 Today, on the breakfast, state houses of assembly rejects a bill seeking to grant financial and administrative autonomy to local government. What then happens to development at the grassroot in 2023? Also on the breakfast, the central bank of Nigeria, CBN, increased the interest rate to 17.5 per cent from 16.5 per cent to tame rising inflation. What is the implication for the Nigerian economy? Like always, we'll be looking through today's newspapers and analyzing the biggest stories of the day. That's a beautiful morning and thank you so much for joining us on the shore. It's called the Breakfast. I am Messier Bopo. As always, it's not a top trending conversation, we're sort of with a top trending conversation. These are conversations that Nigerians are having on different fora, social media spaces and what-have-you. Now, first on the list is that Godwin and Mephile of the central bank of Nigeria believes that the Nair redesign may have reduced kidnapping and don't forget that this has also not been very well. We're still grappling with the entire process, bringing a new Naira note for several reasons and what-have-you. But that's what it is. A lot of people believe that that's the case because it feels like it's once upon a time we've heard about the issue of kidnapping and what-have-you. That's been the case for it. We still have to grapple with the issue of non-availability of the new Naira note and the fact that there's a debt, it dates line. There's a day which has been set aside, we're talking about January 31st for the submission or that would be the last day that the legal tender, the former legal tender would be very valid as a means of transaction. These are some of the conversations that Nigerians are having. Away from that, there's also another story that it's making the rounds. I mean, it's been making the rounds and you can't get over this one. It's that a mother fed a baby with Tramadol in order to go clubbing. So it was stated that, you know, a young lady wanted to go to club and then she wanted what can she do because she had a baby and then she needed to go to the club. Probably there was no one to take care of the baby. The baby eventually died so she gave the baby Tramadol. I don't know, it wasn't stated how many tablets of Tramadol was given to this baby but it was stated that the baby was given Tramadol. And then she locked the baby according to the story in the room and then she took off. Now taking off to the club and returning, the baby had died. I mean, look at that, very beautiful baby, very beautiful baby. But it's a lot to grapple with. I saw comments, the one that actually stood out for me was a lady who talked about the fact that she's been looking for a child and she's struggled with that for almost how many years now. She's had four miscarriages and, you know, looking at the story is so hard-breaking. So you begin to ask yourself, is life not so unfair? It reminds me of the rhymes we used to say way back then in school. I mean, if you school in Nigeria and went to all of the nursery and primary schools in Nigeria, you probably would have been taught about some have food but cannot eat and we have food. We can't eat glory be to God and all of that. It's just almost that particular case, but it's very saddening. And then I think that, you know, we have laws protecting children. We need to activate all of that, even though we know that a lot of states in Nigeria have not domesticated that law, protecting the rights of children because you are a child up until you turn 18. And then that's what the Constitution recognized. And this is totally, you know, a violation of that child's right. And what a view that's led to, you know, the loss of life. And so I think it's important that we pay attention to the issue of the Child Rights Act and look at that for states that have not implemented it. It's important. But we'll also say, yes, if you have a law, what is the effect? The law should take its place. There should be all of that. But coming back to, I mean, there are different angles to this conversation, whether or not some people should be, you know, mothers, there's another question. And then we live in a society where everything is happening right now. And that's what it says. Should government not be considering the issue of, you know, population control, childbirth, countries like China, Japan had considered it. We can continue to act like this and expect a different result. But it's really, really heartbreaking and this happening that that actually happened. The stories will continue to unfold. And we're right here to bring you up to date what's going on. But I just asking the justice be meted, of course. But at this point in time, we're hoping that that mother in question should have been arrested and, you know, the law would take its course. Now to the next on our top trending is that a lady was caught stealing from a store in Lagos. And according to the particular report, it was stated that she stole 200,000 error and when she was caught and captured in video, she said that she was hungry and she pleaded that I'm hungry. And that's why I stole 200,000. And it wasn't a different reaction. We have constantly talked about the issue of when people say, oh, yes, we did a certain thing because of that. So there's always an excuse. And the comments, if you look at if you follow the conversation of these young ladies, that some people are asking, hey, if you're really hungry, 200,000 is a lot. You know, at a time, let's say you're hungry and then you need to, you know, eat. But but should that be justification? Because it feels like we have overtime, excuse, bad behavior for, you know, suffering. So if you engage in a certain behavior, then we get an excuse. Oh, he's poor. He doesn't have money. You know, he's hungry. And what have you, but that's not it. That's not really it because you are depriving another person. I mean, the person you stole 200,000 air from, you don't even understand the situation or condition that he or she is in. And that's a star. Really unfortunate. But that's it this morning on a top training. We take a break. When we return, we'll be looking through the papers this morning. Please stay with us.