 On the breakfast this morning, what's in a name? And what seems like waiting till teenage years before naming a child? The Nigerian government finally declares bandits terrorizing Nigeria as terrorists. We look at the significance of this. And then our Friday sports, this coursing with sports analysts, Wallace Courts will be joining the conversation as regards a build-up to the African Cup of Nations. And as always, we look through the newspapers and unwrap the biggest stories making headlines across Nigeria today. Thanks for joining us on the Breakfast on Plus TV Africa on the final show for this week. And of course, final one for, well, first week of 2022, the final one. I am Osaugi Oboa and we hope that you have a very interesting time with us this morning. And I am Messi, hope it's good to be back on your screen this morning. Absolutely. We, of course, start with top trending stories, but much later on the program this morning, we're going to be looking at a late naming ceremony. Imagine naming your child when he's 19. And the significance of the name also, and that's with regards, the Nigerian government finally declaring terrorists or bandits, rather, who have been terrorizing Nigerians across the northern part of the country for years now, finally being declared terrorists. What exactly is the significance of this? And, you know, what will this really change in any way concerning the fight against insecurity? I also saw reports, I'm not chatting on the Daily Trust, you know, that about 60 persons were killed in the last 24 hours would, of course, go look through that and confirm that story. Of course, while it's got to be joining us to discuss sports this morning, AFKON just a few days away and we are excited. But before that, top trending stories this morning. We're starting from here in Nigeria. The Nigerian government has, of course, approved the setting up of 10, what are they called now? Forest reserves, or wildlife reserves across the country. It was stated by the Minister of State for Environment, Bersa-Sharon-I-Kerzo. They're called 10 national parks, actually. And this is with regards to saving wildlife across Nigeria. It's not a conversation that we have a lot in the country, not very much that we'll talk about wildlife. I hear it in Kenya, mostly, but not in Nigeria. And so, of course, it was stated at the launch of the largest wildlife conservation campaign in Africa, which was led by a group called Wild Aid. The theme for this year is keep them wild, keep us safe. And it basically is to reduce the illegal sale of wildlife and bush meat in particular across Nigeria. The likes of the pangolins that we've spoken about sometime on this platform also, which are going extinct and are still being hunted and sold here in Nigeria. It was also stated that less than 50 lions, which currently exist in the country, less than 50 lions, less than 100 gorillas, less than 500 elephants, less than 2,300 chimpanzees that are left in the wild in Nigeria. There's no cheetahs, there's no giraffes, there's no rhinos, which is not a very, very good picture with regards to wildlife here in Nigeria. And so the government has gone ahead to make these moves and approved 10 national parks to protect this wildlife. And these are going to be situated in some of our forest reserves in Nigeria. Well, it's a brilliant one, if you ask me. But usually with us, you always want to ask how well are we good at maintenance that will be the culture of maintenance. I mean, I think I have, I don't think I have visited and that's due to a production that I had some time ago trying to project the need for us to protect the wildlife and all of that. So one of the parks, the wildlife conservative somewhere in Boki Local Government in Krosiwa State butatong. Well, the question would always be because I was privileged to be in that particular camp and the area. And the question again is the maintenance culture. That's really not, we're not great on that. We need to be on top of our game. So as much as we're saying we want to increase, establish 10 more parks. It sounds very interesting and very brilliant but what's the maintenance culture? How far have we fed? Because visiting that particular location and staying there for a bit didn't really look like anything was really, really happening. It looked like a very deserted area and you could probably see that those who were managing the affairs or calling the shot at the time had done a great job but of course been left to the hands of government to maintain and all of that. It's really, really horrible. We still have lots of gorillas in that particular spot and then there are laws that whoever takes anything because this is actually a reserve area. You're not supposed to kill even if it's a snake. You're not supposed to kill anything. You're not supposed to take out anything. That area is a no-go. Another issue we should be looking at which we're not very strong at is implementation and ensuring that people are obeying all of this because these areas are very close to communities where you have farming as a major one for all of them and so people would always go into these bushes and then want to kill hunters and what have you. So implementation is also a great one. We need to strengthen that. We need to ensure that we're big on implementation and also big on maintenance so we can actually achieve the goal at the end of the day. So it goes beyond just saying we want to have national 10 national parks but how far have we fed with the ones that we have? Well, in a proper national park I don't think anybody will be farming. If you look at the ones outside Nigeria there's a sugar national park, there's a couple of them in other African countries that people actually go for tourism and tourism is one of the things that I also was going to would mention as the value of having these national parks and keeping the animals alive and keeping these endangered species alive. We could also use this as a tourism spot in Nigeria which we haven't really paid attention to. You haven't seen it nice. They of course are a ministry for information and cultural tourism basically has played almost zero efforts not almost zero. There's anything less than zero with regard to tourism in Nigeria. That's