 A very good morning to you and thanks for joining us on the breakfast. This morning we'll be looking at so many very, very important issues. It's midweek's frenzy. My name is Nyam Gul Aghaji. The petroleum industry has always been bedeviled by a lot of problems, including shortages and price hike, but the independent petroleum market as an association of Nigeria has said that dengote refinery will address supply shortages and price hike. As the world prepares to celebrate a world menstrual hygiene day on the 28th of May, on the privileged Nigerian girls struggle as a topic for today we'll be looking at world menstrual hygiene day and how it affects the average Nigerian child. We'll also have headlines from the press and we're hoping to see what the headlines are today from the national dailies. Good morning once again and thanks for joining us on the breakfast and like I said my name is Nyam Gul Aghaji. It's so good to be here. I've been away for a little while but we thank God for small messes and right now we thank God especially for the traffic situation in Lagos, especially on the Lagos Ibadun Express way access and we're also happy that the construction that was going on around the corridor access is now done with and a lot of people are moving freely on the road. A lot of things just spiral into some of the things that we do not even like. The fact that the Lagos Ibadun Express way has been fixed for now at least it has been fixed because we know that a lot of people have even said that that access of the road has been a political campaign thing for a very very long time. So who knows if there's another campaign that is going to come up in four years whether that will also be an issue and something will be done on that access again and cause hardship for the people because every year every election circle we also we always hear about Lagos Ibadun Express where we do hope that the fixing this time around has always going to last for a very very long time and we don't have to go through all the pain that we've been going through and because of that traffic even as far as been in as far as already as far as so many other places was very good at least I traveled by road yesterday and it was so so surprising that we could get to where we got to at the time that we got to those places so we like that so much let it continue that way federal government state government local governments everybody who is supposed to be in charge should also make sure that they keep doing what they're supposed to do and make sure that we are the better for it because we are the people who put people in government so we should not suffer for the things that could be done very easily okay we also are hoping that a lot will be done as well to make sure that the water transportation within Lagos will be a thing of joy for all of us because it will be available for everybody that needs to access it and also the trains and the electric cars they are coming up so let us at least have access to all those things and let the congestion in Lagos go away we need that to go away so that we don't have to be coming so early to work when you have to resume at 8 o'clock you have to be here at 5 o'clock because you're trying to beat traffic I mean it will mean that the mental health of everybody will be tested because we need to sleep for so little time and then wake up so early come into the hustle and bustle that Lagos is known for and then go back in the same spirit and we have no time to rest at all so it's not really good maybe employers of labor should consider giving like three months leave for everybody who works in Lagos or something like that but we really do not know how this is going to end we do hope that the next administration that is coming up even though like for the case of Lagos he is handing over to himself and that is I'm talking about so we do hope that the things that were planned for the last tenor that were not completed will be completed now and the innovations that will come for this in this tenor will be something that will be very very happy about the themes agenda according to this government has at its fore transportation let us begin to see these translated into action and not just on paper and what we hope to achieve dreams sometimes should come to reality and that is what we're looking for okay so today we'll be looking at a lot of things but we already know that some of the things that are happening we are going to discuss the refinery that dangote has built and it has been launched okay before then this second Niger bridge has been launched as well what is the name I'm going to use inauguration or whatever the president opened it officially yesterday well I was passing through that axis I didn't see much activities like something that the president has come to inaugurate or to open and all that we understand that he did it virtually and one quarter of the bridge the first Niger bridge now that we will know it as first Niger bridge the other one may be known by like by the name of president Buhari bridge I don't know because the eastern governors have decided to name that after the president Muhammad Buhari how they're going to coin that is matter for another day the name they have already given me not be how they are going to put it but definitely they have accepted or they have decided to name it to name it president Muhammad Buhari bridge or any other name that will be related to Buhari for that but there was no activity on that bridge and all I saw on that stretch of that very beautiful bridge was one truck I think it was a tanker I don't know if it was going to load the vehicles of the workers or something but it's the