member the fact that you're from my language or the fact that you know you're my neighbor or you're my sister people actually contested or you know they had a screen presence for this particular position at the end of the day those who probably would have been from there maybe the next time you have some person saying okay let's have 10 people from Ileife you know contested so out of the 10 I mean somebody must make it you know to number one or number I mean number one that's what we say so if 10 people are coming from there but it just shows us what is constantly ongoing in our system and you know the kind of system that we have everything was actually fair it was based on you know the laid-down standards and rule and but let's even begin to look at the sentiment if you look at you know the founder Obafemiah Wollewo himself Obafemiah Wollewo himself is from you know the noun called or shun state Ikenne and if he wanted to go by the sentiment I'm not sure he probably would have you know had the idea of having the university you know where it is right now even Ogunse it I beg your pardon you also want to talk about what's his name again Akintola Ladikua Kintola if I'm not mistaken as well the point is we can't continue like this and hope to have a different result the issue of nepotism and tribalism has been very big on us and you know this is really really sad to see that the current VC of the university because I was thinking when I saw the story I thought he was from crossover state or a quibum state and then you know you look at it he's still from the southwest so what's the fuse you know at the end of the day especially in the system where it's based on merit very interesting important point you've raised that you know the the individual who was in charge of the southwest at the time when Nigeria was divided on regional basis and when that university was founded it's not even an indigent of ife you know but he situated it there that's a very important point that we ought to know I mean this is not the first time the protests has held and we hear that it went with some ritual items you know and some of these deities no chanting praises to the ocean river goddess and this is what scared some people away if our students were as scared as we're talking the students union government has told the institution to be shut down until you know they can sort the matter out so it's really really sad we're also hearing that the protesters allegedly a man handled some security men at the gate though they're saying they were shouting and saying they're coming in peace they're not violent and all that but this is this is what we have in the country where you know we're very divided you know very you have to apply for something you're applying on basis of your state of origin it's being it's being written on your your your your form if you feel a form you know instead of origin and all that all Nigerians need to be seen as Nigerians I think it was Attico Boba who had been shouting and saying that even becomes president he would like to abolish this thing called state of origin and I think all the other candidates should think about it very importantly I mean let's get back to Nigeria where you can come from cross river state amen and be the governor be the governor of river state you can come from um Abia state and be the governor of Lagos state you know I know it doesn't it's it's it's a utopian all right it's it's something that is so ideal but may not be realistic today but we can start taking steps taking steps towards that and and it's very important to know that 20 persons applied for this position that of those 20 people 16 applicants were shortlisted and there was a rigorous process like you said it wasn't just like the professor Bamiere was just handpicked and he said you know take it no you know but I think we we began at a point began to lead ourselves down this path when we began to see appointments of vice chancellors into you know universities of universities from states and where these universities are situated for instance I mean I'm I'm an alumnus of the University of Calaba like you are mercy and I don't remember last time that a non-indigene was appointed as a vice chancellor of the rest of Calaba in my time and even while I've been monitoring I mean you go to some states like cross river state the current chief judge of the state it was an issue you know you go to river state they've had issues you go to legacy well legacy is a bit ahead because if if our appointments of commissioners especially during fashion last time and from other parts of the country as as committee you know as as committee so these are things that we need to grow beyond move beyond but also we might not be fair if we're also trying to not understand the point of the e-fair citizens but we'll look at this as you know when you want to talk about they shouldn't be going with the rituals and the just before we move on I mean when you when you begin to talk about what's this fair here now we begin to tilt towards that I mean it's just simple so I have said that if paraventure it's that they begin to look at because at the end of the day this person is also from mushroom state that's what it is right so um if you want to begin to look at it then maybe you say uh if you really want your own to be represented it's like having people from different local governments of course currently you have the vice chancellor from you know maybe bookie order about who's you know chancellor the university some part one local government then you begin to push maybe like 10 candidates there so out of 10 it's under probability so out of 10 one should make it you know to to number one and that's what it should be because there's a criteria for it it's not handpicked it's not something that you just have to chunk out but that's what it is we hope that we understand that the fact that we're still I mean one of the major problems that we're faced with as a countries that were constantly divided every day the question is were you I mean it's not that are you a Nigerian is where are you from what state are you from what tribe are you from and that has constantly divided us and that has constantly made us have you know not having the right people you know in the right position but let's see how things pan out as we move in this democracy all right let's move on to our next training story of course this one of course it's always very sad whenever something like this happened Chinese passenger plane airplane with about 132m on board it's a Boeing 737 crashing in southern China into the mountains in a place called Guangxi province is in southern China I've seen the video of the plane crash the aircraft was diving at an angle of about 35 degrees and the video the footage was caught by someone who was in the vicinity who had a dashcam a car dashcam and used that dashcam to to capture the footage it's really really heartbreaking and this is China eastern airlines it's a Boeing 737 800 and it was flying from Kunming to Guangzhou when it plunged down to the earth in Guangxi province it caught fire and of course the number of casualties and the reason for the crash are not yet known but according to sources we're hearing that there are no signs of survivors the rescuers are saying there are no signs of survivors and you hardly hear a hair of air crushes you know an air mishaps in China so it has been taking the Chinese airline generally have airlines or they generally have a good safety record and the last major incident to place 12 years ago so that's how it's been in China it's called shock we're hearing it's called shock in China President Xi Jinping we're hearing also has ordered an immediate investigating investigation to determine the cause and the airline China eastern airlines has grounded all its Boeing 737 800s you can see the fire there and of course the rescue workers at the site it's it's really sad more than 600 emergency responders are said to be at a crash site firefighters also reached a scene and managed to extinguish the blaze in the hills caused by the crash apart from the dash karm karm also we have footage taken by local villagers some of which you've seen on your screen and that was shared on Chinese social media it's really really sad indeed we pray for for the souls of those who departed we pray for the families affected as well and our thoughts and our hearts are with them well very unfortunate and our prayers will continue to be with those who have lost their lives but you know the Boeing 737 has actually been called out again and some people are saying oh you know it's actually not very strange it feels to be very common you know with the Boeing and there are a lot of speculations a lot of you know conspiracy theories that have been put out but the truth is we would actually request that we allow investigation to continue let the black box be found as soon as the black box is found then you know it would help the what's it called again investigation it would actually help in identifying what actually went wrong and what really happened that you know you had that plane crash I would just think that it's quite early yes we understand that there might be antecedent but it might just really really be too early for us to begin to put out you know what could necessarily cause it because some people are saying it's actually carelessness on the part of you know the Boeing 737 which already have you know some kind of history but fingers across them but Boeing has said they have reached out to the American authorities we have to see how they can facilitate an interaction with Chinese authorities you know China would naturally want to take care of this themselves you know but let's see how it goes and that's the much we can take on our top trending segment right here on the breakfast so when we come back we have a look and analysis of headlines on front pages of the national dailies we call it off the press be still with us