exactly where I would rate them. And so that's one of the gains and the positives of things like this. Even if I also believe that some of these statements are really just made because there's a group that came to visit the president they had to find something nice to say to them and very likely would not be actually implemented because one of the things that you mentioned is not just about saying it, it's about being able to actually maintain a national park. Simply giving space for lions to run around and look for antelopes to eat. It's really about maintaining. Lions looking for antelopes? It's honestly because I know that those ones outside the other African countries they're really not just a wild space that you've kept there for them to live in. You actually have to maintain it. I'm not saying that you have to sweep the whole national park every morning but there have to be people who truly understand wildlife and conservationists who are skilled in that regard that will be able to ensure that the national park is running and running successfully. We should look at how other things that have been left in the hands of the Nigerian government have fared in the last couple of decades and we can already tell the likelihood of this one. Look at trains. We only started running trains again a couple of years ago. People are already complaining about the mismanagement of the railway service. I would feel bad for any elephant that finds himself in that park. But like I said once again, you're not necessarily going to be sweeping the place every morning and looking for food for them. It's a national park. I really don't know. You remember a time where the picture of a lion actually surfaced from a particular state? From a zoo? What state was it again? I don't remember what it was. It's pretty much the same picture. The lion really looked malnourished. I mean really, really lean. And I felt so sorry for the lion because usually... I know that state wrong zoo is not even national. It's not federal. So I mean this is just mentioning to say that that lion is really hungry. Just imagine you just taking a stroll to the zoo and by chance you just have the hem of your gammas close by. It's a lot of work. It's not just word of mouth. It's a lot of work to get those things set up. When people go to other African countries and they want to take a drive through the wild and they have those vehicles that take them, I've never been in any of those things, but they have those vehicles that drive them through the park. You can see the lions, you can see the zebras, you can see the antelopes and all of that. You can even watch them hunt or watch them feed and all of that. It's fun. It's tourism and people pay thousands and thousands and show those countries make millions of dollars every year from just tourism and all of that. But in Nigeria, we have a lot of work that needs to be done. When we had the conversation about pangolins being hunted in Nigeria, Nigeria is a trafficking route for an endangered species. Pangolins in their thousands are killed every year in Nigeria and exported to Asia. That is something that we need to fix and it's not just by saying it. It actually needs to be fixed. People need to know that there's a penalty for hunting these things. They need to find a way to catch them. The same way the NDLE is chasing drugs. That's the same effort we put into protecting wildlife in Nigeria. If you're trying to be serious, it's sad that we don't have... I mentioned that we don't have any rhinoceros. We don't have any gorillas. We don't have any... No, they're gorillas. They're gorillas in... Like on the wild day, there's no gorillas. No, because if you take a look, like I mentioned, that particular community is a local government in Corsiva State, in Buki. That's a conservation and in that particular... what they really have really are the gorillas. So it's a conservation where you have the gorillas there. So you have all of these species. Okay, well those... I think what this report is talking about is in the wild, not in protected areas. So yes, you have these conserved areas where you have the gorillas and of course they look very... There's also a documentary done by Tayo, I know, that showed I think what was called the Hainan Men. So it's on YouTube. It's a very beautiful documentary that shows places in Nigeria where they have these animals, very wild animals, but they're under some control, under some spells, so they don't bite, I don't know what it is. But it's a very, very beautiful documentary. I think everyone should check out just to see that there's... There's still a lot that should be done. Especially when we're talking about diversification of our economy. I mean, we should begin to look at that aspect as a means of generating revenue. Like you talked about, it would really be great that people would just want to take a stroll, travel to Nigeria just to have a feel and when they're coming there's something to look out for. Because most times you find that people come in and then you ask yourself, what are the spots that you can visit? And some of the spots that you already have, we've not really been taken care of and so we need to do better with maintenance and ensuring implementation and enforcement. Take a look at the zoos across Nigeria. Go to a zoo in your state and take a look at what it is like and see how the animals are faring. So you can have a picture or have an idea of what it might be like if we actually do some of these things and some people would also argue that in Nigeria's conversation right now that is not one of the top 100 things that we should even be talking about. There's a lot more that the country needs but I think there's space to also have those conversations and to also invest in some of all those things in the country. Also talking Nigeria, we have been rated 8 out of 162 countries suffering from mass killings and the sad part is that this same body predicts that it will continue in 2022. We've been rated 8 and only below Pakistan, India, Yemen, Afghanistan, DR Congo, Guinea and Ethiopia. It's not a very good look. It was done by a group called the Early Warning Project powered by the Simon-Scotcher Center for the Prevention of Genocides. Nigeria currently ranks 