only thing that I saw on that road for as long as I was on the first Niger bridge and that first Niger bridge still had some traffic jam at least in the quarter of that bridge towards Asaba when you're coming from Onitsha and you're going to Asaba the quarter of that bridge was was jammed and nobody could move for a period of time but at least it was better than some of the times before the second Niger bridge and then I saw the the signposts going into the second Niger bridge and where I saw was Oweri and another place that was not necessarily Onitsha so I don't know how that road was made if after passing the second Niger bridge and you're going towards where should have been Onitsha if the road just goes straight to Oweri or how that navigation is going to be done but we do hope that it grants access to Onitsha grants access to so many other places that people might want to commute because if it's not coming into Onitsha and is going somewhere else it will be I've not been on that road so I'm just I'm just saying things without having first time knowledge but if it's not going into Onitsha that means people who are going to Onitsha may have to use the bridge they've always used and that will mean that the congestion will continue on the first Niger bridge as it is but I we thank the administration of President Mohammed Buhari if they didn't achieve anything else at least for the people who commute through that axis it is a very very welcome development skew those to them and the next administration to do more to open up areas and to make congestion a thing of the past on our road so it's a very commendable project that was done very beautiful legacy project that was done or has been done by the Mohammed Buhari administration today we have like five days or six days to the end of this administration in fact 29th of May we're going to have a new president whether he's going to stay for the full four years tenor is another case because we've heard that a lot of things from the tribunals are coming up and we do not know if this will be the first president that will be relieved of his job or he will win the cases against him in the tribunal and continue for the next four years whatever it is Nigerians just want good governance and we want things done rightly so if the election was not done rightly we hope that things will be corrected and we know what it is if it was done rightly we hope that the right person wins and continues to win and administers this state that we call Nigeria Nigeria is our own some of us don't have two passports we have just this one and we're hoping to travel the world but still come back to Nigeria because we love Nigeria so much so whoever is super intending over their face of Nigeria will have to do better than just being a president well Dangote refinery has come up we are we are worried not just that okay we have a refinery that we are hoping will have jobs created for Nigerians let's say 100,000 jobs i'm sure it will be more than that 100,000 core jobs and there are others that will be tied to that we're hoping that will be but we're also worried about the fact that if a papa is giving us problems like this for so many years will Dangote meals not pose another problem another papa problem on the axis of the aquare road there was no special road created because a refinery was coming so the trucks that will be coming to that area will also be using the roads that we have been using and already I experience experiencing traffic jam if you go to the axis of Legos you will see that sometimes you may need to sleep on the road almost or you spend so many hours on the road because the the congestion is always so much now that the Dangote refinery has come up are we going to see even worse situation than that because if anything more than this what is happening right now will mean that so many people have will have to relocate or will lose their jobs because they cannot get to the offices on time or they cannot get home on time and all that so I hope that as we rejoice that Dangote Dangote refinery has come up we will also have cost to rejoice that they are also going to be roads that will be open especially because this has come whether they're the big roads on the land or they're going to be train railways or opens to that point or there's going to be water transportation that will take people to and through that place well whatever is going to happen let there be more roads for the people let not all of us use the same road as we're using right now because it's bad as it is and we don't want it to be worse well a lot of people have said that the fuel will come down and that they the the shortages will no longer be there we like that that's very good let's hope that that happens let's also hope that the federal government was not just waiting for an individual to do this so that they put their arms where they shouldn't be just fold their arms and look and say okay this person has done this I hope that they are going to open up that industry or that section of our economy for more people to invest in it and also make sure that the government refineries are put in place so that they can they can be competition because if there's no competition then it means that whatever dangote decides that's what the Nigerian populace will take we'll also have the story about Cheyenne Cootie Cheyenne Cootie the Afrobeat musician has been released on bail he has met all his bail conditions so now he has been released before the release a lot of people or some people went to to protest and they were talking about they were they were shouting words like free Cheyenne free Cheyenne Cootie and so many other things that they