8 and luckily one of the things that we're going to be talking about this morning is the naming of the naming ceremony that was done a few days ago by the Nigerian government. Naming bandits officially calling them terrorists. So hopefully that might be the answer and I'll guess this morning who's the security expert will be able to shed more light on it to let us know if naming them terrorists will maybe be the answer to the problems concerning mass killings in Nigeria moving forward. But you know, yesterday so a lot of questions would actually probably be raised and some people want to say what is the yardstick, what criteria, how did they arrive at that rate and as it were, being that we're 8. I mean you look at countries that are below us so you have the likes of Chad, you have the likes of Somalia, you have the likes of Iran, Iraq and some of these countries are war-torn zones and then you're asking yourself how come Nigeria is on top of it. But if you also want to look at the reality also with us, what we're faced with apart from the fact that you have killings emanating from bandits, that of Boko Haram, Iswab and what have you, you also want to talk about court-related killings, armed robbery and all sorts of retro killings as it were so if you look at the different classification of killings, it probably might just make sense but as usual with the Nigerian government it would definitely rather than look at this report and find a way of how to you know ensure that we threaten and you know go against the odds that we already have we would rather want to begin to say oh it's a baseless you know argument and some elements who are not really interested with the you know administration of President Mohammed the Buhari and really out here you know to topple the government and they don't like his face and they don't like everything around you know like Mohammed and all of that so it would just be that kind of argument so usually if you have all of this report you do your own you know verification and your own survey and you know find out what the actual thing is but and also find a way to work against the odds but I don't know let's see how all of that pans out but I know that they're killings but whether or not you know in that ranking like I mentioned earlier on one would like to know what are the yardsticks that we used to measure you know all of this which is important you know but also to mention I understand you name Syria and a couple other places Pakistan I believe these are actually war torn you know Syria a few of them I mean Syria's had its own struggles you know a few years ago but I don't think I've heard anything about killings in Syria or bombings or anything like that in the last you know one year but you can also see you take out the fact that you know there's still some other crimes and criminality that's going on but it's different from mass killings you know it's very very different from hearing that 40 people died you know every other weekend you know in a village by bandits, by terrorists, by a book or a ram, by kidnappers and what not it's a little different you know for countries that have completely war on Ethiopia yes you know it's above us you know on the ranking mostly because of the Tigrayan rebels and the crimes that they've been having with the government you know and a couple other countries I'm not sure much about Guinea or even India but you know every now and then you would hear that there are things tribal wars or you know fight with a group against the government that is going on and Nigeria's situation is pretty much pretty much the same you know but ours is a conversation on terrorism you know and simple just killing of Nigerians recklessly for absolutely no reason those are the countries that you mentioned Syria and the likes have been reasonably calm it rags up every now and then you might hear that a bomb exploded yeah so it just I mean it just really caused our wiping out villages so it really caused for you know it really caused you know because over time there's also this argument about reportage I mean some people would want to say that as much as you know there's the level of reportage and the way these killings have been brought out if you look at it in it's real sense mostly sometimes it's not it so you could probably have a report of saying 20 persons were killed and if you look at it maybe less or even more than that but I'm just trying to say that however you want to look at this or you look at it these countries that I have actually mentioned whether or not you are currently you know faced with war issues or not but these are countries where you would always whenever you talk about killings and mass killings you would always think about them to be you know be topping the chart so it is really the countries that I actually mentioned I'm saying that whether or not you're experiencing war at the time I mean naturally or generally whenever you think about these the first thing that will come to mind would be the fact that if there's such ranking that there will probably just be a little bit above Nigeria that's what I'm saying I don't understand with that I'm saying that whether or not they're experiencing war you get my point whether or not they're experiencing you say that yes of course we don't have any you know serious case of mass killing and what have you in terms of war and I'm saying that of course whether or not right now they might just be experiencing killings and what have you but naturally or you know before now whenever you mention these countries you want to see them as you know there's a lot of killings going there not that Nigeria will be topping the chart at this point and they'll be below so it is just strange that we didn't used to be in this position but now we're topping the chart below these countries I don't know you don't get my point but it's fine it's okay that you know when we have conversations on countries Nigeria should never be grouped among some of these countries so that's what I'm saying I'm saying the part at this time we used to be below the skies every now and then you might hear a bomb blast going off in some country but I don't also equate that to I mean a random bomb blast that goes off twice a year I wouldn't