were talking about they wanted Cheyenne to be freed and that's the clip right there you you're watching how people were protesting and calling for the release of Cheyenne okay so having met his bail conditions he's been released and I think today he's going to go back to the courts so that the the hearing will continue and whatever is going to be decided will bring you the information later on in the course of the broadcast for today maybe in our news or in any other program maybe on t-time which is an entertainment program or the major news or any other program on plus tv but be sure that we are going to put our ears to the ground and make sure whatever happens in that case you will be the first to hear if possible then pito b and labor party to present joint petition in three weeks a lot of things will happen on the 30th of may that is a day after the inauguration a day after swearing in of the president-elect whose election is being contested right now but in three weeks we're hoping that a lot of things will be done pito b had asked for seven weeks a time which he wanted to use to bring all his petitions against tinu bu to the front to explain them to to to produce his evidences and all that but now it's three weeks that has been given to them we do hope that a lot can be achieved in these three weeks we've always been crying in nigeria now we do not like a situation where cases keep dragging and dragging and dragging until sometimes we never hear the last of it until whoever is involved gets away with anything that he is being accused of for instance now we still have a case against the frontliners for the senate presidency goswila pabyo has a case with this e of cc and they are in the courts we have yari yari also has a case with the e of cc and they are in the courts we even have someone who normally for laymen like us will think he's an ex-convict not even an ex-convict because the former governor of abia state was in jail but was released on technicalities not that whatever he was accused of he was now free of the charges and all that but because of technicalities of filing the cases he was set free and he's now in the in the senate angling for the position of the senate president and we do not know how that is going to happen and so his case will continue like that while he sits in the president's and make a senate while he sits in the senate and makes laws for the rest of nigerians and maybe after his tenure if he's found guilty again or the filing of the case is done properly and he goes back to jail he has used four years to make laws for the rest of us to obey because we should be law-abiding citizens so if trials if cases in court and everything were done swiftly and and in a way that is transparent enough and whoever needs to go to jail goes to jail whoever needs to stay back stays back then we'll know that a lot of things will not come up we would not be talking about the odd use of colors of this world or we'll not be talking about the apabios of this world and all that in fact we hear one of the things that apabio has said when he talked about apabio yeah not apabio apabio is a local government in cross-eval state apabio uh gospel apabio has said is that he should not be judged if he's is contesting for the senate president he should not be judged by what happened uh during his time as the niger delta the man in charge of the niger delta affairs the the minister in charge of niger delta he should be judged for he's about 30 years of being a lawyer he should be judged in his years as a governor he should be judged in so many other things but not being a minister of the niger delta affairs and i was asking myself niger delta affairs that's that was like one of the most recent portfolios you have held is it that we should judge you on things that you have done a long time ago or the things that you have done now because they say the now is what you are not before we can't live on past glory but that's not for me to judge i'm not a senator i'm not choosing i'm not even part of the apc to say okay we have a consensus in apabio and all that but i'm in niger and always concerned if you failed in one thing which is very recent how we show the thing that we're going to entrust into your hands tomorrow you're going to do well i'm just asking question i said layman i don't know what that is but well let's see how it goes whether the senators will elect their own principal officers or they will elect will let external influences be what will determine who rules them who who superintendents over the senate and who leads them as they make laws for the rest of us in nigeria to obey presidential tribunal measures at tiku pito b apm petitions against tinobu fixes may 30 for hearing i've mentioned that before that may 30 a lot of things are going to happen hearing will be on may 30 a day after the inauguration of the president elect so the petitions of at tiku and you know possibly by extension the pdp pito b and by extension the labor party apm and its contestants and all that they have been made as one so that's what it means so they will all cry out as one voice against what the field was and injustice was something that was not supposed to ever happen but let's see how it goes the world is watching we are watching the nigerian people are watching to see what is going to happen we do hope that justice will not only be done but be seen as being done that is what we always say all the time when we are talking but right now we'll take a short break look at the weather and then when we return we'll look at the headlines and we'll have someone who will help us dissect what we see on the headlines this morning stay with us