equate that to mass killings no people there would always be casualties I mean you can't even take that even the fact that we're going to be using Tocano jets right now there will be civilian casualties so we don't misunderstand ourselves that's exactly what the story is 162 countries and Nigeria has been ranked 8 moving away from that let's come still in the country but now to a very famous popular pastor but not because of his miracles but because of every quarter it seems like there's a new scandal maybe twice a year maybe three times a year pastor Biodoon Fatou Igbo has been once again called out but this time it's being called out a very very toxic, abusive relationship with some of his staff the last time that we heard his name was because of course of him being called out for sexual assault and for some of all of that by the wife of a very popular Nigerian singer Timidakolo was it Timidakolo? yes I was going to say but now he's being called out by a member of the church and the staff of the church they're part of the choir who has called him out for abandoning the staff for not paying staff for months all the allegations that were put out yesterday for not paying salaries for months and months and months and still expecting the staff to continue to work and continue to put in their services to the church even got to a point where she's a legend that they were kicked out of the residence that they were given and this continued until she eventually died because she couldn't afford hospital bills when she fell ill this stories came out yesterday and of course it was also mentioned allegedly that Pastor Beaudu had made attempts and made attempts at this person who eventually has passed what attempts are you talking about? you know the attempts I have no idea I mean he had tried to sexually? relationship attempts could he be the person who was kicked out? yes so what the story looks like is that when she rejected his advances then he became or she became his enemy number one and then he started to treat her very wrong but it's still left for the church not the church now to respond and clarify on some of these issues and some of these allegations and it's not a great way to start 2022 it seems like he has one or two every year so maybe it might just be more for 2022 I mean we just started today just as a 7 so let's see how all of these things unfold but yesterday was really a long read for me and the bottom point is this first of all it's very eminent that he's going to come through and of course put out a lot of defense and like the church member that put out that statement and she said as much as I don't have evidence to establish all of this but the truth would always come through and she felt very pain if you read the write up you could feel the pain because usually with writing you could feel the thoughts of the writer and I felt so much pain anguish as much as I was just trying not to drop any comment on that page because my mind I'm like what is this again it just boils down to the fact that a lot of people would say we don't believe in any religion I mean just recently you had whiskey saying I don't believe in religion and if you want to talk I keep saying that the tenets whether it's Christianity whether it's the Muslim religion you find out that the tenets are not different we talk about love at the end of the day but those who believe the Bible and who read the Bible agree with me that the Bible says that wherever Jesus when he was doing good he fed the poor, he gave them food when they were hungry he sat down and saw them and he thought that they were very hungry and he gave them food and he said that should make food for them he healed the sick so everywhere Jesus was going he was doing good and so it just shows you that everything that we should do whatever religion that does not respect human being and does not love and care for human being I don't know what that religion stands for because every religion no matter what religion it is it talks about love and it's really really sad to see that most times we don't care about the people that lay the egg the hen that lays the golden egg but we care about the work done so it happens in a lot of churches for real you have people who don't really care about the people who are working but they care about the work being done and so nobody cares when you don't show up in church but they care about the fact that you're not in church and then the beginning thing that you become the vessel you become a child of the demon or the devil the devil is using you you're not in church have you eaten are you hungry because this is some of the basic things so those who are claiming that they love Jesus and they are following Jesus and they are preachers of Jesus should begin to look at the life of Jesus for real the things that he did they were not rocket science they were just real things when he lived on earth so it was really really sad I had a lot of people giving some testimonies in the comment section saying that she was such an amazing and fantastic singer and if that report is anything to go by it's really really sad but however we're also waiting to hear the response and of course to get to complete clarity on exactly what happened in the last few years or months before this person eventually passed it was a music music group I believe that was being funded by the church but according to them they weren't actually getting any funding from the church they weren't getting any support from the church the church allegedly I had mentioned that they had invested about 100 million according to what she put out she was asking that they pay back the 100 million and then of course the person in question now stated that there was none of such investments they had to pay their own flight tickets for concerts they had to feed themselves they had to pay for their own hotels and what not while they worked in the church musical group we of course we'll follow the story and we'll be of course ready to give you updates whenever they land but for now those are top trending stories welcome to 2022 we will take a short break when we come back let's go through the papers this morning and see what major stories have made headlines good morning and welcome once again